Woodward out as LSU AD amid Landry's criticism

Scott Woodward is retired arsenic LSU's diversion director, the schoolhouse announced Thursday night, conscionable days aft the Tigers fired caput manager Brian Kelly amid a 5-3 season.

Verge Ausberry, the enforcement lawman diversion director, volition beryllium the interim diversion director.

"We convey Scott for the past six years of work arsenic diversion director," said Scott Ballard, LSU's committee of supervisors chair. "He had a batch of occurrence astatine LSU, and we privation him thing but the champion successful the future. Our absorption present is connected moving the diversion section guardant and champion positioning LSU to execute its afloat potential."

Woodward drew the ire of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry, who publically criticized him aggregate times this week. In a quality league Wednesday, Landry said that Woodward would not beryllium hiring LSU's adjacent shot coach.

On the "Pat McAfee Show" connected Thursday, Landry added: "There's a fig of atrocious contracts that look to person followed Scott Woodward."

The flurry of comments from Landry made Woodward's departure an inevitability. According to a source, the anticipation is that Woodward volition beryllium paid retired the much than $6 cardinal helium is owed connected his contract.

Woodward is simply a longtime assemblage head with a governmental inheritance and an LSU graduate, the benignant of inheritance suited for this marque of governmental football. He had been LSU's diversion manager since 2019, a tally that included a nationalist rubric successful football, the hiring of Kim Mulkey arsenic hoops manager and the firing of men's manager Will Wade.

In the aftermath of Kelly's firing, Landry lambasted him truthful bluntly and publically that determination was nary wide way for Woodward to support his job.

Kelly is owed $54 cardinal connected his contract, which is the second-biggest buyout successful the past of assemblage football.