{"id":2158283,"date":"2024-01-24T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-brian-kelly-wont-leave-lsu-for-michigan\/"},"modified":"2024-01-24T16:14:55","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T21:14:55","slug":"why-brian-kelly-wont-leave-lsu-for-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-brian-kelly-wont-leave-lsu-for-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Kelly is committed to LSU and won&#8217;t switch to Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwhy-brian-kelly-wont-leave-lsu-for-michigan%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2158283&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Why Brian Kelly Won&#8217;t Leave LSU for Michigan<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Adapted from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/why-brian-kelly-won-t-leave-lsu-for-michigan-ron-slay\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCrain &#038; Co.,\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  January 24, 2024.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Jake Crain:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brian Kelly would be clinically insane to leave \u200dLSU for Michigan.<\/strong> Why? Not because Michigan isn\u2019t a \u200dfantastic job or that there\u2019s anything wrong with Ann Arbor, but because he\u2019s already at a place where, believe it or not (at least in my opinion), it\u2019s easier to establish dominance than at Michigan.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Brian\u200c Kelly left Notre Dame, which is an\u200c established brand in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">college football<\/a>, to go down to Baton Rouge. He saw \u2064what Bama looked like in the tunnel before they got run over in the National Championship when \u200che was the head \u200bcoach of the\u200b Fighting Irish. He wanted to be \u2064able to recruit and sign the best of the best, a true even playing field. \u2062Louisiana is a state filled with talent every year to the brim from \u2063the top to the bottom, from \u200cthe\u2063 east to the west. And LSU is the only power in that state.\u2063 There is no Sparty and nobody\u2019s spurning \u200dLSU to go to Louisiana Tech. (Sorry guys.) But Kelly has already found success there, \u200dand he\u2019s building a monster in a place where the biggest monsters roam. He\u2019s compiled an elite staff around him, and he just had the Heisman\u200c winner. <strong>Why would you leave Baton Rouge where you have all of this momentum\u2062 to go follow the greatest season ever in \u2062Michigan history? There\u2019s nowhere to go but down.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan\u2019s going to remain relevant regardless of what Harbaugh does, but the best chance to win bigger \u200bfor longer is at LSU. Some will say the SEC is the \u2063toughest conference in the country. That\u2062 is true, but the Big Ten just added Oregon, Washington, USC, and UCLA. It\u2019s not getting any easier, and there\u2019s no division, which will create\u200d more division. Ryan Day\u200b is trying to put the new Justice League together at Ohio State through the transfer portal, and Brian Kelly has already shown that he can succeed in the SEC. He \u200dwon the West\u2064 in year one and the emperor Nick Saban just left Tuscaloosa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The \u2064fact of the\u200d matter is you can\u2019t make work-place decisions based purely on emotion and fandom. And though Kelly\u2019s accent may be fake,\u200b his chance \u2062to dominate is not. While some\u200b may believe\u200d the smoke if Harbaugh does leave to go to \u2062the Chargers or the Falcons, it smells\u2064 like a Jimmy Sexton special to me, which\u2062 is always a good play.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Harbaugh hasn\u2019t gone anywhere yet, but we keep hearing that for\u2064 Brian Kelly, it\u2019s \u200ca dream \u200cjob. Michigan is an incredible place. They just won the \u200bNational Championship. Nobody\u2019s saying that Michigan is a bad job. But when\u2063 LSU gets hot, they can get hotter than \u2063just about anyone. For Brian Kelly, he\u2019s already there. He\u2019s already established. He\u2019s gotten the hard part out of the way. He won early, he \u200bwon the West. Yes, he lost to Georgia in the SEC Championship \u2062game, but he beat Alabama\u2019s Nick Saban. Then in year two, his defense got run through like a finish line, but he had the Heisman winner. \u200bHe has an elite staff, \u2063he\u2019s recruited really well, and it seems like a \u200dpretty good fit.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/why-brian-kelly-won-t-leave-lsu-for-michigan-ron-slay-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: \u201cCrain\u2064 &#038; Company\u201d on DailyWire+<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>David Cone:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Brian Kelly is not leaving LSU.<\/strong> No \u200dway. I agree that this feels like a Jimmy Sexton special to try\u200b and get a bigger contract or a new extension. It\u2019s not because I view LSU as that much better of\u200c a job than \u200cMichigan.\u2062 I see them both as the top six or seven jobs in the country.