BATON ROUGE, La. — As the LSU marching band began playing the alma mater in an empty student section, only a few dozen LSU players bothered to stick around to sing it, as is customary after every game. The head coach wasn’t there either, as Brian Kelly had briskly walked from the postgame handshake at midfield to the end zone tunnel, receiving boos from the few LSU remaining fans. He came back out for the song, then went back down the tunnel to a second round of boos in an unusual sequence.
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Chants of “Fire Kelly” had come from the stands at various times throughout an embarrassing 49-25 loss to Texas A&M. One sign read “Kelly Gotta Geaux.”
As another once-promising season falls apart, this time stamped out in stunningly emphatic fashion, a conversation that had only begun to percolate is now steaming hot.
It may be time for LSU to fire Kelly and commit to the second-largest buyout in college football history.
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