Another powerhouse college football program whose high expectations have gone awry has decided to fire its coach — and dole out potentially north of $50 million to make him go away.
LSU has fired Brian Kelly midway through his fourth season after the Tigers, who harbored preseason ambitions of a deep College Football Playoff run, fell to 5-3, according to multiple reports. The university has not confirmed the firing.
The firing has turned what looked like perhaps an outlier event — firing a head coach despite the pain of a massive buyout — into a trend. Only two weeks after Penn State decided that reaching last season’s playoff semifinal, let alone the deterrent of a nearly $50 million buyout, wasn’t enough to keep it from firing coach James Franklin, LSU could be on the hook for around $54 million to fire Kelly.
If paid in full, it would mark the second-largest buyout in college football history. The ultimate payout, however, could be much lower. Just like the terms of Franklin’s buyout at Penn State, what LSU owes Kelly can be reduced by the amount of any “football-related employment” he earns in the future, according to The Advocate.
With the win over LSU, Texas A&M improved to 8-0 and in the process showed exactly why wealthy schools unhappy with their progress but facing the pain of an expensive buyout may be willing to eat the cost that in the past might have been prohibitive. Two years after firing Jimbo Fisher and triggering a record $77 million buyout, the Aggies are among the best teams in college football under new coach Mike Elko.
The loss to Texas A&M even sparked commentary from Louisiana governor Jeff Landry, who posted on X late Saturday that he thought LSU and its Board of Supervisors “needs to rethink their actions to raise ticket prices for next year after tonight’s showing!”
The job at LSU comes with unique pressure, and with it, an unusually brief grace period, because all three of Kelly’s predecessors had won a college football national championship. His shock hiring in 2022, when he was pried away from Notre Dame after 12 seasons and a .739 winning percentage by LSU’s 10-year, $95 million contract, was intended to keep LSU in the national-title race. With the advent of the 12-team playoff in 2024, the margin of error allowed to still make the playoff has never been greater.
Yet Kelly, whose career .725 winning percentage is third-best among all active coaches, finishes with a 34-14 record in Baton Rouge, including a pair of 10-win seasons. LSU missed the first 12-team playoff last season, and appeared no longer on course after Saturday’s loss to Texas A&M. After starting 4-0 and rising as high as third in the Associated Press Poll, Kelly’s team had lost three of its last four games, with all three losses coming against ranked teams.
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