Head coaches get a lot of the credit for recruiting, but it wasn’t LSU coach Brian Kelly or even the coordinators that drew Las Vegas-based cornerback Jeremiah Hughes to LSU.

It was defensive graduate assistant Nicco Fertitta.

Fertitta, a former safety at Notre Dame under Kelly, had coached Hughes at Bishop Gorman High School before becoming a graduate assistant at LSU.
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