Congress Just Came After Lane Kiffin?!

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Okay, let's get it. It is locked on lsu. Your team every day. I'm your host, Matt Moscone. This week was a landmark moment in the history of college sports because while most everyone from fans to coaches and players and athletic administrators and university administrators and and lawmakers have all called for guardrails on college sports, we listen. For the last five years since Nil went live, we have all heard the same thing. It's the wild, wild west with eager guardrails, the whole thing. Well, the problem is, as we know, that right now in college sports, you have the NCAA which makes rules, and states individually all have laws that maybe agree with or counteract those rules, but no federal legislation to oversee the entirety. So LSU in Louisiana may be governed differently than Georgia and Ohio State and Oklahoma and ucla because all these different states may have different state laws. So all of the administrators have been begging Congress to come up with federal legislation to oversee and to govern and regulate college sports. The problem is we have not yet been able to have bipartisan legislation. Now, I am not a political person, okay? I don't care if you're red, blue, rd you do you. This is a sports show, okay? I'm never going to sit here and and preach politics to you. Whatever you think, God bless you. Go do it. Where we have the conversation is when politics bleeds into sports and then we have the convo about how it may affect those proceedings. Well, there was a really significant moment this week because for the first time ever bipartisan legislation has been proposed. In the past, we've had Republicans propose bills and Democrats propose bills, but neither one of them work together. So now Ted Cruz and Maria Cantwell. Cruz is a Republican, Cantwell is a Democrat. They have co authored the Protect College Sports Act. So it's the first time that Republicans and Democrats have reached across the aisle to come up with some type of legislation that we hope could regulate college sports and create some rules by which everyone would abide. So Ted Cruz, Senator Cruz was a guest on Andy and Ari on, on three. And one of the provisions is what they're calling the Lane Kiffin rule, and it would prevent coaching. Well, let me let. This was Ted Cruz explaining the Lane Kiffin rule.

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Look, it is absolutely the Lane Kiffin provision. That is how we envisioned it and that's what we drafted. And it says that a university cannot recruit or hire a head coach or an offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator while the season is happening or during the playoffs. And basically what we did is we adopted the rule the NFL has. That's the NFL's rule. And listen, I think what, what happened with Lane Kiffin was really unfair to the student athletes who were. It's not fair if you're playing to suddenly have your coach leave in the middle of the season as you're going in into the playoffs and have your coach go to a competitor. I just think that's, that's bad for the system. And so it's enforced by giving enforcement authority to prevent the, any other school from hiring them or bringing them on board. By the way, you can still compete for coaches. Just don't do it in the middle of the season and screw up the season for the student athletes and for the fans.

