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Why was Woodward let go?

Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:18 am
Posted by FournetteForEver7
Member since Nov 2015
2463 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:18 am
If LSU football is just going to hand out another major contract. Everybody complained about the "outrageous" contacts handed out under Woodward. "Tax payers are on the hook!"
Posted by tigersquad89
Raleigh, NC
Member since Oct 2014
8386 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:19 am to
Because when you miss on two back to back major football hires you get let go. (I know jimbo wasn’t at lsu but it is on his resume)
Posted by TigerNAtux
Louisiana
Member since Dec 2007
18263 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:19 am to
Because Lane was the goal and Woodward was the obstacle.
Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
22409 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:19 am to
Because fat Scott demolished our money making sports with bad moves like firing Wade and bad hires

The contract is fine if the coach isn’t in a nursing home
Posted by bstaceyau19
New Orleans
Member since Jun 2022
884 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:20 am to
quote:

If LSU football is just going to hand out another major contract. Everybody complained about the "outrageous" contacts handed out under Woodward. "Tax payers are on the hook!"


Because he hired a coach who started mailing it in from the get-go.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
26946 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:20 am to
We only know what Kelly’s contract was, but we’ve no official details on Kiffin’s offer.

Details like contract structure, incentives, and guarantees matter a lot.

Let’s see where the chips fall.
Posted by BetaPhi681
Hammond, LA
Member since Apr 2023
207 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:21 am to
He’s a liberal, simple as that. Also not Landry’s “Yes Man”
Posted by Big4SALTbro
Member since Jun 2019
22409 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:22 am to
Also Lane isn’t retirement age which helps. A blind person could see BK was going to mail it in
Posted by FournetteForEver7
Member since Nov 2015
2463 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:22 am to
Jimbo actually won a National Championship as a head coach before being hired onto A&M
Posted by Chicken
Jackassistan
Member since Aug 2003
26456 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:23 am to
Woodward... that's a name I haven't heard in a long time...
Posted by DeathValley85
Member since May 2011
18779 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:23 am to
It was political. Objectively speaking.
Posted by HeavyD
Baton Rouge
Member since Nov 2003
1090 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:24 am to
Politics. Backed the wrong candidate for governor. Also, don’t give out 10 year guaranteed contracts.
Posted by Jack Daniel
Gold member
Member since Feb 2013
28445 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:24 am to
10 yr contract given to a 60 yr old coach

or

8 yr contract given to a 50 yr old coach

Which seems worse?
Posted by ForeverLSU5
Member since Mar 2019
2119 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:27 am to
For 3 reasons.

1.) Scott decided to fire Wade.

2.) Scott could have admitted his mistake last year and hire Wade back but didn’t.

3.) He decided to hire BK and not Lane when Lane wanted the job.
This post was edited on 11/22/25 at 9:32 am
Posted by Tigerlaff
FIGHTING out of the Carencro Sonic
Member since Jan 2010
21995 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:27 am to
Probably because he fired a football coach without approval from the board as is required.
Posted by Cosmo
glassman's guest house
Member since Oct 2003
128762 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:28 am to
quote:

Because when you miss on two back to back major football hires you get let go. (I know jimbo wasn’t at lsu but it is on his resume)


The boosters wanted jimbo and told woodward to give him whatever he wanted

BK was all woodward though and the red flags were apparent at ND
Posted by Rebel
Graceland
Member since Jan 2005
141126 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:29 am to
This belongs on the Athletic Director changes board.
Posted by kajunman
Member since Dec 2015
7726 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:29 am to
You sound like one of the posters who said Landry was going to make us look bad and not be able to hire a coach.
Posted by Beef Supreme
Member since Apr 2008
2287 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:37 am to
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Probably because he fired a football coach without approval from the board as is required.


That was definitely the last straw.

But it started last basketball season when there were board members along with the governor that wanted to hire Wade back. By all accounts from Lake Charles Wade wanted to come back. Woodward said no.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
78754 posts
Posted on 11/22/25 at 9:39 am to
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BK was all woodward though and the red flags were apparent at ND


We also had to settle for BK.

Other big names used the LSU opening as leverage to get raises from their current employer and Riley went to Southern Cal. Kelly was all we could get.

Unless we hired a young hotshot but Woodward would have been run out of town on a rail.
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