Woodward's Lazy approach is the issue

His willingness to spend money without restraint and guarantee massive amounts is largely driven by the desire to secure a big name, rather than investing the effort to hire the best fit.

The fact that he acquired Jay Johnson and Mulkey is great, but he paid Mulkey a substantial amount of money for a sport that was already losing money and is now losing even more. Johnson is really his only home run hire and was a coach with fire in his belly to prove himself.

In basketball, he took the coward's way out, unlike numerous other schools, and not only fired the best coach LSU had in MBB in two decades, but also locked them into a horrid coach with the absurd McMahon contract because of it. McMahon was the wrong choice mostly because of the contract he was given, and once again, LSU will have to pay a hefty price for him to be replaced and then has lost multiple years in the sport because of it.

Now, the biggest issue with Kelly was his contract and the massive guarantee. The same issue with Jimbo at A&M was present in his original contract, which Woody provided to him. Kelly, with an incentive to improve the team, may have been a good-to-great fit. Kelly, with no incentive, was a disaster, especially after asking fans to pay even more money to buy him a team.

Woodward hired Kelly after being left at the altar by Riley when he went to USC. Much of how Alleva went with hiring O after being jilted by Tom Herman. The difference is that Alleva gave O a reasonable initial contract, which Woody then stupidly inflated after the NC in 2019.

Woody is a lazy politician that has no problem wasting other people's money. That is why he sucks even if his hires hit once in a while.