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Hey Fightin' Podcast: Director of Recruiting Donovan Tate on Serving Others, The LSU Brand, Current Roster & More

Hey Fightin' Podcast Network: The Official Podcast Network of LSU Sports

LSU Sports

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4.9537 Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2025

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Get to know LSU Football's Director of Recruiting Donovan Tate, a Hattiesburg native who was recently elevated to the role after serving as LSU’s Associate Director of Recruiting under JR Belton. Donovan brings a wealth of knowledge to the staff, including over a decade of teaching and coaching experience.

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0:00.0

Hey Fight and Tiger

0:12.0

All right, welcome back to another edition of Hey Fight and podcast presented by Marathon Petroleum, get the most out of your drive.

0:22.0

Harrison Valentine, really glad to be joined today by LSU Football's Director of Recruiting Donovan Tate.

0:28.9

Donovan, Donovan, first off, appreciate your time. I know you're busy. Second off, we've got to start with this.

0:35.2

Who was the better receiver at Nichols? You or Jordan Arsima.

0:38.7

We might have been time for first place.

0:40.8

Was there any overlap there?

0:42.6

Yeah, so Jordan's freshman year was my senior year.

0:46.2

Gotcha.

0:46.9

He came in as I was kind of transitioning out.

0:50.5

Awesome.

0:51.2

When I was doing some research on you and I saw you went to nichols and i think you were a

0:58.4

senior when he was a freshman or something like that but we just had to settle that first off and

1:03.6

i asked jordan to be on the podcast today but he's busy and love jordan he's he's the best but we'll

1:09.0

start with your background a little bit 13 years years of coaching experience. You're recently elevated to director of recruiting,

1:15.6

so congratulations on that. A role previously held by our guy, J.R. Belton, shout out J.R.

1:20.6

Another one of the best in the business. He is now the director of ops for LSU football.

1:25.6

If you could just walk through our listeners

1:28.8

your journey to get to this point a little bit about your current role and what it entails.

1:35.6

I think it's pretty obvious, but just tell us a little bit about your current role.

1:39.0

Okay, so just to give you context, man, I truly was called to coaching in the profession altogether.

1:47.7

If you were to ask me what my plan in life was, and that's a big, when you think about

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