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Yahoo Sports: After latest loss, it's evident Brian Kelly may just not fit at LSU
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:38 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:38 am
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Scott Woodward, the athletics director at LSU, earned a larger-than-life reputation within the college athletics community for one reason.
He’s a certified star chaser.
And when it was time to do that dance again at LSU, Woodward didn’t waste any time shocking the world, pulling Brian Kelly out of Notre Dame even though it wasn’t well known he had interest in leaving.
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The Woodward formula has had plenty of successes. Notably, hiring women’s basketball coach Kim Mulkey from Baylor and baseball coach Jay Johnson from Arizona has paid off with national championships.
But when you become so enamored with big names that you don’t account for program fit, it can be a disaster.
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And Kelly’s tenure at LSU — a place where fit really, really matters — is hurtling toward a career-altering disaster.
Beyond the obvious, here’s the really bad part about LSU’s 31-24 loss at Vanderbilt: It wasn’t as close as the score, LSU got outcoached pretty badly on offense and defense, and in the end none of it was a surprise.
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We are now more than halfway through Kelly’s fourth season, and LSU’s identity as a program is a big pile of meh.
If the standard was winning nine or 10 games every year but never winning the right games to even contend for the national title, Kelly would be in fine shape. But that’s not the standard at LSU, where the three coaches before Kelly all won a national title.
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We have to come back to fit. Like many places around the SEC, the culture of the football program is woven into the state’s everyday life. But LSU is unique even within that paradigm for reasons that are hard to explain: The Cajun accents, the gumbo simmering at tailgates, the night atmosphere at Tiger Stadium, the pipeline of elite talent that flows from New Orleans and towns throughout the boot to Baton Rouge.
And Brian Kelly, the erudite New Englander via South Bend, fits that culture like Gordon Ramsay working the grill at Waffle House.
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This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 9:41 am
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Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:40 am to Cs
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Yahoo Sports: After latest loss, it's evident Brian Kelly may just not fit at LSU
Gee…really?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:41 am to Cs
Waffle House analogy fits so well for so many reasons.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:41 am to Godfather1
Woodward may be the best AD that Notre Dame has ever had.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:43 am to Cs
Dear Yahoo Sports: Ya think?
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:45 am to Cs
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LSU’s identity as a program is a big pile of meh.
Nailed it
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:45 am to Cs
quote:This is absolutely stupid. Fit? Les Miles and Saban were from relatively far away as well. This is just a euphemistic way to say Kelly is a subpar coach who feasted on ND's soft schedule and still couldn't get it done. Here is the real answer from the story...
The Cajun accents, the gumbo simmering at tailgates, the night atmosphere at Tiger Stadium, the pipeline of elite talent that flows from New Orleans and towns throughout the boot to Baton Rouge.
And Brian Kelly, the erudite New Englander via South Bend, fits that culture like Gordon Ramsay working the grill at Waffle House.
quote:Fit? bullshite! He's just a mediocre coach.
LSU got outcoached
And what is erudite about this mediocre intellect?
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 9:48 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:46 am to Cs
I think Yahoo sports should just just interview CBK. Then he could show them how well he fits in when he uses his Cajun/Southern accent.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:48 am to Cs
I’m ready to move on from BK but this obsession with “fit” is all a bunch of bullshite. No one can even really define what it means.
The only thing you need to do to be a good fit is win and be consistent. Dont put a team in the field that constantly looks lost. Thats it.
People didn’t think Saban was a good fit at the beginning
People didn’t think Miles was a good fit at the beginning
O was a great fit but outside of 2019 the program was pretty much a dumpster fire.
The only thing you need to do to be a good fit is win and be consistent. Dont put a team in the field that constantly looks lost. Thats it.
People didn’t think Saban was a good fit at the beginning
People didn’t think Miles was a good fit at the beginning
O was a great fit but outside of 2019 the program was pretty much a dumpster fire.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:48 am to Cs
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And Brian Kelly, the erudite New Englander via South Bend, fits that culture like Gordon Ramsay working the grill at Waffle House.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:49 am to Cs
Beyond the obvious, here’s the really bad part about LSU’s 31-24 loss at Vanderbilt: It wasn’t as close as the score, LSU got outcoached pretty badly on offense and defense, and in the end none of it was a surprise.
Every redzone possession for LSU looks like a fricking Chinese fire drill.
Every redzone possession for LSU looks like a fricking Chinese fire drill.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:50 am to Jake88
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This is absolutely stupid. Fit? Les Miles and Saban were from relatively far away as well. This is just a euphemistic way to say Kelly is a subpar coach who feasted on ND's soft schedule and still couldn't get it done. Here is the real answer from the story...
Agreed. I hate the “fit” talking point.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:50 am to Cs
People here will say "no duh" to this article like before the Ole Miss game they weren't saying "hur dur fit is made up, just win baby"
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 9:51 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:50 am to LCA131
Add to all that the arrogance and refusal to change anything.
Our schemes are not working. We cannot block or tackle well - the two fundamentals of football and we suck at both of them. How can we line up on every passing play and not even think of giving our LT some help? Probably because our TEs and RBs can’t block either. Its a sad state of affairs.
Our schemes are not working. We cannot block or tackle well - the two fundamentals of football and we suck at both of them. How can we line up on every passing play and not even think of giving our LT some help? Probably because our TEs and RBs can’t block either. Its a sad state of affairs.
This post was edited on 10/19/25 at 9:51 am
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:51 am to Cs
The “fit” argument is so stupid. Win games you are supposed to. Have a disciplined, well coached team. Compete for championships. That’s the “fit. ” It doesn’t matter where the frick he is from.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:53 am to tigabait01
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Waffle House analogy fits so well for so many reasons
He's no Gordon Ramsey though. More like Amy from Amys Baking Company on kitchen nightmares. Gordon Ramsey can cook. BK really has a shallow depth of understanding football and the situational mechanics. Which would be ok if he could recognize talent and hire decently. But he sucks at that too.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:54 am to Pikes Peak Tiger
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I’m ready to move on from BK but this obsession with “fit” is all a bunch of bullshite. No one can even really define what it means.
It's just the right coach at the right place at the right time.
I'd argue there's a chance that Napier could have been really successful here despite his struggles at Florida.
Fickell isn't a terrible coach, but he just doesn't fit at Wisconsin.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:56 am to Pikes Peak Tiger
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I’m ready to move on from BK but this obsession with “fit” is all a bunch of bullshite. No one can even really define what it means. The only thing you need to do to be a good fit is win and be consistent. Dont put a team in the field that constantly looks lost. Thats it.
Yeah that whole gumbo, tailgate, etc shite is nonsense.
There is truth in a lot of the other things he wrote but never forget that the national media is still mad that he had the nerve to leave ND and have been hoping he wouldn’t succeed.
Also, remember that this twat writer was one of the clowns that was distraught that college football was not cancelled in 2020 and if you read his other stuff, he definitely has an agenda outside what happens in the actual games.
Posted on 10/19/25 at 9:59 am to Cs
I was originally in the group that didn't understand the "doesnt fit" narrative. However now i get it, but probably not in the way most intended it. LSU used to be smash mouth football, big mean guys on the lines and hard nose running tailback. They didn't take any crap on defense and would go lights out win or lose. That rubbed off on the fans and the fans became loud and rowdy and rough. Now they are soft and like the article said their identity is meh. It's not that he is a northerner (doesn't help) but it's he lost what made LSU football LSU football.
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