.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS LAS VEGA-- Brian Kelly knocked his left clenched fist adverse the news conference table thus difficult his water bottle nearly pitched over.After No. thirteen LSU held a four-point lead along with just under six mins left in its period opener as well as dropped 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday night, Kelly really did not hold off when covering his irritations." Our team had some guys play their butts off tonight and also we are actually sitting right here once more, our team are actually sitting right here again referring to the exact same points!" Kelly claimed as he knocked the dining table. "Regarding certainly not polishing when you have an enemy in a position to place all of them away. Yet what we're performing on the side project is actually believing that the activity is over." Kelly claimed this is actually the very first time during his LSU tenure that he has been actually "upset" at his staff and also incorporated that it did not have a "awesome intuition."" I'm thus mad regarding it that I've got to throw down the gauntlet. I am actually refraining a satisfactory job as a coach," Kelly stated. "I've come to trainer them much better given that it's unwanted for our team not to have actually discovered a way to succeed this soccer activity. It is actually foolish. It's insane." In spite of amounting to 421 lawns of offense and also handling the moment of possession through 6 moments, Kelly's crew failed to utilize. Their very first drive of the game took a trip 74 yards on 13 plays in over 7 moments, but it led to absolutely no aspects. Though they routed for most of the first fifty percent, LSU had the capacity to take hold of the top twice in the 3rd quarter.Editor's Picks2 Associated" Unfortunately, it's clear that, when our team stand up in an activity, our company perform not understand how to handle ourselves," Kelly said. "You've got to put groups away. We had a possibility to place this team away. Our company acquire complacent, our experts bring in even more blunders when our company're in advance rather than possessing a, you recognize, better emphasis and also a cold-blooded eyed great intuition. That's unsatisfying." To Kelly's point, the Tigers had 10 charges for 99 backyards to the Trojans' 6, as well as a few occurred in crucial moments. On USC's game-winning drive, a targeting charge on LSU put the Trojans inside the reddish region, where they quickly racked up along with 8 few seconds left.It wasn't simply charges that put LSU in a setting to come up brief. The Tigers' ground activity likewise struggled. Previously in the week, LSU objectionable lineman Are going to Campbell had said the Tigers would rush the sphere versus the Trojans." That's not something we are actually trying to always keep silent," Campbell pointed out Tuesday. "I am actually saying to everyone now. Our company're visiting operate the regulation football." By the end of the night, nevertheless, LSU possessed merely 117 backyards on the ground as well as must count on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to sustain the outburst. Nussmeier almost performed, tossing for over 300 gardens and also pair of goals, but after racking up the okay TD in the third one-fourth, LSU's offense delayed and also enabled USC's new-look defense under planner D'Anton Lynn to keep the Trojans in the video game with several essential third-down stops." They had every right to be certain," USC coach Lincoln Riley said of LSU's offending line. "Yet therefore did our experts. Our company just really did not discuss it in the media." Of the thirteen third downs the Tigers dealt with, they transformed a first down merely 5 times. After they slashed an okay goal in the third one-fourth, the following four LSU pushes led to two puntings, a basket and an interception by Nussmeier that closed the outcome." For our team to become the type of football group I wish, our team need to remove the crazy oversights," Kelly mentioned. "Eventually, our experts need to be able to play off of one another far better.".