New LSU Baseball Coach Jay Johnson has reportedly found his recruiting coordinator. D-1 Baseball Reports that Dallas Baptist associate head coach Dan Fitzgerald will join Johnson’s staff at LSU and oversee recruiting after a nine-year run at D-B-U. He’s known as one of the top recruiters in the country. He recruited nine eventual All-Americans at Dallas Baptist and the school made the NCAA Tournament seven times during the nine years Fitzgerald was there.

Samford catcher Tyler McManus has announced he’s transferring to LSU for his final season. The Slidell native hit .346 with 11 home runs and 53 RBIs last season. McManus has a chance to start next season as LSU struggled to find a consistent starter last season between Alex Milazzo and Hayden Travinski.

LSU’s marching band will be at every road football game for the Tigers this season, except for the season opener against UCLA. On June 15th, UCLA announced it will be at full capacity for football games this year at the Rose Bowl, but the Golden Band from Tigerland had already decided that it will not attend.

Bleed Tech-Blue is reporting that West Virginia quarterback Austin Kendall is transferring to Louisiana Tech. The former four-star recruit will be eligible to play this season. Kendall was a back-up for the Mountaineers in 2020, but started nine games in 2019 and threw for nearly two thousand yards and 12 touchdowns for West Virginia, who went five and seven last season. Kendall will battle for starting playing time against Aaron Allen and Luke Anthony. Anthony is coming off a major injury. Kendall was also at Oklahoma, where he served as a backup to Baker Mayfield and Kyler Murray.

The American Baseball Coaches Association has named LSU-Eunice coach Jeff Willis as the national coach of the year for NJCAA Division Two. It’s the seventh time Willis has won the award. This past season the Bengals won the division two junior college national championship.

There will be no fans at the Tokyo Games, which will get underway on July 23rd. The Japanese Prime Minister says the country is under a state of emergency because of the delta strain of the coronavirus and to prevent a resurgence of infections from spreading across the country.