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So let me give you an example, an illustration of why this is completely misguided there. The, the point that Senators Cruz and Cantwell are making and pointing out Lane Kiffin, that this isn't an ardent defense of the LSU coach, it's more of a, of a criticism of the system. So Senator Cruz in that cut mentioned it's the NFL rule. Okay, let me go back. And so if you're a, if you're a listener, viewer of this show, as an LSU fan, by and large, I'm guessing you are. You may also be a Saints fan being in South Louisiana. Well, roll back the calendar about 18 months. The saints fire Dennis Allen and they're looking for a new coach. Well, I was at Radio Row the whole week of, of the super bowl in New Orleans. And the Eagles were there, as you, you probably remember, and they won the super bowl that year. Well, their offensive coordinator was Kellen Moore. Well, the Saints had interviewed Kellen Moore for their head coaching job and it was largely assumed that was done. Moore was going to be the coach of the Saints. It was widely reported that Moore was going to be the coach of the Saints after the Super Bowl. So yes, the rule in the NFL is you can't leave until after the season's over. But you already knew at that point that Kellen Moore was leaving the Eagles to be the Saints coach. So let me ask, let me pose this hypothetical to you, really. What if Lane Kiffin had interviewed with LSU and accepted the job, but he couldn't formally take the job until after the season? Now that's something Lane Kiffin wanted. Kiffin wanted to stay with his team through the College Football Playoff and coach him to the end of the year, but Ole Miss didn't want him to. By the way, if you're an everydayer and you remember I completely agreed with Ole Miss, in no way could you possibly want your coach to leave your job for a rival in your conference and, and continue coaching your team throughout the playoff. See, the difference is in the NFL, this is what I think Senators Cruz and Cantwell maybe don't, don't understand or just are missing. Here is you don't see head coaches jump jobs in the NFL. That's not a thing. There's 32 NFL head coaching jobs. That's it. They're all highly coveted. You don't leave the, the Steelers to become the head coach of the Patriots. You don't leave the Saints to become the head coach of the Lions. It's just not a thing. Now sometimes you have situations where head coaches and ownership maybe have a conflict. And so in very rare instances, you may see things like a coach being traded. This happened 20 plus years ago when Jon Gruden was the coach of the Raiders and he was quote unquote traded to the Buccaneers. But that was a mutually agreed upon thing because they wanted to make that move. Ole Miss was never going to let Lane Kiffin coach their team after having agreed to be the head coach at lsu. Why, why would that become a commercial for LSU while Ole Miss is playing in the playoff? Similarly, or I guess to con to contrast, Kellen Moore was the offensive coordinator of the Eagles. He was an assistant who's being promoted the same way, by the way, that Kirby Smart was the defensive coordinator at Alabama when he got the Georgia head coaching job. And continued coaching Alabama through their playoff run that year and then left for Georgia. So that happens. What you don't ever see in the NFL is a head coach leaving one NFL job for another. That's where there's a total disconnect now. The bigger There is a bigger issue at play here, and I'll get into that. Let me grab a quick break, we'll come back and I'll continue. Because, like, the the thing that absolutely has to be fixed in this situation is pretty obvious, and the Senators don't address that. So we'll get into that as we continue. It's locked in lsu, your team, every day. Workplace chaos, deadlines stacking up, inbox overflowing, and the one position you have to fill is still sitting open when the pressure's on and you need the right hire. This is a job for Sponsored Jobs. Indeed Sponsor Jobs helps you reach the people who actually fit what you're looking for. Skills, experience, location. So you're not just hoping the right candidate stumbles across your post and the stat that says it all. In the minutes since we've been talking, companies like yours have made 27 hires on Indeed. That's according to Indeed Data Worldwide. So if you're hiring, spend less time searching and more time interviewing candidates who check all of your boxes with Indeed Sponsor Jobs and listeners of locked on LSU will get a 75 sponsored job credit to help get your job the premium status it deserves@ Indeed.com podcast just go to Indeed.com podcast right now and support our show by saying you heard about Indeed or unlocked on lsu indeed.com podcast terms and conditions apply. Need to hire? This is a job for Indeed Sponsored Jobs.

