Herb Vincent

Sport: Administrator

Induction Year: 2025

University: LSU

The LSU graduate and former staffer has been Associate Commissioner for Communications at the Southeastern Conference for the past 11 years, responsible for all communication strategies for the league as well as serving as SEC spokesperson. His distinguished career earned him the Dave Dixon Louisiana Sports Leadership Award as part of the LSHOF Class of 2025.

Prior to that, he served more than two decades at his alma mater, beginning as assistant sports information director, then being named Senior Associate Athletic Director in 2006 and then added a dual role as university Associate Vice Chancellor for University Relations in 2009. While in that role he supervised the SID and the marketing/promotions office, was the primary liaison with LSU Sports Properties, and was department administrator for the hugely successful LSU baseball program. He served as SID from July 1988 until July 2000 when he was named Vice President for Communications for College Sports Southeast regional cable network before returning to LSU in 2002.

Vincent became the first Louisiana-rooted person to serve as the national president for the College Sports Communicators of America in 2019-20 after four years on that organization’s board of directors. He also received one of CSC’s top honors, the Arch Ward Award in 2019 for outstanding contributions to the profession, and was a 25-year award winner in 2012.

In 2015, Vincent was named to the LSU Alumni Hall of Distinction, and in 2020 was inducted in the university’s Manship School of Mass Communications Hall of Fame. He and his staff at LSU won an array of LSWA honors. He worked under Louisiana Sports and CSC Hall of Famer Paul Manasseh during his undergraduate days, then spent the 1984 and 1985 seasons as public relations director for the USFL’s New Orleans Breakers and the Los Angeles Express.

After the USFL folded, he also served one year as publications director at UL Lafayette under LSHOF member Dan McDonald and was on the SEC staff as assistant director of public relations for two years prior to returning to LSU in 1988.

An author of a book on LSU football, “The LSU Football Vault,” Vincent earned his degree in journalism from LSU in 1983.