Once a Tiger, always a Tiger. That was the sentiment LSU coach Ed Orgeron passed on when asked about bringing former Tigers on board for the 2020 season.
Coushatta native Bennie Logan has joined the LSU coaching staff for the coming season. Logan was a stand-out player for Red River then LSU and on to a pro football career.
For Orgeron, it’s always been about building the LSU standard of performance. In his eyes, that standard of performance is found in every great player that’s walked through the tunnel and slapped the “Win” bar in Death Valley.
In the last month alone, Orgeron has promoted Kevin Faulk to running backs coach, hired former linebacker Kelvin Sheppard as the team’s director of player development and this week, brought in defensive end Bennie Logan as a defensive analyst.
“Major, major hire for the LSU Tigers,” Orgeron said of Logan. “One of the all-time greats coming back. I lean on Bennie for technique, he knows it well and at the meetings me and him talk about it like he’s a full time coach with us. He’ll be a good mentor to these young men and that’s what he came for.”
Orgeron has hired two defensive analysts, Logan and Younstown State defensive coordinator Donald D’Alesio since losing four on the defensive side of the ball in the aftermath of the 2019 season. Orgeron said Wednesday he doesn’t have a designated number of analysts he’d like to have on board next season, but he’d like it to be around the same number as last year, which was 10.
Written by Glenn West and posted on LSUCountry website.
From Wikipedia: Logan was born in Shreveport, Louisiana on December 28, 1989, and grew up with seven brothers and sisters. He attended Red River Senior High School in Coushatta, Louisiana, where he was a defensive end for four years on the Red River Bulldogs high school football team. He was named to the Class 2A all-state first team in his junior and senior seasons. On October 17, 2014, head coach Reginald Prealow retired Bennie’s high school number 60 and Bennie was there to accept it.
Logan played for LSU from 2009 to 2012 and declared for the pro draft after the 2012 LSU season.
The Philadelphia Eagles was Logan’s team from 2013 through the 2016 season. He played 2017 for the Kansas City Chiefs and in 2018 he was with the Tennessee Titans.