BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As LSU interim athletic director Verge Ausberry sat between two members of the LSU Board of Supervisors who'd been appointed by Gov. Jeff Landry, he sought to assure Tigers fans that the abrupt departure of previous athletic director Scott Woodward was not a sign of dysfunction.

“We have championship coaches here. This place is not broken,” Ausberry said Friday in a meeting room inside 102,000-seat Tiger Stadium. “The athletic department is not broken. We win.”

A night earlier, one of those championship coaches, women's basketball coach Kim Mulkey, declined to attend a press conference after an exhibition game because she was “heartbroken” over Woodward's departure, said assistant coach Bob Starkey, who spoke in her place.

Woodward stepped down on Thursday night,

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