.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS VEGAS-- Brian Kelly knocked his nigh side first down on the press conference dining table so hard his canteen virtually pitched over.After No. thirteen LSU kept a four-point top with only under 6 moments left in its own season opener and dropped 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday night, Kelly failed to hold off when reviewing his frustrations." Our team possessed some people play their butts off tonight as well as our experts're resting here again, our experts're resting here once again speaking about the exact same factors!" Kelly mentioned as he knocked the table. "Concerning not finishing when you have a challenger in a posture to place all of them away. However what our company're carrying out on the side project is actually thinking that the activity is over." Kelly mentioned this is actually the very first time throughout his LSU tenure that he has been actually "angry" at his staff and also included that it was without a "awesome instinct."" I'm thus mad about it that I've got to find a solution for it. I am actually refraining from doing an adequate task as a coach," Kelly said. "I have actually come to train them much better due to the fact that it's undesirable for our company not to have actually located a means to succeed this volleyball video game. It is actually ridiculous. It is actually outrageous." Regardless of totaling 421 gardens of outburst and controlling the moment of belongings through 6 minutes, Kelly's staff failed to exploit. Their 1st drive of the game traveled 74 backyards on thirteen plays in over 7 mins, yet it led to no points. Though they tracked for many of the very first one-half, LSU had the ability to grab the lead two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Associated" Regrettably, it is actually crystal clear that, when we rise in a video game, our team perform certainly not recognize exactly how to manage our own selves," Kelly claimed. "You have actually got to put staffs away. Our company possessed a possibility to place this team away. Our experts obtain contented, our experts create more oversights when our company are actually ahead instead of having a, you know, far better focus and also a steely eyed great instinct. That is actually disappointing." To Kelly's point, the Tigers possessed 10 fines for 99 backyards to the Trojans' 6, and also a couple of happened in turning points. On USC's game-winning drive, a targeting charge on LSU put the Trojans inside the red zone, where they immediately scored along with eight seconds left.It had not been merely charges that put LSU in a setting to come up brief. The Tigers' ground game additionally had a hard time. Earlier in the full week, LSU offending lineman Are going to Campbell had claimed the Tigers would jog the sphere versus the Trojans." That is actually not one thing our company are actually attempting to always keep peaceful," Campbell stated Tuesday. "I am actually telling everybody immediately. Our experts're mosting likely to run the football." By the end of the evening, nonetheless, LSU possessed only 117 gardens on the ground and also had to depend on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to feed the outburst. Nussmeier almost carried out, tossing for over 300 yards as well as two goals, but after counting the permission TD in the third quarter, LSU's offense slowed and also permitted USC's new-look defense under coordinator D'Anton Lynn to keep the Trojans in the video game with numerous key third-down quits." They had every right to be positive," USC coach Lincoln Riley mentioned of LSU's outrageous line. "But so performed our team. Our experts just didn't discuss it in the media." Of the thirteen 3rd downs the Tigers dealt with, they turned an initially down just five times. After they scored a green light goal in the third quarter, the following 4 LSU drives resulted in pair of punts, a basket and also an interception by Nussmeier that secured the result." For us to become the kind of regulation football group I wish, our company need to eliminate the ridiculous mistakes," Kelly stated. "Ultimately, we must have the ability to participate in off of one another far better.".