re: They may be trying to get Kelly for cause

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There is a clause that allows LSU to offset from remaining balances other income he earns and also that he has to use all best efforts to secure other income.LSU is wanting to reduce the buy out, and pay it in a lump sum, and in exchange Kelly gets to keep all other income.

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And there is the rub many are seeming to miss. LSU has yet to not live up to their end of the buyout. They are working towards a settlement offer different from that prescribed in the contract.

If they were not paying him his monthly payout/salary, then he would have a point, but they are paying him. They have not breached the contract and would not do so unless they officially fire him and did not pay him his scheduled buyout payment.

The other side of the coin is that he must make good-faith attempts to secure employment to maintain eligibility for the buyout, but this does not have to happen immediately. It also has to pay him market value for the position. He can't use his LSU buyout to take, say $1 million a year at his new job and then let LSU pay him $8 million. This would constitute a breach of the contract terms.

If he wants to retire, he would either have to forfeit his buyout or reach a settlement with LSU to waive those parts of the agreement.

If LSU does plan to fire for cause or use that as leverage, it will depend on how things were officially played out. Woodward never had the capacity on his own to fire/terminate Kelly. The BOS has to do that, and if they did not have an official meeting, the firing would have to be on an official agenda.

There are a lot of semantics, but nowhere has LSU not paid their obligation to date on Kelly's buyout.

It makes you wonder if LSU is trying to avoid paying the buyout because they just don’t have the money?

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LSU's stance is that he wasn't formally fired because Woodward didn't have the authority, so isn't he technically still the coach?

How does that work?

And since he wasn't formally fired and LSU is now moving to fire him for cause, it requires a 7 day notice and an opportunity for BK to fight these allegations in writing. Therefore meaning BK is still the coach at LSU, since LSU informed him TODAY that they are moving to fire him for cause.

Not only a mess, but if BK wanted to be a huge dick he could technically be on the sidelines Saturday as the HC.

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No, you're right. This is wild what they are trying to do.

I'm interested to see where this goes in the next week.

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If you read the article

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I guarantee you that nobody bashing or laughing at LSU in this thread or any other thread of the same kind has read the article nor do they have knowledge of what’s going on behind scenes. They see a headline and run like ignorant fools.

Read the article and go find the article published by The Athletic days after it was announced that they were working on a separation. All the information you need to know is right there.

This is nothing more than Kelly trying to get his money. LSU has more than enough evidence to support its stance.

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You seem a little scared bro.

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LSU fan, y’all.

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We would have been required to notify for cause at time of firing. Can't do it after the fact.

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Was he notified of firing or being relieved of duties. Not the same. If some stupid LA process law says you have to relieve someone of duties, wait, then fire it may not be after the fact.


Not saying there is cause there, but it’d be awesome if Kelly gets $0 after this.

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Was he notified of firing or being relieved of duties. Not the same. If some stupid LA process law says you have to relieve someone of duties, wait, then fire it may not be after the fact.

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If it matters, the way the news initially broke was that LSU notified Kelly of its intent to fire.

We’ve no way of knowing if or how that happened, but Kelly is still on payroll, unchanged from before all this happened.

And people need to take a breath. Parties negotiate settlements and damages all the time. LSU hasn’t breached anything, but trying to negotiate here is the prudent thing to try and do.

If Kelly rejects all offers he’ll get his money. It’ll be a cold day in hell before LSU lets this get ugly and I see no chance this goes to court and LSU attempts some smear campaign on Kelly as some fans have suggested.

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Is he technically still the coach? Y'all seem to be focusing on the personal attacks to avoid the actual clusterfrick of a situation unfolding, which is understandable when you have no defense of it

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We couldn’t give 2 shits about your opinion

This shite will blow over. Look what Penn State went through. I bet you thought they would never recover.

Employees and Employers fighting over severance, back pay, contracts, buyouts, etc. happens all the time. Quit trying to act like other football programs will benefit from this. Arkansas athletics will never be seen at the level LSU athletics is, no matter how much you wish it.