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M.A. Voepel
ESPN.com
- M.A. Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996.
BATON ROUGE, La. — Brian Kelly was already keenly aware that he and his LSU football team were on deck.
LSU’s baseball team, led by coach Jay Johnson, had captured the national championship in June, a little more than two months after Kim Mulkey and her women’s basketball team won the NCAA tournament in April. A pattern clearly had been set.
But on a recent scorching summer day in Baton Rouge, Kelly could only chuckle when told of a playful but confident comment made by longtime football staffer Ya’el Lofton while showing a visitor into Kelly’s office. Lofton is in her 32nd year at LSU with her seventh head coach. Kelly is the fourth for whom she’s served as executive assistant. The other three — Ed Orgeron, Les Miles and Nick Saban — all won national championships.
“Coach Kelly will win my fourth this year, and then I can retire,” Lofton said before Kelly was within earshot.
Informed of Lofton’s prediction as he…
