Giantkiller

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So LSU was fine with Kelly's adultery and alcoholism as long as he was winning?

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This whole situation is the most Louisiana thing I've seen LSU do in some time. Luckily for everyone's entertainment purposes, our governor enjoys a little moonlight destroying of our flagship university so isn't that fun?

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Coach O has more integrity than Brian kelly

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Yeah. When you pay them all of the money you owe them, they tend to have more integrity.

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This whole situation is ruining BK way more than LSU

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You think? I think that you had a situation where you fired a coach for performance and everybody on planet earth was well aware of this. Mostly because LSU officially informed them with real, official statements.

Now you want to not pay him and every coach is watching us do this which would make them pause before taking the job.

Brian Kelly was always going to get at least $53 mil. He still will, but now he's going to get more.

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I could be over thinking it but the unregulated part applies to the sale. I’m assuming this is going after corner stores and gas stations selling all kinds of stuff with no oversight.

Thats at least the way it reads to me.

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I believe that was the mask they used to make it the "boogeyman". But in reality, it was always about the THC drinks. Those are the ones that are really scaring big alcohol. They're growing in leaps and bounds. What bothers me though is that a LOT of people who are former addicts could use these in a social setting and it was a legit alternative.

This past year state-wise, they mandated it to only 5mg a can. They then mandated it to being 4 packs at maximum, and finally they made them illegal for bars to sell them unless you were grandfathered in prior to the ban. So you can go to a few bars around town and buy them while your friends drink alcohol. Newer bars were prohibited from selling them.

But no no no, we can't have that. We can't have any of that. You can have as much alcohol as you want though. You can drive drunk too. Sure - you're not supposed to but if you get caught - what's a DWI except money? What's 2 DWI's? Three? Four? Five? Just more money!

It's so fricked up. I'd have loved to see it debated in congress but in the end, the liquor lobby knew they'd lose. So they did it like this. Slipped it into a fricking government funding bill.

It really isn't right. And I think it's striking a chord with a lot of people and hopefully the uproar will continue.

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Will these be going away? Would be a tragedy if so. I don’t think people understand what a game changer these are for alcoholics and people who just want to get off the bottle.

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Yes. They will be going away. And even if you get a medical card, the dispensaries have said it takes up too much inventory space to stock them.

If this law doesn't change somehow before the house votes on them, THC beverages will be completely illegal within the year.

What a fun little thing to slip into a fricking funding bill, eh? How fair does that seem?

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So Kelly’s camp playing the propaganda game on the Rant and Coaching Changes boards.

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Ok so let me get this straight. You think you can fire a coach for performance when you've signed the guy to a $53M buyout? But then later say he wasn't actually fired yet? And that they were now firing him for some morality clause.

You think that this looks appealing to other coaches looking for somewhere else to coach?

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Rick Neuheisel and his partner are fairly roasting us. We are such an embarrassment

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Oh we're gonna take it on the chin big time for this. I hope it's worth it when we end up with Skip Holtz or some shite.

I want what's best for LSU. Firing Kelly was best for LSU. But you have to buy him out. You can't sue him after you fired him and tell him you're now firing him for cause.

We're fricking everything up right now in real time.

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Looks like it passed the Senate. This is going to screw a lot of people.

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And it's really remarkable how quiet it was. I know it's probably really conspiracy theory level shite, but I could see this entire shutdown situation... or at least specifically waiting for something like it - being almost purposely caused in order to slip something like this in. That's how powerful the alcohol lobby is in this country. They're equally as influential as big pharma and the MIC. Bottom line is that people are drinking less. Is it BECAUSE of the THC beverage industry? Maybe. Maybe not. These guys are gonna go ahead and cut them off at the knees though just in case.

There was no way this would have ever passed if it was debated or openly discussed. So to sneak it into a bill that's about funding the fricking government is pretty convenient.

I've been sober for awhile. These legitimately helped me. They helped a lot of people. This whole thing feels very unfair.

Who is in charge of this Mickey Mouse bullshite? Is this more meddling by Landry? What the frick is going on?

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The suit does allege that LSU told Kelly's representatives on Monday that Woodward did not have "the authority to terminate Coach Kelly and/or make settlement offers to him" back in October and thus Kelly was never officially terminated.

The filing pushes back on three points that LSU brought up on the call: "Coach Kelly's representatives informed LSU that Coach Kelly disagreed with each of LSU's new positions, including (i) the idea that he somehow had not been terminated, (ii) that the then-Athletics Director Woodward was not acting with authority (in a meeting attended by several LSU athletics officials, including the current Athletics Director Ausberry), and (iii) that there were any grounds for termination with cause (or that LSU could manufacture any such grounds after his termination), thus necessitating this action."

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This shite is very, very bad. Is he secretly trying to kill LSU football? Because I feel like the entire brand is being publicly destroyed.

We’re going to end up with Frank Wilson as HC. Who the frick else would risk ending their career here if now it looks like you many just not pay them?