Brian Kelly’s comedy act won’t cut it at LSU

Brian Kelly is having a tough few days.

After shedding to Florida State 24-23 on Sunday night time in excruciating style, Kelly confirmed as much as Tuesday’s press convention hoping to clear the air and maintain the temper mild. Just a few reporters confirmed up late, and Kelly poked at them in his opening assertion. Kelly famous that if any of his gamers had been late then they’d pay $10 into the kitty jar as a late tax. What Kelly in all probability anticipated had been a number of laughs, perhaps a chuckle. What he didn’t anticipate was this:

Salute to The Advocate’s LSU soccer and baseball beat author, hero and scholar (and Medill alum) Leah Vann for the retort. Vann stated that she apologized afterwards and that Kelly was high quality after, however I feel there’s a bigger challenge at play right here with Kelly.

Brian Kelly is attempting to be the humorous, personable charisma man at head coach for LSU and it’s merely simply not working. From attempting to sound Southern however sounding like Foghorn Leghorn at an LSU basketball sport (with a pretend accent by the way in which) to the hilariously awkward dance strikes he did with an LSU recruit, it looks as if Kelly is attempting to make himself likable to not solely LSU followers however LSU boosters. The issue with that’s the final coach LSU employed (and promptly fired) was the comedy and charisma man and he obtained ousted after a poor season final 12 months.

Kelly has by no means been the humorous charisma coach, even when he’s tried it earlier than. Final 12 months Kelly tried to make a quip about late sport execution after the Irish beat (how ironic) Florida State. “Perhaps the complete crew needs to be executed,” Kelly stated. Clearly the joke fell flat, and he needed to clarify that he was invoking teaching nice John McKay. Kelly is simply not a humorous individual.

If Kelly needs to endear himself to LSU followers and boosters, he can do the factor he did at Notre Dame: win soccer video games. It’s the biggest purpose why Scott Woodward is paying him $100 million over 10 years. Not as a result of Kelly was a “tradition” rent, however as a result of in his time at Notre Dame he solely had one season beneath .500. In a approach, Vann was proper. If Kelly wins video games, then folks will present respect.