LSU’s Brian Kelly screams at 1 player, gets yelled at by another in Florida loss

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) – LSU coach Brian Kelly was caught on camera screaming at one player and being yelled at by another.

The sideline scenes were clear signs of frustration for a program headed for a third straight game loss, 27-16 at unranked Florida on Saturday. Now the Tigers (6-4, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) will be the ones out of the polls.

And the LSU fan base may be out of patience with Kelly.

“This is a simple exercise of do you want to fight or not?” Kelly said after the team’s latest loss. “Will you fight and take responsibility as coaches and players for the fact that we are not playing well and we are struggling right now? …

“There is a tough spot here that we have to fight through and we have to do it together.”

Kelly seemed to get into it with receiver Chris Hilton in the first half. Kelly got in Hilton’s face after a play, and online readers suggested that Kelly eventually called Hilton “uncoachable.”

Late in the third quarter, cameras caught receiver Kyren Lacy yelling at Kelly on the sideline after an empty possession.

In the clip, Lacy could be seen letting Kelly have it. The trainer’s eyes widened as he apparently realized what was going on. The ABC camera quickly cut away from the interaction.

LSU lost to Florida for the first time since 2018. This one came despite running 92 plays and having the ball for more than 41 minutes.

“We’re going to put guys on the field that are going to fight and do everything they can do to fix where we’re at right now, and that’s fighting with consistent execution,” Kelly said. “I think we’ve seen it enough to know that we have to be better as coaches and players.”

Kelly’s streak of 10-win seasons ends at seven. Kelly won double-digit games in each of his last four years at Notre Dame and extended that streak with consecutive 10-win seasons in Baton Rouge.

But losing three in a row to Texas A&M, Alabama and Florida makes getting past nine impossible.

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