TWO OF THE most hectic months of Brian Kelly's coaching career were this past November and December.
On Dec. 3, LSU played in the SEC championship game. Two days later, the transfer portal opened. He had to prepare for the Tigers' bowl game, create a strategy for the portal -- between his own players entering and players he coveted -- and finish off the 2023 recruiting cycle all at once.
"The real key here was, how can we build in during the month of December an opportunity to try to do all three of those things without them overlapping?