“I don’t know where that came from. I’m only 63. I’m healthy, with a few stents in my heart. My doctor says I’m good to go. I have no clue where that stuff comes from, guys. I’ve never, ever told anybody that.
There are moments where you feel like, ‘Why am I doing this?’ But, Voepel, I don’t get how people can just write crap on social media. That has to make y’all feel really bad as journalists. Do some of y’all write that crap on there? Huh? That has to make you feel terrible. And you get away with it. And people believe it. My mother called, ‘How’s Kramer doing?’ My son. I said, ‘What are you talking about?’ ‘Well, he had his leg cut off in an accident today.’ See, older people, especially, believe that stuff.
I’m not retiring. I plan to hire two coaches quickly. I plan to get in the portal and get two or three more players and take a little time off, go see my grandchildren. […]
But there is no retiring. I think that’s used a lot in recruiting. As we get older as coaches, they wanna say, ‘Well, how much longer is she gonna be in the game?’ I’m gonna be in this game unless LSU fires me, okay? Until I can’t put a product on that floor that’s competitive, or my health fails me.
So, I would appreciate all of you in here, whoever put that out — if you know who they are — you need to stop it when you see it. Because it’s just a flat-out lie.”
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