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Brian Kelly brings back former defensive coordinator as an analyst

Kelly will be reuniting with former Notre Dame defensive coordinator and UConn head coach Bob Diaco.

[autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] is reuniting with a long-time assistant and old friend in Baton Rouge.

[autotag]Bob Diaco[/autotag] will be joining the Tigers’ staff as an analyst, as was first reported by On3’s Matt Zenitz.  Diaco spent 2005 with Kelly at Central Michigan before later joining him at Cincinnati and Notre Dame. He spent six seasons with Kelly.

Diaco left Notre Dame to take the head coaching job at UConn until 2016, after which he bounced around as an assistant. He was the DC at Louisiana Tech in 2019, where he was on staff with current LSU quarterbacks coach [autotag]Joe Sloan[/autotag]. That Tech defense ranked third in CUSA in yards per play allowed.

Diaco brings a strong working relationship with Kelly and a decent track record of defensive coaching. LSU’s on-field staff has remained mostly intact, but the Tigers have lost some support staff.

Considering LSU’s linebackers coach [autotag]Matt House[/autotag] is also the defensive coordinator, Diaco can help shoulder some of that LB workload. Diaco also has a history of special teams work, an area where LSU struggled in 2022.

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Report: Former Ed Orgeron assistant returning to LSU as a defensive analyst

Gerald Chatman — an analyst at LSU last fall — spent the 2022 season at Colorado, where he was promoted to interim defensive coordinator midway through the season.

LSU is bringing back [autotag]Gerald Chatman[/autotag] as a defensive analyst, On3’s Matt Zenitz reported on Sunday. Chatman returns to Baton Rouge after spending the 2021 season on coach Ed Orgeron’s staff as an analyst working with the defensive line.

Coach [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] planned to retain Chatman in that role when he took the job last offseason, but Chatman left for an on-field role as the defensive line coach at Tulane in January. After just two months on the job, he left for the same role at Colorado in March.

When the Buffaloes fired coach Karl Dorrell, Chatman was promoted to interim defensive coordinator.

A well-traveled assistant over the last decade, Chatman came to LSU from the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals, where he was an assistant working with the defensive line and outside linebackers.

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5 assistant coaches who could end up at LSU

Here are some names that could be part of LSU’s staff in the future.

LSU’s coaching staff remains filled. There were no immediate departures upon season’s end, and there’s yet to be any news about a coach leaving.

It’s rare for an entire staff to stick together, but LSU just might do it this year.

Still, the assistant mill never stops turning and there’s always the possibility of a shakeup. If that were to happen, now, or a few years from now, there are some obvious names that would generate speculation.

From up-and-coming assistants to coaches who have seen it all, here are five names to watch who could be future assistants on LSU’s staff.

LSU staffer leaves to follow Deion Sanders to Colorado

Sanders hired LSU’s Corey Phillips as the next director of player personnel in Boulder.

Deion Sanders’ staff is coming together at Colorado, and it involves the hiring of an LSU staffer.

LSU’s associate director of player personnel Corey Phillips will become Colorado’s director of player personnel, according to On3.

Phillips came to LSU from NC State and spent one year with the Tigers. Phillips spent a long time coaching high school ball in Tennessee and is well-connected in the south. It’s a good hire for a Colorado program that has to go outside of the state to find elite talent.

LSU’s director of player personnel [autotag]Will Redmond[/autotag] remains with the Tigers, as does assistant director of player personnel [autotag]Mike Ferrara[/autotag].

Redmond was hired in 2021 and was one of the few holdovers from the [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] era. It’s unclear whether LSU will just promote Ferrara into the associate role or if [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] will look elsewhere to fill the position.

With the volatility the transfer portal brings to rosters, these administrative roles are now critical pieces of programs.

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