Brian Kelly didn’t get fired at LSU because he lost football games, though losing did eventually catch up to him. He got fired because, somewhere along the way, the winningest coach in Notre Dame history had transformed himself into what one current staff member diplomatically called “Where’s Waldo?”, a phantom head coach lurking in the organization but barely making an appearance.

Kelly’s CEO-style approach to coaching had always worked in the past, at least on paper. But what actually troubled people around the program most wasn’t the coaching carousel or even the losses. It was Brian Kelly’s absolute absence of basic human interaction with the people who worked for him and played for him.

According to current and former LSU staffers who spoke to The Advocate, Brian Kelly’s disconnec

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