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Do you dress up for the airport

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I don’t wear pajamas

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Have you been paying any attention to the train wreck at LSU? We would be lucky if Drinkwitz even considered an offer from us.

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You will get downvoted to oblivion but you aren’t wrong.

The longer the BK drama plays out the harder it will be to hire a top flight coach.

Especially is there is the perception (right or wrong) that LSU isn’t honoring its contractual obligations to former coaches

Why?

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If i were lsu, I'd send him a letter asking why he vacated his post without a formal letter of termination.

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I guess this is the main point I’m asking about.

If Woody as AD and BKs boss told him he was fired immediately, then it would seem like it was an LSU frick up and Kelly’s termination was in violation of the contract stipulations.

If your boss tells you that you are fired, get your personal items out of the office and eliminated your access to the building….are you supposed to keep showing up until you get a letter in the mail

Woodward’s actions and public words clearly indicated that Kelly was terminated immediately. If all of that was not in line with the contract, it seems to put LSU and the state in a difficult position to defend.

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Everyone on the board dumps on Franklin but not sure why. Until the 3 losses in a row this year he seemed to have Penn state program built up

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He’s basically a younger Brian Kelly. Wins a lot but loses when it matters. And just like BK, he’s a bit of an a-hole too.

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It’s not a “gotcha”, LSU had been negotiating, Kelly is the one that is trying to play the “gotcha” card by saying he wasn’t terminated, and I don’t have a paper that says with cause so it can’t be for cause.

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Is he wrong? If LSU didn’t notify him of cause, it’s a pretty big legal gamble to try and do it retroactively

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How someone is fired and what and how that happens is spelled out in the contract.

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That’s exactly my point.

The contract describes how the termination process works.

But….

BK and Woodward had a meeting and at the conclusion of that meeting BK was relieved of his duties, lost access to the facility after removing his personal items (allegedly) and there was a press conference announcing that BK was immediately relieved of his duties (i.e. fired).


I am not an employment attorney but if that process violated the contract’s terms that spelled out how the termination process works, that seems to be an LSU problem and helps BK’s side in many ways.

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It's not how coaches are hired at public universities either. They are "hired", "announced", and begin work before the contract situation is finalized

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This may be true, but how someone is fired/terminated is a lot different than how they start the job. Especially when this much money is involved.

If the school is trying to avoid the buyout both parties agreed upon in the contract, they damn well better have everything locked tight when they fire him.

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Do we really want Saban?

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He would do a good job here but he’s 74.

If anything he’s just going to be a bandaid and we will have to hire another coach in 3 years.

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Kelly is trying to bend LSU over a barrel and y’all are cheering him on

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I’m not cheering anyone on here. But if you sign a contract, honor it.

End of discussion.

Maybe information will come out that shows LSU is not doing anything wrong, but based on what has transpired so far it sure as shite looks like they are trying to avoid their legal obligation.

And regardless of your personal feelings about BK, you shouldn’t think that is OK