re: Dellenger confirms LSU thought they had Riley

To be fair, nowhere does that say Woodward or athletic dept officials expected Riley to say yes. Basically it’s saying that the boards insiders weren’t lying, there was smoke from their sources, i.e. boosters and others tangentially connected to the team.

But Delly is tight with the actual athletic dept, and to me that article reads like from his sources (Woodward and verge) it was never really that close.