SJ Tuohy, whose character was portrayed by Jae Head in “The Blind Side” as the son of Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, is expected to be hired by Louisiana-Monroe as its next athletic director, according multiple reports.
Tuohy, 32, currently works at Oral Roberts as its deputy athletic director of development.
Prior to Oral Roberts, Tuohy also worked as executive director of The Kingdom NIL at UCF, the associate athletic director and football chief of staff for the Knights, assistant athletics director and director of football operations at Liberty and the associate director of football operations and player personnel at Arkansas, according to his bio page.
In “The Blind Side,” which was based on the book by Michael Lewis, a young Tuohy’s relationship with former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher became part of the story about Oher’s path to college.
Oher, who spent eight years in the NFL across stints for the Ravens, Titans and Panthers, filed a lawsuit against Tuohy’s parents in 2023 alleging that they never legally adopted him and that they used a conservatorship — which gave the Tuohys the authority to make decisions on behalf of Oher — to take proceeds from the film from him.
The conservatorship — which didn’t allow Oher to make medical decisions or sign contracts on his own, according to NPR — was terminated in September 2023.
“The lie of Michael’s adoption is one upon which Co-Conservators Leigh Anne Tuohy and Sean Tuohy have enriched themselves at the expense of their Ward, the undersigned Michael Oher,” Oher’s filing stated, according to an ESPN story at the time of the lawsuit. “Michael Oher discovered this lie to his chagrin and embarrassment in February of 2023, when he learned that the Conservatorship to which he consented on the basis that doing so would make him a member of the Tuohy family, in fact provided him no familial relationship with the Tuohys.”
In a filing at the time, the Tuohy family “vehemently denied” the allegations, and it said that “respondents stand ready, willing, and able to terminate the conservatorship by consent at any time,” according to an ESPN story at the time.
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