Report: Brian Kelly lets go first member of the current LSU staff

New LSU head coach Brian Kelly hasn’t wasted any time in cleaning house in his new home of Baton Rouge. Kelly let go of LSU’s long time strength and conditioning coach Tommy Moffitt, who helped propel the team to three national titles, sources told Bruce Feldman of FOX on Friday night.

Moffitt was considered by many in college football to be one of the nation’s elite strength and conditioning coaches. In his 19 years with the program, he helped train the LSU team that won 187 games during that span, easily the stretch in school history for the Bayou Bengals.

He’s been a part of national championship teams at Tennessee, Miami and LSU (twice). Moffitt was named the 2003 College Strength and Conditioning Coach of the Year by America Football Monthly.

While at Miami, he was named the 1998 Big East Strength Coach of the Year while working for Butch Davis. Moffitt graduated from Tennessee Tech in 1986.

He began his football coaching career as an assistant coach at John Curtis High School in River Ridge, Louisiana. He coached there from 1987 to 1994 and earned the 1992 National High School Strength Coach of the Year award. John Curtis is one of the most prestigious high school football programs in America and has produced the likes of former New York Jets running back Joe McKnight. McKnight was tragically killed in a road rage incident back in 2016.

Who will Brian Kelly hire as his strength and conditioning coach at LSU?

The strength and conditioning coach is one of the most important hires any head coach in college football can make.

While the position doesn’t get nearly the enough media attention of an offensive or defensive coordinator, the strength coaches spend an incredible amount of time around the players in the off-season. The relationship between the strength coach, the head coach, and the players in any program is critical.

The key question for Brian Kelly is if he’s going to let one of the best strength coaches in the country go, who will he get to replace him at LSU?

The Tiger fan base will find out in the coming days and weeks, no doubt.