NEW ORLEANS — Monday night’s outcome between No. 1 LSU and No. 2 Alabama will have no bearing on Steve Kragthorpe’s admirable season.
Kragthorpe was hired last January by Tigers coach Les Miles as the offensive coordinator but never got to call a play. The 46-year-old announced in August that he had Parkinson’s disease, which resulted in him remaining on staff as quarterbacks coach but shifting the play-calling chores to line coach Greg Studrawa.
Five months later, Kragthorpe has yet to miss a day on the job.
“It’s the way I’m programmed,” he said Friday. “You just fight through it. What helps me is that I’m used to being tired and I’m used to working a lot of hours, and I’m used to being in the position where I don’t feel good. Some days I feel a little worse, but you just get up and go.
“When I get to work, I start feeling better as the day progresses because I’m stimulated. If I just laid in bed, it wouldn’t be a good situation.”