BATON ROUGE, La. -- Les Miles frequently had to share the spotlight on his radio call-in show this fall.
LSU’s football coach was still the featured attraction, but many fans also wanted to speak with Miles’ retiring co-host, Jim Hawthorne, whose final football game as LSU’s radio play-by-play announcer will be Tuesday’s AdvoCare V100 Texas Bowl.
“I remember sitting at my radio show and having caller after caller congratulate him on a great career and what he’s meant to them,” Miles said. “Thank goodness he was with us.”
Many in LSU’s listening audience know only Hawthorne’s voice as the sound of Tigers athletics.