Former LSU coach Brian Kelly has taken his fake Louisiana accent into a very real Louisiana courthouse.

Via Dan Wetzel of ESPN.com, Kelly filed a lawsuit late Monday night over alleged efforts by the school to short-circuit his $54 million buyout by firing him “for cause.”

As more and more schools rack up more and more millions in ongoing obligations to former coaches, the “for cause” option becomes a tempting strategy for saving money. If nothing else, taking the position that the coach should get nothing sets the stage for a negotiation that would result in him getting less than what he otherwise would be owed.

And that’s clearly what LSU has been doing — trying to get Kelly to take less than $54 million. Absent a viable legal argument that he should get nothing, however, the scho

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