Joe Sloan set up to succeed as the Tigers new play caller

LSU co-offensive coordinator Joe Sloan is an up-and-comer in the coaching business. At the age of 37, he’s already accomplished a lot.

Sloan arrived at LSU prior to the 2022 season after a successful nine year run at Louisiana Tech. The Bulldogs won at a high percentage under former head coach Skip Holtz. Sloan started as receivers coach, led the recruiting efforts and eventually was promoted to offensive coordinator.

Sloan has a reputation as an outstanding recruiter, and he just helped develop a Heisman Trophy winner in Jayden Daniels as Sloan was Daniels quarterbacks coach for two seasons.

Now he gets a chance to call plays at LSU and it’s set up for him to have a lot of success.

It will be hard for him to fail considering the coaches around him.

“We have the best offensive staff in the country,” Sloan said. “And the ideas they bring to the table and the professionalism in which they do, where they bring ideas maybe from their past or maybe from something that we see, and then the decision making in what fits us the best in making sure that we let our guys’ practice that so no matter what they see they can execute.”

Sloan also gets a chance to work with an experienced quarterback in Garrett Nussmeier. Nussmeier is a first-year starter, but he has thrown 219 passes, and this is his fourth year in the program.

Sloan and Nuss have an outstanding relationship. Sloan is a big reason why Garrett stuck around as he waited his turn.

Sloan calls Nussmeier a processor and a leader and if the Nuss Buss keeps the offense from running off the road, he’ll make Sloan’s job that much easier.

Sloan also gets to be a player caller for an offense that might have the best offensive line in the country. The talent and athleticism they feature will not only make them outstanding in pass protection but in the run game too.

“We’re going to use our playmakers to make plays and if our offensive line has the ability to understand what they are seeing, process that information and attack it physically and violently and we can put them in different situations to be successful and to use their ability to be physical and to run, we are going to do it,” Sloan said.

Sloan will also benefit from a talented running back room, an intriguing group of tight ends and large group of receivers with each one bringing something different.

Plus, for the first time in college football, coaches can relay plays through a speaker in the quarterback’s helmet and tablets are allowed on the sidelines this year to help with in-game adjustments.

Sloan has already made a mark for himself in the coaching profession, and he should build on his already impressive resume by leading an offense that should put up a lot of points.