Sam Leavitt’s first ugly Saturday at LSU spilled straight into an uglier Sunday morning.
The Tigers fell to Ole Miss in Lane Kiffin’s return to Oxford, and the pressure around LSU’s new quarterback was already building as fans debated whether he should sit. Then an account tied to his father, Jared Leavitt, dragged the conversation far away from football.
By 9:42 a.m. Sunday, the account named Jared Leavitt and widely treated as his, @Gride5656, had replied to a New York street video with a post that read, “People walking dogs in New York seems to offend the invading Islamic horde.” The same account then followed with, “Yep the take over is here,” Leavitt allegedly wrote.
BroBible said it could not independently confirm the handle, even as the name and the Sam posts lined up. The Arizona Republic treated the pattern as Jared Leavitt’s.
That left LSU dealing with a mess no quarterback wants attached to his name. Sam Leavitt had already taken the heat for the loss in Oxford, and now his father’s social media was pulling the family into a public fight over Muslims.
The timing made it worse: the Tigers’ game ended around 10:30 p.m. CT, and the post was already circulating the next morning.
Jared Leavitt is a former BYU linebacker. Sam left Arizona State for Baton Rouge, and LSU spent the offseason talking about keeping him healthy after the foot issues in Tempe. He was supposed to be the piece that helped make Kiffin’s first LSU roster make sense.
Instead, the weekend turned into a test on two fronts. The offense was already under scrutiny after the loss to Ole Miss. Then the account attached to his last name turned a football story into something else entirely.
Arizona’s paper said similar posts were not new, which only sharpened the concern around a starter trying to keep his job while his father was arguing about religion on a public app. College football parents live on message boards and timelines now, but most of them stay in the box score.
This one didn’t.
Jared played at BYU, and Sam’s brother Dallin made it to the NFL, so the family already knows how quickly a last name becomes content. But this time, the attention was all wrong. There has been no apology from the account, and LSU has not yet been forced to answer for it.
That may not last if the replies keep coming. Sam still has to play the next one, but his dad made sure the week would be about more than football.
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