The LSU-Brian Kelly saga has worked its way to the courtroom. The Tigers’ former head football coach has filed a lawsuit against his former employer, demanding his full 54-million-dollar buyout after the school fired him October 26th. Kelly claims in his lawsuit filed in East Baton Rouge Parish that LSU is trying to claim that it fired him for cause and is trying to get out of paying him anything.
LSU is not the only Louisiana school dealing with college football drama. Seven U-L Lafayette players are suspended following a postgame altercation with Texas State. Senior Tyree Skipper is suspended for the rest of the season, while the others are suspended for one game each. Head Coach Mike Desormeaux says the fight put a damper on the mood in the locker room after the win.
Also, 18 Grambling players are suspended for their role in a fight against Bethune-Cookman.
At least there’s no drama in Louisiana high school football going into the playoffs, which start this week. North DeSoto is the top seed in the division two non-select bracket. Spencer Verett with the LHSAA Network says the Griffins have a really good team, but there’s also Iowa, Franklin Parish and Lakeshore; and defending champ Cecilia is a 13-seed.
LSU’s School of Information Studies is marking this Veterans Day with a 91-thousand-dollar grant aimed at preserving the records of Vietnam-era military veterans. Dr. Edward Benoit, the interim director of S-I-S, says the two-year planning project will create a program for librarians, archivists and Veteran Service Organizations to help those veterans document and preserve those records.