Louisiana's governor says AG will review next LSU football coach's contract LUKE BARROctober 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM 0 The governor of Louisiana will have the state's attorney general review the next Louisiana State University (LSU) football head coach's contract after the firing of former coach Brian Kelly, he told ABC News on Thursday. "I'm not involved in picking the next coach, [but] the contract that the next coach gets, I am going to be involved in looking through it," Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said from Baton Rouge.
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LUKE BARROctober 30, 2025 at 11:57 PM
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The governor of Louisiana will have the state's attorney general review the next Louisiana State University (LSU) football head coach's contract after the firing of former coach Brian Kelly, he told ABC News on Thursday.
"I'm not involved in picking the next coach, [but] the contract that the next coach gets, I am going to be involved in looking through it," Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said from Baton Rouge. "I'm going to have the attorney general involved in it to understand what the extent under which the state is ultimately liable."
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Landry caused a stir in the college football universe this week when he had a fiery press conference at the state capitol, decrying the contract that was signed by Kelly, who was fired over the weekend.
Speaking of future contracts, the governor said, "If it's something reasonable that we think that, okay, yeah, we're willing to put the state's money on -- I think that if we put in their metrics, performance-based, where there's no guarantee of $100 million if you have a losing season."
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Kelly was fired after the losses stacked up for the Tigers.
"What this thing has exposed to me is this racket, in my opinion, that's going on with these agents, because these agents have no cap on them on their commissions, they can represent both sides of the equation," the governor added. "Those are all things that lawyers can't do, and as a lawyer, I can understand and appreciate conflicts of interest."
He said he would have "never signed" the contract for Kelly in the first place, given the terms.
"When I realized that the party who went and selected the coach and then negotiated the contract had the same agent, I was like, 'Whoa, no, we're not doing this no more,'" he said.
Landry served as the state's attorney general before being elected governor and said he ultimately got involved because taxpayer money could be involved.
"I did not fire coach Kelly," he said. "I didn't call and say, 'Hey, fire coach Kelly,' there was a discussion as to whether coach Kelly was going to remain in LSU as the head coach or not," he said.
"That discussion got to me because I was concerned about the contract, because if coach Kelly was leaving, there would be a $52 million bill, and somebody would have to pay, and so I wanted to see the contract right. I wanted to find out what the liability was. I wasn't consulted on the contract," the governor added.
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Landry also made clear that LSU's athletic director, Scott Woodward, would not be leading the search for the next coach but said he wouldn't fire him.
"I don't want him involved in picking the next coach," Landry said.
He said he had lawyers "bring" him the contract.
"I had the lawyers over there who poured through the contract," he said. "And ultimately, I realized that the state of Louisiana was the guarantor. So in other words, that meant that the taxpayers could, if, in other words, if we didn't get one person or five people or 10 people to pony up enough money to pay him, then ultimately, we got to take it out of the Treasury, and I was not interested in doing that."
The university still doesn't have donors to pay the over $50 million on Kelly's buyout, and according to Landry, the taxpayers could be on the hook.
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He said college football is a big business. "We're talking about tens of millions, $100 million. And when you think about the average college sports fan who either watches it on TV or gets lucky enough to go into the game, they don't have that kind of money, like the people that fill Tiger Stadium are plant workers, teachers, nurses, truck drivers," he said.
Governor Landry also pushed back on critics who said his involvement in this would deter coaches from wanting to coach the LSU football team.
"I'm going to tell those critics. I don't believe any of that is going to come down to money and contracting," he said. "And one of the greatest jobs in the United States in college sports is coaching the LSU Tigers. That's a fact."
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Published: October 31, 2025 at 01:27AM on Source: VOXI MAG
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