Brian Kelly Talks About Getting Trucked On Sideline During The Florida Game

Last week against Florida, LSU coach Brian Kelly was on the wrong end of a Weston Davis block, who finished his defender all the way to the sidelines and into Kelly, trucking him to the ground.

Loading Twitter/X Embed...
If tweet fails to load, click here.

On Monday, Kelly talked about the incident and said it was the first time in 35 years that it's happened to him. Per On3:

quote:

---

“First time in 35 years,” Brian Kelly said. “I got my butt kicked, and I know a lot of people were happy with that, but I’m tellin’ ya — it’s kind of an awkward situation because I was running down the sideline to call a timeout because, as you know, we ran the ball. Caden [Durham] bounced outside, and he didn’t get out of bounds. So, the clock was running. So, I just was running to get to the official, and Weston Davis and one of their linebackers were locked up.”

“I never saw ’em, and I ended up in the first row. Nobody wanted to pick me up, either,” Kelly said. “Which I thought was pretty crazy. But it got me pretty good. I don’t want to be flippant and say that I was in concussion protocol because that’s a serious thing, but I probably could’ve been…

---