LSU baseball coach Jay Johnson suspended for SEC tournament final against Tennessee, according to ESPN broadcast

LSU still lives in Hoover and will play in the championship game of the SEC baseball tournament on Sunday against TennesseeHead coach Jay Johnson has come out in support of his team, saying that there is no one better in college baseball than the Tigers right now. Unfortunately, Johnson will not be in the dugout for the title game and will instead have to serve a suspension.

“I’ve been told that Jay Johnson is not allowed to coach tomorrow,” said Tom Hart of the SEC Network during the Tennessee-Vanderbilt game. “So he has to sit out the game because of a suspension. Because he was ejected.”

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UPDATE – Jay Johnson is not suspended for the SEC baseball tournament championship game

After finishing his broadcast from Hoover, Hart corrected his information about Johnson’s status on Twitter.

Johnson will be able to coach Sunday’s game against Tennessee. The Tigers can breathe a sigh of relief knowing their head coach will be in the dugout for the most important game of the season.

“I was told that Jay Johnson, despite being knocked out in the semifinals, will be allowed to coach in the final tomorrow,” Hart said of X.

Johnson was suspended from LSU’s game against South Carolina on Saturday after one of the most unusual sequences in SEC baseball tournament history. South Carolina was awarded a run in the 10th inning despite being thrown out at home after an attempted steal. The umpires ruled there had been interference at the plate, resulting in a balk.

The people in purple and gold were not too happy with this potentially winning decision. Johnson went outside to get an explanation and when he resisted, he was ejected.

LSU ultimately won the game on a walk-off home run, so the controversial play ultimately didn’t have much significance.

From the moment Johnson was ejected, he was thinking about the possibility of being suspended. Rather than dwell on the controversy a little longer, he decided to walk off the field and avoid further punishment from the SEC offices in Birmingham.

“No, I’m not messing around with anything,” Johnson said in a postgame interview with SEC Network. “We’ve got too much important baseball coming up tomorrow and the NCAA Tournament… When I got ejected, the umpiring team said, ‘You have to leave right now. Otherwise there’s a suspension.’ We fought too hard to get in that position. So I basically walked off the field.”