"I can tell you right now, Scott Woodward is not selecting the next coach, Landry said at a press conference. Hell, I'll let Donald Trump select before I let him do it! Look, my role is about the fiscal effect of firing a coach under a terrible contract, OK? All I care about is what the taxpayers are going to be on the hook on."
"Three days later, Landry stunned the college sports world when he announced that Woodward would not be in charge of picking the team's next head coach. Instead, Landry insisted, a committee would be created to handle the matter. Landry suggested that allowing the AD to pick the coach would be going down a failed path. The governor felt so strongly that LSU's own AD wasn't fit for the task that he even claimed he'd led the President of the United States do the job instead."
LSU fired head coach Brian Kelly after a 49-25 loss to Texas A&M left the Tigers 5-3. Three days after the firing, Gov. Jeff Landry announced that athletic director Scott Woodward would not select the next head coach and said a committee would handle the decision. Landry characterized Woodward's approach as a failed path and said he'd rather let President Donald Trump select the coach than Woodward. Landry justified the intervention on fiscal grounds, citing the cost of terminating a coach's contract, rising ticket prices during a losing season, and a $100 million coaching contract without desired results.
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