Ole Miss offers Ruston’s Guidry scholarship
Photo by Bret McCormick Ruston junior defensive end Geordan Guidry has received offers from Ole Miss and Tulane in the past week after a stellar season for the Bearcats.
You can’t help notice Ruston’s No. 91 on the football field.
He’s become a player offensive coordinators have to game plan against. But off the field, it didn’t seem like college coaches were noticing Geordan Guidry.
Until now. This week Guidry received back-to-back FBS offers from teams that spent time in the top-25 this past season. After receiving an offer from Tulane, Wednesday Ole Miss and head coach Lane Kiffin came calling.
Guidry (6- 3, 240) plays opposite Duke commit Ahmad Breaux in the Bearcats’ 4-2-5 defensive scheme and had his breakout as a sophomore in 2021 and continued his progress by putting together an impressive junior season.
He totaled 74 tackles, 10 tackles for loss, led the team with 7.5 sacks and had 3 pass breakups in 2022 while leading the Bearcats to the Division I Nonselect championship game against Destrehan.
The son of former Nebraska and Grambling State standout George Guidry, he is following in his father’s footsteps in drawing interest from college recruiters. George Guidry had a stellar prep career at Washington- Marion High in Lake Charles before moving on to the next level.
Geordan Guidry confirmed Wednesday that Ole Miss pulled the trigger in handing him his first SEC offer.
“I am extremely blessed to receive my first SEC offer from Ole Miss football,” he said on social media, tagging Kiffin and new Ole Miss defensive coordinator Pete Golding, former DC at Alabama.
Before the recent offers from Tulane and Ole Miss, Guidry was sitting on a lone offer from his father’s alma mater, Grambling State. Though his recruitment started slow, he trusted it was going to happen sooner or later.
“This is a sign that my hard work is paying off,” he told the Leader. “It wasn’t that difficult being patient really. I knew my time was coming.”
Guidry will be a key performer for defensive coordinator Kyle Williams’ Ruston defense in 2023 when the Bearcats should be one of the favorites in Division I to make a run at a state title.
