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Message: [QUOTE="domedog, post: 5548683, member: 413"] Here's the real deal from my LSU season ticket nephew who is very well informed after I told what is going on there is crazy: Not so much crazy, but uncomfortable due to a coaching change, yes. Anytime that happens there is uneasiness to be expected, but Governor Elmer Fudd took it to the next level, when he should have handled it behind closed doors. But he's a coonass, and this is what they do, they pontificate and speak very loudly, and when they get emotional, they are unable to read the room, it just comes out. A little context that is being undersold in the national media. The prior LSU President took the same role at Rutgers and he left around June of this year to take that role, so LSU is currently without a President. Given that the State-run University Presidents for each of the 5 to 7 Louisiana System Universities are appointed by a committee, it takes about 1/2 year to run the gamut of identifying candidates, vetting, interviewing, and subsequently hiring a candidate. The new President will be announced on November 4 and will officially take seat on January 1, 2026. It's not a coincidence that all of this is taking place at this time (I don't think anyone saw the season tanking this bad, but there were signs last year that Kelly was not a good fit and was not going to get LSU to any type of Championship. He was the right guy to stabilize the Program, given what Ed Orgeron left it as, but has simply phoned it in somewhere around year 2). Nonetheless, when there is no University President, the Governor acts as said President until there is one. The chain of command is Governor -> University President -> Board of Supervisors -> Athletic Director -> Football (or any sport) Coach. So AD Scoot Woodward is canned last night. So, they now need a President, an AD, and a Football Coach. It's been widely known that the McNeese State President will get the LSU President job so that will be one domino. From what I'm hearing, it sounds like they were going to can the AD first, and let the new President hire an AD (sounds like they have it down to a short list, so there were some backdoor things happening already, and then they would tell Kelly to make staff changes on offense (essentially giving him one last chance), but that display Saturday night in Tiger Stadium pushed the Kelly firing to Nuclear ASAP. BTW, Kelly was verry confrontational and typically egotistic, in that Sunday morning meeting, so they ejected him. LSU will not be paying the full $52M buyout that is being mentioned. They are exercising a morality clause in the contract and will probably settle for around 1/2 that with BK. Kelly had some "other" LSU specific issues outside the ones from Notre Dame. As far as AD (I've heard the McNeese State AD, and the UGA AD (who is from Hammond, La.). There will be a committee that will hire the new football coach, with the President involved as well. The Governor will not be involved moving forward. And if they want to pay $150M, they will pay that, so as, to be competitive. This is just a bunch of pontificating by the Governor. Now, I do agree with the Governor, that when it comes to buyouts, his position is the taxpayer should not foot the bill for a State Institution. But that has never happened in any of the fired coaches in the past. Either a private donor(s) or the Tiger Athletic Foundation (TAF is a private entity) foots that bill. So, the Governor jumped the shark, basically all he wants is verbiage put into the contract that protects the University and the State (there was none of that in the BK contract, Woodward screwed up). I do agree with him that coach's contracts are absurd and getting worse, but as you say, it's the price of doing business and trying to field a competitive team. Long story short, LSU is getting blasted in the media right now, but this will pass in a week or so. They will have a President on November 4, a coach sometime in early to mid-December (depends on who and if they are in the Playoffs), and an AD somewhere around then or slightly after. Am sorry to hear about Collins, he's a good kid, but maybe he maxed out his ability in high school (it happens) and would benefit from going to a smaller school. LSU and Syracuse may compete for the fewest wins this year. [/QUOTE]

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