Coach Kelly...............

[IndianaVol]

He gone

Brian Kelly fired: LSU pays massive buyout despite winning record in 4th season

LSU faithful made their displeasure known Saturday night, raining "Fire Kelly!" chants down throughout Tiger Stadium

www.cbssports.com

 

[YankeeVol]

WOW

 

[Cartervol]

Well that didn't take long..

 

[TooLegit2Quit]

Going to be one crowded coaching carousel this off-season. Nothing surprises me anymore.

 

[LegionnaireOfTheMiserable]

How many programs does this BELOW avg Coach take down???
It is amazing how he gets these jobs??

The only program he “took down” is LSU, and he won 70% of his games there.

 

[VolCalls]

The only program he “took down” is LSU, and he won 70% of his games there.

I think he’ll end up at Penn State.

 

[Stickseller]

Drinkwitz is really gonna make out like a bandit this offseason as well.

Word is both sides are working behind the scenes to keep him here at Missouri.

 

[JMSqb11]

I think he’ll end up at Penn State.

I don’t. He’s a lesser version of Franklin and older. Penn State would be stable if they had to settle with him but they would basically be trading down coaches if they hired him.

 

[JMSqb11]

Word is both sides are working behind the scenes to keep him here at Missouri.

He’d be a moron too to not use these vacancies to get the hell out of there.

 

[VolCalls]

I don’t. He’s a lesser version of Franklin and older. Penn State would be stable if they had to settle with him but they would basically be trading down coaches if they hired him.

Will be interesting.

 

[madbamahater]

Kelly is a used car salesman of the worst type

 

[madbamahater]

Yeah, Kelly has had success at every place he’s been prior to LSU. He was the most successful coach at Notre Dame since Lou Holtz. The one knock on him was not winning a championship. Kelly has never fit in at LSU and has definitely underperformed. Wouldn’t surprise me to see him take the Penn State job.

Most ND fans wanted Kelly gone and he was very close to being on the hot seat there. LSU hired him and this bought him time for a few more years. It was a disasterous hire for LSU from the start. Kelly is a fraud, just a much luckier Butch Jones.

 

[utchs81]

With all the heavy duty payouts these guys are getting, I'm wondering if any have any real desire to get back into the melee, that is coaching college football, right away.

 

[GVF]

You know what’s wild about LSU. They were all in on Lincoln Reilly who wanted nothing to do with the SEC and then pulled Kelly out of their ass and it was a great hire. Culture fit but great hire at the time.

Wonder if Reilly wishes he didn’t turn them down or leave OU considering the Big10 jump and insane travel that comes with it.

LSU if they fire Kelly will be the top open job quickly.

Thing is, Riley was clicking at OU, took the easy road out to avoid the SEC, and has been mediocre at USC when he could have been great.

 

[McDad]

Thing is, Riley was clicking at OU, took the easy road out to avoid the SEC, and has been mediocre at USC when he could have been great.

Lincoln Riley under performing at USCw is surprising to me.

 

[GVF]

LSU is one of a handful of programs that doesn't even have to recruit out of state and should be in playoff contention yearly.

I know this is purely hypothetical, but Elcko at LSU would be the re-incarnation of Saban at Bama. And may already be at TAM. That was just scarey what they did to LSU in that 2nd half.

 

[zjcvols]

Lincoln Riley under performing at USCw is surprising to me.

Not that I pity him, but he got absolutely screwed. He took USC under the impression they were going to stay in the Pac-12 and the President completely undercut him.

 

[05_never_again]

Riley would have been very successful there.

At LSU? Riley's teams never have played defense.

 

[GVF]

Lincoln Riley under performing at USCw is surprising to me.

Honestly this dissolution of the PAC-12 and putting all those programs in the postion they are now, relegates them to the mid to lower tiers of their new conferences now. I can't imagine the recruiting pitches they have to come up with to convince players to come play like that now. Half your schedule or better completely out of the western region. That's brutal. Oregon is the only one of the schools now in hte B10 or ACC that even looks legit anymore, and it was immediate. UW and USCw tanked faster than a sub with a hole in it.
Palo Alto to Miami for a conference game. Ludricous. His underperforming there likely more to do with showing up, then getting told there going B10. That's a no win situation for him and the roster. Reality is, how long can OU hold up their performance over time playing like that too. It was immediate fall-off for the rest that went to the 2 conferences.

 

[McDad]

Not that I pity him, but he got absolutely screwed. He took USC under the impression they were going to stay in the Pac-12 and the President completely undercut him.

You don't like Riley?

 

[zjcvols]

You don't like Riley?

Nothing against him other than I thought he handled leaving Oklahoma poorly. He's a good coach. He got screwed but it was hilarious he left Oklahoma not wanting to coach in the SEC and instead has to coach in the Big Ten.

 

[GVF]

Nothing against him other than I thought he handled leaving Oklahoma poorly. He's a good coach. He got screwed but it was hilarious he left Oklahoma not wanting to coach in the SEC and instead has to coach in the Big Ten.

But, he only has to really coach 2 or 3 games a year in the B10 to be competitive or Top 4. The confernece footprint gonna make that hard to sell. He's probably already hit the ceiling on what he can do at USCw.

 

[JMSqb11]

Thing is, Riley was clicking at OU, took the easy road out to avoid the SEC, and has been mediocre at USC when he could have been great.

Riley would have crushed it at USC had they not broken the conference up.

 

[GVF]

Riley would have crushed it at USC had they not broken the conference up.

No doubt. Deboer already left UW. You only had to worry about being #1 or #2 with UO, and in a still existant PAC-12 he would have been consistently. I think the PAC12 schools that stayed closer to home for the B12 have already benefitted from recruits that would have gone to the other 4 that went B10. In no other circumstance of the old alignement would ASU have been in the CFP last year.

 

[Volnanza]

Go ahead and flame me, but Perkins looks lost on many plays. I don't know what the problem is, but her is out of position, taking bad cuts, or standing around many times. Has anyone else noticed this?

bad coaching.