The SEC never sleeps, and neither do the hot takes. Just days after Florida’s Billy Napier watched his team drop a jaw-dropping 18–16 home loss to South Florida, the same USF program that had never beaten the Gators before, fans, pundits, and Twitter warriors were already sharpening their knives. “Fire him,” they shouted. “What’s he even doing?” But LSU’s Brian Kelly isn’t playing that game. Nope. He’s standing firmly in Napier’s corner, and he’s not sugarcoating it.

Ahead of LSU’s Week 3 SEC opener against Florida, Kelly didn’t hesitate to call the critics “crazy.” “ People talk about whatever they want. It’s crazy, ” he told reporters on Monday. Kelly’s message was simple: Napier’s building something real and it takes time. “He’s a really good football coach,” Kelly said. “He’s

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