UCLA Football: Hot seat rumblings will soon begin for Chip Kelly

The UCLA Football team is yet to win a game this season and there will soon be rumblings about head coach Chip Kelly being on the hot seat.

Fans of the UCLA Football team have probably already given up on the 2019 season and are just hoping for any positives to carry into future seasons. The first three games have been awful for the Bruins, who have not won any of their first three.

UCLA started with a 10-point loss to Cincinnati that had some promising qualities about it. Although Cincinnati is not as good as it was last year, they are still a solid team and a 10-point loss is easy to rally after.

Then, in a game that the Bruins should have won, UCLA moved to 0-2 on the year after once again only scoring 14 points, this time against the San Diego State Aztecs.

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Week 3 was practically a guaranteed loss and we all knew that going into the game. UCLA was mauled by Oklahoma, 48-14, proving how far UCLA has fallen since its glory days.

Isn’t it pretty ironic that the Bruins have only scored 14 points in each of the first three games considering that the last season that they won a bowl game was 2014?

UCLA has another ranked opponent in Week 4 in Washington State and it is safe to say that this will probably be another loss, especially considering that UCLA is 18.5 point underdogs.

An 0-4 start will lead the Bruins well on their way to their fourth losing season in a row, which is a long fall from the 10-win seasons that the team had in 2013 and 2014.

After starting 0-4 I think that head coach Chip Kelly will begin to hear some hot seat rumblings around his job security. Kelly is only in the second season of his five-year contract with the Bruins. Normally, it would be too soon to put him on the hot seat, but not in Kelly’s case.

First of all, Kelly was brought in and touted as someone who was going to save the Bruins’ program. And while it takes years for his recruiting to kick in, his coaching has been uninspiring and the results on the field have shown.

Nobody expected UCLA to be National Title contenders right away but they definitely expected this team to at least beat San Diego State with Kelly as the helm.

Secondly, Kelly doesn’t even have a good track record in recent years, which should reduce his leash even shorter with the Bruins. If it is clear early on that this won’t work out then why let it drag on with a coach that we know has not been good over the last several years?

Chip Kelly has been riding his own coattails of revolutionizing the Oregon offense still to this day. While what he did with Oregon was impressive, what he has done since has not been.

Kelly did win 10 games in his first two years as an NFL head coach but still did not win a playoff game with a talented Philadelphia Eagles team. Then Kelly went 6-9, got fired, and was brought in to be the new long-term solution in San Francisco.

The 49ers won just two games under Kelly in 2016. It was only the third time in franchise history that the 49ers went 2-14.

After doing no coaching for two years the Bruins decided to bring him in and he has gone 3-12 in his 15 games as head coach. It would not be all that surprising to see the Bruins win fewer than three games this year, giving him five wins in two years as head coach.

Of course, that has not happened yet, but Kelly has not given us any reason thus far to believe that he will turn the UCLA Football team around on a dime.

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It still is too soon to fire Kelly, but I guarantee that the hot seat discussion will start to heat up after the UCLA football team gets blown out for the second week in a row.

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