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re: With Landry’s comments on placing restrictions on how the new coach will get paid
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:37 am to BEATIGER
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:37 am to BEATIGER
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LSU only pays a nominal amount of a head football coach's pay. The vast majority of it comes from TAF and donors.
TAF does not negotiate contracts and sign coaches. They can provide funds that grant more power to those that do but they are not the ones that do.
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:37 am to wadewilson
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LSU athletics is privately funded.
But the contractual obligation of payment to coaches belongs to LSU.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:39 am to StGeorgeTiger
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You don’t think performance contracts are a better path forward??
Arkansas tried that a few years ago, Kiffin and Leach told them to pound sand and they ended up with a career OLine coach.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:39 am to StGeorgeTiger
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You don’t think performance contracts are a better path forward??
In theory perhaps but if just 1 other school does not then what?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:41 am to saturncube21
Okay I will cross Kiffen off the list
Hopefully we are still able to get Kiffin though
Hopefully we are still able to get Kiffin though
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:43 am to Mo Jeaux
So?
If it weren't for a donor stepping up, Kelly would still be the coach. LSU isn't going to stick the taxpayers with a bill.
Landry should take some of his angst out on ULL, theyre like $50m in the red.
If it weren't for a donor stepping up, Kelly would still be the coach. LSU isn't going to stick the taxpayers with a bill.
Landry should take some of his angst out on ULL, theyre like $50m in the red.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:52 am to wadewilson
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So?
If it weren't for a donor stepping up, Kelly would still be the coach. LSU isn't going to stick the taxpayers with a bill.
So the willingness of donors to assist the University is not to be confused with who has ultimate authority and responsibility.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:56 am to EvrybodysAllAmerican
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You think LSU is a private company?
No, but the coach's salaries and buyouts are private money. That is not his call.
He's a meddling moron that just likes to hear himself speak. If he wants to really frick up his legacy even more than he already has, he can try use his political power to make LSU be cheap, with private money, in the coaching search. That's how you get run out of this state.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 8:59 am to wadewilson
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If it weren't for a donor stepping up, Kelly would still be the coach. LSU isn't going to stick the taxpayers with a bill.
Donors step up and fund athletics largely based on fundraising abilities of the the university and in our case, our AD leads that charge big time. Scott Woodward is a world class fundraiser and has deep relationships with rich boosters all over the state. Getting rid of him would be a huge mistake.
People on this board have no idea what they're talking about when they say boosters are mad at Scott Woodward.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:00 am to wadewilson
quote:A university coach is a state employee you realize that right?
Landry doesn't get to decide what an LSU coach gets paid.
Government doesn't have the ability to set a private company's payroll.
Unless Landry is trying to be a communist dictator.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:04 am to CatfishJohn
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No, but the coach's salaries and buyouts are private money. That is not his call.
Donors "pay" college coaches by providing contributions to athletic department budgets. What those departments pay is determined by contracts that are approved by the BoS. If the BoS doesn't like a contract, it doesn't happen.
The BoS and ADs could cut out donors entirely but don't bc its not in their best interest. Donors CAN NOT cut out the BoS.
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 9:12 am
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:11 am to wadewilson
Some of yall need to spend the day doing a deep dive into LSU and its history with politicians. Hopefully this is just a singular event but it really doesn't seem that way with Omar and now this. Landry seems to like to hold his power over those involved. Considering the BOS is responsible to pretty much all spending that goes on at all LSU campuses in LA they do have to work with Landry and that is showing to be a not so great thing.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:14 am to Byron Bojangles III
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A university coach is a state employee you realize that right?
The state pays him $300k.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:16 am to theSaltwaterGuide
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Some of yall need to spend the day doing a deep dive into LSU and its history with politicians.
Yes, I know where the bullet holes are in the capital.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:18 am to wadewilson
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The state pays him $300k
Correct and the governor makes less which makes the LSU head football coach the highest paid state employee.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:18 am to theSaltwaterGuide
Look what happened to the Board of Commissioners of Waterways when they opposed the Hyundai steel plant. Landry replaced them and the plant is moving forward. He will absolutely make this happen the way he wants.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:21 am to vector4
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Look what happened to the Board of Commissioners of Waterways when they opposed the Hyundai steel plant. Landry replaced them and the plant is moving forward. He will absolutely make this happen the way he wants.
Oh without a doubt. A lot of young people are about to learn what the governor in Louisiana has done to LSU for years which for a long time is what made it a job that many didn't want.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:22 am to jcole4lsu
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but he has made it clear in his comments that he does not want to see a giant guaranteed contract
I would amend this comment to say he doesn't want the State on the hook financially for big buy outs and such based upon his comments...
I think this is a legit position to take.. I don't like the posturing he seems to take with it...
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:23 am to theSaltwaterGuide
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Correct and the governor makes less which makes the LSU head football coach the highest paid state employee
The LSU football coach runs a wildly successful athletic program that has been built up my multiple coaches.
The Louisiana governor runs the worst state in the union
Posted on 10/30/25 at 9:23 am to wadewilson
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Then he'll have to be corrected.
Why should LSU have to hire a lesser coach just because Landry doesn't like the fact that private donors are willing to spend millions up front?
His comment about the pay should have been something said in private. I highly doubt his comment will keep coaches away from the job but it was silly to say.
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