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J. Brady McCollough: Chip Kelly's plan could save college sports, and that's why it'll never happen

UCLA coach Chip Kelly answers a question during a Q&A session during the Pac-12 Media Day at The Novo at L.A.

LOS ANGELES — The Kelly Plan. It has a nice ring to it, but it will never happen.

Chip Kelly's idea about how to steer the college sports enterprise away from fully losing its soul — having top football schools be classified as independent and playing by their own rules, allowing the rest of the sports to be grouped together regionally as they used to be — is simply too logical for college sports leaders to wrap their heads around.

It's also not a new concept. In December 2020, in the aftermath of college football's disjointed and desperate attempt to play a season during a global pandemic, the

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