BATON ROUGE, La. - LSU's Josh Boutte knows his late hit on Wisconsin DB D'Cota Dixon two weeks ago looked bad. But Boutte took his ejection, one-game suspension and flood of criticism and turned it into a friendship with Dixon.
Boutte's LSU coaches and teammates defended him since the bizarre sequence at the end of a season-opening loss to Wisconsin. Boutte spoke about the incident for the first time Monday, saying he knew the incident didn't look good.