LSU coach Brian Kelly shares his early thoughts on facing Alabama
LSU head coach Brian Kelly spent more than 11 minutes on Wednesday’s SEC coaches media teleconference and was asked a couple of questions about Alabama during his bye week.
The Tigers will practice two days this week, their open week, on Tuesday and Wednesday and will spend time on Thursday and Friday working on strength and conditioning prior to taking the weekend off and turning their attention to prepping for “a great Alabama football team.”
Kelly provided his early on the Crimson Tide, which LSU will face on Saturday, Nov. 4.
“Very well-coached, I mean that’s obvious,” said Kelly of Alabama on Wednesday. “Talented defensively. I think they’ve recruited very well defensively. Length at the outside linebacker position. Big and physical inside. Really like (Kool-Aid) McKinstry, the corner. The safeties are athletic, can cover man-to-man. Really love the personnel on defense.
“Offensively, big offensive linemen. The skill positions are underrated. I think they’re all guys that can make big plays. And the quarterback (Jalen Milroe) has developed over the past four weeks to be a dual-threat quarterback that can run it and is very underrated in terms of what he’s been able to do the last few weeks in terms of throwing the football. He’s made big plays.
“So an emerging offense, one that has skill players on the perimeter, and then, I think, a really athletic defense that’s structure is very sound.”
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This will be Kelly’s second time facing Alabama at LSU, and fourth overall after 12 years as the head coach at Notre Dame. He won his first matchup against the Crimson Tide last year when Alabama traveled to Baton Rouge, La., and the Tigers topped the Tide, 32-31, in overtime on a two-point conversion. But Kelly shrugged off a question about last year’s victory.
“It seems like an ancient memory,” Kelly said. “It’s what you’ve done lately. I mean, it helps build your recruiting, it helps build the momentum in your program. We’ve got some work to do, clearly, still in recruiting, but it helped in the recruiting process. Those are definitely steps in the right direction. But as I said, for us to get into the ranks of Georgia and Alabama, you’ve got to be able to do this thing consistently.
“So for us, it’s about consistent performance. We haven’t been as consistent yet. That’s what we’ll be working to model after, the Georgias and the Alabamas, is consistency in performance.”
Next week’s Alabama-LSU game will kick off in Tuscaloosa, Ala., at 6:45 p.m. CT on CBS.
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