OT: Late night laugh: Brian Kelly speaking like a true Louisianan
There's a video circulating on Twitter of Brian Kelly doing his Tressel-like welcome speech at the LSU basketball game, complete with his new southern accent. Authenticity is not that guy's strong suit.
https://twitter.com/TremendousUM/status/1466601734588059653
December 2nd, 2021 at 11:38 PM ^
Has he changed his name to "Crawfish Kelly" yet?
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:01 AM ^
This might be the funniest damn thing I've ever read!
December 3rd, 2021 at 1:45 AM ^
That thurr Kelly feller sticks n my craw fer some reason. Aint sure why but he jus does.
December 3rd, 2021 at 8:26 AM ^
Y'all can't fool ol' Creole Kelly, now.
December 3rd, 2021 at 10:30 AM ^
If Manti Te'o can get catfished, no reason his old coach can't get crawfished! Hell, they're even the same color as Kelly's face when he's angry.
December 3rd, 2021 at 11:28 AM ^
Love it. We would also have accepted "Bayou Brian"
December 2nd, 2021 at 11:39 PM ^
Maybe someone can find and link it, but there was a video posted of Kelly on the LSU Football tweeter earlier, but it was all footage from ND and quotes talking about ND; they just shopped it (badly) to put him in LSU colors.
Not only did they poach their coach, they stole their video too. ???
December 3rd, 2021 at 8:37 AM ^
Is this the one?
December 3rd, 2021 at 9:25 AM ^
That is worth a cringe...
LSU was fun when Miles was eating grass.
December 3rd, 2021 at 11:23 AM ^
"The epitome of a winner." LMAO. Dude literally left ND and those kids in the lurch to chase $$$ instead of waiting a week to see if he had a chance to make them CFP winners.
How hilarious would it be if Kelly actually does take LSU to the CFP but before the first semifinal game, the team they're playing dangles a bag of cash for Kelly to switch sides and he does.
December 2nd, 2021 at 11:52 PM ^
- Authenticity is not that guy's strong suit.
That is an outstandingly efficient and accurate description. Hats off Wendy. That is a highly entertaining video - definitely worth the watch. Thanks for sharing!
Brian Kelly turned up the charm as high as he could here, and he still appears to have a charisma quotient comparable to that of Ivan Drago.
December 3rd, 2021 at 1:58 AM ^
December 2nd, 2021 at 11:59 PM ^
Is he that big of an X's and O's upgrade over Ed O? (who was actually a culture fit)
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:27 AM ^
Eh, I strongly suspect that as a human being, he is a royal ass, but he’s gotten Norte Dame to the playoffs twice and has a knack for finding good assistant coaches so he is doing at least something right from a tactical standpoint. As far a cultural fit, he is willing to do almost anything to win, so that right there is prerequisite #1 for an SEC power.
December 3rd, 2021 at 2:26 AM ^
He's an above-average coach that turned CEO a long time ago and he's much better at that. His actual single saving grace at this job is the fact that he has zero morals. None.
Take your average SEC HC sumbag and that guy is infinitely less of a sociopath than Brian Kelly. That could be what makes this thing work but even then I don't think it will.
Basically, Notre Dame is the only thing that kept him from going all-out from the jump. It would have been like Michigan hiring Urban Meyer at some point. They wouldn't have let him be Urban Meyer. He'd be a guy that wanted to do those things but literally couldn't. Dropping bags in the most obvious fashion? Nope. Transfers? Rarely. JUCO? Haha, think again. Kids with questionable grades and ethics? Depends on how badly they're needed so call it 'sometimes'. Etc. Same with Kelly at ND.
He's now free to be full-on, sociopath, no-holds-barred Brian Kelly. Is that good enough? Is that going to work at LSU? We'll see but he won't be playing the ND game down there. They're gonna try and use every option available and at a place like LSU that's a lot of shenanigans.
December 3rd, 2021 at 6:35 AM ^
Morals at LSU? Will Wade says hello.
December 3rd, 2021 at 6:50 AM ^
I've always found him to be the strangest fit - I mean honestly bizarre - for ND. I'm as protestant as they come and as much as I'd like to make jokes about Catholics, you'd think that a school like that who seems to take academics and morals seriously, would want someone who at least appears to make an effort in the spiritual department.
December 3rd, 2021 at 7:46 AM ^
Dear Etude,
It's the religious / moral thing that surprised me most.
I didn't really pay close attention to Kelly or ND, other than fan-like dislike and annoyed that ND stays in the national conversation with 1-2 tough games a year.
However, I did assume that at a religious institution (one not based on hypocrisy), Kelly was a good fit, and a lifer because he fit so well. To discover that he's as phony and venal as we fan-ranted about, as phony and venal as ordinary SUC coaches surprises me.
December 3rd, 2021 at 9:07 AM ^
Kelly is from the northeast so it wouldn't be surprising if he has some Catholic roots or at least familiarity with those circles. Plus, although the Southeast as a whole is overwhelmingly Protestant, I would guess that Lousiana is a fair more Catholic than the rest of the region because of the French influence.
Like I said, I agree with you re: Kelly as a person, but if there's one skill he presumably honed at Notre Dame, it was recruiting kids from St. Ignatius-type Catholic high schools with good football programs and there's probably a fair amount of those in Louisiana.
December 3rd, 2021 at 10:18 AM ^
Per Wikipedia, Kelly was raised Catholic, and attended Catholic schools. But at ND he ended their tradition of pregame Mass, and also made his views on abortion (pro-choice) publicly known, which didn't go over well with a lot of their fans.
