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Wade Rousse has been named the new university president at LSU amid major changes in the athletic department.

The new university president will be involved in the search for LSU's next head football coach.

Rousse said he is aligned with the governor's desire for incentive-based contracts for future coaches.

BATON ROUGE — One of the buzz words surrounding an LSU athletics department in flux has been "alignment."

After months of deliberation, one of the big dominos regarding the two full-time openings of the two most important positions within the school's athletic department, head football coach and athletics director, fell. The LSU Board of Supervisors named Wade Rousse as the university president at a meeting Tuesday.

In recent days, Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry

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