I have a hard time imagining an NFL team coming after Coach Kelly although who knows what the NFL minds are thinking. I really do believe recruiting just to beat Oregon is the wrong way to go about this. Sure recruiting speed on defense to match up with spread offenses is important since the Pac-12 is full of them, but if you recruit just to beat Oregon you will get killed in bowl games. Oregon has that problem now because while they can run up and down on Pac-12 teams they have struggled to beat teams that have a month to prepare. Some of it has to do that our offense takes a lot of repetition and the month off builds up a lost of rust, but it also has to do that teams have an extra 3 weeks worth of practices to try and beat the spread.
You need more then a big D-line to beat Oregon although with DT as our QB that may be all you need. You need fast LB's who can plug the holes, but are not so small they get dominated by the OL. Teams also need great corners because they will be on an island and even though Oregon is not a major passing threat this offense will be once DT moves on. If Oregon can get USC type recievers which hopefully they have some in this red-shirting class it will open up the passing game which a team with only a big D-line would get killed by.
Truthfully I am fine he pissed off the local media since most of them are as dumb as a brick. The local media here is a joke and is really anti Oregon for whatever reason I will never know.
The best way to beat Oregon is hope we beat ourselves. Look at the losses in recent years that Oregon has and all but the Stanford one can be blamed on turnovers. We outgained LSU, but because we had 3 more turnovers and they converted them to TD's. Not saying Oregon would win that game, but it sure as hell would have made it closer. Against USC Oregon had turnovers and mental mistakes on 4th downs they should have converted. Against Auburn the defense played great, but the OL had no answer for Nick Fairley so we continued to turn over the ball and only lost by a field goal. Against tOSU the Ducks had a chance to take a double digit lead early into the game and instead turned it over and with Oregon driving LGB fumbles then punts the ball to a tOSU player. This Oregon team under Chip Kelly has been great, but have been beatable if you can force turnovers.