BATON ROUGE, La. -- Brian Kelly was already keenly aware that he and his LSU football team were on deck.
LSU's baseball team, led by coach Jay Johnson, had captured the national championship in June, a little more than two months after Kim Mulkey and her women's basketball team won the NCAA tournament in April. A pattern clearly had been set.
But on a recent scorching summer day in Baton Rouge, Kelly could only chuckle when told of a playful but confident comment made by longtime football staffer Ya'el Lofton while showing a visitor into Kelly's office.