More Brian Kelly Schadenfreude
September 6th, 2022 at 10:35 PM ^
If you’re going to be a snarky douche, your delivery has to be smooth and fun. The guy just stumbles through it hoping they’ll interrupt him with raucous laughter and they tell him he’s a loser (he is). Also, he’s a callous shit and deserves the shit press.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:00 AM ^
Yep, the arrogance of a winner, batting a thousand (as a loser), in games and in pressers. .
September 7th, 2022 at 8:39 AM ^
Kelly trying to be Mike Leach comes off like Matt Damon trying to be Robin Williams
September 6th, 2022 at 10:36 PM ^
0-1, the ideal start for those who love to hate on the dancin faaaamillay lovin cajun sensation
September 6th, 2022 at 10:37 PM ^
That woman is very unprofessional, but so is getting a kid killed.
September 7th, 2022 at 11:58 AM ^
Press conference was at noon, I was running from a doctor’s appointment. Got there at 11:57. Brian Kelly called me out, said jokingly I owed him $10, I said if he won maybe I’d be on time. Not my finest hour. I apologized afterward, he was super chill and said I still owe him $10
I know Brian Kelly likes to joke. He clearly took it as one from our conversation afterward. All in good fun, fam.
He said he needs $10 so he can afford his new jackets and I said he has $90 mil for that and he said that’s a smoke screen and I said that’s fair and I liked his new jacket and he thanked me. If y’all want all the details.
https://twitter.com/LVann_Sports/status/1567206489877520385
September 7th, 2022 at 5:00 PM ^
I said if he won maybe I’d be on time
I'm sure that sounded like a funny comeback in her head, but that was an amateur hack thing to say in a public press conference. She is not a fan with a ticket, LSU does not owe her anything.
I'm no Kelly fan, and he likely started it by calling her out, but she didn't acquit herself very well here either.
A mess all around.
Well that was a short honeymoon. He'll need to work on his accent even more.
September 6th, 2022 at 10:40 PM ^
Sounds like he's loved by the beat reporters as well.
September 6th, 2022 at 10:52 PM ^
Idgaf who you are, you've gotta earn personal respect. Brian thinks he's owed respect and well, bless his heart if he thinks that'll fly in Louisiana
September 6th, 2022 at 11:04 PM ^
They turned on Ed Orgeron in a heartbeat. And Orgeron won them a Natty. And there is nobody more Cajun than Ed Orgeron. Brian Kelly has not won LSU a national championship. Kelly is the least Cajun man in college football. Louisiana will turn against Brian Kelly in three, two, one...
I'm so happy.
September 7th, 2022 at 1:22 AM ^
a LSU national championship? he hasn't even won a LSU game yet.
my LSU friends are not thrilled thus far.
September 7th, 2022 at 9:54 AM ^
I think everyone in Louisiana realized pretty quick that Ed Orgeron did not win LSU that title. Joe Brady did, and the wonders he worked with Burrow and that offense.
I will credit Orgeron for hiring Brady and being smart enough to get out of his way, but given LSU's underwhelming performances in every year except 2019, all years where Joe Brady was not in the building, it was pretty easy to turn on Orgeron by the end. With the way LSU recruits they should be in the CFP discussion every year. Orgeron made them.....not that.
September 7th, 2022 at 11:03 AM ^
Joe Brady was a genius when he had Joe Burrow at QB and 2 of the 5 best WRs in the NFL on the same college team. For the Carolina Panthers, not so much. The top end talent on that LSU offense was probably better than the top end talent on Georgia's defense last year.
September 7th, 2022 at 12:56 PM ^
If I recall correctly, Joe Burrow, JaMarr Chase and Terrace Marshall Jr. were on the team prior to when Brady arrived, and I don't recall hearing their names about much of anything prior to the 2019 season. Burrow was certainly nothing special at LSU in the 2018 season. Threw for under 3K yards with a 16:5 TD/INT ratio. Not bad at all, but nothing to write home about. Certainly nothing that warrants drafting you first overall.
Chase had 23 receptions for 313 yards and 3 TDs in 2018. Marshall Jr's stats were even lower than that.
Brady didn't bring those guys with him when he got to LSU. He is the main reason they got the chance to blow up into what they became, and he certainly helped unlock their potential, which undoubtedly would've been squandered had Orgeron not made those changes prior to the 2019 season.
So yeah, I'd still say Brady is the architect behind LSU winning the title that year. It wasn't like those three were already great.
September 6th, 2022 at 11:03 PM ^
that SOB fits well in the SEC
September 6th, 2022 at 11:04 PM ^
He’s a dink but I’m not a fan of the reporter being unprofessional.
September 7th, 2022 at 3:20 AM ^
I have no idea why that reporter walked in late. I do know that Kelly is a dick for pointing it out and good for the reporter that fired back. Kelly has earned absolutely nothing down there. If he thinks they give a fuck about his resume it’s going to go very poorly for him.
