LSU’s Brian Kelly had rough start, but as his swamp legs get under him, he sounds like Nick Saban

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Brian Kelly arrived at LSU doing a southern accent so badly that he will get a starring role when they do The Big Easy remake.

Then he tried to dance in a recruiting video and nailed "the white man’s overbite" from Billy Crystal in When Harry Met Sally.

But since then, the former Notre Dame coach has begun "the process," a term famously repeated by former LSU coach Nick Saban when he drastically turned the program around beginning in November of 1999.

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Brian Kelly speaks after being introduced as the head football coach of the LSU Tigers during a news conference at Tiger Stadium on December 01, 2021 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana.  (Jonathan Bachman/Getty Images)

The roster is not the greatest. But considering where it was in that bayou disaster film called the Texas Bowl last January 4 when the Tigers lost 42-20 to Kansas State, Kelly has performed miracles that would make the Touchdown Jesus at Notre Dame Stadium proud. LSU had 39 players on scholarship in that game. The Tigers are in the 70s now with their spring game on Saturday (2 p.m. eastern, ESPN +, SEC Network +) and will be at 84 by early August, Kelly said.

Kelly has tossed his dancing shoes and dialect dalliances away and put his head down. He is not complaining about the transfer portal. He’s a frequent flyer on it and desperately needed something like that. And now, he has the makings of a decent team that could win eight games next season, which would be just three away from the total number of wins between the last two LSU teams.

Saban won just eight games in his first season at LSU in 2000, but it was clear the team was going