LSU took a big step on Wednesday to redo their offense and announced the hiring of Carolina Panthers quarterbacks coach Jake Peetz as the Tigers offensive coordinator and assistant DJ Mangas as the pass game coordinator. the team.
Both Peetz and Mangas have ties to Joe Brady, who coordinated LSU’s offense during his national championship season.
Who are Peetz and Mangas? Here are five things to know about the new Tiger Offense leaders.
Peetz and Mangas form a young duet that will lead LSU’s offense
Peetz is 37 years old and Mangas is 31 years old.
Peetz’s coaching experience dates back to 2006, when he began as a security coach and special teams coordinator at Santa Barbara City College. His later stops include UCLA, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the University of Alabama (twice), the Washington Redskins and the Oakland Raiders.
Mangas has been a coach since 2012 with stops at Hampton-Sydney College, Georgetown University and William & Mary College. At the time of his promotion to William & Mary, Mangas was the second youngest Division I football offensive coordinator in 2017 and 2018.
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Peetz will bring a full Baton Rouge
Peetz and his wife, Maggie, have six children.
“He’s such an amazing dad” Maggie said in an interview last year with the Carolina Panthers team website. “… When he gets home, he’s completely in parent mode.”
QB coach Jake Peetz breaks Teddy Bridgewater movie and shows life at Peetz’s house with his 5 (almost 6) children#KeepPounding pic.twitter.com/GokKlb1Vts
– Carolina Panthers (@Panthers) October 11, 2020
Peetz was a walk in Nebraska; he cared for his brother during his senior year
According to the Lincoln Journal Star, Peetz walked to Nebraska in the early 2000s, but did not play down.
Peetz told the Journal Star in 2017 that he thought he would play on special teams as a senior, but his brother, Jesse Peetz, fell ill about a week before the opening of the 2005 season. Peetz said he stayed with his brother, away from the Nebraska football complex. Jesse Peetz died in 2014. He was 29 years old.
Mangas, with connections to Joe Brady, returns to LSU
Mangas served as a big receiver for William & Mary from 2008 to 2011, crossing paths with Brady, who played from 2009 to 2012, and Mangas was the tribe’s offensive coordinator for two seasons before joining the LSU template.
Mangas was LSU’s offensive analyst in 2019, when Brady was the team’s offensive coordinator.
Peetz and Mangas were highly recommended by Brady
Orgeron told WNXX-FM “Off the Bench” on Tuesday that Derek Ponamsky, LSU’s special assistant at Orgeron, has been in contact with Brady during the search, hoping to find candidates who can replicate the schemes Brady presented. and former offensive coordinator Steve Ensminger when the Tigers won the program’s fourth national championship.
“Both Jake and DJ come highly recommended by one of the game’s most innovative and first-rate offensive coaches to Joe Brady,” Orgeron said in a statement Wednesday.
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