"LSU currently does not have a president, an athletic director or a head football coach. Louisiana does have a governor, Jeff Landry, who essentially fired the latter two and, having apparently solved all the issues facing the people of his state, is spending his time lording over the athletic department. That's a task that always seems easy, whether from an internet message board or a Tiger Stadium bleacher."
"Landry initially said the job of hiring a new coach would fall to a subcommittee set up by the school's 17-member Board of Supervisors. After days of criticism, interim athletic director Verge Ausberry said Friday that a search committee was set up but that he had been given full authority to hire "the best football coach there is." Well, unless Landry empowers President Trump to make the selection."
""He loves winners, you know?" Landry said back on Wednesday. Landry was joking. We think. Really, who can tell? After all, having a sitting president with no actual ties to a university selecting the football coach makes about as much sense as choosing one via bureaucratic committee. (Who would Trump choose? Tommy Tuberville? Herschel Walker? Another job for Marco Rubio?)"
LSU lacks a president, an athletic director and a head football coach while Governor Jeff Landry has asserted control over the athletic department and effectively removed the latter two. Landry said the hiring would involve a Board of Supervisors subcommittee, but interim athletic director Verge Ausberry later said a search committee exists and that he has full authority to hire "the best football coach there is." Landry's public comments and jokes about outside figures drawing into the process prompted criticism and the label "total clown show" from at least one rival athletic director. Political involvement could deter top candidates and complicate the search amid fan unrest after a humiliating loss and doubts about current coaching.
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