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Running Backs Coach Tommie Robinson Leaves USC Football to Join LSU

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 5:25 p.m. ET

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Running backs coach Tommie Robinson is set to leave USC football to join LSU, according to Ross Dellenger of The Advocate.

USC football’s run of good fortune has hit a bump in the road. Running backs coach Tommie Robinson is reportedly on his way out of Los Angeles, leaving to join Ed Orgeron’s staff at LSU.

Ross Dellenger reported the link between LSU and Robinson on Monday. On Tuesday afternoon he confirmed that the hire has been completed.

Official word has yet to be announced.

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He had had similar success with the Trojans in 2013, during his first stint with USC under Lane Kiffin and Orgeron as an interim. When Steve Sarkisian was hired, Robinson left to join the Texas coaching staff, where he served for two seasons before returning to join Clay Helton’s staff in 2016.

From a coaching standpoint, Robinson’s loss is a major one for USC. From a wider perspective, Robinson’s departure also nixes the Trojans’ plans of rolling into the 2017 season with an unchanged coaching staff for the first time since 2008.

Now, Helton and company will have to seek a replacement before the start of spring camp.

One obvious solution would be to tap outside linebackers coach Johnny Nansen, who had been USC’s running backs coach before Robinson’s return.

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