New LSU Tigers football head coach Brian Kelly isn’t exactly the most beloved person in the world right now following his controversial split with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. Adding to his increasingly negative persona – at least on social media – is the recent comment from New York Jets head coach Robert Saleh, who said that Kelly once invited him and Matt LaFleur, both were then graduate assistants at Central Michigan under Kelly, to a party only to find themselves shoveling snow and parking cars for the guests, per ESPN's Rob Demovsky.
Saleh, however, has tried to put more context into that story which he hopes will put Kelly in a more favorable light.
“There is a right of passage when you’re a GA and [Quality Control coach],” Saleh said. “It was a funny story and not an indictment on how Brian treated us. Brian is a phenomenal man. He really is. It was just one of those deals that was supposed to be a funny story that people took in a negative light. Maybe shame on me, I should have worded it better.
The Jets head coach adds:
“He’s a really good man,” Saleh added. “He treats people the right way. I know people are probably upset with him now. There’s never a right way to do things of that nature. I’m always one of his biggest fans. I feel awful that it was taken in that light.”
It's probably not going to move the needle much for Kelly in terms of how people perceive him nowadays. Sometimes, perception is reality, especially for public figures. As for Saleh, the perception he is most worried about is the one about the Jets being a bad team, to say the least.
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