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Bianchi: DeSantis should follow Louisiana governor’s lead and bench Florida’s free-spending ADs

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.