When the LSU Tigers employed Brian Kelly to be their head coach, they have been in all probability anticipating that he would have them competing for a nationwide championship briefly order.
That has not solely not occurred but, however they seem like drifting additional away from that degree.
With Saturday’s 27-16 loss at Florida on Saturday, LSU has now misplaced three video games in a row and has misplaced a minimum of 4 video games for the second time in Kelly’s first three seasons with this system.
It’s simply the third time prior to now 25 years that an LSU crew has misplaced three video games in a row.
This can’t be sitting effectively with LSU boosters and donors after this system paid Kelly $9.5 million to go away Notre Dame.
The earlier two losses coming into Saturday have been regarding sufficient, getting blown out (38-23 and 42-13) by consecutive ranked opponents Texas A&M and Alabama. However even that is perhaps considerably forgiven as a result of, once more, they have been extremely ranked opponents and potential playoff contenders.
Following up these two poor performances by occurring the highway to Florida — a wildly disappointing crew that had additionally been blown out in back-to-back weeks — and in addition dropping by double-digits is when seats within the SEC begin getting scorching.
The frustration gave the impression to be boiling over in an enormous manner on the sidelines as Kelly was seen having heated confrontations with a number of gamers. Kelly has all the time been recognized for being an intense, fiery coach, nevertheless it gave the impression to be getting ugly on Saturday.
At this level, the factor that is perhaps saving Kelly from actually being on the new seat is the actual fact his contract carries an enormous buyout ($61 million at this level). How unhealthy would the season need to get for LSU to be keen to eat that?
The Tigers nonetheless have two regular-season video games remaining towards a harmful Vanderbilt crew that has been in a position to grasp with a few of the nation’s greatest groups and Oklahoma.
LSU opened the season ranked No. 13 within the nation and was ranked No. 22 this week. After Saturday’s sport, it will be heading into the homestretch of the common season virtually actually unranked.
