Brian Kelly to LSU, per report

[Rockin’Irish]

Really enjoyed that article, definitely makes you understand how things could have worked out in a much less pleasant manner!

 

[GoldenAura]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/LSUfootball/status/1475993116989530113?s=20[/TWEET]

 

[BoredIrish]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/LSUfootball/status/1475993116989530113?s=20[/TWEET]

So BK's new DC apparently left Kentucky to go the the NFL because he wanted more free time and was sick of the effort involved in recruiting.

Perfect fit.

 

[Dale]

That’s a bit of a stretch interpretation but regardless, the NFL guy who may not like recruiting is the popular move. Joe Brady, UK OC, Michigan DC to name a few. They are just flat out way better coaches than most CFB guys available. Either other staff members pick up the slack (Michigan’s position coaches are very good recruiters, haven’t heard the DC mentioned much at all) or they leave quickly (Brady)

 

[T-Boone]

Is BK coaching the LSU team in their big bowl game? I think I already know the answer is yes.

 

[Irish4life]

That’s a bit of a stretch interpretation but regardless, the NFL guy who may not like recruiting is the popular move. Joe Brady, UK OC, Michigan DC to name a few. They are just flat out way better coaches than most CFB guys available. Either other staff members pick up the slack (Michigan’s position coaches are very good recruiters, haven’t heard the DC mentioned much at all) or they leave quickly (Brady)

Side note, but Joe Brady gets too much credit for 2019 LSU. Didn't even call the plays!

 

[Irish4life]

That’s a bit of a stretch interpretation but regardless, the NFL guy who may not like recruiting is the popular move. Joe Brady, UK OC, Michigan DC to name a few. They are just flat out way better coaches than most CFB guys available. Either other staff members pick up the slack (Michigan’s position coaches are very good recruiters, haven’t heard the DC mentioned much at all) or they leave quickly (Brady)

He was the 3rd choice for Kelly at DC for what it's worth.

 

[Te'o4Heisman]

That’s a bit of a stretch interpretation but regardless, the NFL guy who may not like recruiting is the popular move. Joe Brady, UK OC, Michigan DC to name a few. They are just flat out way better coaches than most CFB guys available. Either other staff members pick up the slack (Michigan’s position coaches are very good recruiters, haven’t heard the DC mentioned much at all) or they leave quickly (Brady)

I mean in fairness, thats exactly what Stoops was quoted as saying in the article, although he didnt use the word recruiting, the author did.

 

[mango4]

Is BK coaching the LSU team in their big bowl game? I think I already know the answer is yes.

No

 

[ShamrockOnHelmet]

“According to Stoops, it came down to the commitment level it takes to succeed in the SEC.”

lol. This is going to be an absolutely fantastic train wreck….

 

[Riddickulous]

This all went down just one month ago. Feels like it was 10 years ago.

 

[Irishize]

That’s a bit of a stretch interpretation but regardless, the NFL guy who may not like recruiting is the popular move. Joe Brady, UK OC, Michigan DC to name a few. They are just flat out way better coaches than most CFB guys available. Either other staff members pick up the slack (Michigan’s position coaches are very good recruiters, haven’t heard the DC mentioned much at all) or they leave quickly (Brady)

Agreed. This isn’t South Bend, IN…it’s a football factory in a state w/ one of the largest crops of recruits per capita who, for the most part, grow up desiring to go to LSU. Dave Aranda wasn’t known as a key recruiter, etiher. Most of LSU’s scholarship players likely have one major goal in life…play in the NFL. Employing coaches who have succeeded at that level is not the worst choice.

 

[Dale]

[TWEET]https://twitter.com/sheadixon/status/1476228944303214595?s=21[/TWEET]

Damn. I was hoping he’d be considered for ST here.

 

[chicago51]

Hot take: Mike Denbrock is scared of Nick Saban due to his past and potentiay future association with BK.

 

[Huntr]

Denbrock to LSU is legit one of the most amusing outcomes of this coaching carousel. I like the guy, but never saw him as an SEC type. Then again, never saw Kelly like that, either.

 

[Mavericknyc1980]

https://twitter.com/malikzaire8/status/1477359721178824706?s=21 Hahaha

 

[dang227]

Lewis is playing like he doesn't want to be there. WTF


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[Mattmags]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...res-100-million-football-coach-everyone-else/

More negative publicity for Kelly. Long read, but this sums it up...

