The LSU Tigers have been the most important story in faculty soccer since final season ended because of Lane Kiffin. Whereas the college looks like it has spent extra time in court docket than on the sector this season, they’d no bother with Clemson in Week 1 and are already transferring up within the polls.
One particular person watching all of it unfold is Brian Kelly, the brand new CBS Sports activities analyst and Kiffin’s predecessor in Baton Rouge. Kelly was interviewed on SiriusXM earlier this week and revealed that he’s not having fun with it. Not as a result of he is sad seeing Kiffin reach his previous job, however as a result of it would not really feel proper to be watching faculty soccer.
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“I will be sincere. I had a tough time watching it,” admitted Kelly. “However I do not suppose it was simply LSU. It was the primary weekend, actually, of school soccer. And it was laborious. You understand, you’ve got been doing it for 35 years. And to not be a part of that course of, my spouse, she wished to kill me. She was like what’s incorrect with you? And what was incorrect was that I wasn’t on the sideline. And I needed to cope with it and get by way of.
Kelly, who went 34-14 at LSU, was effusive in his reward of the Tigers, saying they seemed nice in opposition to Clemson. If he is bitter about how issues turned out for him on the college, he is doing an excellent job hiding it. He was fired after a 5-3 begin final season and walked away with a $54 million buyout, in order that has to make it slightly simpler.
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The one drawback for Kelly appears to be that cash cannot purchase the identical feeling he will get being on the sideline. He is been a head coach in D1 faculty soccer since he took over at Central Michigan in 2004. Earlier than that he spent 12 years as the top coach at D2 Grand Valley State. Then one other six years as a D2 assistant.
Mainly, he hasn’t been house on a Fall Saturday for the reason that early 80’s. No surprise it would not really feel proper.
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