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Yes Ryan Day is a Chip Kelly disciple from way back in the New Hampshire days, Kelly & Day are both from the Sean McDonnell tree, he’s been at New Hampshire for literally 30 years & both of them played for him, Ryan Day was a QB at NH & Chip Kelly was a DB.Ryan Day? I believe he coached for Golden for only one year. Don't think that qualifies him as a Golden protege. Was just reading his Wikipedia and it says that Chip Kelly was his mentor (even brought him over from college to the NFL) . So I guess Meyer doesn't get to claim him as much as Kelly does.
Dan Mullen is somewhat of a Sean McDonnell disciple as well, he coached at Wagner & Columbia to start his career & how he got those jobs was because when he was a player in college at Ursinus he played against Coach McDonnell when he was a DB coach at Columbia & then when McDonnell went to NH he recommend Mullen at Columbia University as an assistant. Then after Mullen coached at Cuse under Paul Pasqualoni (who’s currently on Mullen staff right now as a Chief assistant to the HC), he met Urban Meyer at Notre Lame when he & Urby both coached under Bob Davie.
But Ryan Day wound up coaching for Urban & was on the same staff with Mullen on those UF staff when Urban first got there, Ryan Day left & went back to Boston College under Tom O’Brien, where he & Steve Addazio wound up reconnecting becaus Addazio was with Day & Mullen at the beginning of the Urban era in UF, Addazio also was with Mullen at Syracuse under Paul Pasqualoni...
So when Addazio got the Temple job he hired Ryan Day to be his WR’s coach & eventually OC/QB’s coach, then after being with Addazio for a few years Chip Kelly came & took him to the NFL with the Eagles & Niners with him. Then once Kelly got fired from the NFL, Urby brought Ryan back with him to OH St.
The six degrees of separation for all these coaches is Earle Bruce, Sean McDonnell & Paul Pasqualoni.
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