USC beats LSU in a nail-biter in Vegas | Can the Trojans play D now? Where does LSU go from here?

LSU head coach Brian Kelly was clearly frustrated with his team after the Tigers blew a fourth-quarter lead and went down Sunday night USC 27-20.

Kelly pounded the table in frustration during his post-loss press conference and criticized LSU players for “not finishing when you had an opponent in a position to put them away.”

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“What we do on the sidelines is feel like the game is over,” Brian Kelly added. He also said he’s not doing a good enough job as a coach, but Shannon Sharpe believes Kelly is putting too much blame on his players and not enough on himself after the loss.

“I think it’s bullshit. I think he should have started with what he ended with. ‘I’m not doing it good enough.’ He did exactly the same thing last year when State of Florida she hit. “Obviously, we’re not the team I thought we were. No, you’re not the coach you thought you were,” Sharpe said Monday on ESPN First Take. “At some point, it comes down to coaching. It comes down to accountability.”

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USC outrebounded LSU 450 to 421, and the Trojans took advantage of LSU committing 10 penalties for 99 yards. LSU quarterback Garrett Nussmeier also threw an interception, while USC did not commit a turnover.

All in all, Sharpe believes that the USC head coach Lincoln Riley surpassed Brian Kelly.

“You had 10 penalties for basically 100 yards. You coach that behavior or you condone that behavior,” Sharpe said. “But how about this: ‘Oh, their quarterback outplayed ours.’ Lincoln Riley out-coached you.

The really great coaches – look at Dabo. When he got a beating from Georgiahe said, ‘That’s coaching. That’s my fault.’ Coach Saban always did that. The really, really good coaches who can get to their players and make them understand that even if a player makes a mistake or does something repeatedly, they’re going to accept it and go behind closed doors.”

Sharpe insists he would have had no problem with Kelly criticising his team in the dressing room. But he did not like Kelly attacking his own team in a public setting immediately after the game.

“If he wanted to have those kinds of conversations, ‘Guys, we talked about this all summer. We had this problem a lot last year. We’re starting to feel good about ourselves and we’re getting teams back in the game. And it cost us dearly.’ If you want to do that behind closed doors, I have no problem with that,” Sharpe said. “But Brian Kelly has a history of doing that, publicly reprimanding his players and absolving himself of responsibility.”