Did he really "earn it?"

He worked his Cajun arse off to convince the right people to hire him, so in that sense, he sure did earn it.

well, he did have that binder so....

Seemed liked every candidate ahead of him didn't want the job. So he earned it by attrition.

It doesn't even matter if he earned the spot or not because it's subjective. What matters is that NO ONE else was going to hire him. He had NO credentials that warranted a contract on his terms. He was BEGGING for the job (not that there's anything wrong with that) to get a chance to prove that he could run the program. I'm not mad at O at all for wanting the job and doing everything he could to get it.

I'm mad at whoever bungled the coaching search as a whole and then after deciding to give O a chance, Drew up a contract that gave a completely unproven candidate who had NO leverage over the hire an absurd protection clause that makes it cost prohibitive to fire him.

I don't understand how that is possible outside of corruption because I refuse to believe anybody in that position and with a team of high power attorneys to draw up contract language could be that incompetent. If we refused to add a buy out clause, or set it at perhaps $1 million instead of $12 million, was Orgeron going to refuse the job? Give ne an f'ing break. It's embarrassing.

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was on the Orgeron train with the best of them when this whole thing began

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haha, you fool.

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did Orgeron really earn anything

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Does it matter? O was just replying to a caller. What else was O supposed to say? No coach would ever say "yeah, you're right, I didn't earn it and shouldn't be here and I quit."

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Did he really "earn it?"

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No.

Look...there was a fairly well understood belief last season that Orgeron would have to run the table after taking over for Miles (with the exception of BAMA) to even be REALLY considered for the job.

Why is that, do you think?

Easy. Because he was currently serving as LSU's DL coach, and prior to that he was unemployed. In addition, SC had passed on making him them permanent coach after he slid into their interim job after Kiffen was fired, and prior to that he'd made Ole Miss an even bigger laughing stock than they had been in the ONE time he'd been lucky enough to be given the reigns to his own program. In order to land the LSU job...a job that EVERYONE understood was a Top 10 job in college football, he'd have to do something extraordinary to prove that his name needed to even be on the list, let along be handed the keys.

And what happened? Well...the team looked energized and played well for a bit...then proceeded to lose to all remaining decent teams on the schedule. And each time that happened, the goal posts were moved...

So no. There was nothing extraordinary he did to get his name even on the list of potential candidates. He was GIVEN the job by an AD who got angry that his first real target in Tom Herman wanted to negotiate, and turned to a guy who'd gladly take what was offered rather than go back on the hunt for a true replacement to Miles. And this happened despite the fact that LSU fired Miles after WEEK FOUR of the season, and were still acting as if they had no luck in finding anyone willing to take our job.

I get why Orgeron would say it, but by doing so all it should do is make people ask, "But did you?"

If Miles had gone 6-2 down the stretch in 16 he would have been fired at season end. Why would that performance earn Orgeron the job?

if you call stabbing Miles in the Kidney "earning it "