Ed Orgeron had a long and successful college football coaching career. The apex was undoubtedly winning the national championship while going undefeated with Joe Burrow, Ja’Marr Chase and Justin Jefferson with the LSU Tigers in 2019, but his career started way back in 1984.
As far as coaching experience and ability to lead an organization while also being effective on the recruiting trail, there are few more qualified than Orgeron.
That’s what made it shocking when LSU parted ways with him just two seasons after he won a national championship. There were reasons, though, a myriad of them. That included a middling 11-11 record in the two seasons after the championship, public outbursts and even what was called a “mishandling” of social justice issues that impacted his locker room.
Orgeron left LSU in 2021, and he’s not been on a college sideline as a coach since, but he recently revealed to Jacques Doucet of WAFB-TV in Louisiana that he’s ready to get back to it.
“All depends what the best thing available is,” Orgeron said. “But I’m ready to coach again. I left a little bit of meat on the bone. I’m ready to go.”
