It was the most "Louisiana thing" I've seen in quite sometime. I get it that the Governor appoints the Board, the Board appoints the AD, the AD hires the HC and so on....but it was a complete cluster. I wasn't so sure why they canned him so quickly, either? I get the pressure was immensely there and fans were ready to run him out of town, but you had a little bit of time to get your ducks in a row.
I thought I saw someone did a Present Value calculation of the remaining payout and it would equate to something like 38 million in upfront dollars.
Hey Fork, which email was yours? lol
READ THEM HERE: Scott Woodward’s emails released to I-TEAM, show fans demanding change of football coach
A firestorm of emails began hitting former LSU Athletic Director Scott Woodward’s inbox immediately after LSU lost to Texas A&M last month, according to a trove of documents made public to the WAFB I-TEAM through a public records request.www.wafb.com
Actually more tame than I was expecting
We talking about the same Brian Kelly?
Small thing but because of its location on the Atlantic Ocean, Boston is really more of a sunrise town than sunset. Unless you’re on the Cape or somewhere with water to the west of you, the sun just kind of disappears behind some buildings, perhaps as early as 4:15 in December!
Feels like Florida did this with Napier? He got fired after a win.
This never really made sense to me. Did they genuinely want Kelly to stay but Sloan gone? If Woodward had the authority to fire Sloan, why even ask Kelly to do it? Just fire Sloan and tell Kelly to deal with it or resign.
He's probably concerned Louisiana will run out of money before the term is up.
You know what is better than $25m?
Agreed. LSU is already in a sort of PR dumpster with their governor's heavy hand and off putting quotes, a public spat where they're trying to undercut the guy they just fired won't look good for them.
Yeah, they practically threw a party and then went out and lost to Bama anyway.
What about a little table outside of Hacienda where he passes out buttons that advertises him as the Winningest Coach in Program History?
Buy a quart of Ranch and get a free button
Okay if he was never fired he should just show back up to work then. What are they going to do, fire him?
And they really might have to call back up Ed O to coach them. A coach with other options is going to wonder if it's worth it to go there when the governor has stepped in and said they don't want to give out a big deal with big buyouts anymore, publicly undermined the AD and forced his resignation, fired a coach with a 71% win percentage, and is now trying to fuck said coach out his buyout money.
BK is petty enough to do that, especially if he has no desire to coach anymore.
And if they didn't know that, they truly didn't understand the man they hired. BK is a Masshole who had political aspirations, he's not some bumpkin like Ed O who just wants some beer money to throw around at the hot divorcee's around Baton Rouge.
