LSU reporter Glen West joins The Bengal Tiger family!

LSU fans on The Bengal Tiger welcomed the newest addition to the family on June 1 with the hire of longtime beat writer Glen West!

When mulling over which direction to go with the next staff hire, the mission was to find someone who brought both passion and experience covering the Tigers. And Glen emphatically checks both those boxes.

Glen has been on the LSU beat for years, he’s homegrown out of New Orleans, he graduated from LSU, and he has covered the Tigers through his college years and beyond.

For me, Glen represents everything LSU fans deserve when paying to get news on their favorite team while being part of a great community like The Bengal Tiger.

First and foremost, he’s a tireless worker. I’ve seen it with my own eyes over the past decade. He shows up to everything, whether it’s games or practices or interviews and beyond. There won’t be a stone he leaves unturned when it comes to covering the LSU beat.

In a lot of ways, he reminds me of former staff writer Matthew Brune, who has moved on to become the General Manager of the Rutger’s Women’s Basketball program. Glen covers multiple sports – and knows each of them like the back of his hand.

And, as I have long promised to LSU fans on the site, the baseball coverage for The Bengal Tiger has arrived!

Glen has covered multiple LSU Baseball head coaches and has been a staple at Alex Box over the years, so he will be able to bring insight, coverage and scoop from the baseball beat – plus baseball recruiting coverage through high school and the Transfer Portal.

I could go on and on about how excited I am about this hire, and former staff writers here on the site like Billy Embody and Brune signed off on this one being the addition to go with as we continue to build The Bengal Tiger family during a time when we have grown to be the biggest the site has ever been.

I very much thank everyone for their patience this year as we worked to add more staff to the site, because playing the waiting game to get the hire right was paramount. And, I’m confident we did just that with the addition of Glen!

So, give our newest family member here some love as we get the month of June rolling!

***** JOIN IN ON THE DISCUSSION: WELCOMING GLEN WEST TO THE BENGAL TIGER! *****

Glen’s Words: Why The Bengal Tiger was the right choice

Happy June, Bengal Tiger family! My name is Glen West and I couldn’t be happier to start my journey with On3 and the Bengal Tiger today. 

The transformation period within the LSU athletic department, football and basketball programs over the last six months has rubbed off on the media industry around town as well and I’m extremely excited to bring widespread team and recruiting coverage to this great community of Tiger fans. 

For those who don’t know much about me, I grew up in New Orleans reading the Times Picayune sports section from front to back every day as a young sports fan. My sports passions have been LSU, the Saints and the Pelicans from as far back as I can remember. I grew up playing baseball and golf but my best sport without a doubt was basketball. It helped that I was always the tall one in the class and I never stopped, even as I got to college where I grew a few inches. But I did finally stop at 6-foot-10 in my first year at LSU in 2015 and I haven’t left Baton Rouge since. 

I loved going to school here and from the second semester of my sophomore year until this very moment, I’ve been captivated and extremely lucky to get to cover LSU sports. I started as a student, where my first beat was covering the final team of the Johnny Jones era in 2017 and then an LSU baseball team that made it all the way to the championship series against Florida. Immediately I became infatuated with being around those two programs and the players, which rubbed off later that fall in football as well. 

I was lucky enough to have a front row seat to Will Wade’s iconic NIT press conference after beating ULL. One of the first football games I ever covered was LSU-Troy in 2017 but that memory quickly gave way to the iconic two-year run with Ed Orgeron, Joe Burrow and company. 

Covering national championships in football and baseball, multiple trips to the NCAA tournament in basketball, two Heisman trophy winners and all of the great players who have rolled through Baton Rouge since the spring of 2017 has truly been a dream and I don’t plan to wake from it any time soon. 

Now, after 10 years of being on this beat, it’s crazy to think of how full circle this upcoming year will be. After being fired, Orgeron, Wade and Jones are all back. There’s a new leader of the football program in Lane Kiffin and you can bet that Jay Johnson and LSU baseball won’t be down for very long. 

The 2026-27 athletic calendar promises to be unlike any other we’ve seen from an entertainment perspective and I look forward to covering each moment alongside you all. 

I would like to thank Shannon Terry, Ryan Tice, Taylor Gaspar Estes, Joel Cox and many others who have believed in me for a long time and offered me this great platform to continue working for. A huge reason for me making this move is the respect and admiration I have for Shea Dixon and I am absolutely stoked to get to work alongside him. 

My plan is to really hit the ground running over these next several weeks. With the baseball portal just opening, I’ll be on top of the additions and changes made to this roster throughout the offseason (more on that in a little bit). This is obviously a huge month for us in recruiting as well and I will be working closely with Shea in any way that I can to help bring you guys all the latest on top targets, commitments and official visits. I’m also hoping to plan a sitdown interview with Will Wade in the weeks ahead to get his thoughts on this team he’s built in year one and before you know it, media days and fall camp for football will be right around the corner as well. 

I can’t begin to express my gratitude for this opportunity and all that it entails. I look forward to meeting and interacting with each and every one of you and hope to build something special with the Bengal Tiger. Now, time to get to work.