You know things have gone off the rails when a college football program needs the governor to step in and take control. Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry reportedly waded into the Tigers’ coaching search, assuring fans that Scott Woodward, the former athletic director, would not be making the next hire. Within days, both Brian Kelly and Woodward were out, leaving the Tigers in an unenviable position of having to find both a new head coach and an athletic director at the same time.

But just before a packed Saturday slate of college football, the conversation took another turn when ESPN’s Ryan Clark, one of LSU’s alumni, shared his vision for how to fix the mess. Clark, who starred for the Tigers in Baton Rouge before his long NFL career, took to X (formerly Twitter) to make his plea. “Keep

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