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It has been 36 years since I lived in Baton Rouge. by IAND75

I doubt it has changed all that much culturally.

I have no special insight as to whether Kelly will be able to win football games there or not. But it never felt like he really understood ND or became “one of us”. Lou set a pretty high bar in that regard. And it should have been easy as a northeast Irish Catholic named Kelly.

He will be treated kindly, perhaps warmly, by the fan base initially. People in Louisiana are just that way.

But he will never be one of them. There is no way he could even fake it.

His relationship will be purely transactional.

So he had better win early, win often, and win big.