{"id":86778,"date":"2025-07-23T20:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86778\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T20:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T20:02:10","slug":"coach-kelly-touts-this-years-lsu-football-roster-as-his-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/86778\/","title":{"rendered":"Coach Kelly touts this year\u2019s LSU football roster as his best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/s25562.pcdn.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/No-9-Brian-Kelly-scaled.jpg.optimal.jpg\" data-caption=\"LSU coach Brian Kelly calls out to his team as they prepare to attempt a two-point conversion against Arkansas during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo\/Michael Woods)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"712\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/No-9-Brian-Kelly-1068x712.jpg.optimal.jpg\"  data- alt=\"\" title=\"Brian Kelly\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1068px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1068\/712;\"\/><\/a>LSU coach Brian Kelly calls out to his team as they prepare to attempt a two-point conversion against Arkansas during an NCAA college football game Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024, in Fayetteville, Ark. (AP Photo\/Michael Woods)<\/p>\n<p>LSU head football coach Brian Kelly told a larger-than-usual Rotary Club of Baton Rouge audience Wednesday that the Tigers will take the field this season with the best roster since his arrival in Baton Rouge.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn paper, this is the best roster that we will put out there,\u201d Kelly says. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about names. It\u2019s about individuals that are here through the transfer portal process to win a championship for LSU.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly cited a meeting six months ago when the team set goals for its season opener against Clemson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor the first time in my career, I made it a goal of our team,\u201d he says. \u201cGoals for me have to be specific. If we\u2019re going to set goals, I want a specific goal, and that was to be 1-0 and beat Clemson. \u201cNumber 2, it has to be attainable. I knew what roster we were putting together. I know we\u2019re going on the road, but it\u2019s an attainable goal for our players. The third, it\u2019s got to be challenging. Any goal that you set has to be worthwhile. This has been the prime mover for our players over the past six months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kelly also highlighted the<a href=\"https:\/\/athl.lsusports.net\/KellyFamilyMatch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> Million Dollar Match Challenge <\/a>NIL fundraiser, which ran from December to February. He and his wife, Paqui, committed to matching every dollar contributed to the Bayou Traditions Football Fund, up to $1 million. He said 1,600 people helped raise $3.3 million, which allowed LSU to secure the No. 1-rated transfer portal class in the country.<\/p>\n<p>LSU opens the season at Clemson on Aug. 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU coach Brian Kelly calls out to his team as they prepare to attempt a two-point conversion against&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":86779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-86778","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114904338047930103","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}