LSU football’s coaching search imploded because of one politician

LSU is desperate to turn over a new leaf after firing Brian Kelly on Sunday, and while it was important to nail the hire — finding a qualified candidate should have been easy. Taking over the Tigers is a dream job almost every coach in the country would want, well, that is until a politician got involved and tanked it all.

Louisiana governor Jeff Landry held a press conference on Wednesday to discuss the 800,000+ people in his state who will lose their SNAP benefits as a result of the government shutdown. Then he went off script about the LSU head coaching search, injected himself in the process, and fundamentally

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