September 7th, 2022 at 11:18 AM ^
Twist.....the reporter wasn't late because she walked in at 11:57am for 12pm press conference
September 7th, 2022 at 11:32 AM ^
If that’s true it makes Kelly look like even more of a smug, whiny fake, which I didn’t think was possible after watching the interaction.
September 6th, 2022 at 11:16 PM ^
Nice to see the Honeymoon period is going so well!
September 6th, 2022 at 11:24 PM ^
"Maybe if you win I'll show up on time. Response?"
September 7th, 2022 at 12:23 AM ^
BK may be as red as that crawdad but he’s nowhere near as Cajun.
September 7th, 2022 at 7:57 AM ^
To be fair, there are crawdads in the Midwest. Although here, they call them crayfish. He ain't no crawdad.
September 6th, 2022 at 11:38 PM ^
Winningest coach in ND history.
September 7th, 2022 at 12:46 AM ^
Well in his defense
Rockne did go down in a plane.
Lou, well they just got tired of him spitting on them.
Gerry Foust just needed more time.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:20 AM ^
I was at a wedding in my early 20s with Gerry Faust.
We got on an elevator together just the two of us. I told him he was my favorite Notre Dame coach to which he smiled until I said, “yes sir I’m a Michigan fan.”
Not really my proudest moment, but I was young and more immature than I am now. He seemed like a pretty good guy.
September 7th, 2022 at 11:44 AM ^
Met him at a football camp and he was, indeed, a solid dude.
That said, he sprayed the front row as much as Holth could. Impressive spittle.
September 7th, 2022 at 7:34 AM ^
I don’t think many ND fans are happy about that. They would certainly prefer Rockne to be ND’s legendary and winningest coach.
September 6th, 2022 at 11:43 PM ^
I really dislike that guy. But lots of detestable people persist in American life long past their apparent expiration dates, and Kelly did at Notre Dame, long after death and other indignities might have driven him from the place. If he wins, he'll have a job, and if he loses. . . he may still have a job for a bit because he's got an absurd salary.
I think we'd be better off planning to enjoy the despair that surrounds Kelly being LSU's coach for a couple of years--obvious cultural mismatch or no--and then he'll go off and be just another purple-faced retiree haranguing his wife in the supermarket, annoyed when people don't recognize him, in and out of the hospital with weight issues and heart problems. The rest of us can try to do better and not be like him. :)
September 7th, 2022 at 12:47 AM ^
Brian Kelly buys his king cake at Walmart
September 7th, 2022 at 1:34 AM ^
And he gets the kind where they put the baby on top so everyone can see where it is.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:21 AM ^
Looks like he’s going full Urban Meyer.
September 7th, 2022 at 9:28 AM ^
Never go full Urban
September 7th, 2022 at 3:17 AM ^
They'll kiss and make up. Kelly knows he'll need the media as a tool to throw players under the bus, to relieve pressure off him by finding scapegoats, to keep the facade up that he's not a prickly, dour egomaniac who'd have his best pal shivved if necessary.
The media in the meantime knows that you wanna be in the good books of the HC at least until the day his firing is announced. For as long as he's still the guy they pay big bucks to win, they'll have to 'have his back'.
September 7th, 2022 at 6:15 AM ^
Turns out winning in the SEC is a little harder than playing a cupcake schedule of tomato cans, military academies, and a decade-long-downturned USC every year, eh Brian?
September 7th, 2022 at 7:05 AM ^
Most years they have a really overrated schedule. They've sometimes had incredibly good timing with certain teams (like North Carolina in the past), catching them on years just after / before good seasons.
September 7th, 2022 at 1:40 PM ^
To be fair, he hasn’t coached an SEC game yet. I certainly don’t care for the guy but his history suggests he’ll probably end up winning a lot of games there.
September 7th, 2022 at 6:31 AM ^
He had zero southern accent
September 7th, 2022 at 6:44 AM ^
Unlike LSU's extra point, maybe the joke went over their heads.
September 7th, 2022 at 7:11 AM ^
And now a word from Coach O
September 7th, 2022 at 7:32 AM ^
Every time I saw coach O on tv, I always went back to the dude pinching his nipples on Waterboy....were they brothers?
September 7th, 2022 at 7:34 AM ^
Farmer Fran.
September 7th, 2022 at 7:42 AM ^
lmao that's awesome.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:15 AM ^
Is it possible to be more Louisiana than this dude?
September 7th, 2022 at 3:02 PM ^
...and yet, they got rid of him.
September 7th, 2022 at 8:38 AM ^
BK never ceases to amaze. He is the gold standard for not self-aware.
September 7th, 2022 at 9:10 AM ^
I'd see your Brian Kelly and raise you Dave Brandon.
September 7th, 2022 at 10:02 AM ^
BK seems pretty self-aware of his righteousness and need convince everyone around him of how smart he is. He's just not so good at reading the reactions of the world around him. Point is, he needs to have the press on his side instead of treating them like kids who displease him. This won't end well.