On Jan. 14, 2020, less than 12 hours after the LSU Tigers had won the College Football Playoff National Championship, a handful of LSU staffers and KPMG consultants gathered at the consulting firm’s swank offices in downtown Houston to host a market-sounding meeting to gauge potential interest in a proposed energy services deal for the
A chilling decision
LSU’s handling of a massive energy services contract for its main campus has scared off potential bidders and damaged the state’s already tarnished image.




