Even Joseph Goodman Says LSU Has Been Hijacked by the Governor

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Kiffin is an irritant, but this latest meeting of SEC presidents and chancellors is about more than the problems being created by the SEC’s insufferable showman. The heart of the problem is LSU athletics being used as a political chess piece by Louisiana governor Jeff Landry.

If Sankey really wanted to pick a fight, then he would tell Landry to stick to backwater Louisiana politics and leave the SEC alone.

Landry has hijacked LSU’s athletic department for political gain. First, he used his power to remove athletics director Scott Woodward and hire a lackey. Landry then stole Kiffin from rival Ole Miss and next brought back fired basketball coach Will Wade.

Landry backed Kiffin’s move to add NFL players, too.

“Calling them ‘NFL players’ is at best disingenuous, and at worst intentionally deceptive,” Landry wrote on social media. “They are not professional football players circling back after years in the NFL. They are college players who were told, by the NCAA, that they were done.

“So they took the only door that was open — only to watch the NCAA change the lock behind them.”

Landry’s political posturing might be disgusting, but public malfeasance is one of the trapdoors of inherently corrupt college football. There’s always going to be a new way to rig this broken system.

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