The LSU Athletic Department announced Monday that men’s basketball team assistant coach Nikita Johnson has resigned to accept an associate head coaching position at Louisiana Tech University.
Johnson, native of Greenwood, Fla., came to LSU in 2004 after spending six seasons as an assistant at the University of New Orleans.
Johnson will only be part of a new coaching regime that began at Louisiana Tech when the school named Kerry Rupp as head coach April 16.
In addition to Johnson, Rupp also hired Rennie Bailey from University of Louisiana-Lafayette and Curtis Condie from Texas A&M International University as assistant coaches.
“I really appreciate the opportunity coach [John] Brady gave me,” Johnson said in a news release. “Going to Louisiana Tech is a step that can lead toward becoming a head coach, and that’s my ultimate goal.”
In a news release, Rupp expressed excitement about his new staff of assistants.
“These are not only good coaches but great men of high stature and high ideals,” Rupp said. “They all share the same vision to be successful, which coincides with mine.”
Johnson has served as an assistant coach at several universities since joining the coaching ranks in 1981. He served two separate stints as an assistant at Chipola Junior College in the 1980s and 1990s. He also held assistant coaching positions at Odessa College, Murray State and Duquesne University in the mid-1990s.
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