We all know that Jimbo's buyout impacted things with swinging Jim and at a minimum delayed the renovation of BBP.

Does BK's firing impact LSU baseball? At a minimum I would think it hurts their nil funds.

Won't even cause a blip on the baseball radar. They'll just increase ticket prices in their 100,000 seat football facility.

It won't impact NIL. That's a different pot of money. Their baseball culture is strong, so I think they will have no trouble getting businesses to back baseball NIL regardless of what they are doing on football. Furthermore, baseball NIL is chump change compared to football.

Where it might impact them is on making capital improvements to the Box. They went cheap when they built that place, and its starting to show. The fans are always begging for improvements, but with revenue sharing and buyouts to fund, I don't see them doing anything but keeping pace with player facilities unless someone writes a big check just because they love baseball.

twk said:

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I don't see them doing anything but keeping pace with player facilities unless someone writes a big check just because they love baseball bragging about the founder's suite it bought them.

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FIFY

I was not aware of any recent nefarious activities by Kelly. If true, it must have been big considering he gave up 27 million.

OrangeAlert said:

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I was not aware of any recent nefarious activities by Kelly. If true, it must have been big considering he gave up 27 million.

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He gave up very little. Present value of his payments over time would only be $33 million. Apply some further discount for what he could earn taking a new job (and complying with his duty to mitigate) and you can easily get to $27 million.

Not to mention the contract as stated was practically unenforceable.

twk said:

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It won't impact NIL. That's a different pot of money. Their baseball culture is strong, so I think they will have no trouble getting businesses to back baseball NIL regardless of what they are doing on football. Furthermore, baseball NIL is chump change compared to football.

Where it might impact them is on making capital improvements to the Box. They went cheap when they built that place, and its starting to show. The fans are always begging for improvements, but with revenue sharing and buyouts to fund, I don't see them doing anything but keeping pace with player facilities unless someone writes a big check just because they love baseball.

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I tend to believe this.

A couple years ago, we had a frequent guest player on my kid's baseball team. Guest player's dad said he "had a cup of coffee" as an LSU football player.

Dunno if he had inside knowledge, was a big donor or knew big donors. He basically asserted that - as soon as NIL came online - there was a concerted effort by LSU to get NIL going for its baseball program.

jsmc71 said:

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twk said:

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It won't impact NIL. That's a different pot of money. Their baseball culture is strong, so I think they will have no trouble getting businesses to back baseball NIL regardless of what they are doing on football. Furthermore, baseball NIL is chump change compared to football.

Where it might impact them is on making capital improvements to the Box. They went cheap when they built that place, and its starting to show. The fans are always begging for improvements, but with revenue sharing and buyouts to fund, I don't see them doing anything but keeping pace with player facilities unless someone writes a big check just because they love baseball.

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I tend to believe this.

A couple years ago, we had a frequent guest player on my kid's baseball team. Guest player's dad said he "had a cup of coffee" as an LSU football player.

Dunno if he had inside knowledge, was a big donor or knew big donors. He basically asserted that - as soon as NIL came online - there was a concerted effort by LSU to get NIL going for its baseball program.

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I can't speak to what all their baseball players are getting but knowing a couple kids who were freshmen there last year and the baseline for baseball players was like $150K per year in NIL. Straight-up pay-for-play.

OrangeAlert said:

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Shocking that Kelly agreed to 27 million instead of his contract price of 54 million. Huge win for LSU.

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Brauny said it's not true

LSU firing Woodward and turning into a complete dumpster fire could end up being bad for their baseball even if they still have some money.

Marucci money makes LSU baseball .