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Coach Kelly and AD Woodward
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Update on Brian Kelly's LSU staff: Coordinator positions coming into focus
"Sources tell Football Scoop that Kelly is targeting a pair of playoff coaches -- one at the college level and one in the NFL for his top two assistant spots."
It’s been nearly three weeks since Brian Kelly stunned college football and bolted from his Notre Dame program – with the Fighting Irish still in outside contention for a College Football Playoff berth or subsequent New Year’s Six bowl bid – to take over at Southeastern Conference power LSU.
Kelly has somewhat gradually, slowly, pieced together his initial Tigers’ coaching staff, and he’s likewise made some key off-the-field moves as well.
Yet Kelly hasn’t publicly addressed his top two assistant coaching positions – defensive and offensive coordinator.
But multiple sources tell Football Scoop that Kelly’s search for those two crucial positions is sharpening into focus.
Offensively, numerous sources this week told Football Scoop that Kelly is expected to reunite with Mike Denbrock, Kelly’s former Notre Dame offensive coordinator and assistant head coach who spent seven seasons alongside Kelly in South Bend, Indiana.
Denbrock, who also previously worked with Kelly at NCAA Division II power Grand Valley State early in both coaches’ careers, has spent the past five seasons as the offensive play-caller for Luke Fickell’s Cincinnati program.
Denbrock’s Bearcats’ offense in 2020 was among the nation’s best in several categories and, behind veteran quarterback, Desmond Ridder has Cincinnati undefeated, ranked No. 4 in the CFP, and preparing for a semifinal showdown opposite top-ranked Alabama Dec. 31 in the Cotton Bowl – the first-ever Group of 5 programs to punch a playoff ticket.
Per sources, and with the NCAA’s early signing period having just closed and recruiting not set to resume until the second week of January, Denbrock is expected to finish out the Bearcats’ playoff run before he would formally execute a contract-agreement with LSU and Kelly.
Multiple sources likewise told Football Scoop that Kelly had discussed the offensive coordinator position with Georgia play-caller Todd Monken, though sources said Monken has expressed a desire to remain with the Bulldogs.
On the defensive side of the ball, Kelly has set his target – per sources -- on an up-and-coming NFL assistant coach Matt House, the Kansas City Chiefs’ linebackers coach who spent almost two decades coaching at the collegiate level before he exited the University of Kentucky three years ago for an opportunity with the Chiefs.
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New LSU Head Football Brian Brian Kelly
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https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/article_8778ea64-6044-11ec-b145-df4a26333f26.html
PUBLISHED DEC 18, 2021 AT 2:53 PM | UPDATED DEC 18, 2021 AT 6:00 PM
"LSU linebackers coach Blake Baker was fired by new coach Brian Kelly, Baker confirmed on social media Saturday."
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2/19/20211
https://www.dandydon.com/ "John Brice writes that Kelly is targeting up-and-coming "NFL assistant coach Matt House for LSU’s defensive coordinator position."
"House is currently in his third season coaching linebackers at Kansas City, where he earned a Super Bowl ring in 2019 and competed for another in 2020."
"Football Scoop also reports that Kelly is targeting Cincinnati’s Mike Denbrock for LSU’s offensive coordinator position, which is what we’ve heard too. Cincinnati is preparing for a CFP semifinal battle against top-ranked Alabama on Dec. 31"
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FINAL 2022 recruiting class rankings!!(after early signings)
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