Hello, I started typing this when 11:31 remained in the second quarter of UCLA’s game against Texas A&M to open the 2017 season. The Bruins trailed, 24-3, showing no signs of being able to run the ball or protect Josh Rosen or defend the run or catch passes or any number of other things.

At the time, I argued that UCLA should fire Jim Mora and hire Chip Kelly before Week 2. But then the Bruins pulled off one of the most unbelievable comebacks in the history of the sport. So now I’m going to argue that the Aggies should fire Kevin Sumlin and hire Chip Kelly before Week 2.

Meanwhile, former Oregon and NFL head coach Chip Kelly is preparing for another weekend of studio analysis at ESPN. The three-time Pac-12 champion is otherwise unoccupied.

So wouldn’t it be pretty cool if A&M could just skip the rest of the Sumlin era and hire Chip Kelly right now?

Sumlin had a hot start with Johnny Manziel and continues to recruit well, but a habit of plummeting after strong Septembers led to his own athletic director putting him on the hot seat this summer. And then this game, which served as a microcosm of the entire Aggie experience.

This can’t happen, because it takes a full offseason to convert a team to a new system, and there’s paperwork, and blah blah blah.

I’m just saying it would be great for anyone to be able to care about A&M football in October again.

This can’t happen. He’d have no reason to hurry. He’d ask for even more enormous stacks of money than otherwise. Naming an emergency interim from outside the program would be about as drastic as Arkansas going and digging up John L. Smith to take over for Bobby Petrino.

I realize all that. What I’m saying is: sure would be entertaining, wouldn’t it? Come on. A&M’s next two games are against Nicholls and Louisiana-Lafayette. Chip could beat Nicholls and Louisiana-Lafayette.

OK, fine. Let’s discuss this in late November, then.

Along with Phil Knight’s Nike influence and a decades-long chain of coaching stability, the Oregon West Coast dynasty’s biggest key was head coach Mike Bellotti turning the offense and eventually the program over to some dude from New Hampshire in 2007.

If Nick Saban is a dictator, Rex Ryan a goofball and Bill Belichick is a genius, then Chip Kelly is a mad scientist, the man who devised football’s best offense at a hockey school. But he likely doesn’t think about it like that. He simply knew how good he had it at UNH. In a profession that offers few chances to cash in, that is rare. "He turned down jobs because he wasn’t going to get that, what’s the word?" Sean McDonnell, Kelly’s head coach at UNH, says. "Autonomy." Finally, Kelly relented. In January 2007, Oregon offensive coordinator Gary Crowton, a former UNH assistant whom Kelly had flown out to visit the year before, left for LSU. With a vacancy to fill, Bellotti, who’d made stops at Cal State Hayward and Chico State, pushed for Kelly. At one point, McDonnell says, Kelly asked Bellotti why he’d hire a I-AA assistant. "Well," Bellotti supposedly responded, "they hired me, and I was a Division II assistant coach."

Oregon’s offense had ranked in the 30s in S&P+ before Kelly took over.

In Kelly’s first year, 2007, it finished No. 4 in S&P+ despite losing starting QB Dennis Dixon to injury.

In 2008, Oregon began an eight-year streak of top-eight scoring offenses.

In 2010, the Ducks nearly won a BCS title and had the No. 1 scoring offense.

In 2012, his final year at Oregon, his offense averaged a hilarious 49.6 points and ranked No. 2 in S&P+, behind only former Oregon commit Johnny Manziel’s Texas A&M.

Oregon didn’t just rack up yards. The Ducks’ signature, seemingly every other week for years: a leisurely first half as Kelly probed for weaknesses, then an Oregon touchdown, a turnover as the panicked opponent tried to catch back up, another touchdown, and an Oregon defensive touchdown, all in a flurry. Every week, the dam held until it didn’t. It was beautiful.

Bellotti and company explained the program-changing decision to bring in Chip: