LSU was off last week as they prepare to face Alabama on Saturday but one player on the team didn’t understand that the focus on the bye should probably be on the top-ranked team coming to Baton Rouge.
The program suspended freshman offensive lineman Donavaughn Campbell on Tuesday, just a few days after he was arrested at a Georgia Tech fraternity house for allegedly punching two people.
Campbell’s brother is a redshirt defensive back with the Yellow Jackets and his teammate Jalen Johnson was also arrested and booked in conjunction with the incident.
Georgia Tech did not suspend Johnson this week ahead of their matchup against North Carolina.
“I think I would urge everybody to let all the facts come in and let the investigation unfold and then we’ll make an appropriate statement and an appropriate action,” head coach Paul Johnson said on Monday, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “But guys are innocent until proven guilty. Just because it happened doesn’t mean they’re always guilty, so let’s let the facts play out.”
Campbell has not played much this season for LSU and was expected to be a backup in the interior offensive line against Alabama this week.
It seems a tad strange that one coach would suspend a player who was arrested in an incident while another would not but you can bet that Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron has been preaching ‘no distractions’ to his team this week as they prepare to play the Crimson Tide in a huge SEC West showdown.