LSU fans were left furious this week after a parody X account posted a fake death notice about Tigers assistant inside wide receivers coach Sawyer Jordan.
The account, which poses as passing game coordinator George McDonald, has been a recurring nuisance around LSU all year. It has built a following by riding the wave of real Tigers news and turning it into bait, and it has fooled people before. Earlier this spring, it pushed a fabricated post about a “friend” judge supposedly ruling in LSU’s favor during an eligibility dispute, a stunt that led sports commentator Seth Davis to criticize the fake ruling on air before realizing he had been duped, according to Yahoo Sports.
McDonald had already tried to shut down confusion once before by telling followers his only verified handle was @coachgmcdonald. That warning didn’t stop the account from finding a new target this week.
This time, the post claimed Jordan had died at 33 and included a black-and-white image marked “1993-2026,” the kind of tribute formatting real programs use when announcing a death. Jordan joined Lane Kiffin’s staff this year after serving as an offensive analyst at Ole Miss. He is a Clemson graduate from Conway, South Carolina, and has only a few years of coaching experience.
The fake post didn’t stop at the false death claim. It also mocked Jordan by saying he was “notoriously late” and calling it “ironic” that he was “early for once.”
The full caption read: “As passing coordinator at @LSUfootball, it is my difficult duty to report bad news. I’m sad to share with you that assistant inside wide receiver coach Sawyer Jordan has passed at age 33.
He was notoriously late, so it is ironic of him to be early for once. We will miss him.”
Jordan is alive and still coaching at LSU, and there has been no legitimate report from the school or any outlet saying otherwise. The tweet has since been deleted, though screenshots circulated widely.
Reaction was swift and ugly. “This isn’t funny,” one fan wrote.
“Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have the internet,” another user said. A third added, “I realize this is a parody account, but when did the false reporting of someone passing become funny?
Whoever is running this account is classless,” while another wrote, “Not funny at all to be playing with somebody[‘s] life like this.” One more response summed up the mood bluntly: “Pretty f**ked up tweet, man.
St like this should get you banned from the app.”
No one from LSU’s football program has commented directly on the post. The account also has not apologized or removed the tweet as of this writing, and that silence has only sharpened the backlash in the replies. Parody accounts around college football are nothing new, but most of them stick to cheap shots about games and rosters, not fake obituaries.
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