The most heated sideline in college football on Saturday came via just one man.
A coach who appears to be Louisiana-Monroe offensive line coach Cameron Blankenship became enraged at one of his players, offensive lineman Drew Hutchinson, during a 28-23 loss to Marshall.
It’s unclear what specifically set him off, but Blankenship jumped in anger, tried to fix his headphones and followed Hutchinson to the bench, where he pushed the redshirt sophomore away. Blankenship only stopped after another player intervened and pushed him away.
Monroe ran the ball well against Marshall, averaging 6.8 yards per carry by non-quarterbacks, but three sacks, three three-and-outs and an interception kept them in check just enough to lose to the Thunder Herd, despite generally outsmarting them.
The Blankenship issue did not come up in ULM’s edited video of head coach Bryant Vincent’s post-game press conference, although the program indicated it sensed some criticism by limiting replies to the tweet about the final score. They haven’t done that in other losses.
According to the ULM website, Blankenship is in his first season as the Warhawks’ offensive line coach and has held the same job at New Mexico and UAB. Hutchinson is in his first year in game action after redshirting in 2022 and not seeing playing time as a freshman last year.
