The high-profile leadership change by athletics director Scott Woodward, who made the splashy hire of Kelly in 2021, is the latest in what has already been a whirlwind of a coaching carousel cycle.

Four seasons into his tenure, things just didn't quite click for Brian Kelly with LSU football.

Kelly's contractual buyout of more than $50 million would be the second largest ever paid to a college football coach -- behind only Jimbo Fisher, who received more than $76 million after being fired...