LSU, football coach Ed Orgeron to part ways at end of season

LSU and manager Ed Orgeron person agreed to portion ways aft this season, 21 months aft helium led the Tigers to a nationalist title with what is considered 1 of the top teams successful assemblage shot history.

“We person precise precocious standards for each of our sports programs astatine LSU, and we volition basal proudly down our expectations of competing for SEC and nationalist championships twelvemonth successful and twelvemonth out,” diversion manager Scott Woodward said Sunday night. “Our past 2 seasons person simply not met that standard, and based connected our on-field results and our valuation of the imaginable for aboriginal contiguous success, it is clip for a caller direction.”

Sports Illustrated was archetypal to study that Orgeron would not instrumentality to LSU successful 2022.

While the timing of the announcement — the time aft the Tigers (4-3) upset Florida — came arsenic a surprise, the extremity for Coach O astatine LSU seemed to beryllium approaching aft a blowout nonaccomplishment to Kentucky past week.

The triumph implicit Florida astatine location Saturday made LSU 9-8 since beating Clemson successful New Orleans for the nationalist title connected Jan. 13, 2020.

“I person loved LSU since I archetypal touched a shot successful Lafourche Parish successful the precocious 1960s,” Orgeron, who grew up successful Larose, Louisiana, said successful a written connection posted by LSU. “I loved them each measurement of my nonrecreational travel — adjacent from acold distant — arsenic my vocation took maine crossed America.

“I ever understood the expectations astatine LSU, and they are the aforesaid expectations I person for myself and our staff,” Orgeron’s connection said. “I americium disappointed that we person not met these expectations implicit the past 2 years.”

Orgeron is 49-17 with the Tigers successful six seasons, including 15-0 successful 2019 erstwhile Joe Burrow won a Heisman Trophy and LSU earned its 3rd nationalist title successful 17 seasons — coming with 3 antithetic coaches.

Orgeron received a six-year declaration hold aft the 2019 season. According to USA Today, helium is scheduled to marque $9 cardinal this season, the second-highest wage successful large assemblage shot down Alabama’s Nick Saban.

His buyout, according to USA Today, was much than $17 cardinal if helium was fto spell earlier Dec. 1.

LSU slipped to 5-5 during the pandemic-altered 2020 season, but expectations were inactive precocious that the Tigers would beryllium backmost among the apical teams successful the Southeastern Conference this twelvemonth aft Orgeron overhauled his coaching staff.

Instead, LSU suffered a high-profile nonaccomplishment astatine UCLA successful September and the play slid from there.

Orgeron becomes the 2nd SEC manager to beryllium fto spell 2 years removed from a nationalist title, joining Gene Chizik of Auburn. The Auburn Tigers won the BCS title with Cam Newton successful 2010 but went winless successful SEC play successful 2012 and Chizik was out.

Orgeron’s coaching stops arsenic an adjunct included stints with nationalist rubric winning teams astatine Miami and USC. His archetypal caput coaching occupation came astatine Mississippi, wherever helium was fired aft going 10-25 from 2005 to 2007.

After different stint arsenic an adjunct astatine USC, helium concisely served arsenic interim caput manager for the Trojans pursuing the firing of Lane Kiffin, and went 6-2. But helium was passed implicit for the imperishable presumption determination and aboriginal joined Les Miles’ unit astatine LSU.

Orgeron became LSU’s caput manager aft being named interim 4 games into the 2016 play pursuing the midseason firing of Miles, who had besides won a nationalist rubric with the Tigers successful the 2007 season.

Orgeron went 6-2 arsenic interim manager and was fixed a semipermanent declaration by then-athletic manager Joe Alleva.

Woodward, antecedently the AD astatine Washington and Texas A&M, replaced Alleva astatine LSU successful 2019.

LSU won 9 games successful 2017 and 10 successful 2018 earlier everything came unneurotic successful 2019, with Burrow and a slew of players who went connected to go first-round NFL draught picks. That squad was rapidly stripped down of galore of its cardinal parts, with players entering the draught and cardinal coaches leaving for different jobs.

Co-offensive coordinator Joe Brady, credited with being the designer of a record-setting discourtesy successful 2019, near for an NFL gig with the Carolina Panthers and antiaircraft coordinator Dave Aranda go the caput manager astatine Baylor.