As LSU awaits next hire, Frank Wilson outlines what's next

LSU lost its final regular season game on Saturday night in Norman, falling to Oklahoma 17-13 and ending the regular season 7-5 overall. There’s a lot that could happen in the coming days in terms of finding a new head coach, but in the postgame press conference, Frank Wilson talked about the future of the program and what’s ahead for this team as they wrap up the regular season and await a bowl game.

“We’ll go back tomorrow and grade this tape then we’ll archive it and Monday we’ll bring the team in do all of the important things like exit interviews and what’s next for you and those conversations. Then there is signing day followed by the portal and how do we manage and love on and protect our team and advice them properly as they move forward. It doesn’t stop for us at all. Tomorrow there are medical examinations that will lead to position meetings with their coaches and coordinators that will propel us into National Signing Day for that class which will be here in three and a half weeks.”

As for Wilson’s future, we’ll have to wait and see what the plan is when the new coach is named. He’s been a major part of LSU’s dominant recruiting in Louisiana over the past two decades and he’s ready for the next chapter in purple and gold if he’s kept on.

“I love LSU and as long as LSU will have me, I would love to be a part of what we are doing here,” Wilson said.

As the interim head coach, Wilson has dealt with a lot of noise and distractions as he’s tried to keep this staff and roster locked in on the season at hand. Brian Kelly was fired just over a month ago and since then there have been no shortages of headlines and news.

It was not the season Wilson and this team wanted, but they continued to work to try to keep everyone on the same page.

“The [players] are human and that device, they carry it with them all the time, so I don’t know [how much they’ve seen], but they don’t bring it to us,” Wilson said of all the talk about this program. “There’s probably not a person involved in sports that has not seen the topic of what is going to happen with the LSU job. I don’t think they’re immune to it, but I don’t think it’s taken their undivided attention. Those are some of the distractions we had to deal with and manage as we prepared for this game.”