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Now Tulane let him coach in the playoff because obviously that's an upgrade going from Tulane to Florida and they wanted to win and he gave him the best opportunity to do so. Will Stein was a coordinator, but he was the Oregon OC who took the Kentucky job. Oregon was in the College Football Playoff. Well, Will Stein took that job while he was still the Oregon oc. Ryan Silverfield accepted the Arkansas job before Memphis completed its, its season and obligations. And we can go back throughout the years. Look, remember Brian Kelly? Brian Kelly left Notre Dame when the thought was Notre Dame could still potentially make the four team College Football Playoff. He left while Notre Dame was still awaiting their bowl placement. Lincoln Riley left Oklahoma for Southern Cal left immediately after the regular season. Oklahoma preparing for the Alamo bowl. And Riley didn't coach them that Brian Harson left Boise State for Auburn while they still had their bowl obligation. We can go throughout the years, man. Matt Brown left North Carolina for Texas back in 1997. Rich Rod left West Virginia for Michigan in 2007 before West Virginia's. He accepted that job before West Virginia's Fiesta Bowl. You want to keep going. Butch Jones left Cincinnati for Tennessee before Cincinnati's bowl game. Tom Herman went from Houston to Texas in 2016 with the Las Vegas Bowl. I. Look, the point is, I mean, I can go on and on and on. We know this is the thing. So it's a little odd that it's being termed the lane kiffin provision when this has been such a common thing in, in, in college football. And the real problem isn't Lane Kiffin or Ryan Silverfield or Mack Brown or John Sumrall or any of the coaches I just mentioned. The problem in particular now is the calendar. And the NCAA has to fix the calendar before you can fix coaches leaving. For example, if what's being proposed right now with an expanded College Football Playoff, which I'm very much in favor of, is the season would start week zero and it would finish the weekend of Thanksgiving. The College Football Playoff would begin the first weekend in December when we currently have conference championship games, conference championship Games would go away. And so you would, in effect, have the playoff throughout the month of December and your championship game on New Year's, or what we used to see the bcs, which was the Monday of the first full week in January, and then you could open your portal after the championship game, like, and then run it through the rest of January. Like, that's a very logical solution that fixes this problem. What we have right now is a situation where the playoff runs to the end of January. Most schools have already begun their spring semester by, by the time the College Football Playoff ends right now. It can be fixed, but it's not a Congress problem. It's not Elaine Kiffin or John Sumrall or Brian Silverfield or any of these coaches. It's the calendar. So as soon as college football and in the powers that be meaningful, the conference commissioners come together and are willing to fix the calendar and how we proceed throughout the college football season, this isn't going to be fixed because there's no reality where a coach should be harnessed to a school when they have an opportunity to upgrade. I'm not just talking about Lane Kiffin leaving Ole Miss for lsu. Look at Ryan Silverfield. Ryan Silver is at Memphis. He's in a G5 or G6 with an opportunity to go to an SEC school. You mean to tell me Silverfield can't leave Memphis for an SEC job because of what, some stupid bowl obligation that half the team ops out of? Anyway? This is the problem that has to be fixed. And it's in. The core component here is, is you have le. You have senators, and I respect very much their willingness to be involved and try to find a solution. But they're just like they are trying to run our country. They ain't trying to run college football. So they don't know these things. It's why the, the, the meeting that the, that the president had with, you know, with Nick Saban present and, you know, a lot of other, you know, dignitaries around. College football was significant because you had voices. Greg Sanke was there. You had people who were in this every day who understand it. Those are the people who need to be affecting this change and maybe helping craft legislation if it comes to that, to help fix these types of things. Now, there's some stuff in that Protect College Sports act that I like. I mean, I like the five to play five. You know, your, your clock begins as soon as you graduate high school and you have five years to play, five seasons. The media rights pooling. I certainly understand why the SEC and the Big Ten are going to be completely opposed to that because effectively it helps elevate all the smaller conferences. But Hertz, it's the redistribution of wealth. It's, it's a communist principle, basically. I don't love transfer limits. I think a player should be able to transfer every year if they want. Now, no, you may not like that, and that's counterintuitive, but what if as a 18 year old, you choose to go to a school and you show up on campus and it's not for you, and then you transfer and you go somewhere and a coach leaves or you have an opportunity to make more money? Like, why should, why should a, an 18, 19, 20 year be tethered to a decision they made as a young person? Like all of us make. Like I, I transferred my, after my freshman year of college. Like, it's a very common thing that you have life experiences and you make decisions based on more information that you get. So I can certainly understand and appreciate the, the principles behind the Protect College Sports Act. I just think so much of it is misguided, misplaced. It is not going to be enforceable. So we'll follow it and see as it evolves. I did have an opportunity to speak to attorney Jeff Watson. If you're familiar, Gordon McKernan, who's a big supporter of LSU and his law firm. Jeff Watson is the attorney that handles so many of the nil deals that Gordon is very familiar with the space. Jeff's opinion, as I spoke to him, and I'm paraphrasing, was this is going to get redlined. You know, it's by every senator, congress, man, woman, and then it's not gonna, it's gonna look like a shell of what's been proposed. So what we saw proposed is not what's actually gonna ever come to a vote. So. And it's not even close. So we are far, far, far away from whatever revision of this bill comes for votes, see if it ever even passes. But the, the lane Kiffin component of it feels to me anyway, very, very misguided. Let me know your thoughts. Okay. It was a giant recruiting weekend for LSU football and something happened, not even in Baton Rouge, that is very significant for lsu over the recruiting weekend. We'll talk about that. And the future of the baseball program is Jay Johnson. Apparently he's made some staff decisions. We'll wrap up with that next. It's locked on lsu, your team, every day.

