re: Reasons I think House is getting fired

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Kelly seems to like House and seems to believe our issues are more talent, just more reading through the lines of his comments.

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I have no inside info and I'm certainly not defending House, but if Kelly and House knew preseason that the defense was going to suck and that they would have severe scheme limitations due to that, it's hard for Kelly to then blame House. Now, he could fire him anyway for sure. But if he truly believes it was personnel, then that would have to be fixed regardless of the coaching.

That would line up with Kelly's comments that they have discussed the problems in detail on a weekly basis and that they know what the problems are.

If Kelly thinks House is the problem, then he should fire him. But if he doesn't, then he shouldn't fire him just to appease the fans.

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I think the more likely route is keeping House and revamping the staff.

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I think you are stupid.

House gets his money anyway

If Kelly does him a solid and allows him to find an NFL LB job, he gets whatever his new team pays him. From there, LSU owes House the difference between his LSU DC pay and the pay from his new NFL team.

House Contract

Plus, has to use “best efforts” to find a new job if fired. If he doesn’t go find an NFL LB job on his own, LSU has the right to deduxxt from the buyout, what an average NFL LB coach makes anyway.

There is no $ downside for House to save face by returning to the NFL.

ETA: if House is fired effective January 15, he’s owed a maximum of 90% of $3.2 million. Which is $2.88 million total. It’s paid monthly over a two year period, which makes it exactly $120,000 per month.

Again, that’s a maximum- it doesn’t account for the offset from his NFL money next year.

So House can probably be fired for less than $100k per month once he finds a new job after Black Monday.