Louisiana is indeed more Catholic than a typical Southern state, as you noted, but LSU is a public school and Kelly's religiosity probably won't be a big issue. Their main concern is winning games.
December 3rd, 2021 at 6:38 AM ^
A huge amount of his win/loss record was a product of being an Independent and playing cream puff teams. Good Luck in the SEC.
December 3rd, 2021 at 7:53 AM ^
I'm not a fan of either ND or Brian Kelly, but this is just flat-out wrong. ND almost always has one of the top10 most difficult football schedules and for many of the opponents, ND is their biggest rivalry game. So no, SOS is not the reason ND has had a tradition of winning.
December 3rd, 2021 at 8:59 AM ^
Having 5 ACC games a year recently hasn’t hurt the Kelly ‘Brand’. While some of ND’s problems would be institutional in origin, Notre Dame playing in the B1G East would be .500 in conference.
December 3rd, 2021 at 10:27 AM ^
ND has played one currently ranked team this year and lost.
December 3rd, 2021 at 11:03 AM ^
ND once had a tradition of playing very difficult schedules, but that hasn't been the case for some time now.
December 3rd, 2021 at 8:03 AM ^
How often does Notre dame get to the playoffs if they have to close the year with Bama or OSU?
December 3rd, 2021 at 9:14 AM ^
Kelly was 1-8 against the big boys-OSU, GA, Ala and Clemson. The 1 was Clemson without its starting QB. So the answer is NO!
December 4th, 2021 at 4:53 AM ^
And if memory serves, Clemson still came damn close to winning that one too.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:05 AM ^
"Authenticity is not that guy's strong suit...."
But the purple face he makes will surely blend in well with LSU's school colors. No wonder he was offered the job.
December 3rd, 2021 at 3:02 AM ^
When his face is purple, he is truly authentic.
December 3rd, 2021 at 7:36 AM ^
Mr. / Ms.? Judge, I was going to give you an upvote but your MGoPoints stand at 150501, which feels too numerically poetic to alter . . . oops, never mind, you're up to 150504.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:07 AM ^
It's a great day to be a tahhhger.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:55 AM ^
Muh faymuhly
December 3rd, 2021 at 2:20 AM ^
That boy ain’t right.
December 3rd, 2021 at 6:42 AM ^
Username checks out.
December 3rd, 2021 at 9:10 AM ^
Get in the truck.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:13 AM ^
I get the feeling this is going to go disastrously wrong for LSU.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:44 AM ^
Agreed. Dude will have to play good teams every year instead of padding his record with schedules full of sub .500 teams.
December 3rd, 2021 at 1:00 AM ^
I am in the same boat here. But the guy is 60 years old. He's probably thinking 4 or 5 years, make the money, probably flame out and get fired or likely force LSU to push him out so he can get the huge money buy out. And then bank $50-$70 million (minus taxes) in the process. Then go live out life in a sprawling villa on ocean front property somewhere nice and warm. Exactly how a condescending, arrogant and self centered douche bag would do it.
Brian Kelly does not care about Louisiana State University. Brian Kelly cares about what LSU will give him. And he cares about Brian Kelly. I have no idea how he was able to pull in the high profile recruits that he did at ND. Crazy how these kids were not able to see right through that fake outer layer.
December 3rd, 2021 at 7:24 AM ^
I have the same feeling. He's a good coach and the fact that LSU won't hold him back at all makes it very possible that he will succeed--make the CFP (even while it remains at 4 teams)--and win a game once he gets there. But he's off to a bad karma start--left his ND squad in the lurch despite being on the fringe of the playoff discussion for this season, broke up with his team (and coaches?) via text, and met with them in person the next morning in only a perfunctory manner so that he checked the box of having done so. And now he's adopting a faux southern accent to ingratiate himself with the LSU fans? Beware the force Coach!
December 3rd, 2021 at 7:59 AM ^
Would say LSU is going to battle Auburn for last place in the SEC West for a couple years..... UNTIL - realignment. Maybe LSU guaranteed that they will not be getting their teeth kicked in yearly by Bama once they move to the East and their division lightens up a bit.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:15 AM ^
He sucks. I’m so glad he is not my coach.
I might not be able to support a program he coached.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:21 AM ^
Lol Wow, awkward. He’s up there on my “most hated coaches” list.
December 3rd, 2021 at 10:32 AM ^
Here's my list:
1. Tressel
2. Meyer
3. Dantonio
4. Frost
5. Fullmer
Kelly gets Dishonorable Mention.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:26 AM ^
Well, I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that Brian Kelly's original dream profession was politician. As someone once famously said, you've got to be a real lowlife piece of shit to get involved in politics.
Here's the funny part though - his act entirely works with that crowd. Not that it's a major accomplishment. It is the land of TV preachers and snake oil salesmen after all. If they want to believe something, those folks down there are pretty good at throwing all skepticism over board, and boy do they want to believe Kelly will do great there.
Of course, all it needs is 3 losses in year one and half of them will think he's the devil incarnate.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:31 AM ^
Anyone else think this is just a terrible fit? Kelly and LSU?
Seems destined to fail imo.
On a separate note: He's such a douche. Why can't some people see that?
December 3rd, 2021 at 11:22 AM ^
His douchiness is precisely the reason why I thought he was the perfect fit for ND lol.
December 3rd, 2021 at 12:37 AM ^
This is beautiful, made my night. First win he has I will buy everyone a round if he drops a "I do declare there's been a muuurder"