The phrase “It’s always something” seems like it was coined for the Brian Kelly regime at LSU.

His three-plus years at LSU have been like a game of Whack-A-Mole. A serious deficiency crops up and, to his credit, he eventually deals with it.

The problem is the serious deficiency keeps popping up on the game board, requiring him to take out a huge rubber mallet to squash it down while another season of what could have been ebbs away.

• 2022: LSU’s special teams were, in a word, abysmal. Whack! Kelly kicked special teams coordinator Brian Polian, who came with him from Notre Dame, into a non-coaching job before Polian left in May 2023 to become athletic director at John Carroll University, his alma mater.

• 2023: The LSU defense was, in two words, historically bad. It arguably kept the Ti

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