.Paolo Uggetti, ESPNSep 1, 2024, 11:45 PM ETLAS LAS VEGA-- Brian Kelly knocked his left clenched fist down on the press conference table so tough his canteen nearly toppled over.After No. 13 LSU had a four-point top along with merely under 6 minutes left behind in its own time opener and also shed 27-20 to No. 23 USC on Sunday night, Kelly failed to keep back when discussing his stress." Our team possessed some fellas play their butts off tonight and our company are actually resting right here once more, our team're sitting here once again speaking about the exact same traits!" Kelly said as he banged the dining table. "About certainly not polishing when you have a rival in a setting to put them away. Yet what we're carrying out on the side project is actually seeming like the game mores than." Kelly said this is actually the very first time in the course of his LSU period that he has actually been "upset" at his team and also added that it did not have a "fantastic intuition."" I'm therefore irritated concerning it that I have actually got to find a solution for it. I am actually not doing a good enough task as a coach," Kelly claimed. "I have actually come to train all of them a lot better since it is actually undesirable for us not to have actually found a way to succeed this volleyball video game. It's preposterous. It's crazy." In spite of totting 421 lawns of outburst and also managing the amount of time of assets through six mins, Kelly's team stopped working to exploit. Their first drive of the game took a trip 74 yards on 13 plays in over 7 moments, however it caused absolutely no factors. Though they tracked for many of the very first half, LSU had the ability to take hold of the top two times in the third quarter.Editor's Picks2 Connected" Unfortunately, it is actually crystal clear that, when we get up in a video game, our team perform certainly not understand exactly how to manage ourselves," Kelly claimed. "You've reached place teams away. We had an option to put this staff away. We acquire obsequious, our team create even more errors when we're in advance instead of possessing a, you recognize, much better emphasis as well as a steely eyed awesome inclination. That is actually frustrating." To Kelly's factor, the Tigers had 10 penalties for 99 backyards to the Trojans' 6, as well as a handful of happened in turning points. On USC's game-winning ride, a targeting fine on LSU placed the Trojans inside the reddish zone, where they quickly scored along with eight few seconds left.It wasn't only penalties that put LSU in a position to find up short. The Tigers' ground video game additionally struggled. Previously in the full week, LSU annoying lineman Will Campbell had pointed out the Tigers would dash the round versus the Trojans." That's certainly not something our experts are actually making an effort to maintain quiet," Campbell pointed out Tuesday. "I'm saying to everyone at this moment. Our experts're going to manage the regulation football." Due to the end of the evening, having said that, LSU possessed simply 117 backyards on the ground and needed to count on quarterback Garrett Nussmeier to sustain the offense. Nussmeier virtually did, throwing for over 300 backyards and also two goals, but after recording the permission TD in the third quarter, LSU's outburst slowed as well as made it possible for USC's new-look protection under coordinator D'Anton Lynn to always keep the Trojans in the game along with many key third-down quits." They possessed every right to become positive," USC trainer Lincoln Riley mentioned of LSU's annoying line. "But therefore did our experts. Our company simply didn't refer to it in the media." Of the thirteen 3rd downs the Tigers dealt with, they converted a to begin with down just 5 times. After they scored an okay goal in the 3rd fourth, the upcoming 4 LSU drives caused pair of puntings, a basket and also an interception through Nussmeier that secured the end result." For us to become the kind of football crew I prefer, our experts must remove the silly errors," Kelly mentioned. "Ultimately, our team must manage to play off of each other far better.".