.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS VEGAS-- Brian Kelly banged his nigh side fist down on the press conference table so tough his canteen nearly pitched over.After No. thirteen LSU had a four-point lead with only under 6 minutes left in its time opener as well as shed 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday evening, Kelly failed to hold back when explaining his disappointments." Our company had some guys play their butts off tonight and also our team are actually sitting listed below once more, our company're sitting listed here once again talking about the same factors!" Kelly said as he slammed the dining table. "Concerning not polishing when you have a rival in a position to place them away. But what our company're performing on the subsidiary is thinking that the video game is over." Kelly claimed this is the first time during the course of his LSU period that he has actually been actually "upset" at his staff and also included that it lacked a "awesome instinct."" I am actually therefore upset concerning it that I have actually come to throw down the gauntlet. I am actually not doing a satisfactory work as a trainer," Kelly pointed out. "I've come to trainer them much better because it is actually unwanted for our team not to have actually discovered a means to gain this soccer activity. It's foolish. It is actually ridiculous." In spite of totaling 421 backyards of outburst as well as handling the moment of assets through 6 minutes, Kelly's team failed to take advantage of. Their first drive of the activity took a trip 74 gardens on thirteen plays in over seven minutes, yet it caused zero aspects. Though they routed for most of the first fifty percent, LSU had the capacity to nab the lead two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Related" However, it's very clear that, when our team stand up in a video game, our experts perform certainly not understand how to manage ourselves," Kelly said. "You have actually got to place teams away. We possessed an option to place this group away. We acquire complacent, our experts make additional errors when our team're ahead as opposed to possessing a, you know, far better focus and also a steely eyed awesome impulse. That is actually frustrating." To Kelly's factor, the Tigers possessed 10 fines for 99 backyards to the Trojans' six, and a handful of occurred in crucial moments. On USC's game-winning travel, a targeting penalty on LSU put the Trojans inside the reddish region, where they quickly scored along with eight seconds left.It wasn't merely fines that place LSU in a posture to come up brief. The Tigers' ground game also strained. Earlier in the week, LSU offending electrician Will definitely Campbell had pointed out the Tigers would jog the sphere against the Trojans." That's not one thing our company're attempting to keep peaceful," Campbell claimed Tuesday. "I am actually informing everyone immediately. We are actually mosting likely to operate the soccer." By the end of the evening, nevertheless, LSU possessed simply 117 yards on the ground as well as needed to count on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to fuel the offense. Nussmeier virtually carried out, throwing for over 300 backyards and also two goals, however after scoring the consent TD in the 3rd fourth, LSU's offense slowed as well as permitted USC's new-look defense under coordinator D'Anton Lynn to always keep the Trojans in the activity with a number of key third-down ceases." They had every right to become self-assured," USC train Lincoln Riley stated of LSU's annoying line. "Yet so did our company. Our experts merely failed to refer to it in the media." Of the 13 3rd downs the Tigers dealt with, they changed a first down merely five times. After they slashed a green light goal in the third quarter, the upcoming four LSU drives caused two punts, a field goal and also an interception through Nussmeier that sealed the outcome." For our company to be the kind of football team I desire, we must remove the half-witted blunders," Kelly mentioned. "Eventually, we have to have the capacity to play off of each other better.".