LSU Offensive Coordinator Steve Kragthorpe Diagnosed With Parkinson's Disease

Here is an article from The Baton Rouge Advocate regarding the coaching adjustments LSU will make in response to Offensive Coordinator Steve Kragthorpe's Parkinson's Diagnosis.

LSU: First-year coach has Parkinson’s disease

Les East

Advocate sportswriter

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The excitement of LSU’s first day of fall practice was tempered Thursday by news that first-year offensive coordinator Steve Kragthorpe has Parkinson’s disease and will relinquish some of his duties.

Kragthorpe, a former head coach at Tulsa and Louisville and a noted developer of quarterbacks, will continue as quarterbacks coach, have input into game plans, and coach from the press box on game days. But the offensive coordinator’s duties, most notably play-calling, will be assumed by fifth-year offensive line coach Greg Studrawa, who was the offensive coordinator at Bowling Green for four seasons before joining the Tigers staff.

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