Mike Bellotti
American sports analyst and football coachWikipedia
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Oct 6, 2026
Adam CarrikerHOST
You wanna talk about stability, one of the things that helped Nebraska be so successful for so long, talking about those championship teams, was consistency along the coaching front.
Adam CarrikerHOST
I'll never forget when I was being recruited, [clears throat] my senior year 2001, I'm sitting in Mike Bellotti's office, the Oregon head coach, and he pulls up this chart.
Adam CarrikerHOST
And there's three coaching staffs in the country that by far have been at their universities the longest.
Adam CarrikerHOST
Number one was Penn State, Joe Paterno, 50-plus years and he maintained most of his coaches.
Dave BartooGUEST
It's like I, I almost feel like he's trying to put USC in position to get rid of him.
Dave BartooGUEST
Um, which, okay, th- that's their fault for signing such a huge contract on a, on a, on a really unproven guy on his own because Stoops carried him, carried the water at Oklahoma for him, kind of like Chip Kelly at Oregon and Mike Bellotti.
Dave BartooGUEST
So I don't know where it's gonna end, but the trends say it's not gonna end well.
Chuck OliverHOST
well.So Lee Iacocca, he invented the Mustang, and I kept hearing about that, like, as late as the l- mid-'80s.
Mike TiricoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Sims was cold, Harrington was hot, and momentum changed almost when the quarter changed.
Mike TiricoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Mike Bellotti was the offensive coordinator for a half dozen years at Argonne when Rich Brooks was the head coach.
Mike TiricoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
When Rich went to the NFL, Bellotti split in now at age 50.
Mike TiricoSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
He's won 71 games in 10 years as a head coach.
Colin CowherdHOST
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Colin CowherdHOST
I remember Mike Bellotti was a good coach, then he got this great OC Jeff Tedford.
Colin CowherdHOST
They finished number two in the country.
Robert Griffin IIIGUEST
[laughs]
Colin CowherdHOST
And then Mike Bellotti was a good coach, and then he found this great coordinator Chip Kelly, and they suddenly changed college football.
Robert Griffin IIIGUEST
[laughs]
Colin CowherdHOST
That is not to say Mike Bellotti wasn't a good coach, but I do believe there are certain coaches that are-
Robert Griffin IIIGUEST
Yeah
Colin CowherdHOST
He took the, uh, job at Kentucky in the SEC.
Colin CowherdHOST
And there are those who are whispering on the Duck Reddit boards that he was the Chip Kelly of Oregon when, when, when Oregon, Mike Bellotti were trying to find themselves, and Chip Kelly came in, and eventually, like they just gave Chip Kelly the job.
speaker_9UNKNOWN
Yeah.
Colin CowherdHOST
And that there, there is a feeling that when Will Stein left, th- they'd lost this kind of Ben Johnson-ish sort of, you know, um, super sharp, detailed guy, and everything's a little off.
Colby DantHOST
I don't think Mark Helfrich would be the only one that I could think of that.
Colby DantHOST
Everybody since, since Phil Knight got money, Mike Bellotti, even the end of Rich Brooks, but Bellotti, Chip Kelly, you know, crystal ball, all of those one of a shit ton of games.
Colby DantHOST
So I don't know.
Colby DantHOST
It's one of those jobs.
Colby DantHOST
Mark Helfrich would be the only [laughs] one that I could think of that ...
Colby DantHOST
Uh, everybody since Ph- since Phil Knight got money, Mike Bellotti, even the end of Rich Brooks.
Colby DantHOST
But Bellotti, Chip Kelly, you know, Cristobal, all of those won a shit ton of games, so I don't know.
Colby DantHOST
It's one of those jobs it's, it's hard to tell how good you are of, uh, as a head coach.