Brian Kelly’s LSU tenure may have begun with “great expectations,” but even the coach admits he fell pretty short.

Kelly, fired after losing to Texas A&M in the midst of a 5-3 start , offered up his first public reaction to his termination.

“This journey began with great expectations with my own vision of how to get there,” Kelly said in a statement posted to social media on Thursday. “Sometimes the journey does not end the way we hope.”

LSU head coach Brian Kelly walks on the sideline in the second half of an NCAA college football game against Texas A&M. AP

Kelly’s four-year tenure ended with a 34-14 mark, and his teams fell well short of national championship expectations.

“The losses will always hurt, but I will remember all of the wins,” he wrote, “I don’t need to tell any of

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