I’ve made no secret that I don’t believe Brian Kelly belongs in the SEC.

I was a casual observer of his career, like everyone else, when he was at Cincinnati and Notre Dame. However, when he blew in to Baton Rouge, I remember thinking, “What?, Why?, What did do at either school to warrant one of the five best college coaching jobs in the country?” Check out my post “Brian Kelly Doesn’t Fit & Ole Miss” to see why I feel that way.

He is a terrible leader of young men. I went to college in Hattiesburg, MS at the time that a man named Ed Morgan was the mayor of Hattiesburg and I was fortunate enough to go to the same church as the mayor. Mr. Morgan had been a running back at the University of Alabama from 1966 – 1968 and would tell us stories of how coach Paul “Bear” Bryant would never miss an opportunity to teach the young men around him about something, not just football. “Mainly”, he said, “coach Bryant spoke about leadership and responsibility”. 

I don’t see this happening at LSU with Brian Kelly. Granted, I’m not around the program 24/7 or anything, however, it is documented that if he doesn’t get his way, he acts like a petulant child. On the Netflix documentary series “SEC Football: Any Given Saturday, he says “If you want to come out here and go half speed, go ahead. I’m going fucking in! Is that clear? If you guys wanna go half-speed, let me know now. You’re wasting my time. Get your asses going!” To me, this is a man that is telling college aged kids, that he is supposed to be mentoring, “If you don’t show the effort I want to see now, I’m going to take my ball and go home, maybe stomp my feet, and possibly hold my breath.”