Running off at the typewriter. …
Normally, I don’t want politicians anywhere near sports.
Most of them can’t even manage a budget, much less a football program.
But when it comes to the fiscal lunacy of college coaching contracts — the kind of waste that makes Congress look thrifty — then by all means, hand them a whistle and a headset.
And that’s why Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis should take a page out of Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry’s playbook.
Because Landry just did something downright refreshing: he told LSU Athletic Director Scott Woodward that he won’t be allowed to pick the Tigers’ next football coach.