Since August 2020, what could be considered LSU’s five major sports have all undergone coaching changes.
Those five sports are football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, baseball, and gymnastics.
The situations leading to each change were wildly different, and sometimes not even in the same stratosphere. Nonetheless, the changes did occur and the athletic department looks a whole lot different than it did when 2020 began.
Gymnastics was the first to transition and also the most seamless, when D-D Breaux retired, associate head coach Jay Clark was tabbed to assume the head position.
Next, in what was the most impressive hire, Kim Mulkey came to LSU after building a dynasty at Baylor. Not long after that, Jay Johnson was hired to helm the baseball program after the retirement of Paul Mainieri.
I doubt many people need refreshers on what happened in football or men’s basketball, given how dramatic and high-profile each situation was, but Brian Kelly took over after a wild…