Michigan flips the number one overall player in the 2025 class, Bryce Underwood from LSU.

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You guys that have watched us for a while know that I've been on the Brian Kelly train

since he got the job at LSU, and I'm still barely hanging on, even after the Bryce Underwood

flip and another average season on the field.

My thinking and methodology was if Ed Orzeron and Les Miles could win the whole thing at

LSU, albeit once, surely the organized super CEO

head coach could do it and maybe multiple times. He still could. All is not lost, but there may be an

underlying factor that many of us, including myself, missed. Authenticity. Say what you want about

Les Miles and Ed Orgeron. One guy ate the grass

and it seen the other one smoked it, but you couldn't argue that they weren't genuinely themselves,

as weird or different as they may be. You see, players respond to authenticity, because if you're

the same person you are in recruiting that you are when the players get to campus and you start coaching them, they trust you and they're willing to run through a brick wall for you. In hindsight, it was probably those two's greatest strength. That couldn't make up for the archaic scheme of Les Miles or the off-field distractions of Ed Orgeron, but that key factor helped them grab a title each.

It seems, though, that Kelly lacks that authenticity. We saw him adopt a Southern accent at a

basketball game. We see arguments between players and coaches more regularly for them on the

sidelines, and it's probably time for a reset for Brian Kelly, and it's not hard. Just be yourself, man.

You don't have to be a trash talker or a troll like Lane Kiffin or a good old boy like Sam Pitman.

Just be you, even if you aren't the most outgoing or charismatic personality. Teams adopt the identity

of their leader, and if that switches more than the guy from split, it creates it creates cracks in trust and fractures and relationships that seem to be showing up right now on the field. We see this in politics as well. The status quo robots don't win elections anymore. It's the authentic and real people that do. Now, that isn't the only thing that LSU needs

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