This senior class has seen a lot of change during their careers at LSU.
Look at a guy like [autotag]Micah Baskerville[/autotag], a fifth-year senior who has played many games for the Tigers. He was a part of the 2019 national championship team. He’s seen LSU at the top of the mountain with [autotag]Joe Burrow[/autotag], [autotag]Justin Jefferson[/autotag] and coach [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag].
He stayed through the coaching change when it was unknown who the Tigers would choose to be the next head man. Now, he is thriving on an LSU team that has won the SEC West and is headed to Atlanta to play the No. 1 Georgia Bulldogs for the SEC Championship.
Kelly had high praise for the buy-in and effort from seniors on this roster like Baskerville.
“And watching them become SEC West champions is so gratifying because they made that choice,” Kelly said. “They could been average, they could’ve been poor. They could’ve just been good. They’ve chosen to be champions by the way they’ve gone to work every day both in the classroom and on the football field. And that, to me, is this senior day — the choices these guys have made have been outstanding.”
LSU will honor Baskerville and 16 other seniors on Saturday as part of the team’s Senior Night festivities before the Tigers take on UAB at 8 p.m. CT in the final game at Tiger Stadium this season.
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