Chip Kelly explains how he's found happiness again at Ohio State

Chip Kelly's move from UCLA head coach to Ohio State coordinator as the Bruins were set to join the Big Ten puzzled a lot of people.

Leaving a head coaching role to become a coordinator isn't all that uncommon when guys go from a Group of Five head coach to the Power Four coordinator level, but doing it within the same conference is not only incredibly rare, but it also came with more than its fair share of scrutiny.

But Kelly, who hasn't focused on just coaching a position or a side of the ball in over a decade, had a revelation after Bruins quarterbacks coach Ryan Gunderson left for an opportunity to become a coordinator at Oregon State. Kelly stepped in and coached the quarterbacks and it opened his eyes quite a bit.

"To me, the best part of football is the football. So you got to do football, and not some of the things that are involved with the head coaching deal."

Kelly shared that his wife mentioned how his mood had undergone a significant change correlating to the move, and she hadn't seen him that happy in a while.

"I had the chance, after we beat Boise in the bowl game, and as we started recruiting, just to think about what that experience was like, and I get to make the decision on what my future is going to be, and so what do I want to do?"

"So I started to look for that opportunity, and it had to be at the right spot to go somewhere and just coach a position again. As a head coach, you sit in on position meetings, but then you're always getting pulled out. There's other things involved with being a head coach, and it's more of a CEO operation right now. The job, and the landscape of college football, have changed."

Kelly then shares a story on John Lennon and how when he was a little kid he had an assignment in school about what he wants to be when he grows up, and he responded, "I want to be happy."

The teacher responded that she didn't think Lennon understood the assignment, and Lennon's mother chirped back that the teacher didn't understand life.

Kelly used that story to deliver this message.

"I just wanted to be happy. And I am really happy coaching a position. Really happy to be at this place. It would have taken a special place for me to leave UCLA because I love those players and I love that coaching staff."

Hear full context from Kelly in the clip.