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).
(Excerpt) Read more at sports.yahoo.com ...
I believe Orgeron was let go after some photos emerged of him and some young woman. I might be wrong.
Say what?
‘He lost track of who he was’: Inside Ed Orgeron’s fall from celebrated son of Louisiana to LSU coaching pariah
by Brody Miller
Oct. 17, 2021Updated May 16, 2022
Approximately $26,300 per dayTexas A&M’s $77.5 million buyout for firing Jimbo Fisher on November 12, 2023, is structured as a $19.4 million lump sum within 60 days, followed by eight annual payments of about $7.3 million each through 2031. Spreading the total over the roughly 8-year payment period (about 2,922 days) yields an average of roughly $26,500 daily.
espn.com
Some reports approximate it at $26,301 per day using a rounded $76 million figure.
Separation of school and sports.
Oh I agree. That AD should have to pack Kelly’s bags and leave with him.
I’m in the wrong business
Urban Meyer says Jeff Landry’s reported role in Brian Kelly firing is ‘alarm’ for LSU candidates
Mystery Surrounds The Private Louisiana Donor Who Is Paying For Most Of Brian Kelly’s Staggering $53 Million Buyout After His Firing
October 28, 2025, 10:38am EST
By Darrelle Lincoln
According to a report from Travers Mackel at WDSU, LSU Board of Supervisors Chairman Scott Ballard has confirmed that the buyout for Kelly’s contract will come from self-generated athletic funds and private donors.
Sources further added that one major private donor is reportedly covering the bulk of the buyout.
https://www.wdsu.com/article/lsu-brian-kelly-buyout-one-donor-no-state-funds/69170141
LSU board chairman confirms Brian Kelly’s buyout won’t affect state funds
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