BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - One day after drawing national attention for saying he’d “let Donald Trump pick” LSU’s next head coach before Scott Woodward , Gov. Jeff Landry elaborated on what he described as deeper problems in college sports Thursday morning on The Pat McAfee Show .
“A number of bad contracts that seem to have followed Scott Woodward,” Landry said. “His agent and Brian Kelly’s agent are the same agent... That’s called a conflict of interest. How can I trust my athletic director, whose agent also represents some of the candidates that are out there?”
Woodward, who hired Kelly in December 2021, was previously Texas A&M’s athletic director, where Jimbo Fisher’s contract later cost the Aggies more than $70 million in buyout money.
LSU now owes Kelly an estimated $54 milli

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