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Foreign. Two other notes before we bid you ADO today one Football, one Baseball all the focus this weekend for LSU football has been on the six official visitors four five stars on campus, including the number one wide receiver in the country, Easton Royal, who remains committed to Texas at least as of the time of this recording. Well, Amari Stevens, who's already committed to lsu, has shut down his commitment. He is locked in with the Tigers. Stevens was committed to Miami. He flipped to LSU in mid April. He told 24.7Sports this weekend, quote, staying locked in means I'm not visiting any other schools. I'm ready to be a Tiger, end quote. So you talk about Amari Stevens. This is a guy's 510, 165 pounds. He's out of Lauderdale. So this is a guy from the Miami area who was committed to Miami, flipped to LSU 510, 165. He's nationally ranked number 262, 272. Excuse me. He's the 40th best receiver in the country. And I often say not only is it about who offer or the the rating ranking, it's who offered. Well, look at his look at his list. Texas, lsu, Miami, Florida, Auburn, Ohio State. I mean, it is long and distinguished the amount of offers that Amare Stevens has. He's locked in with lsu. And one of the things I think is very important to remember is when we talk about how Lane Kiffin is approaching building his roster. He is. And if you're an everydayer, you've heard me reference this, we've played the clip for you over and over and over again. And Kiffin is so committed to not overspending on high school recruits that are going to come in, sit and then leave. If he's going to spend on a high school recruitment, it's going to be someone who's an immediate impact guy. Easton Royal, they feel is an immediate impact guy. They'll spend on Easton Royal. But you look at a guy like Amari Stevens and the receiver room, Kiffin has said point blank he tells his staff he wants him to recruit character. What are they going to do when times are tough? So you look at a guy that's 5:10, 1:65 coming into a receiver room next year could be pretty crowded in 2027 and maybe he's gonna have to sit and wait a year. Is he willing to do that because he's pot committed on being an LSU Tiger? If that's if the answer is yes, then you bring him in in 2027, develop him and hopefully 28 and beyond. He becomes a real impact guy. So that's really great that Amari Stevens shut down his recruitment pot committed. He's part of the LSU class as he's not looking anywhere else. The other interesting tidbit for before we wrap up today, Jay Johnson told the Advocate on over the weekend that he is not making any staff changes. And I know that's been a question that I've gotten very commonly since this season ended. Of course, LSU 9 and 21 in the conference. It's their worst conference record on record and of course they finished dead last in the SEC and staff era. But Nate Yesi apparently is coming back for a fourth season. When you look at Josh Simpson, Josh Simpson and Josh Jordan, the rest of the staff all coming back next year, at least they're anticipated to come back. Now there could always be a possibility that someone gets a job elsewhere, but I don't know why you would leave LSU as an assistant to go be an assistant elsewhere if you had the opportunity to return. And and the quote J.E. johnson gave the Advocate, I'll read it for you quote they've earned that opportunity and as I've said, we all need to improve our performance from this year and I'm confident that group will do that, end quote. So I know the feeling in particular is centered around Nate. Yes Key because this team finished last in the SEC and staff era, my colleague Hunt Palmer has a piece up@louisianasports.net that I would highly recommend you go read. If you and by the way, LA sports.net is free. There's no paywall or anything like that. But he's got a great piece. It's an extensive look at the pitching staff what happened this year and Nate yes, Key's history. And the bottom line is when you look at Nate yes, Key this year clearly is an outlier. I mean he came in and developed Holman and jump into second round picks. You could look at what happened in 2025 when they won the national championship. You're taking Kate Anderson from a guy who had an ERA of 27, I think in the SEC as a freshman to a guy that became the best pitcher in college baseball. Anthony Einson was at UC San Diego and while he was on a lot of people's radar, pitched for Team usa, showed up on campus and hit the kaboom. The parabolic run up. Same for Chase Shores. So I look at Nate yes Key in his history at Oregon State, Arizona, lsu. A guy that's been to the College World Series and won championships with multiple teams. His career, his track record speaks for itself. And I don't think one season, which was an awful season, should necessarily

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the entire body of work. We could say the same thing about Jay Johnson, right? Jay Johnson's won two national championships at lsu. Well, he was the head coach of a team that had the worst record in the history of the program. Should Jay Johnson be moved? Obviously that's fundamentally absurd. No one would sit here and argue for that. Well, I think the same thing is true with the staff. Making a change for the sake of making a change I don't think is very smart. So if Jay Johnson's committed to this staff and feels like they're the guys that can help and that have the opportunity, earn the opportunity to get this thing back right again, then I'm on board with it as well. So no staff changes for baseball. There's going to be some roster changes, no doubt, as the transfer portal is set to open on June 1st and when it does, expecting a lot of LSU players or expect certainly LSU players to enter. And certainly LSU will be targeting additions in the portal as well as that develops. We'll be talking about here Unlocked on lsu, so please subscribe on your favorite podcast app Radis. Leave a review if you're on YouTube, smash that like button, subscribe to the channel and hit the bell so you're notified whenever we post a new video. And be sure to let a friend know that if they love the Tigers, we got here every single day for Locked on lsu. It is your team every day.

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