Brian Kelly responds to Dabo Swinney’s assessment of LSU: ‘Maybe he didn’t see the 2nd half’
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Brian Kelly wasn’t going to let Dabo Swinney‘s comments about his LSU team sit there without a response during Tuesday’s press conference.
The Clemson head coach was asked earlier on Tuesday during his own press conference about how the 2 Tiger teams performed in Saturday night’s Week 1 showdown at Clemson’s version of Death Valley. Swinney might have been in the best of moods, even 3 days after his team lost a 17-10 defensive struggle to Kelly’s Tigers, letting a 10-3 halftime lead slip away and being shut out in the second half at home.
Swinney compared the loss to a “final exam on day one of class. … They made a 65, we made a 58. Neither one of us were great,” explained Swinney.
Kelly, who finally won a season opener at LSU after 3 straight opening losses, wasn’t about to let that comment go without defending his program.
“We dominated them in the second half. So, he’s either really a good grader for giving himself a 58, or he’s a really hard grader on us, or he didn’t see the second half, which that might be the case. He might not have wanted to see the second half,” Brian Kelly told reporters.
Here is the video from Kelly and Swinney’s Tuesday press conferences:
Usually, a little war of words between head coaches takes place before their teams collide. In this unique case, a Week 1 showdown between college football powerhouses produced a back-and-forth between head coaches after the game was over and a new week with a new opponent was now upon them.
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.
