BATON ROUGE – Gov. Jeff Landry blasted LSU’s athletic leadership for negotiating an overly generous contract for the head football coach whom LSU fired on Sunday.

The governor expressed his frustration over a range of bad decisions by LSU Athletics but singled out the Athletics Director Scott Woodward for the eye-popping contract that brought Brian Kelly to LSU from Notre Dame in 2021. The contract was for nearly $100 million over 10 years of which Kelly coached less than four years.

“I can tell you right now, Scott is not selecting the next coach. Hell, I’ll let Donald Trump select the next coach before I let him do it,” Landry said.

He later said “we are going to make sure the next coach is successful because I am tired of rewarding failure in this country, and leaving taxpayers to pa

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