LSU’s Mickey Joseph being considered for job at B1G alma mater, per report
By Keith Farner
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As the LSU coaching staff looks to turn over following the change from coach Ed Orgeron leading the program, some assistants are being courted for other jobs.
Mickey Joseph, a former Nebraska player, is being asked to return to his alma mater, sources told FootballScoop. Joseph was a quarterback under Tom Osborne.
LSU’s assistant head coach the past two seasons and on staff with the Tigers the past five, Joseph is in negotiations on a potential return to Lincoln, Nebraska, to join Scott Frost’s staff as wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator, per multiple sources.
Orgeron announced after Saturday’s win over Texas A&M that he would no longer coach the Tigers and was headed for Destin, Florida. Brad Davis, the offensive line coach, will serve as the interim coach as LSU awaits is bowl game fate.
Joseph joined the LSU staff after serving as running backs coach at Louisiana Tech in 2016. Prior to Louisiana Tech, Joseph helped turn around a Grambling State team that went 1-11 prior to his arrival to winning 16 games over the next two years.
Joseph was special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach at Alcorn State in 2013, and previously spent 6 years at Langston University from 2008-13, which included two years as the head coach. Joseph led Langston to a 7-3 mark in his first season as head coach in 2011. He went 13-7 overall as the head coach at Langston.
Joseph got his first collegiate coaching job at Wayne State College in Nebraska in 1997.
A former newspaper veteran, Keith Farner is a news manager for Saturday Down South.
