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Brian Kelly was never right for LSU

Posted on 9/16/26 at 1:49 am
Posted by stuckintexas
Austin & DFW
Member since Sep 2009
3709 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 1:49 am
3:45 mark. He says "why all the emotions for a game that's played for a flower?"

That's a symbol of the state of Louisiana, you fricking yankee.

I grew up in a town so poor, our school didn't have much equipment for students to use. K-12 in one building. When we'd get the recess bell, we'd go out in the yard and play football with a magnolia bulb that hadn't blossomed yet.

When I moved to Texas seventeen years ago, I chose a property because it was the only one with a magnolia tree in the back yard.

In this particular video, he doesn't mention how his own team struggled against the very same La Tech last year. He just says "oh it's hard to win on the road in the SEC," as he picks Ole Miss.

No, BK, it was hard for YOU to win on the road in the SEC.

frick Brian Kelly. And frick Ole Miss.
Posted by LSUholddatTiga
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2015
687 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 2:23 am to
I personally thought that it would work out with Kelly

You take a coach who wins 10 games every year with three and four star recruits, put him in Baton Rouge, and I thought that it was a match made in heaven.

Little did we know that once Kelly stepped on Campos, he would basically retire from football and become an avid golfer at the local country clubs.


Kelly is a douche, but without him there is no Kiffin…
This post was edited on 9/16/26 at 2:28 am
Posted by mattytiger123
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Jul 2014
3133 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 2:42 am to
[hot take] He also stabilized the program following two miserable seasons in 2020–21. He had a championship window in 2023 that we know he obviously missed because of a weak portal class and his defensive coaches. The Kelly era was not nearly as bad as some remember, and it put us in a position to hire Kiffin
Posted by ATLTiger
#TreyBiletnikoffs
Member since Sep 2003
46507 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 2:56 am to
quote:

He says "why all the emotions for a game that's played for a flower?"


Not to take up for him, but it just seemed like a somewhat bad attempt at humor. Which is par for the course for BK (rimshot).

And the “hard to win on the road in the SEC” and rivalry game stuff is pretty standard stuff too. I just heard an Atlanta sports talk show say UGA was too big of a favorite at Arky this weekend because it’s “still an SEC road game”.
Posted by Red Stick Tigress
Tiger Stadium
Member since Nov 2005
21931 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 3:08 am to
He was trying to be funny, but just like the fake accent, he failed miserably.

BK is living in your head.

There should be no more posts about BK on this board

He is gone.

It's game week.

LFG!
Posted by ShockG082
Member since Sep 2021
1006 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 3:33 am to
Woodward wasn't right for LSU either
Posted by BilJ
Member since Sep 2003
163589 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 3:43 am to
Jesus dude calm down….

Kelly was making a joke because he’s working on his image for the next hiring cycle and wants to appear likable. It didn’t land because he’s an awkward weirdo but he wasn’t trying to shite on the flower you clearly hold near and dear
Posted by DustyDinkleman
Here
Member since Feb 2012
20962 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 5:31 am to
quote:

I grew up in a town so poor, our school didn't have much equipment for students to use. K-12 in one building. When we'd get the recess bell, we'd go out in the yard and play football with a magnolia bulb that hadn't blossomed yet.


That’s a neat story and all, but it doesn’t mean people who are not familiar with the tie magnolias have to LA/MS will have the same respect and admiration for them.

For people outside of the Gulf Coast, it’s just another tree/flower.
Posted by Tiger Voodoo
Champs 03 07 09 11(fack) 19!!!
Member since Mar 2007
22744 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:02 am to
quote:

You take a coach who wins 10 games every year with three and four star recruits, put him in Baton Rouge, and I thought that it was a match made in heaven.

Little did we know that once Kelly stepped on Campos, he would basically retire from football and become an avid golfer at the local country clubs.



Also, to be fair, I don’t think Kelly or anyone else realized how much NIL and the portal was about to change CFB.

He came in and turned an abysmal situation around very quickly, identifying and bringing in JD. Getting that first win over Saban at home since 2010 was an all time TS moment imo, and brought another Heisman to BR.

