Published: October 29, 2025
By: Kylah Babin, AnnMarie Bedard and Veronica Camenzuli, LSU Manship School News Service
BATON ROUGE – Gov. Jeff Landry blasted LSU’s athletic leadership for negotiating an overly generous contract for the head football coach whom LSU fired on Sunday.
The governor expressed his frustration over a range of bad decisions by LSU Athletics but singled out the Athletics Director Scott Woodward for the eye-popping contract that brought Brian Kelly to LSU from Notre Dame in 2021. The contract was for nearly $100 million over 10 years of which Kelly coached less than four years.
“I can tell you right now, Scott is not selecting the next coach. Hell, I’ll let Donald Trump select the next coach before I let him do it,” Landry said.
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