Ole Miss fans had a pretty good weekend. They enjoyed a hard fought win over Tennessee and a spectacle of Volunteer suicide that none of them could have imagined. However, the fun was not over for the powdered blues as LSU announced the termination of Head Football Coach Ed Orgeron at the end of the season:
I write to you today to let you know that LSU Head Football Coach Ed Orgeron will not be returning for the 2022 season, concluding his tenure with the Tigers upon the completion of the 2021 season.
From my first day as LSU’s Director of Athletics in 2019, Coach O and I have maintained an open and consistent dialogue regarding the state of LSU Football. His passion and pride for our football team and for our state are unrivaled and undeniable, and, even when faced with this difficult news, he still wants what is best for the Tigers, above all else. I have asked him—and he has agreed—to remain as head coach through the end of the 2021 season, giving our team the best chance for success and continuing to aid in our recruiting efforts. I know Coach O will continue to give everything he has, as that is what he has always given our university and our state. For that dedication, for the greatest team in college football history in 2019, and for five years of relentless effort on behalf of the LSU Tigers, we are forever grateful to Coach O.
Ultimately, we have very high standards for all of our sports programs at LSU, and we will stand proudly behind our expectations of competing for SEC and national championships year in and year out. Our last two seasons have simply not met those standards, and based on our on-field results and our evaluation of the potential for future immediate success, it is time for a new direction.
The search for LSU Football’s next championship head coach begins now.
Scott Woodward
Director of Athletics
Coach O issued his own statement as well:
Five years ago, I fulfilled a lifelong dream and returned to LSU to lead the Tigers into Death Valley. I have loved LSU since I first touched a football in Lafourche Parish in the late 1960s. I loved the Tigers when I enrolled as a freshman defensive lineman in 1979. I loved the Tigers when I left to continue my playing career elsewhere, and I loved them every step of my professional journey — even from far away — as my career took me across America until I returned 35 years later.
My love for LSU has only strengthened over the past five years. All I wanted to do when I accepted the position as head coach in 2016 was to build a championship program and make the state of Louisiana proud. With the hard work and support of talented players, loyal assistants, dedicated staff, and the most passionate fans in college football, we did just that in 2019.
I have always understood the expectations at LSU, and they are the same expectations I have for myself and our staff. I am disappointed that we have not met these expectations over the past two years. Thank you to the entire LSU family for the opportunity to coach one of the greatest college football teams of all-time. I’ll continue to fight, as will our team, throughout the rest of the season.
Geaux Tigers,
Sports Illustrated (and former Clarion – Ledger) reporter Ross Dellenger provided more of the story on the SI website:
Orgeron, the second-highest paid coach in the country at more than $8 million a year with a buyout of $17 million, saw his program begin crumbling under the weight of myriad issues. A strained relationship between the coach and administration warped into an untenable situation in Baton Rouge, producing rampant distrust and outbursts....
More than a dozen people in and around the university spoke to SI, under condition of anonymity, to share stories that help answer that question. They paint a picture of a program that began tilting toward disaster last summer during a mishandling of a player-led social injustice march. Others cite Orgeron’s eccentric behavior, both private and public, that remind many of his tenure as Ole Miss’s coach, which ended in 2007.
The answer for some is much more simple. The foundation of Orgeron’s early-career success in Baton Rouge left him. That includes key assistants, defensive coordinator Dave Aranda and pass-game coordinator Joe Brady, and one of the best quarterbacks to ever play in the college game, Joe Burrow—the three anchors of the 2019, 15–0 national championship squad.
Combine the departures with failed coordinator hires, a rash of significant injuries this year, lingering NCAA and Title IX investigations and a brand-new school president, and LSU finds itself looking for a new leader.