"But nothing dismayed Temple as much as the message sent by Kelly’s pay. In a state where one in five residents lives below the poverty line, on a campus where the football team’s player workforce is unpaid, in a city where the predominantly Black state house district that includes Tiger Stadium has a median household income of $24,865 a year, the White man who will coach there will be paid no less than $24,657 a day. It’s just the new cost of competing, Temple says, but it’s still nauseating in its excess. During a board meeting last month, Temple spoke up. If LSU is at the top of the Southeastern Conference in paying coaches, where did it rank in salaries for professors? For the people who actually teach the students?

Near the bottom, someone muttered, and Temple erupted.

“That's an atrocity,” he said.

Kelly’s interaction with Chris did little to change his mind.

“He was nice,” Temple says, giving a C grade for Kelly’s part of the interaction. “He really needs to win if he wants to get me. He hasn’t earned no money. I want to see him beat Alabama and Florida and Georgia. Then I’ll tell you if I think he’s worth that 10 million g------ dollars.” "

 

[IrishLax]

They can bitch and moan all he wants, even if he falls flat on his face and they can his ass he's going to bank ~$90mil and neither he nor his kids is ever going to have to worry about their finances ever again.

 

[NDPhilly]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...res-100-million-football-coach-everyone-else/

More negative publicity for Kelly. Long read, but this sums it up...

"But nothing dismayed Temple as much as the message sent by Kelly’s pay. In a state where one in five residents lives below the poverty line, on a campus where the football team’s player workforce is unpaid, in a city where the predominantly Black state house district that includes Tiger Stadium has a median household income of $24,865 a year, the White man who will coach there will be paid no less than $24,657 a day. It’s just the new cost of competing, Temple says, but it’s still nauseating in its excess. During a board meeting last month, Temple spoke up. If LSU is at the top of the Southeastern Conference in paying coaches, where did it rank in salaries for professors? For the people who actually teach the students?

Near the bottom, someone muttered, and Temple erupted.

“That's an atrocity,” he said.

Kelly’s interaction with Chris did little to change his mind.

“He was nice,” Temple says, giving a C grade for Kelly’s part of the interaction. “He really needs to win if he wants to get me. He hasn’t earned no money. I want to see him beat Alabama and Florida and Georgia. Then I’ll tell you if I think he’s worth that 10 million g------ dollars.” "

My eyes rolled so damn hard to the back of my head. Does this article even get written if they poach Mel Tucker?

 

[Irishize]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...res-100-million-football-coach-everyone-else/

More negative publicity for Kelly. Long read, but this sums it up...

"But nothing dismayed Temple as much as the message sent by Kelly’s pay. In a state where one in five residents lives below the poverty line, on a campus where the football team’s player workforce is unpaid, in a city where the predominantly Black state house district that includes Tiger Stadium has a median household income of $24,865 a year, the White man who will coach there will be paid no less than $24,657 a day. It’s just the new cost of competing, Temple says, but it’s still nauseating in its excess. During a board meeting last month, Temple spoke up. If LSU is at the top of the Southeastern Conference in paying coaches, where did it rank in salaries for professors? For the people who actually teach the students?

Near the bottom, someone muttered, and Temple erupted.

“That's an atrocity,” he said.

Kelly’s interaction with Chris did little to change his mind.

“He was nice,” Temple says, giving a C grade for Kelly’s part of the interaction. “He really needs to win if he wants to get me. He hasn’t earned no money. I want to see him beat Alabama and Florida and Georgia. Then I’ll tell you if I think he’s worth that 10 million g------ dollars.” "

Interesting article although I’d say Brian Kelly shouldn’t be held responsible for the fact that LSU & Baton Rouge bow to the altar of football and nothing else. Why aren’t any black former athletes returning to make a difference in their community (maybe they are & it’s unreported)? Has LSU (a state university) ever interviewed a black candidate for HC of football program? These SEC schools are lucky that coaching CFB is a transient career b/c if they knew they’d never coach at an SEC school, a black recruiter from a school up north or out west could play the race card to the hilt in regards to their history of segregation & farming black athletes for their football glory. I’m being totally cynical & hyperbolic b/c of how recruiting is today but why wouldn’t you play that against them. I mean if society is going to tear down statues of historical figures who were also alleged to be racists then why not use the SEC’s history of segregation against them?

