Team with new attitude. Shouting No Mas No Mas before the game.

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SIAP I didn't see this on here. Thought it was pretty cool. Way more in the article about the man, his family and friends.



Intensity came quickly. It came in typical fashion: Ed Orgeron getting more and more fired up as the minutes before a game ticked down.

He had two primary messages written on a white board in the LSU locker room: “60 minutes” and “Energy” – the latter scribbled the biggest and twice underlined.

Coach O clearly was not waiting for the sixty minutes of game time to display his energy. He was pretty much bouncing off walls: slapping players on their shoulder pads; unleashing brief outbursts of encouragement (“Here come the Tigers, baby!”); stretching right along with a room full of college kids who would soon be engaged in battle; breaking only to greet a few visitors who wanted to wish him well.

One of them was reality TV star Jase Robertson of “Duck Dynasty” fame, in for the game from his hometown of West Monroe. His message for Coach O was simple: “Just be yourself. That way, if it works, you won’t have any trouble reproducing it.”

Orgeron also exchanged greetings and shared a hug with East Baton Rouge Sheriff Sid Gautreaux.

“We’re going to make Louisiana proud, man,” Orgeron told the sheriff.

“You’ve already made us proud,” Gautreaux said.

It was almost time now.

Orgeron gathered everyone up: offense, defense, special teams. Everyone.

Pounding a football with his hands – always releasing energy – he stood before his team and put his gravel-filled voice to work: “Let’s go, baby! Let’s rock and roll!”

Orgeron tends to do that. He speaks in exclamation points – booming exclamation points wrapped in a Cajun drawl and a whole lot of love.

“Hey … hey … on the sideline … nobody sitting down! Energy! You’re either bringing energy or you ain’t. I want energy on the sideline! Get an IV after the game!”

Okay, there were actually a few additional words tossed in here and there, words that are best left in the locker room – and will be.

“…and make them say, ‘No Mas!’”

The players loved that – their barrel-chested Cajun coach screaming the Spanish phrase for no more – and that’s exactly what they wanted to do. They wanted to go so hard at their opponents that they’d ask for no more.

“No mas!” the players yelled back at Coach O. “No mas!”

“This is our house! This is your home!” Coach O shouted. “Make ’em pay! Make ’em pay! Let’s go! Sixty minutes!”

Things settled down for a team prayer.

Then Orgeron started right back at it – pelting his guys with more exclamation points: “One team! One heartbeat!” Coach O might end up elevating his favorite phrase into an official state mantra.

He was now in full throat, full frenzy, eyes wide, face red, veins challenged: “I want everybody to fight for their brothers tonight!”

Moments later, the LSU Tigers stormed out to the field, reaching up to touch the iconic “WIN!” bar mounted atop the double doors to the outside, and they did some shouting of their own: “No mas! No mas!”