BATON ROUGE, La. - Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday repeated his claim that Louisiana taxpayers will foot the bill as LSU pays off fired football coach Brian Kelly despite the

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has made his share of headlines, too. Now, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey has been asked about it the governor’s part in it all. “Well, that’s really up to governors,” Sankey joked prior to the Oklahoma-Tennessee game.

In a pair of interviews on sports talk shows Thursday, Gov. Jeff Landry clearly said he would not pick the replacement for fired LSU head football coach Brian Kelly — but continued to criticize Athletic Director Scott Woodward.

After Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s comments about LSU athletics director Scott Woodward, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp threw some shade. He posted a “Kirby Smart appreciation tweet” on X afterward. Landry received a question about whether Woodward would pick the next LSU head coach after the firing of Brian Kelly and made it abundantly clear he should

“Coach Kelly gave me an opportunity to come here,” Freeman said, via Mike Beradino of the South Bend Tribune. “I’m always rooting for him. But it’s also the profession we’ve chosen. We know that can be a result of choosing this profession.” Freeman said he hated to see Kelly lose his job, knowing that it would affect families and players.