re: Is Brian Kelly Underrated?

He’s a weird dork, so the idea he’s going to recruit LSU like Jimbo, Saban, Dabo, Kirby, or any other person that wouldn’t say the word “faaaambily” while he’s in Baton Rouge is a definite negative for him. Now you can say, “that’s what assistants are for”, but you know that when you’re recruiting against Saban and Jimbo that no assistant coach is going to make the difference.

And on top of that, Kelly is also the weird insecure dork that would create burner accounts on twitter to defend himself and throw assistant coaches under the bus.

What’s the net result of this? Well. I expect him to recruit squarely behind Jimbo, Saban and Kirby and be kind of at the OU/Auburn level of recruiting. With good coaching, this is enough talent to be competitive and with great coaching this is enough talent to even win big. But Kelly doesn’t seem to be some sort of world beater coach. He tends to fall really flat in the big games. O well. It will be fun. But if I had to put money on it, no way he wins a natty. Just too many better things out there.