- Excited to play in the ReliaQuest Bowl. Calls it a great destination and a great matchup with Wisconsin.
- Knows Luke Fickle and says he'll have his team ready to go.
- Congratulates Mike Denbrock for being a finalist for the Broyles Award, will learn later today if he wins.
- Jayden Daniels is a Heisman finalist, says it's an incredible achievement as well as all the other awards he's up for.
- Team is in finals, so nothing is mandatory right now, but the facility is open for weight lifting and other stuff. They will have 15 practice days before the bowl game.
- Says they have a good feel for who is and who isn't going to play in the bowl game, but they're not ready to announce it yet, should come out next week. Says last week was all about exit interviews with the players and this week is recruiting. They will do staff evaluations once recruiting is "dead."
- Jayden Daniels had a death in the family and was gone for the past few days. Also says he is still making his decision on whether or not to play in the bowl game.
- Thinks Jayden has grown so much off the field since stepping foot on campus. Says he knows you're making progress with your program when you see someone mature like JD.
- He's still in the process of reviewing his assistant coaches and no decisions have been made. No one is happy with their defensive performance this year, and says he has to do things to make that happen. Says people saying they're just starting to address it now is wrong, they started after the Ole Miss game.
- Says he fired his DC three games into the season at Notre Dame, so he's not afraid to make those decisions, but he wants to have a very informed choice before he makes any moves.
- He's a Jayden Daniels fan, so he was watching the Pac-12 Championship. Says he was looking for a great game, not necessarily rooting for the two QB's to fail. Wanted to see how Penix and Nix matched up with Daniels and says his unbiased opinion is that JD is the best player in the country.
- If they were ever going to add a QB in the transfer portal, they would talk to everyone in the room and tell them why they're doing it. They need transparency in this world of CFB.
- They took 15 out of the portal last year and 13 were on defense, and because of that, they were not a close knit group. It's a "red flag" when you have to do that, and they don't think they will have to this year. They'll add players in certain places, but nothing like last season. They're counting 10 of their 11 players with the most snaps on defense are coming back next season.
- Says the bowl game doesn't count towards eligibility, so if they have any players at the 4 game max, they can still play in the bowl game.
- Deuce Chestnut and Denver Harris are yet to sit down with coach to talk about their status with the team.
- Thinks all the individual awards LSU is getting this season can certainly help in recruiting because it shows recruits that they can come here and do that same thing.
- Felt this was the hardest CFP they've had to rank, but also said they knew there were 5 power five champs and only 4 playoff spots, so they did this to themselves. Also says they played both Alabama and FSU, and his perspective is that Jordan Travis' injury made FSU a completely different team than they were earlier in the year. He can see where they came from with the decision that they made.
LSU FOOTBALL 12/05 Brian Kelly Media Availability Notes
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