Shannon Sharpe to Brian Kelly: 'You're not the coach that you thought you were'

LSU head coach Brian Kelly was clearly frustrated with his team after the Tigers blew a fourth-quarter lead Sunday night and fell to USC 27-20.

Kelly pounded the table in frustration during his press conference after the loss, criticizing LSU players for “not finishing when you have an opponent in a position to put them away.”

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“What we’re doing on the sideline is feeling like the game is over,” Brian Kelly added. He did go on to say that he’s not doing a good enough job as a coach, but Shannon Sharpe feels that Kelly put too much blame on his players and not enough blame on himself after the loss.

“I think it’s BS. I think he should’ve led with what he finished with. ‘I’m not doing a good enough job.’ He did the exact same thing last year when Florida State thumped them. ‘Clearly we’re not the team that I thought we were.’ No, you’re not the coach that you thought you were,” Sharpe said Monday on ESPN First Take. “At some point in time, it comes down to coaching. It comes down to accountability.”

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USC outgained LSU 450 to 421, and the Trojans benefited from LSU committing 10 penalties for 99 yards. LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier also threw an interception, while USC did not commit a turnover.

All in all, Sharpe feels that USC head coach Lincoln Riley outcoached Brian Kelly.

“You had 10 penalties for basically 100 yards. You either coach that behavior or you condone that type of behavior,” Sharpe said. “But how about this, ‘Oh, their quarterback outplayed ours.’ Lincoln Riley outcoached you.

The really great coaches – look at Dabo. When he got thumped by Georgia, he said ‘That’s coaching. That’s on me.’ Coach Saban used to do it all the time. The really, really good coaches that can get to their players and get them to understand, even if a player makes a mistake or does something repeatedly, they’ll take it and they’ll get behind closed doors.”

Sharpe insists that he would have had no problem with Kelly criticizing his team in the locker room. But he didn’t like Kelly going after his own team in a public setting right after the game.

“If he wanted to have this kind of conversation, ‘Guys, we talked about this all summer. We had this problem a lot last year. We start to feel good about ourselves, and we let teams back into the ballgame. And that came back to bite us.’ If you wanted to do that behind closed doors, I’ve got no problem with it,” Sharpe said. “But Brian Kelly has a repeated behavior of doing this, publicly chastising his players and obfuscating himself of responsibility.”