Brian Kelly stunned the college football world when he announced his departure from Notre Dame to become the next head coach at LSU earlier this week. While the Fighting Irish have a chance to make the College Football Playoff this season if a few things go their way on Saturday, Kelly has decided to leave South Bend after a 12-year career.
Kelly’s departure – the news was leaked one evening, and he summoned the team for a 7 a.m. meeting. The next day, he spoke for less than four minutes without taking any questions from a roster of players who will, at the at least, make a New Year’s Six bowl – left a nasty taste in a lot of mouths. But now he’s won one of college football’s most desired jobs, and good God, what the hell is going on?
On Thursday night, Kelly attended the LSU men’s basketball team’s game versus Ohio University. Kelly has supposedly developed a janky southern accent that he utilized to address the supporters, despite being from Massachusetts and spending his whole coaching career in the Great Lakes region of the country. Kelly doesn’t sound anything like his predecessor, Ed Orgeron, as anyone who has ever heard him speak can attest, so this is strange.
Kelly replies, “I haven’t even won all my games yet,” buried amid all the accent chatter. There’s no way this will backfire, Brian.
