{"id":59681,"date":"2025-07-12T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59681\/"},"modified":"2025-07-12T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T13:34:18","slug":"breaking-lsu-hires-sam-petitto-away-from-ohio-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/59681\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: LSU hires Sam Petitto away from Ohio State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LSU Football has made a third notable off-field hire in the past week with the addition of Ohio State\u2019s <strong>Sam Petitto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Petitto, an Amite (La.) native who spent nearly a decade working under Alabama head coach Nick Saban, will be LSU Football\u2019s Director of Scouting and Personnel Strategy, sources tell The Bengal Tiger staff.<\/p>\n<p>Petitto was hired by Ohio State in February 2024 as the program\u2019s Director of Player Personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Now, he\u2019s headed home to Louisiana as the newest off-field hire by LSU Senior Associate Athletic Director for Football Administration Austin Thomas in what\u2019s been described as a push towards a \u201cmodernization\u201d of the LSU Football program in the new era of college athletics as schools prioritize front office rolls with the emergence of NIL and the Transfer Portal.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, LSU finalized a deal with a former longtime staffer and alum\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/G5JeffMartin\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jeff Martin<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to become the program\u2019s new Executive Director of Player Personnel. The hire came after Kevin Bolden left Ole Miss to join the LSU Football staff as the program\u2019s Assistant General Manager.<\/p>\n<p>The hire of Petitto is a notable one for LSU given his time spent as Alabama\u2019s Director of Personnel Operations under Saban for eight seasons, helping the Crimson Tide routinely land top recruiting classes.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his time in Tuscaloosa, Petitto was the Director of Player Personnel at Georgia for two seasons. <\/p>\n<p>Petitto began his career in football as a high school coach in Louisiana, then went on to work at Grambling State and Southeastern Louisiana. <\/p>\n<p>The Amite native played a part in the Tide landing former Louisiana 5-star recruit Devonta Smith out of Petitto\u2019s hometown, and his relationship with current Baton Rouge 5-star Blaine Bradford is notable given Bradford is committed to the Buckeyes as part of the program\u2019s 2026 recruiting class. Bradford is one of three 5-star prospects in Louisiana this cycle, joining a pair of 5-star LSU commitments in Lamar Brown and Richard Anderson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU Football has made a third notable off-field hire in the past week with the addition of Ohio&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[1318,1317,1315,1316,1718,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-59681","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-regwall","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114840526660854261","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}