Brian Kelly called 'worst hire in history' by former NFL coach 

The LSU Tigers will be looking for a new head coach after Brian Kelly was fired this past weekend.

Kelly, 64, was in his fourth season in Baton Rouge, and the expectations were sky-high for an LSU team that went big into the transfer portal and also spent a ton of money. We're talking the expectation was that LSU would at the very least make the College Football Playoff, but it's national title or bust down in Louisiana.

Kelly was fired after a second-straight loss, to No. 3 Texas A&M, dropping the Tigers to 5-3 on the season, though. He'll leave LSU with a 34-14 overall record, but he seemingly could never win the big game with the Tigers.

Now it's coming out that there should have been buy-in concerns from the Tigers. That's, at least, according to analysts on ESPN like Josh Pate and former NFL head coach Rex Ryan.

“It was my opinion that Brian Kelly checked out on aspects of the LSU job a while ago. I’m not saying he was asleep at the wheel. What I’m saying is, when it comes to the critical infrastructure of a college football program — recruiting, portaling, talent acquisition, staffing decisions — a lot of that Brian Kelly was on a beach in Florida for," Pate said ESPN's "Get Up" on Monday morning (h/t On3).

That's a tough accusation to throw at a head coach, but Ryan was even more intense about his criticism of the now former LSU head coach.

Rex Ryan goes after former LSU HC Brian Kelly and his inauthenticity 

"The very first time we saw Brian Kelly speak publicly was at that basketball game when he brought in — I mean, historically bad,” Ryan said. “To me, I thought he was done from that point. I thought everybody in that LSU community was like, ‘This is a phony man. Get him out of here.’ … I’m like, this is the worst hire in history. Talk about a guy that doesn’t fit."

The incident Ryan was referring to was Kelly's first comments to the LSU fanbase, which happened during halftime of a basketball game. He was clearly faking and forcing a southern accent. It was cringey, to say the least: