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re: What is Kelly hiding?
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:25 pm to Adam Banks
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:25 pm to Adam Banks
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And LSU maintains he has not been formally fired yet so cause is on the table.
Good luck with that when your AD releases a statement saying they have let him go, with the boards blessing and then the Board held a press conference to discuss it.
And with that, multiple LSU admins were in the meeting when Woodward fired him.
Your theory may be what LSU plays but it’s a losing one.
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 5:27 pm
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Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:28 pm to deathvalleytiger10
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Good luck with that when your AD releases a statement saying they have let him go, with the boards blessing and then the Board held a press conference to discuss it.
Did they formally fire him or inform him of his pending termination and put him on administrative leave until the details were sorted out?
No one really seems to know for sure. Kelly’s side is saying one thing and LSU’s is saying another. I mean, Kelly is having to sue just to get a formal declaration on if he’s fired or the termination is still pending.
ETA: Reports are he’s still being paid his monthly salary, which means he’s not formally terminated. Most formal terminations, even ones that come with a prolonged buyout, include a lump sum up front and then installments that are agreed upon after termination.
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:29 pm to RB10
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It would be the most Louisiana thing ever for Woodward to “fire” Kelly only for him not to be officially fired until 2+ weeks later.
It actually makes sense as you would not want to lose any negotiating chips while negotiating a large buyout like that.
Hence Kelly’s maneuvers.
He knows that there may be something. Litigating it in the long term would be costly. He’s trying to keep it under wraps AND win the negotiations in one fell swoop
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:30 pm to deathvalleytiger10
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Good luck with that when your AD releases a statement saying they have let him go, with the boards blessing and then the Board held a press conference to discuss it.
The tweet announced a leadership change for LSU football.
I’m not sure if Scott’s wording but I would venture it is something similar.
He may have been “released of his duties as LSUs football coach” but still an lsu employee
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 5:31 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:34 pm to deathvalleytiger10
The contract says notice can be provided at any time before the end of the contract. The other clauses reference 7 days from the notice. The clock starts on the notice, not BKs email.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:36 pm to RB10
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ETA: Reports are he’s still being paid his monthly salary, which means he’s not formally terminated. Most formal terminations, even ones that come with a prolonged buyout, include a lump sum up front and then installments that are agreed upon after termination.
What?? He’s still getting his monthly salary bc that what it says he’s entitled to in his contract following termination.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:37 pm to bayouboo
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. The other clauses reference 7 days from the notice. The clock starts on the notice, not BKs email.
He was sending the email to have a paper trail.
LSU has not issued the notice. Kelly sent the email to have a paper trail of him having been verbally terminated by Woodward in attempts to start the 7 day clock.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:38 pm to Adam Banks
He found out no other team wants him.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:38 pm to Adam Banks
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It's really hard to take a position that you didn't fire someone when you literally announced to the world that you fired him.
The contract says the termination date shall be the date that the notice of termination is given. It doesn't describe what this notice of termination must entail...I think that any lawyer should be able to make that argument that Brian Kelly was terminated by LSU. LSU announced his termination. Media reports everywhere detailed his termination. An interim coach was appointed. Nothing LSU did suggested that this was misunderstood.
What you are describing about backdating the termination date is not really something that needs to be done. It is not debatable that LSU either terminated Brian Kelly on October 26th, or it acted like it terminated him, and all actions that occurred afterwards were consistent with that supposed termination.
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And LSU maintains he has not been formally fired yet so cause is on the table.
He is trying to backdate the official termination date so that LSU doesn’t have the negotiation chip of a “cause” firing
It's really hard to take a position that you didn't fire someone when you literally announced to the world that you fired him.
The contract says the termination date shall be the date that the notice of termination is given. It doesn't describe what this notice of termination must entail...I think that any lawyer should be able to make that argument that Brian Kelly was terminated by LSU. LSU announced his termination. Media reports everywhere detailed his termination. An interim coach was appointed. Nothing LSU did suggested that this was misunderstood.
What you are describing about backdating the termination date is not really something that needs to be done. It is not debatable that LSU either terminated Brian Kelly on October 26th, or it acted like it terminated him, and all actions that occurred afterwards were consistent with that supposed termination.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:38 pm to Adam Banks
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This post was edited on 11/12/25 at 8:15 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:38 pm to Adam Banks
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He may have been “released of his duties as LSUs football coach” but still an lsu employee
Which means he was terminated as head coach and thus entitled to the remainder of his contract terms per the termination section.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:45 pm to DrEdgeLSU
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The contract says the termination date shall be the date that the notice of termination is given.
Contract says “written notice”.
This post was edited on 11/11/25 at 5:47 pm
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:45 pm to Adam Banks
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He was sending the email to have a paper trail.
LSU has not issued the notice. Kelly sent the email to have a paper trail of him having been verbally terminated by Woodward in attempts to start the 7 day clock.
STOP. It is so painfully obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. The 7 day clock is the period set forth in the contract for the employer (LSU) to give the employee (Kelly) time to address a potential fireable issue.
LSU terminated Brian Kelly. It announced to everyone that it did.
To terminate the contract for cause, the following needed to happen before Kelly was terminated:
- LSU needed to give notice to Kelly that he was acting in a way that could get him fired for cause and give him 7 days to correct it (cure period).
- After that 7 days, LSU would then have to give notice of its intention to terminate with its evidence laid out.
- After that, Kelly would have 7 days to respond.
- The AD would then give its decision.
- Within 7 days of that decision, Kelly could then appeal to the President, who then has 14 days to render a final decision.
If all of this happened, then it would have to at the earliest started 5 weeks before October 26th, and it would have all been very public.
The email Kelly sent had literally nothing to do with the clock.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:46 pm to bayouboo
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Contact says “written notice”.
Does an article posted on their website stating they have separated with Brian Kelly count as written notice of termination?
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:48 pm to Adam Banks
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The tweet announced a leadership change for LSU football.
I’m not sure if Scott’s wording but I would venture it is something similar.
He may have been “released of his duties as LSUs football coach” but still an lsu employee
The article leads with "LSU Athletics has made the decision to separate with football head coach Brian Kelly effective immediately, Director of Athletics Scott Woodward announced Sunday."
It's hard to interpret this as anything other than Brian Kelly is no longer affiliated with LSU Athletics.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:53 pm to mdomingue
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Man, you post some stupid stuff.
I thought it was just me, mingy.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:54 pm to Adam Banks
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He sends an email to wanting to start negotiations on a lump sum trying to start the 7 day timer. He negotiates in bad faith to get past the “cure period” then exits negotiations and sues.
The 7-day period is his opportunity to “cure” the issue behind the for-cause firing. The end of that 7-day period means LSU can move forward with the firing him.
So basically you’re saying he intentionally ran out the clock on his own opportunity to get out of being fired for cause.
Y’all come up with some off the wall shite.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:54 pm to RB10
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Did they formally fire him or inform him of his pending termination and put him on administrative leave until the details were sorted out?
in the public press release they said
“LSU Athletics has made the decision to separate with football head coach Brian Kelly effective immediately”
that statement was released in Oct 27.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:55 pm to MikeBRLA
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What?? He’s still getting his monthly salary bc that what it says he’s entitled to in his contract following termination.
That’s not his salary that would be his buyout agreement. Nothing says that’s been settled yet.
Posted on 11/11/25 at 5:56 pm to DrEdgeLSU
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STOP. It is so painfully obvious you have no idea what you are talking about. The 7 day clock is the period set forth in the contract for the employer (LSU) to give the employee (Kelly) time to address a potential fireable issue.
No shite.
LSU maintains that they have not issued the written termination.
That is the entire argument.
Hence Kelly trying to start a paper trail.
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It announced to everyone that it did.
The contract says written notice.
If LSU had emailed this I guarantee some media would have found it in FOIA requests
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