All of the college head coaches in the country have as much power as Chip Kelly has with the Philadelphia Eagles. They have total control over their personnel, both in regards to what players they bring into the team and they control the coaches and the front office of the team. That’s not what I said, it’s what Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly said.
“I get to pick the players that play for me, I get to negotiate the contracts. I’ve got the salary cap. I’ve got all that,” Kelly said. “In the NFL, you don’t get to do any of that. Look (at) what Chip Kelly’s going through. He tries to control all that and he gets killed for it. I can do all that here at Notre Dame.”
This is the mindset of a top level college football coach.
Is it any wonder that NFL experts and Eagles fans see Chip Kelly headed back to college, if things don’t workout for him in the NFL? If Kelly doesn’t succeed here in Philadelphia by producing playoff teams, that win consistently win playoff games, he is unlikely to be given personnel control over another NFL franchise.
If he heads back to college, he will immediately gain as much power, if not more power than he has currently with the Eagles. Chip Kelly had to wrestle with former Eagles GM Howie Roseman to gain control over the team’s personnel department.
