Brian Kelly Buyout: How Much Lsu Owes Head Football Coach After Firing Him

LSU is reportedly set to occurrence caput shot coach Brian Kelly aft nan team's 3rd nonaccomplishment successful 4 games. A 49-25 drubbing astatine nan hands of Texas A&M was nan past straw for nan school, arsenic it has reportedly decided to portion ways pinch nan 64-year-old caput coach successful nan mediate of his 4th play successful Baton Rouge. Getting free of Kelly mightiness beryllium nan correct move, but it won't beryllium cheap.

Kelly's statement contains an tremendous $54 cardinal buyout, which would beryllium nan second-largest successful nan history of assemblage football. Penn State paid James Franklin astir $50 million to locomotion distant a fewer weeks ago, and LSU is now outdoing nan Nittany Lions. Ironically, nan nonaccomplishment to Texas A&M is what did Kelly in, and nan Aggies presently clasp nan grounds for nan highest buyout of all-time pinch nan $77 cardinal they owed Jimbo Fisher aft firing him successful 2023.

LSU began nan play classed No. 9 and hit No. 4 Clemson 17–10 successful its opener. That sewage nan Tigers classed No. 3, and they hit Louisiana Tech, Florida, and Southeast Louisiana to commencement 4–0. That's erstwhile nan wheels fell off.

Ole Miss took nan Tigers down 24–19, past aft a bye, they underperformed successful a 20–10 triumph complete South Carolina. Back-to-back losses to Vanderbilt and Texas A&M followed and LSU was abruptly 5-3 and 2-3 successful nan SEC.

Kelly arrived successful Baton Rouge to overmuch fanfare aft bolting from Notre Dame for a 10-year, $95 cardinal contract. He had a successful 12-year tally pinch nan Fighting Irish earlier leaving for nan LSU job. Now his tenure pinch nan Tigers is complete successful nan mediate of his 4th season.

LSU ne'er genuinely sewage things going connected Kelly's watch. They vanished 10-4 successful 2022, past went 10-3 successful 2023, earlier going a disappointing 9-4 past season. The 5-3 commencement to nan 2025 run was capable for nan schoolhouse to propulsion successful nan towel. Kelly went 34-14 pinch nan Tigers, and a disappointing 19-10 successful nan SEC.

The schoolhouse will now move its attraction to nan early pinch a crowded coaching market. Penn State, Florida, Oklahoma State, UCLA, Virginia Tech, and Arkansas are among nan schools pinch unfastened caput coaching jobs. Competition to lure nan champion candidates will beryllium fierce.

On apical of those concerns, LSU besides has to vessel Kelly a boatload of money aft buying him out.

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