Brian Kelly defines what successful spring will look like at LSU

Following a successful run as Notre Dame‘s head coach, Brian Kelly is now at LSU with plans to get the Tigers’ program back on track. While he’s been able to put together a veteran staff and land some players from the NCAA Transfer Portal, Kelly and his team are now going through spring practices as they prepare for the upcoming 2022 season.

As Kelly – who compiled a 113-40 overall record in 12 seasons at Notre Dame – takes over a LSU team that is coming off a 6-7 campaign in 2021, there is plenty of work to be done to get the Tigers back to a championship level.

Meeting with reporters earlier this week, Kelly was asked what a successful spring would look like for LSU – and the head coach broke that down.

“I think first and foremost, I think any coach wants to make sure that you’re healthy,” Kelly said. “You don’t want any kind of injuries that impact your roster. Having said that, you can’t go into a spring practice and afraid to compete. We’re going to go into it and we’re going to compete, we’re going to tackle, we’re going to do the things that you need to develop.

“But we want to be able to evaluate our football team in a manner that allows us to say, ‘Here’s who we are going into the summer. Here’s our strengths, here’s our weaknesses.’ I want to expose them in the spring; I don’t want to cover them up. I want to know who we are so we can go to work on those when I get into camp in August so I can start addressing those things.”

LSU is scheduled to open the Brian Kelly era on Sunday, Sept. 4 against Florida State at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.