By Matt Moscona
BATON ROUGE, La — Former LSU quarterback and later assistant coach Lynn Amedee has died. He was 83.
Amedee died on Tuesday, May 20. According to his obituary, he was residing at Barclay House, a senior living facility in Baton Rouge.
A Baton Rouge native, Amedee attended Istrouma High School before staring at LSU from 1960-1962. He was the MVP of the 1963 Cotton Bowl win over Texas and also pitched for the Tigers baseball team.
After two seasons in the Canadian Football League with the Edmonton Eskimos, Amedee began his coaching career as an assistant at Northeast Louisiana in 1970. He would make more than a dozen stops at the high school, collegiate and NFL levels during his career than spanned part of four decades.
Amedee became the quarterbacks coach at his alma mater from 1975-1978. He would return to LSU as offensive coordinator under Curley Hallman from 1993-1994.
In his lone head coaching opportunity, Amedee was 8-14 in two seasons at Tennessee-Martin before resigning.
