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Kelly out at LSU?

305wave said:
I can see him back in the northeast, at a big ten school is his element. Maybe a Penn State, or Wisconsin
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I don’t think he’s coaching again. He is 64. He’s getting a ton of money, and though I think he could get a job if he wants one. I don’t know if he’s gonna do it. I think part of the problem is he’s not really interested in the business side of doing what a college football coach needs to do in 2025, he barely liked recruiting five years ago.
 
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TboneJones said:
Woodward didn’t make this move. The governor, the board of trustees and big boosters did this. Woodward is being kept away from a decision making role in this firing and hiring.
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I know — I’m responding to the fact that Scott Woodward made the Jimbo Fisher hire at A&M and the Kelly hire at LSU. Two colossal failures.
 
One9 said:


LSU UPDATE at 5 p.m. CT on Sunday: Entering the day, the expectation was that LSU head coach Brian Kelly was going to make significant staff changes on the offensive side of the ball after Saturday night’s embarrassing loss in Death Valley to Texas A&M. But by noon CT, it appeared those plans were no longer on track with Kelly leaving the facility shortly after.

Conversations with LSU administrators, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry and Kelly’s camp are ongoing as of Sunday night. Players were given Sunday and Monday off due to the bye week ahead of Alabama; no players’ meeting has been added to the schedule. Sources told On3 that position coaches who chose to go into the facility today were sent home. As one source described it, the facility is a “ghost town.” Kelly’s status has been described as “in limbo” and “in flux.”

At this point, it is unclear if Kelly is willing to negotiate a buyout. He’s currently set to be paid out north of $53 million with six years remaining on his contract. Another complication in this situation is that LSU is without a sitting president. Sources have said the hope is to make the hire by late November.
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1. I can stop hatewatching LSU. Thank god, because now I can appreciate WRU fully again. (Yeah, I said it. Cry about it.)

2. If any team decides to hire Brian Kelly, **** them. **** all of their students, recruits, commits, players, coaches, assistant coaches, graduate assistants and their cheerleaders. On a long list of HCs that shouldn't be hired, Brian Kelly tops Bobby Petrino by a significant margin.

3. **** Brian Kelly. I hope he slips in his shower and breaks a bone in his back making him completely incapable of moving another muscle in his body ever again.
 
Bender said:
1. I can stop hatewatching LSU. Thank god, because now I can appreciate WRU fully again. (Yeah, I said it. Cry about it.)

2. If any team decides to hire Brian Kelly, **** them. **** all of their students, recruits, commits, players, coaches, assistant coaches, graduate assistants and their cheerleaders. On a long list of HCs that shouldn't be hired, Brian Kelly tops Bobby Petrino by a significant margin.

3. **** Brian Kelly. I hope he slips in his shower and breaks a bone in his back making him completely incapable of moving another muscle in his body ever again.
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That's alot of Germanic hate for the Irish.

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Some of the school’s most prominent donors, key university board members and athletic officials — even political figures — met over the course of several hours Sunday about the issue and are still haggling over the coaches' $53 million buyout with his representatives (they haven’t reached a resolution). It’s a whopping figure for a state and school devoid of the resources of, say, Texas or Texas A&M. But it’s not an impossible price tag.

On Sunday evening, sometime just before 7 p.m. CT and after a meeting at the Louisiana governor’s mansion (yes, the governor’s mansion), decision-makers pulled the plug on the Brian Kelly Experiment.

As most things go in south Louisiana, politics is involved. The decision to fire Kelly extended to the state's top elected official, Jeff Landry, a brash first-term Republican who, you should know, tweeted this on Saturday night after Texas A&M bludgeoned LSU in Tiger Stadium, 49-25.

More importantly, though, Landry has significant influence over the university’s highest decision-making group: the 14-member LSU Board of Supervisors (Landry has appointed six of them and he’s due to appoint four more next year when their terms expire).

Making matters more complicated is the fact that LSU is searching for a permanent university president. The school announced five finalists earlier this week, and a decision is expected soon — a move that rests mostly with Landry and the board itself.

“It’s the most Louisiana thing ever that the governor is directly involved in a decision over a football coach,” said one LSU influencer.

At the heart of the issue is money, of course. While the buyout figure is lofty, the roughly $53 million owed to Kelly (90% of his remaining salary) is reduced by his future work in coaching as well as media. No lump sum is required. It can be paid in monthly installments (about $800,000 a month) over several years.

Kelly has expressed to those at LSU and elsewhere that he wants to coach again — a move that could drastically reduce the buyout or potentially result in a negotiated lump payment

LSU football is a power unlike anything else in the state, perhaps the single most influential and powerful entity across the boot of Louisiana. More than the NFL’s New Orleans Saints, yes. And the seafood industry even. The oil rigs too.
Meanwhile, above them in those suites, high-level political figures and executives were passing around the proverbial church basket: How much would you commit to the buyout?

“Apathy is second to this program,” said one LSU powerbroker Sunday. “What happened Saturday night cannot happen.”
As one person quipped Sunday, “This is the age of outrage. There is no more patience.”
the amount of cash needed to pay Kelly, the current staff and a new head coach and staff. That figure may exceed $100 million.

“I don’t know where this money comes from,” one LSU official said.

Rebutted another: “You can always find the money.”
 
UF is now considered the third best job available, wow.
Crazy too because two of their likely candidates are at schools with CFP possibilities in USF and GT.
I can’t wait to see what happens there, it’s a **** of a predicament.
Their fans are going to go postal if they do t hit on a “name” guy.
 
Poor Gators. Their luck is trash.

The Board of Trustees in Gainesville and the Bull Gator Politicians and Businessmen can console themselves with this: at least they ain't Noles.
 
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On the heels of LSU’s third loss in four games, the sources said Woodward wanted Kelly to make staff changes, including firing offensive coordinator Joe Sloan, to try to fix an offense that ranks last in the SEC in rushing yards per game. However, when Kelly and Woodward met Sunday afternoon, things got very tense. After Woodward told the head coach to fire his play caller, Kelly fired back that he wanted to make other staff moves Woodward wasn’t comfortable with. The situation then escalated, with the head coach pushing back hard against his boss.

Threats about negotiating a settlement of Kelly’s $53 million buyout came up, but whether the LSU Board of Supervisors would give Woodward the authority to do that was another matter that needed to be sorted out. Kelly’s contract would give LSU some relief if he gets another coaching job and does not include a huge lump-sum payout.
 
So many big jobs open/going to be open. I feel like there is no way there isnt 1-2 "surprises." One of these schools is going to swing for the fences and change someones mind who claims they are leaving. But it would be hilarious is Kiffin isnt one of them.

But Oklahoma def is on watch...which is probably Huepel and then Tenn is looking, If Texas loses 1-2 more he will def be looking, FSU finds a way, Auburn, Michigan stumbles,

Could be a crazy end to the year and on top of us just needing to keep winning to make the post season it could be a chaotic stretch run for recruiting if any of those school drag their feet or miss on their hire.
 
QuattroCane said:
UF is now considered the third best job available, wow.
Crazy too because two of their likely candidates are at schools with CFP possibilities in USF and GT.
I can’t wait to see what happens there, it’s a **** of a predicament.
Their fans are going to go postal if they do t hit on a “name” guy.
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USF is prolly out of CFP contention.
 
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