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I think I’ll scream if I hear one more complaint about Brian Kelly and “cultural fit”
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:33 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:33 pm
That’s the kind of lame thing that people talk about when you don’t have championship-caliber football. It’s akin to “swagger”; they’re both generic, meaningless terms that people use when they don’t know what else to say about a coach or the players.
Saban was about as far away as it gets from being a cultural fit in Louisiana. However, he produced championship-caliber football, and so all was forgiven. Winning “covered a multitude of sins”, so to speak. He also has a very lame and drab personality, but no one cares because once again he wins a lot.
If Kelly figures out our problems and starts winning consistently, all the stupid talk about culture will evaporate instantly.
We don’t need someone who fits Louisiana’s retarded “looks like one of us” mentality anyway.
Saban was about as far away as it gets from being a cultural fit in Louisiana. However, he produced championship-caliber football, and so all was forgiven. Winning “covered a multitude of sins”, so to speak. He also has a very lame and drab personality, but no one cares because once again he wins a lot.
If Kelly figures out our problems and starts winning consistently, all the stupid talk about culture will evaporate instantly.
We don’t need someone who fits Louisiana’s retarded “looks like one of us” mentality anyway.
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Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:43 pm to cbree88
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Saban was about as far away as it gets from being a cultural fit in Louisiana
Saban was an extremely good cultural fit. The problem is that most people, including you, are too dumb to differentiate between our coach being a good football cultural fit and being able to slide seamlessly into the average neighborhood in Lafitte Parish.
He’s not from Louisiana but he was a cool young coach who had fire and hired great assistants and epitomized a brand of football that the Louisiana and Texas kids excelled at. That’s a far cry from some lazy dorky wine connoisseur that hangs out at Baton Rouge Country Club all weekend with Woodward and thinks full contact practices are a bad thing. BK is a terrible cultural fit in the context of being a football coach and that’s a fact
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:43 pm to cbree88
Kelly isn’t a “Fit”, because he doesn’t want it enough. He isn’t willing to get down, and dirty, and do everything it takes to be a championship coach.
All one has to do is take one good look at Jay Johnson. The man eats, breathes, and drinks Baseball. However, with all that said, what really enamored the fanbase to Jay, outside of his burning desire to bring championship baseball back to LSU, was that he embraced our past. He embraced who we are. He learned everything about what built LSU Baseball, and most importantly, all the people, who contributed to building it along the way.
Brian Kelly waltzed down here and the first thing he did was get rid of anyone, snd everyone who had ties to our program and state. He thought he didn’t need to embrace, and understand how things worked down here. He thought he knew more than everyone else involved in the program.
Brian Kelly thought he could come down here and be an executive CEO and ride above the fray. He didn’t want to get down and dirty, get into all the details, embrace what LSU Football is.
That’s why he’s Not a Fit.
All one has to do is take one good look at Jay Johnson. The man eats, breathes, and drinks Baseball. However, with all that said, what really enamored the fanbase to Jay, outside of his burning desire to bring championship baseball back to LSU, was that he embraced our past. He embraced who we are. He learned everything about what built LSU Baseball, and most importantly, all the people, who contributed to building it along the way.
Brian Kelly waltzed down here and the first thing he did was get rid of anyone, snd everyone who had ties to our program and state. He thought he didn’t need to embrace, and understand how things worked down here. He thought he knew more than everyone else involved in the program.
Brian Kelly thought he could come down here and be an executive CEO and ride above the fray. He didn’t want to get down and dirty, get into all the details, embrace what LSU Football is.
That’s why he’s Not a Fit.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:47 pm to Forever
This is dumb. Try again.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:48 pm to cbree88
Winning meaningful football games will fit in just fine. Telling the fan base they are spoiled while they are seeing that things aren’t going well will not fit in.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 9:50 pm to lsu for the win
but the people who think “cultural fit” and “swagger” are imaginary myths are real geniuses. OP is consistently the dumbest person on this website and you’re a bleeding crybaby vag based on your post history. I could spend 45 minutes typing about why Saban was exactly what the athletic department and football team needed culturally after DiNardo and I don’t care if the bottomfeeder small town baws think he wasn’t because he wasn’t born in your shithole townPosted on 10/21/25 at 9:59 pm to cbree88
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If Kelly figures out our problems and starts winning consistently, all the stupid talk about culture will evaporate instantly.
Well duh.
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Saban was about as far away as it gets from being a cultural fit in Louisiana. However, he produced championship-caliber football, and so all was forgiven. Winning “covered a multitude of sins”, so to speak. He also has a very lame and drab personality, but no one cares because once again he wins a lot.
Great fit.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:01 pm to Forever
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Saban was an extremely good cultural fit.
Agree.
LA didn't have any issues with his drive, intensity, and disciplined approach.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:02 pm to cbree88
Simple.
You win great cultural fit, lose awful cultural fit.
Nick saban is from West Virginia. Les miles is from Ohio.
The whole cultural fit is nonsense. Kelly not being a “cultural fit” is just one more thing for people to bitch about and dislike him.
You win great cultural fit, lose awful cultural fit.
Nick saban is from West Virginia. Les miles is from Ohio.
The whole cultural fit is nonsense. Kelly not being a “cultural fit” is just one more thing for people to bitch about and dislike him.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:38 pm to lsu for the win
he’s exactly right
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 10:39 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:42 pm to cbree88
“culture fit” is ESPN saying we’re retards and we deserve a retard coach like Les or O.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 10:56 pm to cbree88
I don’t care anything about cultural fit. All I know is Kelly is not a good coach and can’t do it in this conference. Plain and simple.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:15 pm to cbree88
I agree. The only cultural fit that matter is winning.
