re: Why can't LSU just let Chavis go?

aTm will end up paying it out rather than having all of the details of this hire made public. Either he left LSU for aTm earlier than he's claiming and owes the money or he committed major recruiting violations by openly recruiting for aTm while still employed by LSU. Either way he's screwed.

As for Chavis as a coach, he was a good coach for LSU, but not quite worth the hype, to be honest. When we hired him all we heard from Tennessee fans was "Third and Chavis". They were right. And without a ball-control offense like he had at LSU that owned TOP and kept his defenses off of the field, I'm very interested to see how he does in College Station.