After failing to add a difference-making DT in the spring portal window, Kelly said that "if you just want to get paid, this is not the place for you."

Brian Kelly is playing the long game with LSU football. There's a blueprint for that. But transfer defensive linemen would help in 2024.

On the heels of missing out on coveted transfer portal defensive tackles Damonic Williams (he picked Oklahoma) and Simeon Barrow Jr. (he picked Miami), Kelly did an interview with WAFB’s Jacques Doucet in which the soundbite that made the rounds was “we’re not going to go out and buy players.”