But by the end of 2023 it was clear that old dog was not up to learn the new system of perpetual free agency, and honestly who can blame him, dude became a HC in the 90s and is as old school as it gets. Had he been hired in 2016 or some other point he probably joins the LSU NC coaching tree.

Saban and Dabo had no interest in fighting this new battle and Kelly didn’t either. It is a young man’s game and I’m just glad the timing worked out to get the absolute alpha designed to wreck shite in this era.


The guys constantly shitting on him as some colossal failure are as bad as the soft arse Ole Miss fans that want to rewrite history to hate on Lane. It’s weird and embarrassing.
Posted by T1gerNate
Member since Feb 2020
4988 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:15 am to
quote:

He also stabilized the program following two miserable seasons in 2020–21. He had a championship window in 2023 that we know he obviously missed because of a weak portal class and his defensive coaches. The Kelly era was not nearly as bad as some remember, and it put us in a position to hire Kiffin


You are right. He sucked in a lot of ways and deserved to get canned, but it wasn’t all bad. He did get the program out of the ditch O drove it into after the natti.

Posted by T1gerNate
Member since Feb 2020
4988 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:16 am to
quote:

I grew up in a town so poor, our school didn't have much equipment for students to use. K-12 in one building. When we'd get the recess bell, we'd go out in the yard and play football with a magnolia bulb that hadn't blossomed yet.


Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
26896 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:25 am to
24 and 25 were both colossal failures for LSU. 23 was ho hum.

22 we will say was a good year, won the west but got pants by FSU, Tennessee, Aggy and UGA but beat bama locked up the west drummed a bad bowl team. None of the loses were good.

23- Heisman winner but we lost the big games- FSU, Ole Miss, Bama nothing of note other than a disaster defense and individual accomplishment

24 and 25 were flaming dog shite years by LSU standards.

We aren’t Arkansas so colossal failures at LSU is measured differently
Posted by RedlandsTiger
Greenwell Springs, LA
Member since Jan 2008
3243 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:27 am to
It's amazing, Woody hired Jimbo who was a bust at A&M and then Kelly who was a total bust at LSU. I have to admit I thought the Kelly hire was a good one. He is a 'process' focused coach (like Sabin) and he has had good success in the past. I had no idea he would coast once he got the job. He was an embarrassment to LSU and himself.
Posted by burke985
UGANDA
Member since Aug 2011
29717 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:36 am to
I hated the hire from day zero

quote:

but without him there is no Kiffin…


Not really without Landry there is no kiffin, Woodword would have let the program tank until his contract was up
This post was edited on 9/16/26 at 6:39 am
Posted by CalRipkenJr
Denham Springs
Member since Jan 2007
1962 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:38 am to
quote:

Brian Kelly was never right for LSU


In other breaking news, water is wet and the sun is hot!
Posted by Tiger Ugly
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2008
19614 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 6:43 am to
Yeah, I agree. I mean he was never really a likable person but as a coach he had done pretty well. I figured if O and Les won titles here he could, hell he beat both of them in bowl games with IMHO lesser talent.

But I learned you can't analyze things in a vacuum when it comes to college athletics. Culture and environment matter. He just did not understand it here and did not adapt well here and to add to that he did not seem to me to be fully invested in putting the work in.
Posted by Tigahs24Seven
Charlie Kirk's America
Member since Nov 2007
15804 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 7:05 am to
What a fricking emotionless, drunk that piece of shite he is. He needs to head up to the NE and stay there where culture and tradition mean absolutely nothing.
Posted by BrohemAlem11
Ratchet City, LA
Member since Oct 2014
14138 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 7:05 am to
Yea...its about the flower.

What a dumb frick
Posted by paulb52
Member since Dec 2019
9658 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 7:15 am to
He picks Ole Miss to win so I feel a whole lot better about LSU winning this game.
Posted by habz007
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2007
5085 posts
Posted on 9/16/26 at 7:15 am to
quote:

Brian Kelly was never right for LSU


Brian Kelly sucks.


Shamefully, I pretended to like the hire when we hired him. I’ll take the blame.
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