00:00We left off talking about the matchup last Saturday night in Death Valley.
00:04Texas A&M wins 49-25 right after the game.
00:09There was a meeting in LSU Sunday morning.
00:12Brian Kelly is out as head coach.
00:15Coach, this is another huge development in the college football world.
00:19Penn State really rocked this landscape in college football a few weeks ago.
00:25I don't think anybody thought that in the middle of the regular season,
00:28Brian Kelly would be out in LSU.
00:31Well, you know what?
00:32There's a lesson to be learned here for coaches and for fans and for schools.
00:37When you pay somebody $10 million a year or $100 million contract
00:41and give him a guaranteed buyout, he better win a championship.
00:46You can't come in second.
00:48And if you do, you got nothing to complain about.
00:51Brian Kelly in four years did not get them to the SEC championship
00:55or the national championship.
00:57And to be honest with you, he kind of never quite fit into the LSU culture.
01:02It's a different culture.
01:03I live in Louisiana.
01:04It's a different culture.
01:06And it was just one of those things he couldn't quite fit in.
01:08Then he made some tough decisions.
01:10And the biggest thing was you've got to go win the big one.
01:13You've got to win the big one.
01:14And he kept talking like it was going to happen the next year and the next year.
01:17So, again, he's done a great job as a coach.
01:19He's won at four different schools.
01:21But when you go to LSU and you get that kind of money and the last three coaches
01:26won national championships, you better be in that championship game.
01:30I agree 100%.
01:32And I think I could take it a step further.
01:35You know, year one was his best resume for LSU.
01:39He did it with less talent.
01:41The expectation wasn't high.
01:43When they had divisions, he won the SEC West, went to the SEC championship game,
01:49and lost 50-30 with Jaden Daniels against the top-ranked Georgia Bulldogs.
01:54He set an expectation level in year one.
01:56They knocked off Alabama at home 32-31, rolling the dice, going for two in Death Valley.
02:03And the expectation was this was going to be the norm,
02:06and we'd build off of that year to get to the college football playoff.
02:10It never happened.
02:11Now, the bigger question as well, and I've heard this throughout the LSU fan base,
02:17and to a point it's right, you know, it wasn't a proper fit,
02:20but neither was Nick Saban, who came from Kent State and was a Midwesterner.
02:25We talk about, you know, Skip Burtman and all the others.
02:29Dale Brown, that wasn't from the South, potentially one of the greatest college
02:33basketball coaches for LSU.
02:35So it wasn't just the fact that he wasn't from the South.
02:37It wasn't embracing the school and the traditions, and he was more of like a CEO
02:43as opposed to a hands-on coach, and I think that's where Brian Kelly fell.
02:48Coach, there are stories coming out where Brian Kelly saw players in the hallway
02:53and just never said hi.
02:55You know, his starting center came out from 22 to 23 and said he never got called
03:01into the office to discuss X's and O's or even have a conversation with Brian Kelly,
03:07his head coach, for two years.
03:08I mean, I don't understand how that can happen at a major school like LSU
03:14where you're getting $10 million a year to coach up talent and get to the playoff.
03:19Well, you know what, when you have coached as long as he has when he got there,
03:25he is a Midwesterner, and I've coached in Ohio, which is the Midwest,
03:29and I've spent half my life down South.
03:31There is a different way to treat players and a different way to be coaches.
03:35I don't want to say it's colder in the Midwest,
03:38but it seems to be much more of a business up in the Midwest.
03:41In the South, there's just a little different fatherly approach, you take it.
03:44And it's not so much that he was from the South, is that even Nick Saban,
03:49you have to understand, especially in LSU, when you've got the Cajun culture,
03:53you've got to know how to relate to people, at least how to talk to them a little bit
03:57and understand it, and you can't definitely say you guys are spoiled.
04:00You fans are spoiled.
04:02He made the mistake of saying that before, but regardless,
04:05all that stuff you can throw out to win.
04:06He did not win the big game.
04:08He didn't play too much golf.
04:10He didn't go out there and treat players that bad.
04:12You've got to go win the big game.
04:14They would have fired him probably after this game.
04:17He lost at home.
04:18If he was the nicest guy in the world, they would have shook his hand and said,
04:21we're going to get us another coach.
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