National ridicule.

That’s what LSU and Louisiana was subjected to in the wake of the Brian Kelly firing. Not because of Kelly’s firing, but because of the chaos that ensued.

The governor made inflammatory statements. LSU’s new president cast doubt as to whether the new athletic director was in fact going to be the AD moving forward. Then, as things seemed to be calming down, the school announced that it was trying to fire Kelly for cause, thus trying to nullify his enormous buyout.

Pundits and message board posters from coast to coast laughed at the Louisiana way of doing things and opined that LSU would never be able to land a top-shelf coach. What high-powered candidate would want to subject themselves to such meddling and uncertainty?

That observation may have been a correct one at

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