Report: LSU deputy athletic director Stephanie Rempe hired as Nevada athletic director

On3 imageby:Justin Rudolph•06/20/22

The LSU Tigers are losing a key member of their athletic department. According to Ross Dallenger, LSU Deputy Athletic Director Stephanie Rempe will become the next athletic director for the University of Nevada.

“Rempe has been with LSU AD Scott Woodward at three stops as his right hand, overseeing day to day operations at Washington, Texas A&M and in Baton Rouge,” wrote Dellenger via Twitter.

Rempe accepted the positions of LSU’s executive deputy officer of athletics and chief operating officer in July of 2019, coming over from the Aggies along with current Tigers athletic director Scott Woodward. She will be taking over for former Nevada athletic director Doug Knuth. Knuth and the school elected to part ways in April of 2022. Rempe will become the second female athletic director in Nevada history. Cary Groth held the position from 2004 to 2013.

The reasonable expectations for Brian Kelly and the LSU Tigers in Year 1

The LSU Tigers enter the 2022 season as perhaps the most difficult team in the SEC to handicap. 

Out is Ed Orgeron and a slew of former blue chip recruits. In steps former Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly and a legion of transfers. With more than 30 newcomers on the roster, LSU’s team looks completely different than the ones that went a combined 11-12 the past two seasons. 

With Kelly now in charge, the entire program — from its culture to its roster to its identity — is in transition. He stunned college football bolting South Bend for Baton Rouge, but Kelly has openly pinned that he made the jump to the SEC because he believes LSU has “a better path” to win a national title. 

Recent history says, “Duh.” (This is where we note the Tigers’ last three coaches all won championships).

But LSU isn’t winning a national title in 2022. Those are the broader expectations that will ultimately define Kelly’s midnight divorce from the Irish, but what does a reasonable Year 1 look like for a program that’s somewhere between a rebuild and restart?