What do people on the outside think of the LSU situation? (From The Athletic)

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What do people on the outside think of the LSU situation?

It was barely a week ago that Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry forced himself into LSU business once again. After head coach Brian Kelly was fired with a $53 million buyout that still may be negotiated down, athletic director Scott Woodward was also fired with a buyout of more than $6 million, on day after Landry said the school’s Board of Supervisors would hire the next coach.

“He needs to stay in his lane,” one athletic director told The Athletic, granted anonymity to speak candidly. “He’s a typical fan who has an ego, he’s going to try to engineer what they’re doing. He doesn’t know how to hire a coach and doesn’t know his actions have turned people off.”

Shortly after Kelly was fired, Landry complained about coaching agents, incorrectly saying that Kelly and Jimbo Fisher had the same agent, and that taxpayers would pay for a buyout. (They do not.) He repeated similar points on The Pat McAfee Show, saying, “Everyone is in agreement in Louisiana, the next coach we hire is going to have a patently different contract. If that agent can’t see what’s coming down the pike.”

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