Saints Coach Sean Payton will be back next season, but who will be his defensive coordinator? Based on Payton’s statements, it sounds like Dennis Allen, who took over for Rob Ryan during the season, will likely be back for the 2016 campaign…
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Payton will have to find a new defensive backs coach. Wesley McGriff has been hired as Auburn’s co-defensive coordinator as he’ll share those duties with Kevin Steele.

Could LSU lose defensive line coach Ed Orgeron leave for another school in the SEC West. It’s been reported Mississippi State has made an aggressive offer to Orgeron to be the Bulldogs new defensive coordinator. Orgeron just completed his first season at LSU, which saw its D-Line play improve.

LSU will play Louisiana Tech and Southeastern Louisiana in football in 2018. The Tigers will play the Lions on September 8th that year for the first time since 1949. The Bulldogs will visit LSU on October 20th. Rice and Miami of Florida are the other two non-conference games in 2018.

For Louisiana Tech, there other non-conference opponents in 2018 are South Alabama, Mississippi State and they’ll host Bowling Green.

A couple of other football notes…former LSU wide receiver and Neville star John Diarse has transferred to TCU. And Tim Detillier is retiring as the head coach of the Lutcher Bulldogs. He led his alma mater to four state championships on the high school level, including this past season.