Rene Nadeau
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Born and raised in the New Orleans area, Rene Nadeau has been involved in sports ever since his earliest memories. Rene played basketball, wrestled, ran track, and was an All-District running back in football at John F. Kennedy High School. He went on to play football at LSU, developing a passion for the game in even greater fashion while in Baton Rouge.
Nadeau played semi-pro football for two seasons with the New Orleans Blue Knights. He has been a prominent sports figure in the New Orleans area for 29 years. Nadeau currently serves as a color football analyst for Fox Sports regional broadcasts including the LHSAA Game of the Week. He also has worked on ESPN Regional games, color football analyst for LSU games on Tigervision and as a reporter for WFAN All-Sports radio in New York.
Previously, Nadeau has served as the play-by-play voice of Loyola (New Orleans) basketball and served as a television studio host for the Wolfpack, did color analysis for prep football games on Cox Communications and WHNO-TV, co-hosted a radio show in Biloxi, Mississippi with Ken Stabler, hosted Cox Metro Sports on Cox Communications, did the HBO International play-by-play broadcast of both a Roy Jones, Jr. and Oscar De La Hoya fight in 1994, and served as public address announcer for the New Orleans Zephyrs.
Rene served as the analyst for Prep Recruiting Insider, a WHNO-TV New Orleans production highlighting the best high school athletes in south Louisiana, for five years.
In addition, Nadeau has served as a secretary/treasurer for the NFL Players Association for well over a decade.
Rene provides wide-ranging contributions to Crescent City Sports including college football recruiting analysis.
Latest Articles by Rene
- Saints offensive lineman Max Garcia waits for the call
- Recruiting: LSU hosts top 2024 recruits Danny Okoye, Terry Bussey on Arkansas game weekend
- Recruiting: Belle Chasse’s Jaeden Voisin commits to Southeastern Louisiana
- Recruiting: 2024 linebacker Xavier Atkins re-commits to LSU
- LSU offense looks to establish ground game against veteran Mississippi State defense
- Deion Sanders may hit New Orleans area hard in quest to build Colorado into a college football power
- New Orleans area players on FBS rosters in 2023
- LSU’s Duce Chestnut embraces challenges, looks to bring back secondary’s swagger after opening loss
- Patrick Jenkins leads Tulane defensive front into showdown with Ole Miss
- Recruiting: Acadiana defensive tackle Dominick McKinley commits to Texas A&M over LSU, Texas, Oklahoma
