re: Ed O let his girlfriend's kids run drills with the team, Brian Kelly does it himself

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people just suck man. you can tell Kelly is a genuinely good man and has high character.

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can you tell that? can you? lol people just say anything they want to be true and state it as fact

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He seems to have changed a little since his time at Cincinnati and Notre Dame

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He seems to have changed a little since his time at Cincinnati and Notre Dame

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It's like a completely different person, not sure if that's good or bad.

Brian Kelly causes a lot of other SEC fanbases to melt.

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Brian Kelly causes a lot of other SEC fanbases to melt.

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One fanbase far more than the others.


It rhymes with…Shmalabama.

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One fanbase far more than the others.


It rhymes with…Shmalabama

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Brian Kelly causes a lot of other SEC fanbases to melt

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But why?

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It is interesting. Beyond the normal fandom, there is something to it - similar to LSU fan's hatred of Saban at Alabama - "That could've been us!" type of thing. (I'm an LSU fan, and yes I love beating Bama...but the dude is a great coach if not the best - for now.)

My theory is that it's similar to the press's reaction to LSU hiring Kelly away from Notre Dame. Notre Dame, up to that point, was seen as one of the top jobs in CFB - which meant that LSU was more desirable than one of the top jobs. (There is nuance there - ND has fallen off, talent clustered in the South, facilities, etc) Brian Kelly coming to LSU, simply put, made a statement about LSU's place in the CFB world going forward.

The content of that statement likely is debatable depending on what level of purple-and-gold tint is on your glasses, but it is a statement nonetheless. Most of LSU's opponents would have preferred it be like the past, where LSU went with the "throw it at the wall and see if we win a championship" approach. It also implicitly starts an arms race as well, with quite a few in the conference still hiring promising coordinators or above-average-result G5 head coaches. Can Moo State go hire Lincoln Riley off of USC? Can SCar go hire Ryan Day? Anything is possible, but both of those scenarios are incredibly unlikely.

With Saban already in the conference and Kirby emerging as someone competing at nearly the same level, Kelly coming to LSU was another step toward an inevitable time where the programs that want to compete to win it all go after proven commodities with big-money numbers and long contracts from Day 1 rather than hoping to catch lightning in a bottle and THEN lock them up with a long contract. (Looking at you, Florida...) To their credit, as much as I enjoy dragging them, A&M attempted this same strategy with Jimbo Fisher - they got a BCS-championship-winning coach to come to College Station, and other than Bama no one in the conference can claim that.

Thanks, but I have been here a while. Much of tSECr is just throwing keyboard darts at members of opposing fanbases, and beyond some light-hearted trolling I have no interest in that. But I do engage where I see an opening from time to time.

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However he and Saban are nowhere near the same level of coaching.

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*Yet.

I do agree with your overall assessment. Beat LSU twice in bowl games as ND's coach.

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Brian Kelly killed Alabama’s playoff chances in his first year on the job

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Tennessee stuck the knife in. LSU twisted it. It was an outstanding team effort.