Ex-LSU Coach Ed Orgeron Says He Plans To Return To Coaching After ...

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Former LSU head football coach Ed Orgeron is adamant that he does not want to coach anywhere in the 2022 season, be it at the collegiate level or in the NFL. But that does not mean that the national championship winning coach is shutting the door on a return.

In fact, he knows he wants to make a comeback. Orgeron revealed his plans for the future on a recent interview with the Dan Patrick Show.

“I want to take a year off,” Orgeron said. “Think about this — I’ve been going to a university, since I started college, for 42 years. I want to just take one year off. Settle down. Let the dust settle. I have three great sons. In fact, my twins it’s their birthday today… They all want to coach. My oldest son Tyler is 29. We’re trying to get them analyst jobs. Get them in college because they were all going to be with me so there’s a little adjustment there. We got one settled. One is going to take the year off and one is going to try to get in the NFL. I want to spend my time working with them. Settle down and then see what’s available for me next year.”

Orgeron posted a 6-6 record with the Tigers in 2021, though news of his eventual release broke midseason. LSU’s administration announced Oct. 17, following a win against Florida, that the Tigers and Orgeron reached a mutual separation agreement. Orgeron finished out the year but did not coach in LSU’s Texas Bowl loss to Kansas State.

“I left LSU with no regrets,” Orgeron said. “I knew one day that was going to happen. You can’t have two losing seasons at LSU. That’s the standard. We set the standard at 15-0. They gave me a great settlement. I don’t have to work again in my life if I don’t want. So they were very fair to me.”

Even if Orgeron does not return as a head coach, he will have plenty of value as a prospective assistant. Before his breakthrough at LSU in 2016 and subsequent 15-0, nationally championship season with the Tigers in 2019, Orgeron was a longtime defensive coach.

He was LSU’s defensive line coach for two years before he was named head coach. Prior to that, he served as the defensive coordinator, defensive line coach and recruiting coordinator from 2010-13 at USC.

He was also the associate head coach and defensive line coach at Tennessee in 2009 and a defensive line coach with the New Orleans Saints before that.

Orgeron’s first stint as a head coach, at Ole Miss from 2005-07, was not nearly as successful as his time with LSU. In three years, he posted a 10-25 record and never won more than four games in a season.

Even before that, though, Orgeron had well over a decade of experience as a defensive line coach. He netted his first big role at Miami in 1988 as the defensive line coach, moving on to Nicholls State in 1994 as linebackers coach.

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He served as the defensive line coach at Syracuse in 1995 before moving on for his first stint at USC three years later.

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