Longtime LSU football staffer Charles Baglio died Friday night when he was hit by a car on U-S Highway 51 in Tangipahoa Parish. Baglio was just involved in a wreck himself and checking on another vehicle when he was struck and killed by a passing motorist. Baglio was also a successful high school football coach at Independence. Former Independence Coach Keith Carona says Baglio made high school sports fun
“If you’re going to play high school sports its tough, but we all want to have fun, and us as coaches we’re going to put in a lot of hours, but we’re gonna have fun doing it.”
Baglio won 205 games as a high school football coach and took Independence to the state championship game twice. Carona says former LSU coach Nick Saban hired Baglio as a staffer in in 2002 and he was part of three national championship teams…
“It was high school relations, it was personal realtions. He ran the football camps. He just did everything at the football program. Coach Bag is and Sam Nader, they rocked and rolled it a long time at LSU.”
Baglio was 81-years-old and Corona says the Independence native served as a mentor for many high school football coaches…
“It’s unfortunate, that we feel like he had a lot of years left, but the good Lord had other plans.”
Baglio was inducted into the Louisiana High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and part of this year’s National High School Athletics Coaches Association Hall of Fame.
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