Well, it was reported/rumored via Twitter/X, but nothing since.
Sorry, I missed this earlier. Just unsubstantiated stuff from "sauces" nobody has ever heard of. I haven't heard anything from a reputable source, other than LSU and Kelly are continuing to negotiate the buyout. Which does make it sound like they have an escape clause, or think they do, or are just trying to strong-arm the situation.
The rumors are fun and salacious, but that's what rumors are meant to be. Who knows if any of it's true.
It does seem that there is a lot of smoke around the fires of LSU-head coach infidelities. Someone said the other day, "Good grief, is our HC job where marriages go to die? It's taken out the last three coaches." Well, that would be Kelly (unsubstantiated rumors which could EASILY be the state-powers pulling levers to squirm their way out of a bigger buyout, though he did bizarrely file for divorce from his wife a couple years ago, though that seemed to work itself out), Orgeron (kind of obvious, he posted his escapades all over Twitter), and Miles (rumored to have been unfaithful to his wife at some point while at LSU). But it's more than that, because Saban famously supposedly had an affair with Candy Edwards, wife of infamous Once-and-Future governor Edwin Edwards. I don't know how well corroborated that was, but the smoke on that one was everywhere.
Now the governor has declared that the AD will not pick the new coach, and that he would sooner let Donald Trump pick the coach than AD Woodward. There is no permanent university president at the moment, who would typically have more leeway to tell the governor to shut up and let us handle it. Right now he says the BoS will form a search committee which will find a new coach. They all serve at his pleasure of course, as will whoever the new president winds up being, and the AD is probably about to have less friends than he's ever had around there.
I've decided Louisiana's politics interfering with LSU football is far more interesting than LSU football.
