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Brian Kelly was table-pounding level angry, his face red and twitchy, after his No. 13-ranked LSU team blew another season opener it should have won.
“I’m so angry about it that I’ve got to do something about it,” Kelly said. “I’m not doing a good enough job as a coach. I’ve got to coach them better because it’s unacceptable for us not to have found a way to win this football game. It’s ridiculous. It’s crazy.”
LSU fans should be even angrier.
This is what LSU gets for $10 million a year? Another highly anticipated season that immediately goes off the rails?
Sunday night’s 27-20 loss to No. 23 USC made it Kelly’s third consecutive season opener loss. Three big opportunities, three losses. That’s unacceptable to a fanbase accustomed to a different, more extraordinary trio — its last three head coaches have all won a national championship.
Those are the expectations Kelly signed up for when he left Notre Dame to join the LSU “family.” And those are the expectations Kelly hasn’t met and may never meet if his program can’t take that next step.
At a Nike coaching clinic after his first season in Baton Rouge, Kelly explained to a room full of high school coaches and this reporter why he left one of the premier jobs in college football, a program he took to a national championship appearance, to go to LSU.
“I had the opportunity to go to the SEC and, for me, that’s the American League East,” Kelly said. “That’s where all the big boys are, and I wanted that one last challenge in my career to go to the SEC to play what I consider the best college football in the country.”
He’s not wrong about the SEC being the home of the big boys. The SEC currently features four top 10 teams in No. 1 Georgia, No. No. 4 Texas, No. 5 Alabama and…
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2024-09-02 18:27:02
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