re: Usually I steer clear of this type stuff, but it needs to be said

The timing of the Tate hire in the middle of COVID did not help either. JBE was doing the bidding of the Biden Administration so LSU had to do the bidding of JBE. It sucked but looking back is was all basically lip service. Tate's COVID dictates were marginally enforced but he put up enough of a show to get those federal dollars.