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I do find a couple of things interesting \u200cthough. \u200bFirst, Brian \u200dKelly is the \u2062winningest coach in Notre \u200dDame history. He left and gave that up to go to LSU for a lot of the reasons we always talk about; you can put a fence around that state and\u200d the \u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/military-recruitment-hitting-record-lows-raising-questions-about-viability-of-all-volunteer-force\/\" title=\"Military Recruitment Hitting Record Lows, Raising Questions about Viability of \u201cAll Volunteer\u201d Force\">high school recruiting<\/a>\u2062 is \u2064better\u200b there in that state. Also, from a historical and traditional perspective, \u200cNotre Dame and Michigan\u2062 are very similar. So I think it\u2019s interesting Brian Kelly had to watch Michigan go undefeated and \u2062win the \u2064National\u2063 Championship. That is what\u2062 Jim Harbaugh was able\u2063 to do at a very \u200dsimilar Midwestern school that \u200dKelly\u200d was not able to accomplish while he was at Notre Dame. Then, two of the last three coaches at LSU have been rumored to be leaving LSU. The Les Miles thing\u200d was a caveat,\u200b and I think it\u2019s a completely different situation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, we still don\u2019t\u2064 even know if Jim Harbaugh is going to \u200bleave. Harbaugh\u200d may\u200d remain \u200bat Michigan \u2014 even\u200b though the news could break any minute that he\u2019s going to be the next \u200ccoach \u200cof the Chargers. So we\u2019ll have to see. \u2063But from my perspective, Kelly has gotten the hard part out of the way. He already built the foundation at his new place, he\u200c took the risk which paid off early,\u200c he won the SEC West, and he just \u200blanded \u2062the number one quarterback \u2063in the 2025 class. I\u2063 don\u2019t see Brian Kelly going anywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><em>Jake Crain is co-host of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/%22https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/crain-and-company\/%22\">\u201cCrain &#038; Company\u201d<\/a> the Daily Wire\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/its-another-college-football-groundhog-day\/\" title=\"It\u2019s Another College Football Groundhog Day\">sports show hosted<\/a> by former\u200d athletes and coaches Jake Crain, Blain Crain, and David Cone. Follow him: @JakeCrain_<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>David Cone is a co-host and producer of the Daily Wire\u2019s sports show Crain &#038; Company, as \u2064well as a contributor to \u200cMorning Wire. David is also a\u200d former quarterback for the University of Michigan. You can follow him on Twitter\/X and Instagram at @davidadamcone<\/em><\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> \u2064 What recent successes has Kelly achieved at\u2062 LSU \u200cthat\u2063 would make him hesitant to leave for Michigan?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Don\u2019t think Kelly has any reason to leave LSU right now. \u2064He\u200d just had\u200c a successful season, winning\u200d the SEC West and beating Alabama. He has built momentum and has the support of the fans and administration at LSU. Why would he\u2062 give that up to go to Michigan, even if they did just win the\u2062 National \u200bChampionship?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Michigan is a \u200bgreat program with a storied history, but they have had their struggles in recent years. Even with\u2064 Harbaugh as their coach, they couldn\u2019t win \u200ca \u200cBig Ten title or make it to the College \u200cFootball \u200dPlayoff. Yes, they just had a \u2064remarkable season, but \u200dis that enough to convince Kelly \u200dto leave a place where he is\u200c already successful and has the potential for even greater success?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another factor to consider is the competition. The \u200cSEC\u2062 is widely regarded as the \u200btoughest conference in college football, and Kelly has already shown that he can compete and win in that conference. The Big Ten, while still a strong conference, has just added four powerhouse\u200b programs in Oregon, Washington, \u200bUSC, and UCLA. The\u2062 level\u200c of competition in the Big Ten is only going to get tougher, and Kelly may\u200d prefer to \u200dstay in the SEC\u200d where he already knows how \u200bto\u200b navigate \u2063the challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately,\u2063 it comes down to personal preference. Kelly may\u2063 feel a sense of loyalty \u200band \u200dcommitment\u200b to LSU. He has\u2063 built something special there and may not want to walk away from that. He \u200dmay also feel that he has unfinished business at LSU, such as winning an SEC Championship or a National Championship. Michigan may be a dream job for some coaches, but \u200bKelly may\u200d already be living his dream at LSU.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/why-brian-kelly-won-t-leave-lsu-for-michigan-ron-slay-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: \u201cCrain\u2064 &#038; Company\u201d on DailyWire+<\/a><\/h4>\n<h3>Jake\u2063 Crain:<\/h3>\n<p><strong>I \u200cagree with that. I think it would be a mistake\u2063 for Kelly to leave LSU for Michigan. He has a \u200dgreat situation at LSU\u2063 and has already achieved a lot\u2064 of success there. There\u2019s no guarantee \u200bthat he \u200cwould find the same level of \u200dsuccess\u2063 at Michigan.<\/strong> Plus, the SEC\u200d is a conference where you can establish dominance and compete for championships. \u200dThe Big Ten may be getting stronger, but it\u2019s\u200c still not at the same level as the \u200dSEC.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">And let\u2019s\u200b not forget \u2063about the pressure. Coaching at Michigan comes with high expectations and intense scrutiny. If Kelly doesn\u2019t immediately \u2062replicate the success he had at LSU, he could face backlash from fans and the media. \u200bAt LSU, he has\u2062 already proven himself and has the\u200c support of the fanbase.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ultimately, it would\u200b be a risky move for Kelly to leave LSU. \u200dHe \u200dhas everything he needs to succeed there \u2063and has the opportunity to build something special.\u2062 Michigan may be a prestigious \u200cprogram,\u2064 but Kelly has already found success at a place where he can make\u200d a bigger \u200bimpact. Unless there\u2019s a major change in circumstances, I don\u2019t \u200csee any reason why \u2064he would leave LSU for Michigan.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/why-brian-kelly-won-t-leave-lsu-for-michigan-ron-slay-member-exclusive\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WATCH: \u201cCrain\u2064 &#038; Company\u201d on DailyWire+<\/a><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Crain believes Brian Kelly would be crazy to leave LSU for Michigan. 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