Overview
- LSU head coach Lane Kiffin confirmed Wednesday on the In the Bayou with Tyrann Mathieu podcast that rapper Nau’Jour “Toosii” Grainger has left the Tigers and returned to his recording career.
- Kiffin said Toosii signed a promotional deal with a sports-gambling company that conflicted with LSU’s rules banning student-athlete promotion of gambling and other 'vice' endorsements.
- Those LSU restrictions require the school to report such violations to the NCAA, a step Kiffin said could jeopardize a player’s eligibility and limit what a student-athlete may earn.
- Toosii spent under three months with LSU after a December commitment to Syracuse and a later enrollment at LSU, and Kiffin emphasized the tryout was genuine rather than a publicity stunt.
- The episode underscores tensions between growing NIL endorsement opportunities, university compliance policies, and the practical limits of pursuing a top-level music career while playing Division I football.