Ed Orgeron came to Louisiana State University in 2015 to coach the defensive line. A year later he was promoted to head coach and achieved many achievements. Nevertheless, the university has decided that the 2021 season will be Orgeron’s last.
LSU announced that it will not maintain its employment relationship with the head coach beyond the 2021 season. As of today, Orgeron has a record of 49 wins and 17 losses. Orgeron, born in Larose, Louisiana, issued a statement through the university’s social networks.
“All I wanted to do when I took the job as head coach in 2016 was put together a program with championship aspirations and make the state of Louisiana proud,” the head coach wrote.
The head coach met his goal in the 2019 season as he won the College Football Playoff Championship with Joe Burrow at the helm of the offense, but it was a long process.
In 2016 he won the Citrus Bowl by beating Louisville, but lost the 2017 edition against Notre Dame. In 2018 he won the Fiesta Bowl by beating Central Florida and in 2019 he beat Oklahoma in the Peach Bowl before taking the championship against Trevor Lawrence and Clemson.
Slope
The 2020 season was the start of LSU’s decline. In the shortened season they only won five of ten games and this year things did not start in the best way.
In 2021 they opened the season losing against UCLA, but won three consecutive games, against McNeese State, Central Michigan and Mississippi State. They then lost at home to Auburn and were defeated at Kentucky. This weekend they beat Florida, but it was not a good enough result for the university to decide to keep it.
Featured Players
Part of creating a successful program involves training great college players. On offense is the quarterback Joe burrow; the wide receivers Justin Jefferson, Ja’Marr Chase and Terrace Marshall Jr., the running backs Clyde Edwards-Helaire and Derrius Guice; and the offensive linemen Lloyd Cushenberry III and Damien Lewis. In the defensive unit are the linebackers Devin White, Patrick Queen and Jabril Cox; the defensive linemen K’Lavon Chaisson and the defensive backs Kirstian Fulton, Grant Delpit and Donte Jackson.