I've been wondering how/why it is that LSU and Brian Kelly "continue to negotiate" his buyout. Maybe our resident lawyers could comment on standard fare that would affect that, because it seems like it would be fairly cut and dry in any decent contract.
Gig'em mentioned a few days ago that LSU could be trying to escape max. payment due to a Morals Code clause or something like that, which raised my eyebrows.
Then I started hearing rumors--completely unsubstantiated, fwiw--that Kelly and Woodward share the same agent (we knew that), and that money may have exchanged hands inappropriately through that channel, which purportedly would explain Woodward trying to force a bad fit. That theory would need to overcome two decently strong pieces of counter-evidence, but I won't go into them here.
I doubt LSU would ever admit it publicly, even if true, but it does sound like the kind of thing they'd hammer behind the scenes or make up in order to not piss off the Raising Cane's guy as they show up on his doorstep again begging for him to foot the buyout bill.
There's also Kelly's odd divorce filing from a couple years ago, and the more substantiated rumors that he fooled around on his wife (so, that's like, 4 coaches in a row now for us, supposedly?)
Those things, of course, would only be an issue when he didn't win enough and when trying to pay less money. Not that they actually care about any of it, objectively.
It's all just gross and tainted. Maybe the straw that broke the camel's back. I've had a hard time maintaining interest in my team in recent years with the NIL and portal stuff. It's not even the NFL, it's far worse than the NFL. And the NFL sucks. I really don't care about the coaching hire because whoever they get is unlikely to be significantly better than what we had, and even if they found a legit banger who won multiple NCs, I just don't care like I used to.
