BATON ROUGE – Blake Baker, who for the past two years has served as the defensive coordinator for the Miami Hurricanes, has been named linebackers coach at LSU, head coach Ed Orgeron announced on Thursday.
Baker joins the LSU staff with six year of experience as a defensive coordinator – two a Miami and four at Louisiana Tech. In addition to his coordinator duties with Miami and Louisiana Tech, Baker also coached the linebackers at both schools.
He joined the Hurricanes in January of 2019 and in his first year, he oversaw a Miami defense that ranked No.