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ESPN Insider Questions Why Coaches Would Want To Get Involved With LSU's Situation

by Staff Reporter

October 31, 202532 Comments

Gus Stark / LSU Athletics

It's been a wild week around LSU.

Brian Kelly was fired Sunday night, eight games into his fourth season with the Tigers.

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry publicly criticized athletic director Scott Woodward at the state capital on Wednesday and then doubled down on his comments the following day during an appearance on ESPN's Pat McAfee Show.

Fast-forward to Thursday night, and now LSU athletic director Scott Woodward is out, leaving the school without a president, athletic director, or a head football coach.

LSU Board of Supervisors Chair Scott Ballard and board member John Carmouche held a press conference on Friday morning to officially introduce interim LSU Athletics Director Verge Ausberry and discuss the search for a new head coach.

The question is: Will all this drama deter potential candidates from the LSU job?

ESPN College Football Insider Heather Dinich discussed the topic on Friday and questioned who wants to get involved with "this dysfunctional situation?" Per On3:

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“If I’m Lane Kiffin or any other coaching candidate in the country right now, why on God’s green earth would I want to walk into this dysfunctional situation?” Dinich asked. “The only thing more embarrassing than firing your head coach before November and having to pay him $50 million is having your Governor insert himself into this conversation.

“So, when we heard athletic department officials this morning say they’d like to hire a new head coach with ties to the state of Louisiana, that makes perfect sense for many reasons. But most of all, it’s because I don’t know why anyone outside of that state would want to step foot into that department at this time.”

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Nomadic Bengal•2 months

Oh Heather Dinch has an opinion. Thank God she weighed in. We really needed her opinion.
Who is she again, other than some broad ESPN put in front of a camera?

burreauxsballz•2 months

:lol:

Revorising•2 months

Who???

Clayvet•2 months

She’s absolutely correct in this situation if we’re being honest. Total embarrassment if you’re a Tiger right now.

TigerGrad03•2 months

If I’m Lane Kiffin or any other coaching candidate in the country right now, why on God’s green earth would I want to walk into this dysfunctional situation?”

Becasue it's a damn good job and this week's been chaotic, but that's not the norm. Also, they did say that having ties to LA is not a prerequisite for the job.

In the end, LSU will land with a solid coaching hire and this shitshow of a week will be in the rearview mirror.

lsucoonass•2 months

Not anymore

porge7106•2 months

What a surprise the evil leftist empire of sports journalism said something bad about LSU. The governor does suck though and I am a conservative.

Jayjoe•2 months

Dumb take by Dinich. Two undeniable facts about this opening. #1, whoever gets this job will get paid a lot of money. #2, LSU always has a realistic path to a national championship. There are dozens of coaches who would say yes if offered. The governor or any other disfunction, either real or perceived, isn't going to hinder this search.

El Jefe de Tu Mama•2 months

What? A contingency based contract with a meddling governor? Common sense man.

Jayjoe•2 months

I'm not sure if you understand what "real or perceived" means. The point is there are no barriers to someone qualified accepting this position. I could give a damn if there are incentives built into the contract. It's not stopping coaches from really wanting to be here, which is the point HD is trying to make.

Hangover Haven•2 months

Well, It's an elite athletic program, one of the best in the country. ESPN is just making up a bunch of drama... People would kill to be LSU's head football coach..

Datbayoubengal•2 months

Not elite people. Get your thick skull checked.

TKLSUMD•2 months

The answer is money. Now what was the question.

Mike da Tigah•2 months

These are questions fans don’t want to address, yet they’re obvious to anyone else. This is exactly why what Landry said publicly was so I’ll advised. Don’t give people good reasons to say no.

Datbayoubengal•2 months

Yep. We were considered the whiners and "woke" because we thought Landry shouldn't have gotten his egotistical arse up there talking all that shite. And with all the stuff that happened after that, it makes it look even worse.

PlacerCoTiger•2 months

The new coach will likely be on the job longer than the governor. That probably plays into decision making.

HarryHoudini•2 months

ESPN has turned into lifetime

Datbayoubengal•2 months

ESPN has common sense.

porge7106•2 months

The national media can’t stand LSU and never have. They just pretend too. Elitist assholes. F EM!!! Geaux tigers always!!!

Datbayoubengal•2 months

Got nothing to do with it. Gonna call all national media liberals and woke because your dumbass can't tell that Landry was tanking the LSU image?

superwolf•2 months

That same comment she made has been made by 100 people from the media so far & almost are from out of state & attended other schools. None of them want LSU to get a good coach, they should have the balls to say it. In fact tomorrow you will see it repeated perhaps another 100 times again & it won't matter a bit.

Datbayoubengal•2 months

What a dumbass Dininich was one of the very few up until the TAMu loss, that still had us in the playoffs. She believed in this team more than like 90% of the rest of national media. Her saying this shows exactly how bad it has gotten out there. We warned you dumb people who called everybody woke and liberals for using common fricking sense about all of this mess with Landry.

CDawson•2 months

Maybe because it is a top 3-5 job in the country? How about that reason…

McLemore•2 months

Take job. Recruit. Hire assistants. Institute your coaching and leadership philosophies. Win. Don’t be a complete dbag. Unless you win it all. Then we don’t care.

No one is asking the coach to run the school or even the athletic department. Are we afraid Landry is going to handpick the next assistant calf trainer?

Yes LSU is a mess. So what?

TouchdownTony•2 months

She's got a point. After the number of coaches LSU has fired since 2016, the governor getting involved with how athletics are run and Ausberry saying LSU has to be in the playoff EVERY year. Hell yea. you're insane if you think that isn't gonna concern some candidates.

ScootiniTiger•2 months

I expect LSU to be in the play-offs every year now that its 12 teams. Why shouldn't we expect that?

Whodat1•2 months

never heard of Heather Dinich, don't care about her opinion either

Tigers4Lyfe•2 months

Because it's fricking LSU that's why!

Boyntonbeach Tiger•2 months

F that clam

chadr07•2 months

Well as long as people continue to not shutup about it then it’ll never blow away and then we can thank the media as well for continuously harping about it and also costing us a good coaching hire.

Datbayoubengal•2 months

Don't blame the media. Blame Landry.

GeauxTigers1410•2 months

“they’d like to hire a new head coach with ties to the state of Louisiana, that makes perfect sense for many reasons.”

Coach O…. Come on down!