Brian Kelly is the least of LSU’s problems but if he doesn’t win, he’ll definitely be made the scapegoat for all that is wrong in that state.

 

[Black Irish]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...res-100-million-football-coach-everyone-else/

More negative publicity for Kelly. Long read, but this sums it up...

"But nothing dismayed Temple as much as the message sent by Kelly’s pay. In a state where one in five residents lives below the poverty line, on a campus where the football team’s player workforce is unpaid, in a city where the predominantly Black state house district that includes Tiger Stadium has a median household income of $24,865 a year, the White man who will coach there will be paid no less than $24,657 a day. It’s just the new cost of competing, Temple says, but it’s still nauseating in its excess. During a board meeting last month, Temple spoke up. If LSU is at the top of the Southeastern Conference in paying coaches, where did it rank in salaries for professors? For the people who actually teach the students?

Near the bottom, someone muttered, and Temple erupted.

“That's an atrocity,” he said.

Kelly’s interaction with Chris did little to change his mind.

“He was nice,” Temple says, giving a C grade for Kelly’s part of the interaction. “He really needs to win if he wants to get me. He hasn’t earned no money. I want to see him beat Alabama and Florida and Georgia. Then I’ll tell you if I think he’s worth that 10 million g------ dollars.” "

What's this Temple guy's actual complaint? That a white man is HC? That Kelly hasn't won any games yet to "earn his money?" I'm sure Kelly is already hard at work earning his money. And if Temple is upset about the excessive coach pay contrasted against the low professor pay at LSU, than the race of the HC or what he's accomplished isn't the issue. Maybe the reporter is not capturing the man's sentiment correctly but my read is that this guy is just throwing multiple complaints against the wall to see what sticks so he can get attention.

 

[stpeteirish]

I remember when Collis Temple was the first black player at LSU. It was a long time ago. He's probably (justifiably) concerned about how little progress blacks have made in Louisiana since then. But that really has nothing to do with Brian Kelly. And in LSU's defense they tried to hire Tucker first.

 

[T Town Tommy]

So it’s being alleged that BK is actively recruiting players that haven’t entered the portal yet from other SEC schools. Not that it doesn’t go on but hopefully it can’t get officially tied back to him. To be successful he better do more than he did at ND when it comes to him being more involved with recruiting. He w it be an 8-4 type coach if not.

 

[Irishize]

So it’s being alleged that BK is actively recruiting players that haven’t entered the portal yet from other SEC schools. Not that it doesn’t go on but hopefully it can’t get officially tied back to him. To be successful he better do more than he did at ND when it comes to him being more involved with recruiting. He w it be an 8-4 type coach if not.

In his defense, he probably thought that was SOP for SEC coaches…J/K.

 

[T Town Tommy]

In his defense, he probably thought that was SOP for SEC coaches…J/K.

Ha. They ain’t famulee like that.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

What's this Temple guy's actual complaint? That a white man is HC? That Kelly hasn't won any games yet to "earn his money?" I'm sure Kelly is already hard at work earning his money. And if Temple is upset about the excessive coach pay contrasted against the low professor pay at LSU, than the race of the HC or what he's accomplished isn't the issue. Maybe the reporter is not capturing the man's sentiment correctly but my read is that this guy is just throwing multiple complaints against the wall to see what sticks so he can get attention.

Right. I'm all for dunking on Kelly when he deserves it, but this article has as much to do with him as the "Kelly killed Declan Sullivan and Lizzy Seeberg" hit jobs that were published when he was at ND.

 

[ulukinatme]

That article certainly is interesting when you're talking about pay. Louisiana was bankrupt on a few short years ago, and this year they canned a coach and brought another in for a huge paycheck. I guess they got their finances in order, but you wonder how they managed to bankrupt the state to begin with when they're making choices like this.

 

[irishff1014]

This gonna be fun watching him get his ass kicked in the Sec.

 

[Irish#1]

The disparity between HC's and professor's salaries have always been big. It's getting bigger and not going to change.