“You get on top and you start to live differently. And that’s when the fall happens,” says one source close to the football program. “Here’s a coach who finally, after decades in the game, achieves the maximum goal. But when you achieve it, it’s ‘My problems are done!’ No. Success sometimes isn’t an end to a problem. It’s the beginning of more.”... https://www.si.com/.amp/college/2021/10/17/ed-orgeron-lsu-football-inside-program-collapse?__twitter_impression=true
Then there is the matter of Tennessee. No words are needed.
But at the end, Coach Kiffin clinked the Vols like a boss.
45 comments:
Any examples of O’s eccentric behavior?
Foobahh, Foobahh
Poontang, Poontang.
Sometimes, boys and girls...there's just a conflict.
Ed knew this coming in and Ed knows it going out.
Reminds me of this old statement: “It is easier to get to the top, than it is to stay at the top.”
(Not that either are “easy.”)
Keep laughing losers, then count his $17,000,000.
the eternal sophomores of the SEC........they just love their sordid stinking little soap opera known at college football.
Ole Miss alumnus here with a prediction:
LSU beats Ole Miss this weekend by 2 touchdowns.
Watch LSU run the table the rest of the year and the Tigger fans lament running him off. As to hillbillies at the University of TN, they can still claim the invention of the toothbrush. Any other place would have called it the teethbrush.
The difference between LSU coaches leaving and Ole Miss coaches leaving, LSU coaches leave with a National Championship ring on their finger.
He has a ring and $17000000. Winner winner.
Mel Tucker, coordinator at Michigan State, is rumored to be the lead dog to replace Shrimp Captain.
Remember the last coach to leave Michigan to head LSU? His name was Saban.
9:55, how many LSU coaches have done that?
The real problem for Mississippi is can they keep Lane, if LSU fails to get the guy from Michigan State, they are coming for him. 17m is gator bait on the bayou, they have at least 6 -7m to land the fish they want and Lane is in the pond.
Second highest paid? Wonder whose paid more? Mike Leach?
Guarantee someone enough money, and it will change them. Who would have thought Marbles in his Mouth would get a divorce, and post himself with young hookers on the internet with a shit-eating grin? And that's the stuff we know about!
Got the contract, got the ring....Wheeeee! I'll do whatever I want now.
What is it about Ole Miss that ALL other colleges dislike? I mean, they have the zebra tent and all.
Wait until LSU hires Kiffin as Head Coach.
Per the BR Advocate, he’s in the top 10.
Didn't Ole Miss fans throw objects on the field after a controversial call in a game against Alabama? Maybe Tennessee fans watched the film from that game.
Ye who is without sin cast the first pair of high heels.
I talked to a Tennessee fan and he told me they threw that stuff on the field to make it easier for the clean up crew to collect it.
@ 5:53. The last 3 according to my count. Is there another school where the last two coaches won titles? Or one that had three coaches in a row win one at any point in their history?
In the case of Coonass Eddie, the 'tang remains the undefeated, untied and undisputed champion of all time.
How much is Kiffin’s buyout if he decides to sail away? I got a lawyer buddy who has pledged 500K to land the next Coach , I here Coach O is pitching in 100K and he is big buddies with Lane! If they want him the pissants can’t do nothing to stop them. That goes for just about anybody else too.
They will have their man by the end of the week, you just won’t here about it until the end of the season. Guy probably won’t even coach his teams bowl game. He will be moving into his office at Tiger Stadium
Don't believe with a 17 Mill buyout he'll be hurting much.
College Football Loyalty (aka, "What have you done for me lately.") Orgeron's record was 49-17 overall in six seasons, and he led the greatest season ever at LSU, becoming the first team in SEC history to finish 15-0 and win the national championship. Then the next two seasons went 9-8. But, he'll take his $17M and be just fine.
I'm surprised there's more focus on LSU's coach than the disgraceful behavior of Tennessee fans.
I did not go to an SEC university but watched the second half of the game. That fans of football don't "get" they can't see as well in the stands and that calls don't always go your way and that trashing things is a two-years old's response is disgusting.
I wanted Tennessee to win in the last seconds ( which they damn near did) to show the idiots who left that, " it ain't over 'til it's over " so their temper tantrums caused them missed a comeback win.
