LSU announced Wednesday night that Ed Orgeron has parted ways with offensive line coach James Cregg and that a "national search" for his replacement will begin immediately.

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LSU ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS

For Immediate Release - June 2, 2021

LSU PARTS WAYS WITH OFFENSIVE LINE COACH JAMES CREGG

BATON ROUGE – LSU has parted ways with offensive line coach James Cregg, head coach Ed Orgeron announced on Wednesday.

Orgeron said he will immediately begin a national search for Cregg’s replacement.

Orgeron hired Cregg to his staff in December of 2017. Here are the details of Cregg's contract, which was set to expire in March of 2022. Per The Advocate:

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The 47-year-old Cregg was entering the final year of his most recent contract with LSU, which was set to pay him about $700,000 starting this year through the contract's expiration on March 31, 2022.

According to Cregg's most recent contract with LSU, if he is terminated by LSU without cause, the university must pay him the total remaining base salary and supplemental compensation in monthly installments equal to the amount of time remaining in the term.

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oline5264•60 months

Two words Kevin Mawae

Damathe•60 months

"Two words Kevin Mawae"
You should have capitalized every word!
#1 is a guy who will jibe with Peetz. Mawae and his experience on how to PLAY OL learning and executing exactly how to plan & execute both run and passing game schemes. Woody would be hiring the NEXT LSU Football HC at the same time!

CanebreakCajun•60 months

He's so the assistant offensive line coach with the Colts. CEO can totally grab him.

blueboxer1119•60 months

Interesting that I've heard Mawae's name alot, but not Faneca. What's he up to? I thought he had gotten into coaching as well...

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ElTigreFuego•60 months

Someone got caught with his hand in the cookie jar

Geaux Guy•60 months

Hopefully we never find out why

19•60 months

Oh Cregg...how you gonna get fired on your day off?

toratiger•60 months

Strange, OL camp ? June 2nd? There is a lot more to this story.

CanebreakCajun•60 months

Yeah something happened. He would have fired when he fired Pellini and the others months ago.

Srobi14•60 months

Good, lets get someone who can recruit.

Vernonbrew22•60 months

We truly need big ones this year

Hangit•60 months

Please hire somebody that can coach footwork, and lateral movement, to those tackles.

OU812•60 months

And recruit

24chevrolet48•60 months

The best hire would be Kevin Mawae, a NFL/HOF & LSU legend, LSU cannot find a better candidate.

rob62•60 months

If he would take the job.

TigahJay•60 months

Am I sad to see Cregg gone? Not really...but don’t like staff chances this close to the season

milesw236•60 months

better to get it out the way now than to wait until the season starts and we have to rush to get recruits to sign plus he did not bring any recruits in last year or this year

Robber DeNiro•60 months

Please hire Kevin Mawae, u can't drop the ball on this 1 Coach!!!

TenTex•60 months

Thank you Coach Cregg for your time at LSU coaching the Offensive Line and winning the Joe Moore award for Most Outstanding Offensive Line Unit in College Football. We won a National Championship with arguably the best offensive line ever at LSU protecting Heisman winner Joe Burrow was a magical year.

Eltegray•60 months

Joe Burrow won them that award with his pocket presence and his escape ability. I love LSU but that was not an award winning O-Line.

GoldenGuy•60 months

Sorry Eltegray, they won the Joe Moore Award

Purple Tiger King•60 months

When you have the Darius Guise and all of the Les Miles skeletons in the closet being exposed in the national media, it not only hurts the prestige of the university, but it also harms recruiting and it also causes coaches sometimes in desperation to break rules. I feel sorry for him.

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Datbayoubengal•60 months

Thank God. I was in the minority that thought he didn't stand out in particular in recruiting prowess or coaching. If either one were elite, I would feel bad about this.

CharlesLSU•60 months

Time for Kev.

Do it

KING NOLA•60 months

Everybody's clamering for Kevin Mawae as the new OL Coach with would be the right call. But can anybody tell me can Mawae recruit? I don't care about his LSU legend status, his OL Coaching ability right now we really need a great recruiter as well as coach. Because Cregg was not that good of a recruiter and the young OL wasn't developing like they were suppose to be so a change was warranted.

OU812•60 months

All he has to do is give his credentials and show that HOF ring off

tigerMike•60 months

He is very much a people guy. He will recruit like crazy!

lsufan79•60 months

He must have been nailing Coach O's young little girlfriend. O busted him!

Purple Tiger King•60 months

Whoever Ed O hires must not only be a proven offensive line coach but also a proven recruiter at the same time because unfortunately Louisiana produces very few good enough offensive linemen.

denvertiger•60 months

Cam Robinson. DJ Fluker. La'El Collins. Demar Dotson. Andrew Whitworth.

Those are just the first OT's I thought of off the top of my head who have sig snaps in the NFL (recently) and are LA products.

tketaco•60 months

Remember the 5

Spankum•60 months

It is kind of late in the year for this kind of stuff to be going on, isn’t it?

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