BATON ROUGE, La. —

The chairman of the LSU Board of Supervisors is clearing the air about how former LSU head coach Brian Kelly's contract was bought out following news of his termination Sunday night.

Scott Ballard, chairman of the LSU Board of Supervisors, confirmed that Brian Kelly's buyout will be funded by self-generated athletics funds and private donors, ensuring no impact on state education funds. Advertisement

"We are not taking anything here from education or academics or the educational side," Ballard said. "This is purely for athletics, meaning it's not coming from the English department or the French department or the business school or money that would go to scholarships that we are diverting here, no."

Ballard also addressed the involvement of Gov. Jeff Landry, stating

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