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LSU DL Coach Dennis Johnson Is In Wheelchair After Injuring Both Knees Playing Basketball

by Staff Reporter

August 1, 201921 Comments

LSU Sports - Chris Parent (@chrisparent)

LSU head coach Ed Orgeron met with the media on Thursday and announced that defensive line coach Dennis Johnson injured both his knees playing basketball and is in a wheelchair.

Orgeron said the Johnson will not be able to coach on the field this season but that the team has secured an NCAA waiver that will allow analyst and former USC defensive line coach Kenechi Udeze to step into Johnson's role.

Graduate assistant Christian LaCouture will also step up, Orgeron said.

Udeze came to LSU's staff in April after spending that last three seasons as USC's defensive line coach before he was let go in November by Clay Helton.

Orgeron was Udeze's defensive line coach 2001 to 2003.

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BILLFISHER22•57 months

Ouch

Schmelly•57 months

Well, he can play wheelchair basketball now

tigerbutt•57 months

...and so it begins

BigTimer23•57 months

Huh?

Ripley•57 months

Needs to be let go once he’s recovered from his injuries.

SulphursFinest•57 months

For what reason?

Ripley•57 months

He was already subpar in terms coaching and recruiting Dline. O has specifically talked about being more involved in those aspects (ie propping Meatball up because he can’t get it done by himself). And now he can’t coach for a year. I don’t care what the reason is, it’s unacceptable for someone who has already been a weak link.

BigTimer23•57 months

@Ripley You are clueless. Check out who 247 regards as the 7th best recruiter in the entire country as of this morning... LINK /

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TheFlyingTiger•57 months

an actual DL coach is now coaching. meatball will be moved to recruiting full time

Genestealer55•57 months

they need to ban the euro step...I knew something like this would happen some day.

Hangit•57 months

Damned metric system.

sostan•57 months

Dud was recruiting so hard. He bew out his knees!

Nolaughingmatter•57 months

How in the hell do you injure both knees and end up in a wheelchair from playing basketball? I've never heard of a basketball injury like that in my life. It makes me wonder if something else happened and they are just saying it was a basketball injury.

LSUAlum2001•57 months

Wendell Davis tore both patella tendons at the same time jumping for a pass at the old Veterans Field in Philly.

Disgeaux Bob•57 months

Breaking ankles.....literally

lsudave1•57 months

Probably jumped and landed wrong on both legs

hg•57 months

Was he playing basketball while in a car wreck?

Freddy238•57 months

He has knock knees, people with knock knees cannot play basketball. It makes u limited at most things athletically.

LSUAlum2001•57 months

Are we sure that Kenechi Udeze didn’t Tonya Harding him?