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Paul Finebaum rips LSU for Florida loss, says Brian Kelly is in a ‘really bad spot’
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Paul Finebaum saw what everyone else saw on Saturday, and that was a big LSU mess going down, literally, in The Swamp.
The Tigers fell flat against Florida in Gainesville, losing 27-16, and after looking like a possible College Football Playoff team in late October, LSU is suddenly 6-4 and spiraling out of control in mid-November.
While the entire team has struggled in back-to-back-to-back losses to Texas A&M, Alabama and now Florida, Finebaum zeroed in on head coach Brian Kelly.
“It’s almost indescribable what a hot mess LSU is at the moment,” said Finebaum during his weekly Sunday morning appearance on The Matt Barrie Show. “You see (Brian) Kelly yelling at players, them yelling back at him. You see the Notre Dame fans chirping … and he is suddenly in a really bad spot. Because this season has blown up on him. He had the No. 1 quarterback in the country committed and now that’s about to become a bidding war … if he doesn’t get (Bryce Underwood), I don’t know what next year looks like for him.”
Naturally, LSU fans are a mess now, too, with their beloved Tigers suddenly out of the Playoff discussion and heading toward who knows where.
“LSU fans, they have no basement,” explained Finebaum. “They just go from (possibly) beating Alabama to maybe getting to the SEC Championship Game and the Playoff to now, the season is over.
“And Kelly, who I really believe is an elite coach, has somehow just watched this thing blow up on him. A number of injuries happened and who knows what else. (Quarterback) Garrett Nussmeier cannot get out of his own shadow. Depending on how this season ends, Kelly is going to be facing maybe the coldest winter of any SEC coach.”
LSU and Kelly will try to pick up the pieces in the regular season’s final few weeks when it hosts Vanderbilt and Oklahoma.
Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
