Why losing 8 analysts isn’t a bad thing for LSU football

LSU football lost its eighth analyst of the offseason on Sunday.

LSU football’s lead defensive analyst Roy Anderson is reportedly heading to the NFL for a full time job.

Anderson, according to multiple reports, is joining the Minnesota Vikings’ staff as the team’s defensive backs coach.

This is the eighth analyst that has left LSU in what’s been an active offseason for the Tigers.

Ed Orgeron’s analysts play an important role on his staff. They’re responsible for cutting up game tape, helping game plan for specific opponents and doing a lot of other work during the week that position coaches might not have time to do. In other words, LSU’s analysts help the program get more work done on a weekly basis.

So losing those analysts could potentially hurt the program, right?

Well, not really.

That’s because Coach O has already proved he knows how to identify capable coaches to serve on his staff in a variety of roles. Orgeron is always looking for fresh ideas and coaches who can bring a new perspective to the program. He won’t have any issues finding quality coaches looking to climb the coaching ladder.

It helps that all eight of the analysts who left LSU this offseason departed the program for a full time job elsewhere.

Essentially, LSU has proved to be a place where up-and-coming coaches can parlay a job as an analyst into a full time gig with another college program or NFL team.

Which means the Tigers won’t have any problem filling the roles that were vacated during the offseason.

It’s never ideal to lose high caliber coaches, but Coach O knows better than anyone how to build an elite coaching staff.