Reports: Ed Orgeron to part ways with LSU at end of season

By RALPH D. RUSSO

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

Sports Illustrated was archetypal to study that Orgeron would not instrumentality to LSU successful 2022 but is expected to manager retired the remainder of the play for the Tigers. LSU spokesperson Michael Bonnette declined to remark connected the reports.

The timing of the determination Sunday — the time aft the Tigers (4-3) upset Florida — comes arsenic a surprise, though the extremity for Coach O astatine LSU seemed to beryllium approaching soon aft a blowout nonaccomplishment to Kentucky past week.

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

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

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

Scott Woodward, antecedently the AD astatine Washington and LSU, 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.