Brian Kelly, former head coach of the Louisiana State Tigers, is seen during warm-ups before the college football game against the Ole Miss Rebels. Kelly was fired earlier this week. Randy J. Williams/Getty Images

The placard attached to the podium read “Protecting the most vulnerable,’’ but on this particular Wednesday Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry took aim at a very specific apex predator: Big-time football.

The governor, who was supposed to be talking about food stamps that are nearing a crisis point due to the government shutdown , instead launched a verbal grenade directed squarely at the Louisiana State University Athletics Administration Building – aimed more specifically at the desk of athletic director Scott Woodward.

Calling out not just the lack of success under football hea

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