There are a lot of goofy complaints about BK on the Rant right now. Very emotional men digging up all sorts of silly reasons to hate BK.
The only reason to be mad at BK is the on-field results. All the other shite is like listening to women bitch about ex husbands.
There are a lot of goofy complaints about BK on the Rant right now. Very emotional men digging up all sorts of silly reasons to hate BK.
The only reason to be mad at BK is the on-field results. All the other shite is like listening to women bitch about ex husbands.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:19 pm to SmoothBox
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The whole cultural fit is nonsense. Kelly not being a “cultural fit” is just one more thing for people to bitch about and dislike him.
Imagine being so stupid that you think “cultural fit” in this context means sharing the demographics of the fanbase as opposed to understanding and building on the identity of the program and its style of play and recruitment.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:19 pm to chadr07
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I don’t care anything about cultural fit. All I know is Kelly is not a good coach and can’t do it in this conference. Plain and simple.
"Cultural fit" is not the problem. The fact that OP brings this up is simply a straw man argument to bolster his flawed point of view.
If BK was moving our players in a positive direction and making the types of changes that showed he was engaged in making this the best LSU team it could be, then he would be embraced by the vast majority of the fans. That is what he is being paid for. It's that simple.
Kelly is not doing his job, and doesn't seem to want to even try to make adjustments for whatever bizarre reason. He is rightfully being called out for this, and the fact that he isn't a good fit culturally is just icing on this lousy stinking cake of Kelly's that people are prone to tack on as an afterthought.
It is by no means why we don't think he's a good coach and needs to move on down the proverbial road.
This post was edited on 10/21/25 at 11:21 pm
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:32 pm to AlwysATgr
Instead of calling us spoiled, like Kelly, which we weren't when he arrived, Saban said we had "catastrophe syndrome", it was brilliant. He was much more positive and much easier to relate to.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:46 pm to cbree88
You can't combine action that doesn't match the hype with arrogance and being a pompous arse. it makes people simplify it and say he's not a cultural fit I suppose because they stop liking him. But he doesn't have to be from Louisiana to fit with us.
Posted on 10/21/25 at 11:47 pm to cbree88
Yeah kelly simply has to win. That’s it.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 12:24 am to cbree88
Cultural fit means Kelly doesn’t get us as a football fan. From Arkansas to Pierre Part from Texas to Mississippi we eat, drink, sleep, football. I wonder if Kelly has ever been in a West Monroe football game? Or Church Point? Or General Trass or Mangham? Or North Desoto or Zachary or even Edna Karr? Hell has he even been to Catholic High? High School Football is a Friday night religion here and it bleeds over into Saturdays. If you want to understand LSU football culture go to High School games in October and November. Put Football First.
Saban and Orgeron slept in their offices from August to January. (Maybe for different reasons but I digress)
LSU fans don’t care if you’re from Brooklyn like Kelly or DiNardo, or West Virginia like Saban, or Ohio like Miles and Dietzel, or Arkansas like McClendon, or Kentucky like Arnsparger, or Pennsylvania like Archer, or Alabama like Hallman, or Louisiana like Stovall and Orgeron. Just win and those who didn’t were shown the door.
Fitting in culturally is about being ravenous about winning football. Being tough and being physical. Full pads damn near every practice and never being soft. Playing lights out foot never off the gas football and win and win and win and when you think you’re tired, you win some fricking more. Players chosen to fit that culture are necessary, and assistants and staff who understands that culture are a prerequisite.
We might suck at literacy and math and smart nerd stuff. Our economy may suck and we may lag behind in infrastructure and crime, but we don’t lose fricking easy football games. Period.
That’s the culture that Brian Kelly fails to immerse himself in.
Saban and Orgeron slept in their offices from August to January. (Maybe for different reasons but I digress)
LSU fans don’t care if you’re from Brooklyn like Kelly or DiNardo, or West Virginia like Saban, or Ohio like Miles and Dietzel, or Arkansas like McClendon, or Kentucky like Arnsparger, or Pennsylvania like Archer, or Alabama like Hallman, or Louisiana like Stovall and Orgeron. Just win and those who didn’t were shown the door.
Fitting in culturally is about being ravenous about winning football. Being tough and being physical. Full pads damn near every practice and never being soft. Playing lights out foot never off the gas football and win and win and win and when you think you’re tired, you win some fricking more. Players chosen to fit that culture are necessary, and assistants and staff who understands that culture are a prerequisite.
We might suck at literacy and math and smart nerd stuff. Our economy may suck and we may lag behind in infrastructure and crime, but we don’t lose fricking easy football games. Period.
That’s the culture that Brian Kelly fails to immerse himself in.
Posted on 10/22/25 at 12:44 am to tigermed2
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Winning meaningful football games will fit in just fine. Telling the fan base they are spoiled while they are seeing that things aren’t going well will not fit in.
This right here.
I've defended Kelly for a long time because I thought he was a good coach.
He's now 5-10 vs ranked teams (ranked teams, not top 10 teams) and he's now throwing shade at the fans? Your offense has looked the same in every game this year so far and there's little improvement. It's always the same terrible play calling and your defense can only bail you out so much.
And you just got thrown off the ball by less talented players at Vanderbilt.
He refuses to either A. Change or B. Adapt. It's one of those. This is exactly what did in his predecessors.
I'm through defending him.
I typically would be against terminating a HC mid season but like I said, there has been little improvement on offense even though he has said time and time again that there has been. I've seen this before.
Canning him midseason wouldn't upset me. He's shown that he can't be trusted with what he says (I get the coach speak to a degree but very little of what he's said has been truthful).
I saw a post on here last night saying that Kelly has done one thing-he's united the fanbase against him in short order.
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