Ben Bolch: Chip Kelly is nowhere close to elite, and UCLA can do much better
by Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times
Oct 31, 2021
3 minutes
Martin Jarmond constantly talks about being elite. The word reflects the ideals of a UCLA athletic department that uses excellence as a baseline for everything it does.
Then there’s what’s happening with Chip Kelly and the football program. Elite never enters the conversation.
Elite is not going 15-25, a .375 winning percentage that is the worst in school history for any coach who did not hold an interim tag.
Elite is not hoping to finish with a record above .500 for the first time in Year Four.
Elite is not keeping a failed defensive coordinator,
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