Here's What UCLA Coach Chip Kelly Said About LSU This Week

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Been in a situation like LSU where they've had to move everything to Houston?

No, I haven’t, and we actually had the TV on in the locker room on the way out here. First off, our thoughts and prayers go out to the people of Louisiana and it’s a lot bigger than football, what they’re going through. They experienced Katrina 16 years ago and this storm is as big as Katrina, so I hope everybody’s safe down there and I feel for Coach O and [inaudible], but they had to leave their families back there, so it’s a difficult situation for anybody to be playing, so our thoughts and prayers are with everybody in Louisiana who’s dealing with the storm right no.

Difference between LSU's championship team and 2020 team?

Well, it's what happens in all of college football. It's a yearly deal, it doesn't – it's very tough to sustain and there was a bunch of guys, a bunch of draft picks: The No. 1 pick in the draft in Joe Burrow, Ja'Marr Chase didn't play and he got drafted really high this year, Justin Jefferson was probably the top receiver in the NFL last year as a rookie, so there was a lot of good players. I think the other thing that coach O dealt with is there was turnover on his staff, so there was new coordinators on each side of the ball, so they started off not probably the way they wanted to, but they actually finished strong. And going with the Ben Bolch factor, they won their last two games, so they're on a high note from a momentum standpoint headed into this season so we're really excited about the challenge, it's a really good football team that is gonna have talent every step of the way, whether it's their wideouts, running back, offensive line, their defensive guys can really run around, they have two, probably two of the best corners we'll see. The two of them combined will be the best group of corners that we play this season so we've got our hands full. So we're gonna have to have a really good week of preparation for these guys.


Preparing for new coordinators?

You look at LSU film to get an understanding of what the personnel is like so you can watch the (???). You don't want to watch the (???) cause they're really good, so but you kind of see where the coordinators came from, what schemes they were familiar with. It sounds like they're going back to (???) offensively when Joe Brady was there cause the coach they brought it went with Joe, was in the NFL with Joe. So you kind of have an idea but you have to make adjustments on the run. We had to make adjustments on the run in the Hawaii game, a lot of the things Hawaii did last year, they weren't doing this year, so you gotta be prepared. You kinda have an idea going into an opener like we did against Hawaii, you think they're gonna be like this. We weren't right on everything we were thinking, but we had to make some in-game adjustments, we probably saw more four-down defenses from Hawaii than they played the season before, that's just part of what happens. Usually, at the beginning of the year, once you get two or three games in, each team's identity kind of shows itself and you get an idea of what they're gonna do. So we gotta be agile, especially early in the game, and just is what we practiced against and what we thought we were gonna get what we got? And if it's not, then we gotta make adjustments on the run.

Is there a way to neutralize a DB like Derek Stingley?

Not that's legal. No, I mean, he's as good a corner as we'll face, obviously people at the next level talk about him, how good a corner he is, really patient, sharp, he's got great technique and he's got obviously a skillset that works perfect for that position. So as a coach at times, when you see someone that talented, you actually kind of admire it, say 'Wow that's a really good player.'

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