LSU’s Kelly screams by one player, gets yelled at by another

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – 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 at unranked Florida on Saturday. Now the Tigers (6-4, 3-3 Southeastern Conference) will be the ones out of the polls after the 27-16 loss.

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

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

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

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

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

In the clip, Lacy could be seen apparently 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 the Tigers 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 five seasons at Notre Dame and extended it with consecutive 10-win campaigns in Baton Rouge.

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