Brian Kelly’s jab at Dabo Swinney massively backfires after his comments from LSU’s blowout loss to Tennessee in 2022 resurface
LSU Tigers head coach Brian Kelly went viral on Tuesday for the jab he threw at Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney. LSU scored a 17-10 win on the road against Clemson in Week 1. Swinney, who certainly has a way with words, told reporters that neither team played well, suggesting that Clemson’s grade for […]
LSU Tigers head coach Brian Kelly went viral on Tuesday for the jab he threw at Clemson Tigers head coach Dabo Swinney.
LSU scored a 17-10 win on the road against Clemson in Week 1. Swinney, who certainly has a way with words, told reporters that neither team played well, suggesting that Clemson’s grade for the game was a 58 and LSU’s was a 65.
“It was a hell of a game, down to the last play,” said Swinney. “Right out of the gate. It’s like getting the final exam [on] day 1 of class. They made a 65, we made a 58. Neither one of us were great.”
Kelly offered quite the response to that comment.
“I thought we dominated them in the second half, so he’s really a really good grader for giving himself a 58, or he’s a really hard grader on us,” responded Kelly. “Or he didn’t see the second half — which, that might be the case. He might not have wanted to see the second half.”
Clemson led LSU 10-3 at halftime, before getting outscored 14-0 in the second half by Kelly’s squad.
Kelly received plenty of praise for the body blow to Swinney — until his comments from LSU’s 40-13 blowout loss in 2022 to the Tennessee Vols resurfaced.
Three years ago, the Volunteers went to Baton Rouge and absolutely boat raced LSU while turning Tiger Stadium into Neyland South.
A couple of weeks after the 27 point loss, Kelly suggested to reporters that the game was closer than the final score looked.
“We weren’t as far away in that Tennessee game as the score indicated,” said Kelly. “Look, I went for it in a lot of fourth-down situations that exacerbated the score. That could’ve been ‘let’s keep it close’ and everybody would’ve been like ‘oh they played them tough’. We didn’t play the game to keep it close. We played it to win it.”
Kelly was ridiculed for those comments in 2022. And rightfully so — that game was never close. His comment suggesting that he was trying to win the game instead of keeping it close makes no sense at all (you gotta be close to have a chance to win).
If winning by seven points against Clemson was a “dominating performance,” then how was a 27-point loss to Tennessee a game that was closer than the score indicated?
Kelly would certainly make a good politician — he’s a polished speaker and he seems to immediately forget everything he’s said in the past.
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