NCAAF UCLA coach Chip Kelly blasts new college football clock rules, draws strong reactions
The new college football clock rules for 2023 are drawing a lot of attention. The biggest rule change for the new season is that the clock does not stop on a first down except in the final two minutes of each half. This is reducing the overall number of plays in a game, but not by dozens, only a handful of plays (at least through one week).
Nevertheless, some coaches do not like what they’re seeing. They want more plays from their offense so that they can control the ball more and dictate the tempo of a game to their liking. UCLA coach Chip Kelly definitely rates as a coach who wants his offense to log more plays so that it can wear down the opposition. The new clock rules work against that.
Kelly spoke forcefully against the new clock rules during halftime of UCLA’s 2023 season opener against Coastal Carolina on Saturday. The game was on ESPN, so Kelly knew he was talking to a central beneficiary of the rule change.
See what Kelly said. Then see how fans reacted:
KELLY COMES OUT FIRING
Chip Kelly to ESPN at halftime: "These new rules are crazy. We had four drives in the first half. Hope you guys are selling a lot of commercials."
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanDFischer) September 3, 2023
STATS
This is gonna be a problem….
OSU 2023 vs. Indiana- 10 Offensive Drives total
OSU 2022 vs. Indiana- 17 Offensive Drives total
Speeding up the game is slowing down the football. https://t.co/hGeFG3Kyai
— Jeremiah (@SYRmotsag) September 3, 2023
MANY THINK SO
Chip is the best. He is correct. https://t.co/9Oy5A6OsRy
— Geoff Schwartz (@geoffschwartz) September 3, 2023
STOP-START FRUSTRATIONS
The new rules are torture. There's 30 minutes of football and 2 hours of commercials. Not to mention somehow all the networks have colluded to go to commercial break simultaneously. Absolute crap https://t.co/oqCVabXwvM
— Sidelines Sports Network™ (@Sidelines_SN) September 3, 2023
VERDICT IS CLEAR
Never seen a rule so unanimously hated by every single coach and fan https://t.co/dqbAdnJ015
— Walk-On Redshirts (@walkonredshirts) September 3, 2023
INTERESTING
now im curious what chip thought of this while i he was in the NFL lol, he already has experience with this rule https://t.co/WyxDLdh9jI
— charles (“you look good” – andy reid) mcdonald (@FourVerts) September 3, 2023
CONTRARIAN VIEW
Honestly shocked how many CFB fans hate the time rules. There’s no reason for the clock to stop for a first down. There’s already plenty of time to get huddled and run another play. Why stop it?? https://t.co/Yq5NT76aLJ
— Peter Bukowski (@Peter_Bukowski) September 3, 2023
MORE OF LESS
The amount of commercials this season is absurd. It’s pathetic that we get very little football and 90% of the broadcast is commercials. https://t.co/rHU3384Mav
— Austin Eldridge (@AustinonAir1021) September 3, 2023
PITCHFORKS
How shocking is that. The NCAA has their priorities right to them, and no one else. https://t.co/qyje8xWN0w
— IUsportsForLife (@IUsportsforlife) September 4, 2023
WE DON'T ENJOY THOSE COMMERCIALS
The amount of people who are trashing Chip Kelly for these comments don’t realize he is speaking for them. I guess they enjoy the 800 Dr. Pepper commercials. https://t.co/lnoNUEetwv
— Tom (blue check mark) (@DiRoma06) September 3, 2023
SHELL GAME
Good for Chip Kelly. These new rules are absurd and aren’t shortening overall game length by any meaningful amount. Someone is getting air time and it isn’t the football. https://t.co/noJeLvIxpK
— Matt Burnell (@mdburnell) September 3, 2023
YUP
Chip Kelly has been right about conference realignment and now he’s spot on with this https://t.co/J7C35WrSEJ
— Chris Beamguard (@ChrisBeamguard) September 3, 2023
PERVASIVE FEELING
I’m telling ya. These games going too fast https://t.co/erTcyAUppn
— Rate Limit Exceeded (@fakndafunk) September 3, 2023
GOOD POINT
100%.
We touched on it in Pregame show. Not stopping clock after a first down is speeding up games way too much.There are only 11 all year – I’m not in a hurry to get back home! https://t.co/yjCSaN3mA2
— UNDFootball360 (@UNDFootball360) September 3, 2023
SEEMS LIKE IT
The games are exactly the same length but now there are more commercials. https://t.co/r7ZVqjl0KP
— Football Jones #BearDown🅰️🎋 (@WilburWildcat2) September 3, 2023
ANNOYANCE
Yesterday at the UCLA game, it felt like we were in a timeout every 15 seconds. They even have a guy who has a countdown on the field. He was on the field more than the players https://t.co/DV49lIcW89
— Swaggy K (@kevin_k24) September 3, 2023
FANS ARE NOTICING
Facts!! Tell ‘em Chip. The new clock rule is really dumb. More commercials than football https://t.co/LejxecSGmn
— Jeremy 🅾️ (@JWherle) September 3, 2023
WIDESPREAD VIEW
Selling lots of commercials and destroying College Football. Sounds about right. https://t.co/LSHceIgMKU
— Will (@ShootyHoopsWill) September 3, 2023
AGREEMENT
Feeling is mutual chip. https://t.co/2ZJckFTTLf
— Cody Mainquist (@NebraskaCody) September 3, 2023
FANS WANT ACTION
We can all hope that Saban and Deion join Chip’s comments and start calling out the NCAA for the insane TV timeouts ruining the game. https://t.co/buF6QvfP25
— Jordan Treece (@JTreece406) September 3, 2023
