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Woodside Energy and Brian Kelly Buyout

Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:58 am
Posted by Pauvetibete
Member since Apr 2022
1804 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 8:58 am
Just putting this out there because I hadn't seen it posted yet.

BK buyout = 55 Million
Woodside Energy Logo = 55 Million

Money talks.
Posted by MRTigerFan
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2008
6658 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:03 am to
Where did you see the dollar amount of the Woodside Energy sponsorship?
Posted by Dlab2013
Pineville, Luzianna
Member since Jun 2013
9387 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:04 am to
Ruffino threw the number out there
Posted by LakeSide Lovin
Member since Feb 2026
66 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:08 am to
55 million over how many years
Posted by saturncube21
Member since Nov 2015
11134 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:09 am to
Thanks Blake Ruffino
Posted by LSBoosie
Member since Jun 2020
17881 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:12 am to
quote:

Ruffino threw the number out there

Lol
Posted by tigahfan747
New Orleans
Member since Oct 2017
1873 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:26 am to
quote:

55 million over how many years


That could be asked about both Woodside and Kelly.
Posted by Everyday Is Saturday
Member since Dec 2025
481 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:28 am to
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Money talks.


To whom?

LSU whiffed on BK.

BK 'insured' via buyout. Perhaps even using LSU as golden handshake out of coaching profession.

Talks to whom? LSU's whiff and being used as a pseudo pension fund.

...but just cost LSU a little real estate on a jersey. Unless dignity counts.

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Posted by ForeverLSU5
Member since Mar 2019
2186 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:30 am to
Chicken man paid roughly half of it.
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
49237 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:37 am to
quote:

Ruffino threw the number out there


Take everything he says with a grain of salt because he is not connected.
Posted by Honkus
Member since Aug 2005
57207 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:39 am to
Thanks Blake

That being said our boy absolutely cooked yesterday on C&C

This post was edited on 2/19/26 at 9:41 am
Posted by MONROE
In the belly of the beast
Member since Sep 2015
4279 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 9:41 am to
quote:

LSU whiffed on BK.


Scott Woodward whiffed on BK. But he was about the best available coach at that time.
Posted by A75CADDY
BatonRouge, LA
Member since Nov 2010
421 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:18 am to
I'd say he whiffed on the contract and then failed to supervise his employee. If he had actually paid attention to how Kelly was performing (i.e.mailing it in) he could have built a case to fire Kelly for cause. Alcoholism, absent from work, vacationing during critical recruiting times, not being present during recruiting visits.)
Posted by DaleGribblesMower
Member since Dec 2013
8099 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:20 am to
Likely 5
Posted by WarBoudin
Member since Aug 2024
888 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:27 am to
I know for a fact that it’s less than a million per year. It’s a 10 year deal. It’s barely 6 figures. The actual number is 101k this year and it increases by 17% each year until it expires.
Posted by BigBinBR
Baton Rouge
Member since Mar 2023
9773 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:31 am to
quote:

I know for a fact that it’s less than a million per year. It’s a 10 year deal. It’s barely 6 figures. The actual number is 101k this year and it increases by 17% each year until it expires.



You have no idea what you are talking about. That's less than some normal LSU sports properties wall ads.

UNLV actually released their patch numbers. You think we are making 10% on our patch vs what UNLV is
quote:

UNLV, the only other school so far that has announced a jersey patch sponsorship, reached a five-year, $11 million deal with Acesso Biologics, a Las Vegas-based regenerative medicine company.


And our deal is 7 years. So everything you said is bullshite:

quote:

Even though sponsor patches were not approved by the NCAA until January, LSU wanted to be ready to tap into a lucrative revenue stream. It struck a seven-year, multimillion-dollar deal with Woodside Energy, a company founded in Australia that has operated offshore in Louisiana for almost two decades. Beginning this fall, every LSU uniform will have a sponsor logo on it.
This post was edited on 2/19/26 at 10:34 am
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
44292 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:46 am to
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I'd say he whiffed on the contract


It was what it would take to unseat him from where he was.

quote:

then failed to supervise his employee


OK, which is it? People on here were whining about him meddling too much and having a spy on the coaching staff, but now he was not supervising his employee.

quote:

If he had actually paid attention to how Kelly was performing (i.e.mailing it in) he could have built a case to fire Kelly for cause.


No he could not have.

quote:

Alcoholism, absent from work, vacationing during critical recruiting times, not being present during recruiting visits.


Not a single one of those, except absent from work, would even come close, and unless his specific work hours were spelled out, I doubt that would have either. Not putting in hours like Saban or Kiffin or sitting in your office while your staff does all the real work is not the same as being absent from work.

Cause is very difficult to establish outside of legal or cheating issues. I'm not sure why this is so hard for some people to grasp.
Posted by mdomingue
Lafayette, LA
Member since Nov 2010
44292 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:49 am to
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BigBinBR



Ignore WarBuodin. If you ever want to know what is NOT the actual case, check out what he says.
Posted by ibldprplgld
Member since Feb 2008
27668 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:49 am to
quote:

Take everything he says with a grain of salt because he is not connected.


But he screams at the camera with authority.
Posted by G&P
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Member since Aug 2013
2404 posts
Posted on 2/19/26 at 10:49 am to
Who would have ever thought that Brian Kelly would use LSU for his Golden Parachute?

Guaranteed big money makes us lazy.
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