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Settle Down - This Is Bigger Than Just Football
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:23 pm
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:23 pm
Anyone can throw their name in the ring for the next Governor’s race. Hell, any one of you could’ve applied for LSU President, Athletic Director, or even Head Football Coach.
Settle down and let this play out. The overreaction is getting out of hand.
What I’m seeing is a lot of noise about LSU football, when the real issue is being ignored: the risk of another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions. LSU is a state institution. If donors decide to pull back funding, guess who’s left holding the bag? Us.
This isn’t just about wins and losses. It’s about accountability, fiscal responsibility, and making sure we don’t end up paying for another buyout disaster.
Settle down and let this play out. The overreaction is getting out of hand.
What I’m seeing is a lot of noise about LSU football, when the real issue is being ignored: the risk of another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions. LSU is a state institution. If donors decide to pull back funding, guess who’s left holding the bag? Us.
This isn’t just about wins and losses. It’s about accountability, fiscal responsibility, and making sure we don’t end up paying for another buyout disaster.
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Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:24 pm to Buster Heyman
If you think the donors can just decide they don't want to pay out an agreed upon contract signed by all parties and not get demolished in court you're as retarded as Landry
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:24 pm to Buster Heyman
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the risk of another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions.
Landry found another sucker
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:25 pm to Buster Heyman
You're a fricking idiot, just like the fricking idiot your defending.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:26 pm to Buster Heyman
quote:but nooo Landry is blah blah....what these idiots dont realize is if a donor didnt come forward, the Louisiana tax payer is responsible to make it up. But their gonna say but that what insurance is for blah blah, make more money
another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions
Your absolutely correct. This board is filled with cry cry cry.
This post was edited on 10/30/25 at 2:27 pm
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:26 pm to Buster Heyman
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the risk of another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions.
Oh stfu with this shite.
Please go look up the Capitol outlay bill and see all the bullshite our politicians waste taxpayer dollars on. Start with Jeff and work your way down. Ask him how his stay at the Ritz in Turks & Caicos was, that we paid for.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:27 pm to Buster Heyman
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making sure we don’t end up paying for another buyout disaster.
How much is this costing you?
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:28 pm to Zach Lee To Amp Hill
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If you think the donors can just decide they don't want to pay out an agreed upon contract signed by all parties and not get demolished in court you're as retarded as Landry
Well that's good because that is not what has been said
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:29 pm to notbilly
I was under the impression that the athletic department was self funded and didn’t use tax dollars. Maybe I’m wrong but maybe I’m not….
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:31 pm to Buster Heyman
This is a weird stance for a governor that just signed a new deal to pay the Saints to play in New Orleans for another decade. That is actual tax payer money with no chance of boosters/donors paying it.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:32 pm to sharkfhin
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Your absolutely correct. This board is filled with cry cry cry.
This responses and downvotes for this post is proving my point more an more. Selfishness towards LSU football and not looking at the big picture for what it's worth!
Melt baby Melt!!!
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:32 pm to Thebuzz
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I was under the impression that the athletic department was self funded and didn’t use tax dollars. Maybe I’m wrong but maybe I’m not….
LSU's athletic department is one of the most profitable departments in all of college sports.
and there's this fun nugget people forget about
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During difficult budget times for the university in the past, LSU’s athletic department has transferred money to the university. After Gov. Bobby Jindal slashed the state budget, the athletic department began making annual transfers.
The school received tens of millions of dollars from its sports programs from 2012-19, when athletic director Scott Woodward ended the practice shortly after he took the job.
“It’s something that’s very dangerous, when universities rely on recurring money, especially from an auxiliary like the athletic department,” Woodward told Tiger Rag in 2019. “So no, I think, while I will always support the university in some form or fashion, we can not sustain what we’re currently doing.”
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:33 pm to Buster Heyman
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the risk of another reckless contract that could cost Louisiana taxpayers millions
How? The football coach is paid a very small amount of base salary by the State. The overwhelming majority of the money—and all of the buyout—is private funds.
This is such a stupid talking point. It’s a lie, but for some reason Landry just repeats it and the media plays along with it.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:34 pm to mikesliveisacheater
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This is a weird stance for a governor that just signed a new deal to pay the Saints to play in New Orleans for another decade. That is actual tax payer money with no chance of boosters/donors paying it.
Good point
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:34 pm to Buster Heyman
frick you moron
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:35 pm to Buster Heyman
quote:A guy who picks this username is lecturing me? GFY.
Buster Heyman
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:38 pm to sharkfhin
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but nooo Landry is blah blah....what these idiots dont realize is if a donor didnt come forward, the Louisiana tax payer is responsible to make it up. But their gonna say but that what insurance is for blah blah, make more money
They don't want to accept reality.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:40 pm to Indefatigable
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but for some reason
This OP is the some reason.
It's a red meat populist talking point for the ill-informed. The ill-informed who will celebrate Landry for being a "champion of the taxpayers"
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:42 pm to Buster Heyman
It's not like Woodward is throwing out contracts that outpace all other P5 programs. He's offered top dollar but it's in line with what other top coaches at other top programs are making. BK wasn't the highest paid coach. And how the BOS is escaping any criticism is interesting. They signed off on the contract. And I can't believe the whale level donor is not also giving the nod before a coach is hired and contract signed.
Landry was right. The guaranteed money in contracts is ridiculous and it needs to stop. But he still needs to butt out of the process.
While I wouldn't be mad if LSU hired Kiffin, Im beginning to think a young, rising star is the way to go ie Dillingham, Sheppard (yeah, I went there) or Schumann.
Landry was right. The guaranteed money in contracts is ridiculous and it needs to stop. But he still needs to butt out of the process.
While I wouldn't be mad if LSU hired Kiffin, Im beginning to think a young, rising star is the way to go ie Dillingham, Sheppard (yeah, I went there) or Schumann.
Posted on 10/30/25 at 2:54 pm to Adajax
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The guaranteed money in contracts is ridiculous and it needs to stop.
The schools can stop it at any time.
But when the fans/donors decide 34-14 (19-10) isn't good enough and want the coach replaced for some one better, the pool of people believed to be able to deliver that "better" is pretty small. That means the small pool holds all of the leverage in the negotiations. The guaranteed money is the result of basic supply and demand. It baffles me how many don't understand that very basic concept.
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While I wouldn't be mad if LSU hired Kiffin, Im beginning to think a young, rising star is the way to go ie Dillingham, Sheppard (yeah, I went there) or Schumann
And if he can't deliver in two years the fans will want him fired and demand the "big name".
The irony is LSU DID exactly what the Governor is suggesting when it hired Orgeron. O's contract was very LSU friendly, and could have been even more friendly, because LSU was LITERALLY the only major conf. school willing to consider O for their HC job. The supply of coaches seen in the same light as O was high, the demand for them as an HC was low.
Even more crazy, the approach WORKED! LSU had one of the greatest seasons ever. Then O regressed back to the mean and the fans demanded another "big fish".
O is available. Hell, I bet he'd even take the same contract he was offered in 2016
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