re: Did this weekend change your outlook for/on Kelly?

i think he lost a LOT of good will and benefits of the doubt.

had we lost in a very close game that would have been one thing, to look Hallman level bad for 6 straight quarters now is something else.

No. He’s obviously rich, fat, and complacent now. He’s going to accept 10-3 seasons and enjoy the high life rather than push hard for championships

100%. I’ve defended him from the beginning. Saturday was it for me. He’s in over his head

I never cared for the hire. He wasn't and still isn't a good fit. He never won anything worth a d@mn at Notre Dame and benefited from being the Independent/Media Darling with a soft schedule every year. That's why I never gave a shite about people saying "hE's tHe wInNinGest cOacH iN ThE cOuNtRy"

He has the same excuses. Always has a snobbish arse attitude and tries to mask it with fake humor in his pressers. His Notre Dame teams were always soft and that same soft culture has made it's way to LSU.

This is a 7-5 or 8-4 football team that benefited from a little luck to escape from South Carolina. In 3 seasons here, his teams have always lived on the edge against P4 opponents. He rarely has his team fully prepared to put together a dominant game from start to finish.

No he lost me when we played Texas AM.

I was very excited about a coach like him coming here. We needed some stability, which he's at least brought.

But his ceiling is 10 wins. He'll never do enough to get past that. Even if we get lucky and make a playoff berth, I think we'll be a one and done.

HE asked for 3 years. I dont need for year 3 to finish before I am ready to can him. That's not gonna happen though... so... we're stuck with him till at least 2028

He lost me Sept 1 too. It took so much time and money - we had planned a big blowout. Just add in Alabama destruction makes me extremely frustrated that we can’t rid of him. I really am done with him.

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I’m off the bandwagon until Kelly earns it back. …but I’m no longer getting my hopes up or drinking the kool aid. I expect he’ll be here another 3 or 4 years. He won’t destroy the program but he also won’t win a natty. We’ll hover between 9-11 wins a season with losses to the juggernauts and a head scratcher here and there.

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This is where I am. It could definitely be worse - we could be in Auburn’s position, or Arkansas’s position, or 8&4s position before this year. Even USCw’s position would probably be worse right now. But I don’t think he’s going to ever have us consistently in the title hunt past November.

I started feeling this way with the USC loss in Week 1, this 1.5 week meltdown reinforces that. We’re no stranger to losing to Bama, but we’re usually not blown out to this extent. It’s clear that either he’s not able to fix fundamental flaws in the team (ineffective running game, miserable center play, mobile QB defense), or he’s not able to identify coaches and analysts that can figure it out, or there’s nothing schematically that can be done and it’s a talent evaluation/development issue. All of that is his responsibility at Year 3.

Nah, its a a culmination of his teams over the years,