TEMPE, Ariz. -- Tyrann Mathieu will be forever linked to LSU after having one of the most electric college football careers in recent memory.

On Friday, however, he'll be a permanent fixture inside the team's football complex.

The LSU board of supervisors will vote Friday on naming the players' lounge the Mathieu Players' Lounge at Football Operations. Mathieu committed to a $1 million donation last November while visiting Baton Rouge for the LSU-Alabama game.

"That's cool," Mathieu said. "I don't think it really hit me yet. I mean, that's cool. Hopefully my kids go there. They'll be able to have some fun with it."

The board of supervisors also will vote on renaming the LSU weight room the Peterson-Roberts Weight Room, after Mathieu's LSU and Arizona Cardinals teammate, Patrick Peterson, and a local businessman. Peterson pledged $1 million to LSU back in 2015, when the decision was made to rename the weight room after the former All-American.

Mathieu said he has a strong relationship with LSU despite being suspended from the football team the August before his junior season was to start for failing multiple drug tests. He was then arrested that October, all but ending any shot of returning to the Tigers.

"I think a lot of people would probably assume that I had a bad relationship with LSU, and I don't think that was ever the case," he said. "It was no bad feelings. It was just some things that I had to get through."

It all led him to Friday.

Mathieu signed a five-year extension last August that could be worth as much as $62.5 million, of which $21.25 million was guaranteed at signing, including a $15.5 million bonus.

And as he found out during his return to LSU last November, money talks.

"Money usually helps things," Mathieu said with a laugh. "Kudos to them for deciding to put my name on it."

Mathieu said he hopes his two sons will go to LSU, then corrected himself. They will go there, he said with a smile. And they'll follow in their father's footsteps by becoming a defensive back, Mathieu said.

But there's one caveat to that plan.

"Unless he's over 6 feet, then he has to play quarterback," said Mathieu, who will "hope and pray" that his sons grow to be 6 feet, unlike him, who was projected by doctors when he was a child to be 6 foot 3 but topped out at 5-9. "But hopefully those guys can kick it in there and it's cool."