re: Didn't Janzen Jackson Jilt LSU

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"I think (the decision) all came down to the (defensive) coaches leaving at LSU and Tennessee getting Lane Kiffin and Ed Orgeron and Frank Wilson (as coaches),’’ said Lance Guidry, Jackson’s father and soon-to-be defensive backs coach at Miami of Ohio. "Then when Monte Kiffin got there (as defensive coordinator), that really sealed the deal.’’

Tennessee assistants Orgeron and Wilson have known Jackson since his sophomore year when they offered him a scholarship to Ole Miss, Guidry said. Orgeron, the former Ole Miss head coach, now serves as assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach at Tennessee while Wilson, former head coach at O. Perry Walker, is the Volunteers wide receivers coach.

Monte Kiffin was his son Lane’s first hire and was quickly followed by the addition of Orgeron.


"Janzen wants to be a coach,’’ Guidry, who coached this past season at McNeese State and formerly was head coach at Carencro, said. "He’s wanted to be a college coach his whole life. He knows that he’ll be learning from the best. He knows that he could have a coaching job there (at Tennessee) some day, as an assistant or maybe as a graduate assistant. So it was a career decision also, not just a playing decision.’’

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