.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS LAS VEGA-- Brian Kelly slammed his nigh side fist down on the news conference dining table so tough his water bottle nearly toppled over.After No. thirteen LSU held a four-point lead with merely under six mins left in its own time opener as well as dropped 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday evening, Kelly failed to keep back when reviewing his stress." Our team had some fellas play their buttocks off tonight as well as our team are actually resting right here once again, our team are actually sitting here once again discussing the very same factors!" Kelly claimed as he slammed the table. "Regarding not finishing when you have a rival in a posture to put all of them away. Yet what our team're carrying out on the sideline is actually believing that the activity ends." Kelly mentioned this is the very first time during the course of his LSU tenure that he has actually been actually "angry" at his staff as well as included that it did not have a "deadly inclination."" I am actually so angry regarding it that I have actually reached find a solution for it. I'm refraining from doing a sufficient project as a coach," Kelly pointed out. "I have actually come to train all of them a lot better because it is actually inappropriate for our company certainly not to have found a means to win this volleyball game. It's ludicrous. It's outrageous." Despite completing 421 backyards of outburst and regulating the time of possession through 6 mins, Kelly's staff neglected to take advantage of. Their initial drive of the video game traveled 74 backyards on 13 plays in over 7 minutes, but it caused no points. Though they routed for many of the very first one-half, LSU had the capacity to get hold of the top two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Connected" However, it's very clear that, when our company stand up in a game, our experts carry out not understand how to manage ourselves," Kelly claimed. "You've come to place crews away. Our experts possessed a possibility to put this staff away. Our experts obtain contented, our experts create additional blunders when our company are actually in advance rather than possessing a, you know, better emphasis and a cold-blooded eyed fantastic reaction. That's unsatisfying." To Kelly's aspect, the Tigers possessed 10 penalties for 99 backyards to the Trojans' six, and also a couple of happened in turning points. On USC's game-winning ride, a targeting fine on LSU put the Trojans inside the red area, where they quickly racked up with 8 few seconds left.It wasn't simply penalties that put LSU in a setting to find up short. The Tigers' ground game also had a hard time. Previously in the full week, LSU repulsive lineman Will certainly Campbell had actually claimed the Tigers will jog the ball versus the Trojans." That is actually not something our experts're attempting to always keep peaceful," Campbell pointed out Tuesday. "I am actually saying to everybody at the moment. Our team're going to run the soccer." Due to the edge of the night, however, LSU possessed merely 117 backyards on the ground and also must depend on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to sustain the offense. Nussmeier virtually performed, throwing for over 300 gardens and two goals, however after recording the green light TD in the third fourth, LSU's offense slowed as well as made it possible for USC's new-look defense under organizer D'Anton Lynn to always keep the Trojans in the game with several crucial third-down stops." They possessed every right to become self-assured," USC coach Lincoln Riley mentioned of LSU's offending line. "However so did we. Our company simply failed to discuss it in the media." Of the thirteen third downs the Tigers faced, they changed a first down merely five opportunities. After they slashed a green light goal in the third fourth, the next four LSU drives resulted in 2 punts, a basket and also an interception by Nussmeier that closed the result." For our team to be the kind of regulation football staff I prefer, our company have to deal with the absurd mistakes," Kelly claimed. "Eventually, we need to have the ability to play off of one another better.".