""We're going to hire the best football coach there is," Ausberry said in a news conference Friday in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. "That's our job. We are not going to let this program fail. LSU has to be in the playoffs every year in football. There's 12 teams that make it. It's going to expand here. We have to be one of those teams at LSU. No substitute.""
"LSU interim athletic director Verge Ausberry will have full authority to hire the Tigers' next football coach, and he told reporters Friday that a search committee has already been formed to identify Brian Kelly's replacement. Ausberry, a former LSU linebacker who has been connected to the university for more than 30 years, is now leading the athletics department after former athletics director Scott Woodward and the school mutually agreed to part ways Thursday."
Verge Ausberry will serve as LSU interim athletic director with full authority to hire the next football coach and is a member of the search committee. The committee already includes Board of Supervisors chairman Scott Ballard, other board members and donors. Ausberry emphasized that LSU must be a College Football Playoff team annually and insisted the program and athletic department are not broken. Scott Woodward and the school mutually parted ways amid political controversy after comments by Gov. Jeff Landry. Brian Kelly was fired following a home loss that left the team 5-3. The board's presidential selection will not delay the coaching search.
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