Is LSU Trying to SCREW Brian Kelly out of $50 Million?!?

Menace2Sports with Zach Smith

Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith

Sports, Football

2.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2025

⏱️ 109 minutes

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🚨 Is LSU Trying to SCREW Brian Kelly Out of $50 Million?!? | Buyout Drama EXPOSED 🔍
After a stunning home loss and a sudden firing, Brian Kelly walked away from LSU — but now the fight may just be beginning. According to recent reports, LSU is attempting to avoid paying the full $53–54 million buyout in his contract by declaring the termination "for cause." Kelly's legal team is already suing.

In this episode, we deep-dive into:

What Kelly's contract actually says and why he believes he's owed the full payout.
Why LSU claims it never "formally terminated" Kelly and is now labeling it "for cause" to skirt the buyout.
The timeline of events: blowout loss → firing → legal letters sent by Kelly's attorneys.
The bigger implications: how this could impact LSU's budget, future hires, and how universities contract coaches.
Our verdict: Is Kelly playing hardball, or is LSU genuinely trying to protect itself?

Whether you're a college-football buff, LSU fan, or just love high-stakes sports legal drama, this breakdown pulls no punches.

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0:00.0	It is a Tuesday, November 11th, and we are live on Twitter, Twitch, and that's it, I think.
0:09.5	Facebook, Tim.
0:10.2	Oh, Facebook.
0:10.9	Oh, yeah.
0:11.3	Oh, yeah.
0:11.6	My face.
0:13.0	We're live on Twitter.
0:15.4	I guess if you're watching, you know that.
0:18.4	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
0:19.3	Yeah.
0:19.6	If you're watching, you know at least one of the places we're
0:22.5	live at that's kind of the um the direction i think right always start slow and then people come in so
0:27.9	we'll just casually get this thing going let me retweet it but how how's your monday chris good man
0:33.4	i guess i should retweet it too yeah Yeah. He's a peeps in here.
2:01.2	Yeah, it is unique. This is like more traditional streaming, right? It's like, you know, you get in, you let people get in, you start talking about ball. Yeah. And then you go from there. We spent the morning listening to me or listening to my, I don't know what the fuck we spent the morning doing. So he started going through Alien and like the making of the movie and then we switched over to um like just other cultural ball shows that i watch way too much so but this is the best one so i'm really excited about that but no it was a good it was a good monday my bad didn't mean to go off on a side no you're good you're good we got a ton to discuss obviously we didn't really dive into the cc and the national landscape and i want to want to talk about Texas Tech today in the coaches report. Texas Tech and Texas A&M, kind of the two very high percentage chance to make the playoffs. What are we talking about? They're both going to make the playoffs. So they need to be discussed. They need to be broken down. They need to be analyzed. I've already broken down Texas A&, Texas A&M on film. I need to break down Texas tech. And I'm going to do that probably later this week, if not next week, so we can start to get to know Texas tech because there's a potential first potential playoff matchup for any playoff team. I mean, obviously if you're a Buckeye fan, high percentage chance that the Bucks make the playoffs. Yeah. And they could catch Texas tech. So we want to start getting to know the Red Raiders right now. So we're going to do that and some other things, but this wild shit with Brian Kelly. I'm still confused what's going on. Yeah, I did, I did way too much reading about Brian Kelly's firing multiple weeks weeks after everything and i did think it was fascinating because last week he just issued a statement addressing ls u like thanking them for fire like what not thinking them for fire but thanking them for the time blah blah blah blah it felt like damn okay you waited kind of a long time after you did fire to drop the statement but i thought it's just bian b and brian yeah and then like more comes out and you're like what the fuck is going what the hellie it's just Brian being Brian. Yeah. And then like more comes out and you're like, what the fuck is going?
2:19.4	What the hell?
2:19.9	Helly.
2:20.6	It's just weird.
2:21.6	What the hell he, Ante?
2:22.6	Like LSU saying they didn't fire him and they're about to fire him for cause because he hasn't been showing up to work.
2:30.2	Yeah.
2:31.0	And Brian Kelly got fired.
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