This has more to do with the Title IX lawsuits, than wins and losses. LSU’s new president is cleaning house on all fronts. He’s dropping all the “good ole boys to the curb.
Yancy Porter did an interview with Coach O after the news broke and stated O said this about his first trip to Oxford, "It blew me away, honestly. I loved everything about my trip up there. It was my first time to visit the state of Mississippi. Never met so many nice people in my life. Their offense is taylor(spelling correction, tailor) made for a quarterback. They have two of the best offensive minds in college football".
Moscona reports Lane is the one pushing for the job.
Ed was having numerous off the field problems. Pictures of him in bed with women didn't help nor did bringing them to practice. Hiring crap coordinators hurt as well. He simply couldn't handle success. He didn't even interview pelini.
Just think Lane and Arch Manning, it’s going to be a blowout!!
If msu beats t a&m, and t a&m beats bama-------what does-----never mind
He WAS short of the marker.
Maybe LSU will have better luck with this coaching search than the last. The looming ncaa/fbi investigations could make it just as bad as the last one though. I bet they will have to settle on an up and comer coordinator.
As far as Tennessee goes, they just need to criminally charge the fans that threw the trash and ban them from the campus. Maybe consider an alcohol ban as well and put those airport body scanners at the ticket gates to prevent them from smuggling in liquor and projectiles.
11:19 How do you suggest that they identify the thousands of redneck idiots that threw the trash on the field so that they can charge them?
Funny to see the LSU folks brag how much money they can throw at a coach to get whoever they want. Just makes you look all the stupider when you have to fire him....or when he jumps ship. Don't think for a second that Lane wouldn't bail on LSU when Saban retires. Can you imagine how pissed LSU would be?
Black bear fans should suck up their hypocrisy on this one. About ten years ago, more or less, the bears had a call go against them and everything from whiskey bottles to red high heeled shoes were thrown on the field at the opposing team (Bama). Players were told to keep their helmets on to avoid getting hit. Something similar happened at the Tad Pad.
Ole Miss alum here. I wish both LSU and Coach O well. LSU, that it’ll clean up its sexual harassment coverups and basketball cheating. Coach O will be fine. He’s college football’s version of the Peter Principle.
12:21 Lane Kiffen will never be the head coach at Alabama.
The real question is who will be the next coach of Mississippi ?
I'm sure a poster on JJ has the inside scoop of who will be the next head coach at Bama. Guess what, it will be the hottest coach in college football at that time, my guess is Kiffen or Freeze. Definitely not Leach. Hell, by then Urban Myer will have been forgiven and ready to come out of retirement.
@11:52 - Cameras and tips from the decent fans that were there. I’m sure there are some fans who would cooperate with the police or at least I would hope so.
i vividly remember empty glass bourbon whiskey bottles routinely thrown from the student section onto the field at ole miss games at memorial stadium in jackson back in the 1970s.
it got so bad that at one point bear bryant put on a alabama helmet and walked right in front of the student section and told them to go fuck off.
to this day ole miss remains a bunch of candy ass whiners complaining about throwing shit on the field. ole miss is so chicken shit they complain about plastic water bottles and a plastic bottle of mustard.
the beautiful people of the SEC strike yet again.
they really should go home to their momas'.
Snarf, how many national titles did Saban win AFTER he left LSU?
Ole Miss ladies throw high heels, Tennessee’s throw moonshine.
Looks like they are looking for a brother, The Lane Train is derailed in Oxford for now!
12:30 pm et.al.
I missed previous "trash throwing " by SEC fans but am more than sick of " others did it too" as an excuse or justification.
Such justifications could be argued for rapist , murderer and every criminal acts,as well as every stupid lewd , dysfunctional,
destructive behavior known to man.
We are letting the drunk, stupid, criminal and crazy set standards in politics and sports apparently! Let's do have the worst role models we can find for our children...groan.
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