🚨 LSU Fires Brian Kelly Instant Reaction | Who should the Tigers hire next?
Cover 3 College Football
CBS Sports
4.5 • 4.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The Cover 3 crew reacts to LSU firing Brian Kelly and analyze who could fit best as the next Tigers head coach.
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| 0:43.1 | Smash that subscribe, smash that like, and you see those sirens in your feed. |
| 0:45.1 | You know exactly what that means. |
| 0:50.6 | LSU is firing fourth year coach Brian Kelly. |
| 0:56.3 | As we are coming to you right now, the reports indicate that as is very much a news that is breaking situation on a Sunday evening. A team meeting reportedly has been called for |
| 1:01.9 | about 30 minutes from right now, but the great work of CBS sports Matt Zenitz reporting that |
| 1:07.6 | LSU is indeed firing Brian Kelly. That would be after a five and three start to the 2025 season, |
| 1:13.9 | that would have him at 34 and 14 as his record over the last four years. |
| 1:19.7 | His buyout, we are north of $50 million. |
| 1:23.9 | Of course, you learned that already by going to Brian Kelly LSU buyout Robbie Callon, CBS Sports. |
| 1:31.5 | Brian Kelly, CBS Sports contract buyout, Robbie Calland. |
| 1:36.7 | But clearly the Brian Kelly tenure was a failure or else LSU would not be spending tens of millions of dollars at a minimum to |
| 1:45.8 | move on from him. Was this the right play right now because the conversation throughout the day |
| 1:52.4 | was like, are we going to serve up the offensive coordinator as a little bit of, you know, |
| 1:56.1 | meat? Are we going to let Brian Kelly, as we talked about on Saturday night, sit in this |
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