ESPN star slams Louisiana gov over support for erecting Charlie Kirk statue on LSU campus

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ESPN star Ryan Clark tore into Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry on Thursday as the search to replace head coach Brian Kelly at LSU began to really heat up.

Clark criticized Landry for his decision to have the Board of Supervisors come up with a committee to search for a new coach instead of athletic director Scott Woodward. Clark, who played college football at LSU, said it was the "second most ridiculous thing" Landry said this week, pointing to Landry’s support of a statue for the late conservative influencer Charlie Kirk as the first.

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Ryan Clark dismissed the idea of putting a statue of Charlie Kirk on LSU's campus. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)

The Super Bowl champion went on an emotional rant on "First Take."

"First off, it’s the second most ridiculous thing he said this week," Clark said. "The first was standing on campus and saying he wanted to put a statue of somebody that doesn’t represent the people of Louisiana, doesn’t represent the players and the students at LSU, doesn’t represent the executives that work there. That was the first dumb thing he said this week. This is the second dumb thing, amongst a lot of dumb things that he said.

"Scott Woodward, for whatever he is, is a man who got Jay Johnson – last I checked, the 2025 Louisiana State University Tigers baseball team was in the White House ‘getting the gat’ recently. He was there in 2019 – it’s one of the greatest college football teams of all time. He also was there when he said you