After the most tumultuous week for LSU athletics in virtually anyone’s living memory — firing the football coach and the athletic director back-to-back for the first time since 1955 — LSU seemed to be getting its administrative house in order and the search for football coach Brian Kelly’s replacement into gear.

LSU hired Wade Rousse from McNeese State as its new system president and named James Dalton from Alabama as the new LSU system vice president and Baton Rouge campus chancellor. Good moves, as running the LSU system and its flagship campus is a huge job. Per numerous media reports, LSU also decided to make interim athletic director Verge Ausberry the full-time successor to Scott Woodward.

That all happened Tuesday. By Wednesday, things appeared to change. Note the word “appeared.”

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