LSU football: Brian Kelly shares his first SEC impressions, updates positional depth

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In year one, I wanted to make sure we knew how to practice the right way.

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This pretty much says it all with what went on in 2020-2021.

I still can’t believe we actually won a natty with yaw yaw. Somebody needs to write a book about the rise and fall of Yaw Yaw at LSU.

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I think it’s a combination of all three

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Yea I agree. I think the divorce really fricked O’s world up too. I don’t know if his ex wife is who was keeping him focused or if the success fricked with his head or what but the divorce was the beginning of the end for him.

Wow. A HC with a plan on knowing what needs to be done to make us consistently good not just every other year. If Coach Kelly can build the defense like he has built the offense then we will be competing yearly for the SEC title and the playoff.

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This says even more about what went on in 2020 - 2021. I guess The Binder was lost in the 2019 celebration.

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Anyone with a brain knew O wasn't qualified to be a HC. I will always be greatful for 2019 but he then immediately sent the program back to pre saban days.

We had a solid DC

& BEBE, who never gets credit for this, but he pulled a couple key players in key spots from places nobody had ever heard of (the Kicker, a couple lineman & most importantly Burrow) & filled some holes.

AND MORE IMPORTANTLY

BEBE, pulled a Genius “no-name OC named Joe Brady” to LSU, gave him the reigns on the offensive schemes that brought Sean Payton’s passing game Offense to LSU.

And with all that being said, he created “Lightning in a Bottle”

Anyone & Everyone that continues to criticize the man or not give him credit is ignorant at best to the game of football.

As rough on the edges that he is, coaches and players and parents loved the man that he is, being as genuine, straight forward and one of the best motivators I’ve ever been around.

I coached ball on a high level in the state & we pumped out players for decades, so all the coaches would visit all the time recruiting.

And I always said this “when you shake the man’s grizzly-paw hand & he goes right into football and coaching D-Line on the spot, he has you ready to run thru a brick wall within 10 Seconds” he just has that aura and intensity!

And for many years that’s how I would explain him, and then fast forward to SEC Network & that old red-head QB from Bama (forget his name), but he was talking about when Bebe was recruiting him to either Ole Miss or wherever, and he said the same exact thing I always described, it just goes to show he has that same rub on everyone.

And his network of coaching contacts is 2nd to none having coached at THE U in their prime (where he coached several of my old teammates). He coached with Pete Carroll in his collegiate head coaching prime. Coached with Sean Peyton & the Saints. And what most people don’t realize, but his KEY MENTOR is Coach Pete Jenkins, Arguably the BEST D-LINE coach in the history of the game of football with a network 2nd to none.

Bebe could make calls and get help on many different levels, and thats what he did at LSU for a couple years & assembled the best team in history.

True LSU fans need to quit all the hating on this man, he gave us the claim to fame with the best team ever, PERIOD!

But then he went thru his divorce & it changed things.

PLUS, when he took the job, I told everyone, his problem will be having to “hire home-run assistants over & over” because he’s purely a DL Guru as a Coach & a Recruiting Machine/Motivator that learned how to work his way up to the top, but never was he necessarily a top coordinator. Yes, he knows fundamental x’s & o’s. But now a days, the magnitude of major programs, the Head Coach is more of a CEO with Coordinators as their right hands to implement the schemes.

And when you have success, you get depleted with Coaches leaving for promotions. Ie. Brady and Aranda etc. Then those guys take some of their key guys & you have to reload, not many coaches can do that.

Nobody in the game with elite programs can sustain this other than Saban & Bellicheck, where you’re always having coaching turnover.

And that’s what Bebe had at the same time as his family divorce & he couldn’t replenish fast enough & battling off field distractions. Before the divorce, he was focused on his network around the country & plugging the gaps with above mentioned guys etc. Divorce took his edge a bit, it happens.

But give the MAN HIS CREDIT & be thankful for what he did & not judge him on how it ended.

Would some of you guys rather Curly Hallman days???? Or do you think it was easy to pull Burrow, to pull that kicker we had from some no-name college up in north east, or pull Joe Brady and several other key hires and transfers that nobody heard of pre-LSU 2018-2019.

That’s my .02 cents, sorry for the rant, but I’m highly educated and experienced with this particular topic. Back in the day, I coached the recruiting camps for Saban & Tubberville when he was at Auburn, and for the life of me, i never understood how Auburn had the success over the years, back in the 90’s early 2000’s, Auburns facilities were Bush League compared to LSU. And Tubberville would ride around on a golf-cart, it’s was BIGLY unorganized compared to Sabans LSU camps where it was run like a military bootcamp. Not a second waisted. And then I was getting out of coaching when Lesley Miles was hired & the camps and organization went to shite. Spring game scout teams not even knowing where to go, waisted time and was a joke compared to Saban. (That man is a highly organized machine)!!! No nonsense whatsoever & Miles was exact opposite, he just won on talent and defenses when Chavis was still a solid DC.

And fyi, I hardly ever respond to comments, I just post my thoughts from time to time. Have a good day :)

Has anyone's stock dropped more than Joe Brady
He was the new it coach, Lincoln Riley swag and now will likely never be a head coach in any league

He probably needs to go back to college and try and rehab his career

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wag and now will likely never be a head coach in any league

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Crazy statement for a 33 year old coach that touted for having the best offense in cfb history that has already been interviewed for oc jobs after carolina. I don't know many offensive coordinators that shine in carolina. He never should've taken that job.

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Either Aranda ran everything, o quit caring after 2019 , or our players were just so good in 2019 that anyone could have won with them.

I think it’s a combination of all three

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If anyone thinks the future HC we had at DC wasn’t helping keep sh*t together, then they were not dialed in.

Felt like we were in trouble when egO jumped straight to downplaying Aranda’s contribution & crapping on 3-4 scheme upon his exit — you only react like that if you have a chip on your shoulder, which is especially weird coming right off a natty… was telling IMO.