Less than two years after a 15-0 season and a national championship, Ed Orgeron is out as head football coach of the LSU Tigers. Orgeron will continue to lead the program for the rest of the 2021 season, while the search for a new head coach is underway. After that glorious 2019 season. Orgeron’s Tigers have gone 9-and-8.
“I knew we had to sustain that momentum, we had to sustain that standard and I know that the last two years hasn’t been the standard of LSU, so when he came in and talked to me after the Kentucky game I knew that it was time,” said Orgeron.
Two Saturdays ago, LSU suffered an embarrassing loss at Kentucky. The Wildcats rushed for 330 yards that night, but the Tigers came back to beat 20th ranked Florida this past Saturday.
Orgeron was asked why the program has fallen to mediocrity.
“I’m not the one to evaluate myself, I’ll let all of you do that, you do it enough, I could care less about it,” said Orgeron.
LSU athletics director Scott Woodward says it was time for a new direction based on the on-field results and the evaluation of the potential for future immediate success.
“At LSU we expect to compete for SEC and national championships year in and year out,” said Woodward. “We are proud of that standard and we always work to uphold it. Our last two seasons have simply not met that standard.”
Orgeron currently has 15 high school football players in the Class of 2022 committed to LSU. He’s already met with two of them and plans to tell all of them to keep their commitment to LSU.
“I will still recruit the players, tell them to come to LSU, this is a great place,” said Orgeron. “I recruited them to come to LSU, why would I tell them any different now. So I will them to come to LSU, this is a great place, they are going to hire a great coach, you are going to have great success at LSU, my message to the recruits will not change.”
LSU will visit 12th ranked Ole Miss. The Rebels are led by Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin, a possible candidate to replace Orgeron,
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