When the LSU Tigers employed Brian Kelly to be their head coach, they had been most likely anticipating that he would have them competing for a nationwide championship in brief order.
That has not solely not occurred but, however they look like drifting additional away from that stage.
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 previously 25 years that an LSU group has misplaced three video games in a row.
This can’t be sitting properly with LSU boosters and donors after this system paid Kelly $9.5 million to depart Notre Dame.
The earlier two losses coming into Saturday had been regarding sufficient, getting blown out (38-23 and 42-13) by consecutive ranked opponents Texas A&M and Alabama. However even that is likely to be considerably forgiven as a result of, once more, they had been extremely ranked opponents and potential playoff contenders.
Following up these two poor performances by happening the street to Florida — a wildly disappointing group 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 method 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, but it surely gave the impression to be getting ugly on Saturday.
At this level, the factor that is likely to be saving Kelly from actually being on the recent seat is the very fact his contract carries an enormous buyout ($61 million at this level). How unhealthy would the season must get for LSU to be keen to eat that?
The Tigers nonetheless have two regular-season video games remaining towards a harmful Vanderbilt group that has been in a position to dangle 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 nearly definitely unranked.
