Robert Edgar Brodhead (December 20, 1936 – February 11, 1996) was an American gridiron football player, executive, and college athletics administrator.
[1] Brodhead instead played for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League (CFL) that year, as backup to Don Allard.
He led the Bulldogs to the Continental Football League title in 1966 with a win over the Orlando Panthers, and then, at age 29, was named business manager of the Cleveland Browns.
[1] He was hired by LSU for his financial acumen after deposed athletic director Paul Dietzel created a million-dollar budget deficit.
Brodhead hired baseball coach Skip Bertman, who revived the moribund program and took the Bayou Bengals to unprecedented heights, guiding LSU to five national championships (1991, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000) and 11 trips to the College World Series in 18 seasons (1984-2001).
In football, Brodhead inherited coach Jerry Stovall, an LSU All-American running back and safety in the early 1960s, and fired him following a 4-7 season in 1983.