In Reply to: No one wanted the guy who was of the OC... posted by ClockBlocker on September 15, 2025 at 16:18:50
He wanted nutritional programs and he got it. He wanted a contract extension and he got it. Kelly has never been known to be big on the recruiting front. He walked into a situation that OSU was the preseason pick to win the NC and an opening happened because their OC happened to leave a short time earlier.
The talk was Kelly wanted to be in the NFL. No one was taking him. I sure don't know of any CFB team that was trying to poach him as a HC. Even with his scenario he was able to luckily land at OSU, and it was luck, he almost messed that up with an embarrassing home loss to Michigan.
As far as the NFL, he sure didn't win over quite a few players in Philadelphia and SF.
When you say UCLA didn't support him, is that speculation or you have concrete evidence of that? Because the one thing that is known was he was under contract to be UCLA's HC. If he didn't want to do that, he shouldn't have signed that extension earlier that year.