Mailbag Podcast: Who does LSU need to step up in 2025?
LSU’s fall camp is just weeks away, as the Tigers look to put it all together with the season on the horizon. The Bengal Tiger’s Matthew Brune takes subscriber questions on everything LSU football, including questions about the young talent, the surprise players, the scheme changes, the Clemson game, and more.
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Brian Kelly’s opening statement at SEC Media Day
“Many of you know that we went into the transfer portal to really build depth, championship level depth across the board. Guys like Patrick Payton from Florida State; Barion Brown from Kentucky; Nic Anderson, Jack Pyburn, Bauer Sharp, just to name a few. Mansoor Delane at the safety and corner position.
I could go on and on. And I’ve missed some and I’ll make sure when I get to some of these other locations I bring their names up as well, because so many of them are deserving to be talked about.
The game day experience at LSU is incredible. It’s because of our fans. They’re so passionate and knowledgeable. When you go into that stadium they are watching the game. They are following every play. And that as a football coach, that’s the captive audience that any speaker wants, that any teacher wants.
It’s such a captivating audience and they’re passionate about LSU football that they’ve delivered for us much as you know, I had $1 million gift, my wife and I, to help support or NIL. That was the league gift because I knew how passionate our fan base was.
We had 1,600 supporters follow that up that raised that number to about $3.5 million. That’s the kind of passion that we have at LSU.
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It comes back to the one goal that I started with, that’s I want to graduate our players and play for championships. Whether it’s on the field, in the classroom, in the community, it’s developing great young men on a day-to-day basis.
That’s the significance for me. It’s wrapped in that much more than just the success.
So I know everybody is excited about the season. Everybody here is excited about it. We’re certainly looking forward to the opportunity. We open up with a great program in Clemson. I know Dabo very well. Respect him and his program and the accomplishments they’ve had. We played against each other several times when I was at Notre Dame and just have a ton of respect.
But we’ve also been 0-3 in openers at LSU under my watch. We needed to do some things differently this year. That is embrace this opener. Embracing it in a manner that this is a big game. It’s a tangible goal for our football team to want to be 1-0. That’s not let’s warm up into the season. We want to be ready for this football game. So we’re doing everything in our power to give our players the opportunity for that success.
Exciting season. Excited about the ability to continue to develop our program and our players. Looking forward to our opening against Clemson University.”
