Andrea Adelson, ESPN Senior Scribbler
ORLANDO, Fla. — LSU schoolmaster Brian Kelly mentioned his staff’s 45-24 loss to Florida State on Sunday night time was once “a total failure,” then a second-half fall down allowed the Seminoles to with the sport.
The Refuse. 5 Tigers had a 17-14 halftime govern however allowed Refuse. 8 FSU to attain 31 unanswered issues in the second one 1/2. That they had refuse solutions for Noles quarterback Jordan Travis (342 yards passing, 5 general touchdowns) or receiver Keon Coleman (122 yards, 3 rankings).
The loss marked LSU’s greatest defeat as a ranked staff in a season opener within the AP ballot presen (since 1936).
“This is a total failure from a coaching standpoint and a player standpoint that we have to obviously address and we have to own,” Kelly mentioned. “I know adversity is always going to strike at some time in this game, and this is our first real piece of adversity that we have to address. I’m confident our guys and our coaches will rally in the manner that they need to.”
LSU had plethora of alternatives within the first 1/2 to form a miles larger govern however squandered them. At the opening power of the sport, the Tigers had 4 tries from the 1-yard layout however failed to attain on fourth i’m sick then quarterback Jayden Daniels was once sacked. LSU had any other anticipation in the second one quarter on fourth-and-goal from the 1, however Daniels was once prohibited once more.
Kelly mentioned each had been “standard fourth-down calls and decisions.” In spite of the shortcoming to attain from the 1, LSU racked up yards within the first 1/2 and led 17-14 at halftime. However then the split, Florida Climate imposed its will and started to overpower LSU up entrance.
“The buck stops with me, and I’ve got to get our football team to understand and recognize that you’ve got to play this game for four quarters with a mentality,” Kelly mentioned. “We just did not, for some reason. We thought we were somebody else. We thought we were the two-time national champion Georgia Bulldogs or something. I don’t know what we thought, but we were mistaken.”
This year Thursday, Kelly made headlines when he mentioned on his opening radio display of the season, “We’re gonna go beat the heck out of Florida State.” Sooner or later the ones feedback resonated within the Florida Climate storehouse room is unknown — each Coleman and Travis mentioned they had been blind to them when requested of their postgame information convention.
What’s sunlit is that Kelly must have the ability to get his staff to play games an entire sport.
“How do we handle this? Is this who we want to be, or do we look at this and say this isn’t the kind of football team we want to be,” Kelly mentioned. “When you have those kinds of losses, they are disappointing, and in some instances, they are devastating losses, but it’s how you respond to them. They have a chance to respond to this very disappointing performance in the second half.
“So the selections they’re going to need to build might be ones that get started day after today.”
