re: Official: LSU and Woodward parting ways

Which further explains the politics in Big time college athletics. Sometimes it’s best to let professional people do their jobs before overreacting; Especially publicly. Woodward’s job was to be caretaker of the athletic department and hire the best coaches and staffs possible. We saw a lot of success in that department. The football head coach may not have been the type of success desired but that doesn’t mean Scott didn’t know how to do his job.We can’t act like Big contracts weren’t a happening thing. Especially when it comes to coaches who have the type of resume’ Kelly has.

I just question whether a precedent is being set here. Every time you hire a Big name football coach to a long term contract, Are you going to fire the AD along with the coach if things don’t work out as planned. Easy to say “Well He brought Him here”. But really fan base and the school and the state, for that matter, wouldn’t any less. Saban wasn’t coming, who else was expected to come that had any amount of success that Saban had. I think the AD went after one of the more successful coaches in College Football and it didn’t work out at LSU. You can’t blame him for that. Now you can talk contracts in hindsight all you want to. But what is the alternative for that particular situation, stay with Orgeron? And watch things happen all around you? Then it would be said “ Where’s the AD? Why’d he not do His job?” IJS-

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in the real world when you perform poorly at work there are consequences

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In the real world you don't get if you don't pay. Not talking about your job as a
"plug and play" plumber. There are fewer top notch football coaches in the country than there are competent people that could be President. And they call the shots on what they demand. Otherwise you end up with a plumber running a football program.

Wasn’t Jimbo’s contract extended after Scott came to LSU. So therefore the buyout happened after he was no longer employed at A&M. They didn’t have to extend that contract. And O’s contract extension was a reward for what happened in 2019. If you want to question that based on what transpired afterwards, We have a debate.. It was still his job to go out and get the best available coach if the decision was made to move on from Orgeron. In his shoes, who are you getting? And how much are you paying? … giving the landscape you’re competing in at that time.