.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS LAS VEGA-- Brian Kelly hammered his nigh side fist down on the news conference table therefore hard his canteen virtually fell over.After No. 13 LSU kept a four-point top with simply under 6 minutes left in its season opener and dropped 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday night, Kelly didn't hold back when reviewing his disappointments." Our team had some men play their buttocks off tonight as well as our experts're resting right here once again, our team're resting below once again talking about the same factors!" Kelly stated as he knocked the table. "Regarding not finishing when you possess an opponent in a position to place all of them away. Yet what our experts are actually carrying out on the side project is actually believing that the game is over." Kelly claimed this is the first time during his LSU period that he has actually been "mad" at his crew as well as included that it did not have a "fantastic impulse."" I am actually thus angry regarding it that I have actually come to do something about it. I'm not doing an adequate project as a coach," Kelly mentioned. "I've reached coach all of them much better considering that it is actually unwanted for our team certainly not to have actually discovered a technique to gain this volleyball game. It's preposterous. It is actually crazy." Even with totaling 421 backyards of offense and also regulating the time of assets by 6 moments, Kelly's crew stopped working to capitalize. Their 1st travel of the video game journeyed 74 backyards on 13 plays in over 7 mins, however it caused absolutely no factors. Though they tracked for many of the first fifty percent, LSU managed to get the top two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Connected" Sadly, it's clear that, when our experts stand up in a video game, we perform certainly not recognize just how to manage ourselves," Kelly claimed. "You've got to put teams away. Our team had an opportunity to place this group away. We receive unconcerned, our team create additional mistakes when we're ahead as opposed to having a, you recognize, better emphasis and also a cold-blooded eyed killer instinct. That is actually unsatisfying." To Kelly's factor, the Tigers possessed 10 penalties for 99 yards to the Trojans' 6, and a handful of occurred in crucial moments. On USC's game-winning travel, a targeting charge on LSU put the Trojans inside the reddish region, where they immediately scored along with eight seconds left.It wasn't simply charges that place LSU in a position to come up short. The Tigers' ground activity also struggled. Earlier in the full week, LSU annoying electrician Will Campbell had pointed out the Tigers would rush the ball versus the Trojans." That's certainly not one thing we're making an effort to always keep quiet," Campbell pointed out Tuesday. "I'm informing everyone immediately. We're visiting operate the regulation football." Due to the end of the evening, nevertheless, LSU possessed just 117 backyards on the ground as well as needed to depend on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to fuel the offense. Nussmeier virtually performed, tossing for over 300 lawns and also 2 touchdowns, however after recording the go-ahead TD in the third fourth, LSU's offense slowed and also allowed USC's new-look protection under coordinator D'Anton Lynn to maintain the Trojans in the video game with several crucial third-down quits." They had every right to be certain," USC coach Lincoln Riley stated of LSU's offending line. "But so performed we. Our company merely really did not talk about it in the media." Of the 13 3rd downs the Tigers faced, they changed a to begin with down simply five times. After they scored a green light goal in the third one-fourth, the upcoming 4 LSU drives caused 2 puntings, a field goal as well as an interception by Nussmeier that secured the end result." For our company to be the sort of regulation football staff I wish, our experts must remove the foolish oversights," Kelly mentioned. "Finally, our team have to have the capacity to play off of one another much better.".