A major shakeup within the LSU football coaching staff went down today as LSU Coach Brian Kelly fired defensive coordinator Matt House, along with three other assistant coaches. Tiger Rag Editor Todd Horne said changes had to be made after a historically bad season for LSU on defense.
“It’s the coach’s responsibility to understand what your resources are, what your players are, what their strengths are, and what their weaknesses are and to take advantage of those and to cover up the disadvantages. And he didn’t do that.”
Defensive line coach Jimmy Lindsey, safeties coach Kerry Cooks, and cornerbacks coach Robert Steeples were also let go.
House is fired after two seasons as the defensive coordinator at LSU. He came to LSU with a solid resume. In 2018, House was the defensive coordinator at Kentucky and in 2018 they had one of the best defenses in the country. He was the linebackers coach with the Kansas City Chiefs when they won the Super Bowl during the 2019 season. Horne says House might prefer the NFL game over college
“We heard rumblings before this season started that Kelly had to keep him on the staff and that he was anxious to jump, maybe to go back to the NFL, maybe that had something to do with it. I don’t know but it was clear all season long that defense was a hot mess.”
Horne expects Kelly to act quickly in hiring their replacements.
“Brian Kelly is well networked and well connected and I guarantee you he didn’t make any of these moves without having a plan.”
LSU ranked 105th in the nation in total defense giving up 417 yards a game. LSU also allowed 28 points a contest, third worst in the SEC.
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