re: Tinfoil hat time. Was Woodward supposed to be a good servant and not fire BK?

Somebody answer me this: is there any evidence or through the grapevine rumor that Landry has been highly involved in the program, or is this all based on the media shouting about it ad nauseam that people just assume it's fact at this point?

I don't have strong political opinions on Landry one way or the other. But from my understanding it seems like his involvement was mostly around the edges of Kelly/Woodward firing. Seems he facilitated the meeting between donors and the board of supervisors to discuss Kelly's firing and seemed to be mostly interested in how much of Kelly's contract would the state be on the hook for. Makes some sense as at the time the University was without a President.

He made those public comments about Woodward and I wouldn't be surprised if he would have had some say behind the scenes pressuring the Board to can Woodward.

But to my knowledge I don't see any evidence of him having been involved in hiring Kiffin, and I don't see any evidence of him trying to run the program on the day to day. If anything he opens he'll shamelessly open mouth publicly a couples times, goes on Scone's show, goes on McAfee, but nothing that indicates he has any say or clue of how the program is run or that Kiffin is taking all marching orders from him.

And of course there was the live tiger thing. That time he definitely shamelessly inserted himself.