re: The upside of Coach Orgeron (from a notorious anti-O advocate)

Give me a guy who loves LSU and will work his tail off to make LSU successful. Coaching changes are always a crap shoot, Herman would have been too. Jimbo wasn't coming.

Not the hire I wanted. In fact, when I first heard, I let out a yell of frustration.

That being said, now that it's done, time to get behind Coach O. He wasn't my choice, but he is the guy that I would most want to succeed here.

Geaux Tigers!!!

Well said

Also don't think for a second we re not gonna open up the purse to surround him with coaching talent. I think O is the type to listen.

Let's see who he fills out the staff with.

We ll find out. Step 1 lock this one down. Luckily we have Louisiana. There's only so bad our talent level gets.


Also the problem with the lean years is when we left our base and lost Louisiana. That hallman year where we brought in the fb 5 being a good example. Dinardo came in and locked up Louisiana again and immediately started winning again

A lot of teams regress against Bama. We can't keep judging all coaches just based how they do against saban

welcome to reality

If the entire universe of available coaches consisted of O, Herman and Jimbo that would be highly accurate,

The troubeling thing to me is that the administration haveing a head start on every other school in the nation didn't seem to put much effort into the process, O may be a better choice of the three for the reason suggested, but why did we limit ourselves to only three posibilities?

Good post. Situation still sucks.

Most disappointing aspect is the terribly clueless and inept administration.

One bright side is anybody but Miles is coaching the team now. That's something to be happy about.

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coach O wanted to be here. he prepared. he wanted the job more than anything else and more than anyone else. this is his lifelong dream. if he fails it won't be for lack of trying. if he succeeds he will be here for the rest of his coaching life.

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Thanks for the great post. The one thing you know about Coach is he is all in. We aren't a stepping stone to something else, and his teams are going to leave it all on the field. You know we'll have great athletes because he is a proven recruiter, and because the recruits that want to be here know that he does as well. He will bring maximum effort all the time, and coach with a chip on his shoulder.

Back in the early '70's, when I became addicted to LSU football as a kid, we might not have had All-Americans every year, but we left it all on the field, and Tiger Stadium was the most feared venue in college football. When you came into our house, you knew you were going to get our best. Win or lose, you got our best.

I think O is going to bring it, every day. If you have great players, and we will, and if you are "relentless in pursuit of your goal, and resilient in the face of bad luck and adversity", God help the other team trying to get in your way.

The quote above is directly from Nick Saban's book, and I think Orgeron is going to surprise a lot of people.