Kelly confusion before halftime. Understood why he was hired. Never understood why he was tolerated
…for as long as he was
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He can get you to top 10 contention
He has proven throughout the years that he can get your program to be a relatively consistent top-10 contender.
He did it at Cincy, and also at ND (during Kelly 2.0).
That was enough to "satisfy" a lot of people's appetites, but it became more obvious that he wasn't going to take us any further.
The fact that we got wiped out in both of his playoff games showed how much of a gap there was between us and the upper echelon.
A lot of us, myself included, held onto the hope that he could take another leap in capability like he did in 2017 (Kelly 2.0), and that maybe, just maybe, he'd get us to being able to regularly trade punches with the big boys.
In 2021, it actually looked like he might have take us to that level (coaching us to what could have been a playoff appearance), but when he abandoned us in favor of his 30 Shekels of silver, and squashed our hopes of getting into the playoffs, that pretty much cemented the belief that we weren't going to get any better under his reign.
His influence still reeked after he was gone. In 2022, Tommy Rees said that we didn't need a transfer portal QB, and it cost us a playoff opportunity, and his bone-headed playcalling easily cost us the Stanford game (and others).
I may upset some here but I want LSU to win because I think Clemson is overrated and I was sick
that they snuck into the playoffs last year with how horrible they were in so many games. Kelly is not threatening to us but Dabo thinks he is.
While I understand (sort of)…Kelly can’t suffer enough for me…
He leveraged his sub-exceptional talent to generational wealth…so hats off…but…
…he really is an amazingly insufferable prick.
And he still gets purply
Hehe.
Yeah...
...but now he has the advantage of wearing purple to deemphasize his tantrums...
^^ this. Decent coach, but a dick of a human
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Oh Kelly is a prick no doubt, but I wanted him to beat Clemson and thank God he did tonight.
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Agreed. Even Tom Coughlin was more pleasant.
The way he treated the players during those first two seasons was inexcusable.
I can understand getting upset at a given player. Hell, even Lou would grab your face mask and chew you out.
But in Lou's case, he throw you back onto the field and demand that you do your job, giving you plenty of chances to do so.
In Kelly's case, if you weren't his right kind of guy, he'd bench you at the first sign of a mistake, and let his right kind of guy play the rest of the season.
The way he turned deep purple when calling Dayne Crist every foul name in the book (and some that weren't), showed how he couldn't be decent to those guys.
On the other hand, even after multiple boneheaded throws by Tommy Rees, he coddled him...
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Coughlin gave Steve Beuerlein crap of all people. Not too many were classier than Beuerlein
and he got a little revenge in a Pro Bowl game I believe when they were still somewhat competitive.
And defended as the best we could ever get.
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