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LSU eyeing former Florida State OC for role on coaching staff, per report
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LSU is looking to beef up its offensive staff for the 2025 season, and Matt Zenitz of 247Sports reported on Wednesday that the Tigers are targeting former Florida State offensive coordinator Alex Atkins.
Atkins was the Seminoles’ OC from 2022-24, but it didn’t end well at all in Tallahassee, as he was fired late last season amid the mounting losses that the 2024 Florida State team suffered after being a preseason Top 10 team. Atkins took part of the blame for the Seminoles’ massive failures after not too long ago being on a lot of lists for head coaching jobs.
Now, he’s reportedly being courted by LSU to coach under offensive coordinator Joe Sloan.
Atkins had also served as Florida State’s offensive line coach since 2020, and he spent time at Charlotte, Tulane and Georgia Southern prior to arriving in Tallahassee ahead of the COVID-shortened 2020 season.
The role that Atkins would be taking at LSU isn’t entirely clear, other than it would be on the offensive side of the ball. But Sloan is currently set to return to the Tigers in 2025, while offensive line coach Brad Davis will be in his fifth season with the program.
Atkins played college football at Tennessee-Martin as an offensive guard from 2003-06 before immediately starting his coaching career as a graduate assistant at his alma mater in 2007.
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Cory Nightingale, a former sportswriter and sports editor at the Miami Herald and Palm Beach Post, is a South Florida-based freelance writer who covers Alabama for SaturdayDownSouth.com.
