DEC 7 Advocate podcast - Rabalais is put on the hot seat by his editor regarding House

Dec 7 - The Advocate podcast - The first thing that was acknowledged by the Advocate's executive sports editor Perryn Keys is that the Matt House situation at LSU has been "the elephant in the room" the one thing they "have been dancing around" and acknowledged they still don't know anything based on what Coach Brian Kelly has stated about House.


Keys then turned to long-time sports columnist Scott Rabalais (Brab) and said, "I'm going to put you on the hot seat, if you were Kelly would you make a change, not just your defensive staff but your defensive coordinator."


Rabalais (Brab) explained how Coach Kelly has let go of two of his assistant coaches in the recent past whom Kelly was very close to. He then noted that LSU just gave Matt House an extension last year, implying that the timing was sort of questionable, LSU's defense wasn't great, "but I can kinda see it you know" why Kelly wanted to do that, to keep House around and not let him go back to the NFL. It all comes down to will Matt House's defensive philosophy help LSU win a championship.


Rabalais then pointed to this year where LSU has a brilliant offense and if it had an average defense, maybe LSU would be 11-1 and they're in the hunt.


Keys then noted, "You still haven't answered my question."



Rabalais responded laughing because he was stalling, "I think there will be changes, but for the fact that he (House) got an extension and he hasn't done anything yet, I think he's gonna keep him.. he's gonna keep him."

Keys then said, "I'm still going to nail you to the wall, that's not what I asked, I asked if you were Coach Brian Kelly would you keep him?

And Rabalais responded, "No! I would move on." but also acknowledged he's not advocating for House to lose his job.


Rabalais also noted that now it's politically difficult to do that, there will be some static, you just went to the board and got House an extension, and now you're going to ask the board to come up with more money to fire him.
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My take for what it's worth. We all know that Coach Brian Kelly is very intelligent, so to give House an extension, he obviously saw something in House that impressed him, as did the Kansas City Chiefs. Maybe Kelly fires him, or maybe he gives House another year with new assistants who can deliver elite talent from the portal and high school. Talent that House can work with to build a great defense.