SAVE up $ 00 to 3
largest selection & lowest prices on wine, spirits & beer LB
— ONLY —
9 Woodbridge
$ 99
1.5 LITER SELECTED
LB
or Sutter Home Wine
SAVE $ 00 6
NEW!
— ONLY —
— ONLY —
750 ML
17
$
99
John Sloat NAPA Valley Cabernet Sauvignon
750 ML
29
$
Ghost Tequila
99
infused with a pinch of ghost pepper
visit rouses.com for more weekly ad specials!
THE
10oz Rouses Dark Cherries in Bourbon $4.99
THC
— ONLY —
750 ML
31
$
1792 Small Batch Bourbon
99
LIMIT 3
— ONLY —
26
$ 24 PK 12 OZ CANS Michelob Ultra
99
— ONLY —
4 PACK 12 OZ
Mary Jones THC Seltzer
17 99
$
Prices good at all Lafayette, New Iberia and Youngsville stores October 22nd - 29th, 2025.
ACADIANA
ADVOCATE
T H E A C A D I A N A A D V O C AT E.C O M
|
M o n d ay, o c t o b e r 27, 2025
$2.00X
BRIAN KELLY OUT AT LSU Decision finalized Sunday following embarrassing loss to Texas A&M
BY WILSON ALEXANDER | Staff writer LSU has fired coach Brian Kelly, The Advocate confirmed on Sunday with a source familiar with the decision. The decision was finalized after the eighth game of Kelly’s fourth season with the Tigers turned into a 49-25 home loss to No. 3 Texas A&M. With that defeat, LSU fell to 5-3, losing whatever was left of its already faint College Football Playoff hopes. Kelly was owed a roughly $54 mil-
ä Kelly’s buyout: A look at how
much LSU would owe him. PAGE 1C lion buyout, the second-largest in college football history, according to his contract. That could be reduced by any “football-related employment” he has next, per the contract, including in coaching, administration or media. Kelly’s buyout must be paid in equal monthly installments through 2031. On Sunday, LSU leadership held dis-
cussions about Kelly’s future, sources said, including talk of a potential negotiated buyout. Those conversations will continue into the Tigers’ open date as the two parties work toward agreeing to buyout terms. Running backs coach and associate head coach Frank Wilson will be the interim head coach, a source confirmed. Wilson was previously the head coach at McNeese State and UTSA.
LSU coach Brian Kelly listens to a question following the loss to Texas A&M at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge on Saturday. STAFF PHOTO By MICHAEL JOHNSON
ä See KELLY, page 4A
A BULL MARKET
Questions linger in man’s death after Elayn Hunt release He was found on the roadside 80 miles from group home
BY QUINN COFFMAN | Staff writer
STAFF PHOTO By JAVIER GALLEGOS
An inmate gets slammed into the dirt by a bull during the Angola Prison Rodeo on Oct. 12. Every April and October, the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola hosts the last remaining prison rodeo in the nation. It’s a major economic driver for the region.
Angola’s prison rodeo is a major economic driver for the region and for inmates BY CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT | Staff writer
played for thousands of people driving toward the Angola Prison Rodeo. Every Sunday in October and one weekend The gospel music flickers into range around mile 17 on in April, crowds witness incarcerated men voluntarily parthe Tunica Trace, a trail formerly used by the Tunica Native ticipating in rodeo events. American tribe paved into a 20-mile highway in West FeliSome are traditional bull- or horse-riding competitions, ciana Parish. As hundreds of cars pass churches releasing but there are also events like “Convict Poker,” where four their congregations, the broadcast of 91.7 KLSP FM — “The inmates compete to be the last man sitting at a poker table with an angered bull charging them. Incarceration Station” — sharpens. Inmates generally speak highly of the event, which allows “I’m doing the best I can; I’m doing the best I can,” the Rev. Andrew Cheairs and The Songbirds sing. “While I’m them to earn money. Under pavilions outside the arena, other inmates sell handcrafted items ranging from wooden traveling, I’m traveling through this land.” The broadcast emanates from the road’s end: the Louisi- swing sets to American flag paintings at a craft fair. The festival — the last remaining prison rodeo in the ana State Penitentiary at Angola. It’s a destination few ever leave, imprisoning around 3,900 inmates, with roughly 70% nation — has achieved a semimythic status in American of those sentenced for life. ä See RODEO, page 5A However, on Oct. 12, the prison’s inmate-run radio station
Treylin Deville was released from Elayn Hunt Correctional Center on July 23 after being held for 10 years for an armed robbery he committed at 17. Less than 24 hours later, the 27-year-old Deville was dying on a roadside in Evangeline Parish, more than 80 miles from the Baton Rouge group home where he was supposed to be, according to internal emails from Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections staff. What happened in the intervening hours is still unknown, including whether Deville, of Ville Platte, ever made it to the group home or how he traveled such a long distance, leaving his family with questions and planning a lawsuit against the DOC. Asked about the procedure of Deville’s release, Tiffany Dickerson, communications director for the DOC, said in an emailed statement that one correctional officer has been placed on leave and “the administrative process is ongoing.” Deville’s family says he suffered from schizophrenia and bipolar disorder and was incapable of advocating for himself. When authorities called to tell them Deville had died, family members didn’t even know he had been released from prison, they said. DOC officials have not provided a time or location that Deville was last under their care and supervision, nor have they told The Advocate what the standard procedures are for releasing a mentally ill inmate. On July 24, the day of Deville’s death, a social worker at Elayn Hunt assigned to him sent an email to the group home, asking if Deville had made it there. If the social worker received a response, it was not included in the internal emails that the DOC has released.
ä See QUESTIONS, page 4A
WEATHER HIGH 80 LOW 60 PAGE 12C
Classified .....................4B Deaths .........................4B Nation-World ................2A Comics-Puzzles .. 9C-11C Living............................7C Opinion ........................2B Commentary ................3B Metro ...........................1B Sports ..........................1C
101ST yEAR, NO. 119