As LSU collapsed in the second half of a blowout home loss to Texas A&M and fans poured out of Tiger Stadium last weekend, longtime athletic official Verge Ausberry looked at the sideline and into the stands. Not much time had passed since LSU held a halftime lead, and now the stadium was being taken over by opposing fans.

“I saw empty seats, empty suites,” Ausberry said. “I saw our stadium, Tiger Stadium, halfway empty. That’s not a good thing. Woody Hayes always said the worst word in the dictionary is apathy. This program cannot have apathy in no way or means. We have to win. We have to be successful.”

In the week since that 49-25 defeat, LSU’s athletic department has been thrown into unprecedented turmoil . Head coach Brian Kelly was fired the day after the loss, and athletic

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