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Inside Brian Kelly's messy firing at LSU: How it all unraveled so quickly in Baton Rouge
Yahoo Sports ^ | October 26, 2025 | Ross Dellenger

Posted on 10/27/2025 4:30:06 AM PDT by C19fan

Down on the bayou, they’ve got a sayin'.

C’est tout!

It’s pronounced SAY-too and it’s Cajun French for, “That’s all.”

And that is all. For Brian Kelly.

Sunday was a busy day in Baton Rouge. Meetings. Phone calls. Zooms. Even a drafted resolution for a multi-million-dollar buyout for the school’s 64-year-old, fourth-year head coach.

Shall I put it in south Louisiana terms? With the arrival of gumbo weather, things got quite spicy on the bayou (I’ll see myself out).

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The LSU AD, Scott Woodward, had the same job at Texas A&M and hired Jimbo Fisher. His poor hiring decisions cost their schools at least a combined $120 MM.
1 posted on 10/27/2025 4:30:06 AM PDT by C19fan
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Told y’all last week this was gonna happen. I KNOW these people around Baton Rouge and South Louisiana. They only EXIST for LSU football.

I have kinfolks down there that I’ve been around all my life. Let them get a half-dozen or more bottles of beer in them, they begin to show flecks of foam around the mouth.

And they all know how to coach football.


2 posted on 10/27/2025 4:38:04 AM PDT by abb
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And I agree, it’s Scott Woodward’s fault. He needs to go, and whoever hired him.

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/sports/lsu/lsu-fires-coach-brian-kelly-eight-games-into-fourth-season-with-tigers/article_7441623b-10db-5e51-9e05-ecca409dd86d.html

“But even during the loss to Texas A&M the night before, conversations between LSU officials, members of the LSU board of supervisors, prominent donors and political figures took place about Kelly’s future with the program.

They continued into Sunday, culminating with a meeting at the Governor’s mansion. Landry, who appoints the LSU board of supervisors, was heavily involved in the talks about Kelly, sources said, without a new full-time school president in place.”


3 posted on 10/27/2025 4:42:22 AM PDT by abb
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To: C19fan

4 posted on 10/27/2025 4:43:57 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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>> Landry, who appoints the LSU board of supervisors, was heavily involved in the talks about Kelly, sources said

Nothing says “Louisiana” like the Guvnor hisself elbow deep in head coach hiring decision meetings AT HIS MANSION. Gotta love those coonasses!


5 posted on 10/27/2025 4:47:09 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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Don’t think for a minute that some of the Big Money folks weren’t trying to get on the phone.


6 posted on 10/27/2025 4:49:52 AM PDT by abb
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To: abb

with Trump.


7 posted on 10/27/2025 4:50:35 AM PDT by abb
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>> Don’t think for a minute that some of the Big Money folks weren’t trying to get on the phone.

Big $$$$ in COLLEGE Sportball??!? Say it ain’t so! :-)


8 posted on 10/27/2025 5:01:11 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: C19fan

Good news. Just found out.

The man is vastly overrated. Just listen to him talking about a his team and how to play — all cliches. Things you would say to try to motivate a junior high team.


9 posted on 10/27/2025 5:12:54 AM PDT by odawg
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Meanwhile, Jim Mora is still at UConn...


10 posted on 10/27/2025 5:17:00 AM PDT by DeplorableTrumpSupporter (FKA ConservaTeen)
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Kellys’ a yankee....his fate was sealed before he ever set foot on campus.......hell, I was surprised they even hired him at all for that reason alone.
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And if your not a Southerner, you may not understand all that.


11 posted on 10/27/2025 5:21:05 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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Maybe they’re making room to scoop up Billy Napier.......after all.....he is a hot commodity. 🤣


12 posted on 10/27/2025 5:23:10 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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Yes and those Aggies are paying Jimbo Fisher $27,000 a day for 8 years.

That's insane.

13 posted on 10/27/2025 5:25:40 AM PDT by Licensed-To-Carry (John 14:6 Romans 10:9 Hebrews 9:27)
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How long will former New England Coach Bill Belichick last at UNC Chapel Hill?

He is 2-5 as I write this.

Both Belichick wins were against weak conference teams.

Last week, Belichick almost beat #15 Virginia (7-1).

Virginia, however, has beat (and lost to) eight currently un-ranked teams.

Belichick needs to have a transformational season in 2026, or he will be unemployed in 2027.

14 posted on 10/27/2025 5:38:08 AM PDT by zeestephen (Trump Landslide? Kamala lost the election by 230,000 votes, in WI, MI, and PA.)
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Napier will be back coaching the Ragin’ Cajuns next year.


15 posted on 10/27/2025 5:39:38 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: C19fan

Mid-season head coach openings now at Penn State, Florida and LSU that I know of. Where can these big football schools find their next national championship coaches?


16 posted on 10/27/2025 5:42:15 AM PDT by Will88 (The only people opposing voter ID are those benefiting from voter fraud.)
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I wouldn’t let that knucklehead cut my lawn


17 posted on 10/27/2025 5:42:33 AM PDT by V_TWIN (RIP Charlie Kirk)
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LSU’s favorite cajun—Ed Orgeron—(1 of 2 to win nattys) wants to coach again. AD Woodward fired him not long after the nat title...will there be calls to bring him back ? And might Woodward be overruled or fired ?

Might depend upon which supervisors wife Ed was diddling, iirc.


18 posted on 10/27/2025 5:51:02 AM PDT by chiller ( Davy Crockett said:"Be sure you're right, then go ahead." I'll go ahead.)
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I keep wondering the same thing myself.


19 posted on 10/27/2025 6:02:23 AM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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No, not never to O coming back to LSU. He and his ex are still fighting over the division of his payoff.

https://www.wbrz.com/news/former-lsu-coach-ed-orgeron-s-attempt-to-rehear-8-million-divorce-ruling-denied-by-la-supreme-court/

Former LSU coach Ed Orgeron’s attempt to rehear $8 million divorce ruling denied by La. Supreme Court

And Woodard needs to be fired yesterday. And whoever hired him.


20 posted on 10/27/2025 6:03:08 AM PDT by abb
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