LSU really screwed the pooch on that. Low balled a settlement offer, he declined, they played a bad card that they had already shown by threatening to call it for-cause, he called their bluff, and now he’s getting the whole thing.
And now if they want to complain when he takes an Assistant to the Offensive Analyst gig at Southern New Hampshire University for $20k/year, he’ll quickly and easily point to how they disparaged his character, lied about a for-cause firing on his way out the door, and damaged his prospects of landing a head coach job.
Their piss poor handling of this probably cost them $20MM on its own.