Lance Guidry has never had any trouble landing coaching gigs.

So it should be no surprise that the former McNeese State head coach is reportedly set to join the LSU staff as a defensive analyst.

The 53-year-old Guidry, a Welsh native who spent the last two years as defensive coordinator for the Miami (Fla.) Hurricanes, said Wednesday he was not at liberty to comment.

But Monday, while in Lake Charles, where he still owns a home, he said that “something is about to happen nearby” with his career.

Numerous outlets have since reported that a deal with LSU is in the works.

The analyst job is not a onfield coaching position, but he would presumably work under defensive coordinator Blake Baker and secondary coaches Corey Raymond and Jake Olsen.

Meanwhile, The Advocate of Baton Rouge reported Wednesday that LSU is expected to hire former Florida State offensive coordinator Alex Atkins as tight ends coach/running game coordinator.

Atkins, who’s experience has mostly been with the offensive line, would replace Slade Nagle, another former McNeese player, who left after one season with LSU to be offensive coordinator at Houston.
Nagle was also special teams coordinator while at LSU.
Guidry, a four-year starter in the secondary at McNeese (1990-93), was head coach at his alma mater from 2016-18.
Guidry never had a losing season at McNeese, going 21-12, but his contract was not renewed after the 2018 season.
He is 1-1 as an interim head coach in bowl games, winning a game while at Miami of Ohio and losing one while at Western Kentucky.
Those were two of several stops for Guidry after his coaching days at Leesville and Carencro high schools.
His college career started at McNeese, where he was defensive backs coach from 2000-2003 before returning to Carencro for three years.
He was back at McNeese for a year in 2008 before coaching defensive backs at Miami of Ohio in 2009 and ’10, and WKU in 2011 and ’12.

Early in the morning of Nov. 12, 2011, while in Baton Rouge for a game against LSU, Guidry was arrested and charged with his third DUI (April 1, 1990 and Sept. 12, 2003). He still coached the game later that day.

He returned to McNeese as assistant head coach/defensive coordinator for three years (2013-15) before being named the Cowboys head coach after Matt Viator left to take the job at Louisiana-Monroe.

After his final tenure at McNeese, which left McNeese on NCAA academic probation, Guidry coached at Southeastern Louisiana, Florida Atlantic and Marshall.

He briefly took the job at Tulane as defensive coordinator, but was lured to Miami (Fla.) as defensive coordinator before coaching a game with the Green Wave.

Guidry’s first Miami defense performed well, but it got a lot of the blame for the late-season slide, which dropped the Hurricanes out of contention for the College Football Playoff.

He was fired after Iowa State scored 10 points in the final minute to hand Miami a 42-41 loss in the Pop-Tarts Bowl.