In the waning hours of Sunday, Oct. 26, LSU fired football coach Brian Kelly eight games into his fourth season at the school, with Tigers athletic director Scott Woodward ... for Pry's replacement. Woodward, a Baton Rouge, Louisiana native and an LSU ...

LSU is in the process of parting ways with athletic director Scott Woodward, according to CBS Sports' Matt Zenitz. This significant change atop the Tigers' organization comes as amid a football coaching search that will hire a replacement for Brian Kelly, who was ousted from the program last Sunday.

Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said LSU athletic director Scott Woodward will not have the final say over the Tigers' next coach. He told reporters Wednesday the school is "not going down a failed path" and referenced the sizable buyouts for Kelly and Jimbo Fisher, whom Woodward originally hired at Texas A&M:

The governor of Louisiana is attempting to cut LSU athletic director Scott Woodward out of the school's coaching search