When Chip Kelly was hired, it is safe to say that the majority of UCLA football fans were expecting him to implement the same type of system he nurtured and developed at Oregon. So far, that has not been the case.
At Oregon, Kelly’s system was based on the success of running the inside zone read. Kelly’s teams were notorious for running these plays as they were the basis for his system and the Ducks ran it to perfection. With teams looking to defend the zone read, it opened up the rest of the offense for alternate play calling (RPO, screens, sweeps, etc.