Lane Kiffin to replace Ed Orgeron for head coach at LSU
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LSU has finally done it, and we don’t think the Tigers will renege this time. The school has fired Ed Orgeron.
Sunday afternoon, the school announced that both Orgeron and offensive coordinator Matt Canada have been fired. Lane Monte Kiffin (born May 9, 1975) is an American football coach who is currently the head football coach at Florida Atlantic University Will be moving to head coach at LSU.
"Coach Orgeron has done a tremendous job here and he’s been a great ambassador for our University, which makes this even more difficult." LSU athletic director Joe Alleva said.
The news comes less than 24 hours after LSU lost a wild game against Alabama on the road, 38 - 12. LSU, ranked No. 14 in the preseason, opened the season by losing to an unranked Troy University team 24-21. LSU struggling to beat both Florida and Auburn, the stunning win over Ole Miss brought the Tigers to a 6-2 record by Week 8.
Who'll replace Orgeron? We're keeping track of reasonable rumors here, as they arise.
After the fiasco that was the end of the 2015 season for the Tigers, Les Miles was replaced by his assistant Ed Orgeron to finish out the year. The great Louisianian Rust Cohle said best, that "Time is a flat circle, everything we have done or will do we will do over and over and over again — forever."
But for Orgeron, that meant the offense was going to stay one-dimensional with a quarterback that had a cannon for an arm, but nothing else. Danny Etling middling performance cannot be entirely blamed on him because he at one point played football at Purdue. That’s kinda the way things work.
The offense had ancillary bells and whistles with Derrius Guice and receivers D.J. Chark (26 catches) and fullback/tight end J.D. Moore (10 catches), but the engine that made the kitty purr was not at the level it needed to be ... again.
We will take this space to reflect on the gifts Ed Orgeron has given us throughout the years. Those gifts can be found here, here, here, here, and here. We also have some more here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
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The Alabama game was a disheartening beginning to the season that signaled not much had changed in the program. The defense almost bailed the Tigers out, but as usual it was the offense that held the team back. Matt at offensive coordinator could not get the most out of a talented group, and when the dust settled LSU had fallen short.
This is where we are as rubber-necking onlookers to the situation in Baton Rouge and it’s in the same spot as last season. It’s not so much that the team got worse, it’s that the situation stayed more or less the same. That’s what finally forced a change the school got really close to last season before pulling back.
The thing about LSU is "the same" is still pretty damn good, and there are probably 100 FBS programs who would take LSU’s situation in a heartbeat. Most programs would get rid of Orgeron but most programs shouldn’t or don’t expect a coach to be much better than Miles. LSU does and that means just like that Bill Connelly story says outright, like Miles, Ed Orgeron essentially has to be Nick Saban. That is always the problem in Baton Rouge. So time is a flat circle.
The Tigers played again like the same old team, and the leadership at LSU returned to covet the same thing they have for nearly a decade. LSU wants so badly to be Alabama. That is the biggest mistake in Baton Rouge, and the Tigers may have just sold the soul of the program to get there.
We believe that the only coaches that can complete with Nick Saban are those that has worked in his organization and know the inner and outter of his program, like Smart and Kiffin.
Kiffin formerly served as the offensive coordinator for the USC Trojans football team from 2005 to 2006, head coach of the National Football League's Oakland Raiders from 2007 to 2008, head coach of the University of Tennessee Volunteers college football team in 2009, and head coach of the Trojans from 2010 to 2013. He was the youngest head coach in modern NFL history at the time when he joined the Raiders (until in 2017 when Sean McVay joined the Rams), and, for a time, was the youngest head coach of a BCS Conference team in college football.[1][2] Kiffin was the offensive coordinator at the University of Alabama from 2014 until 2016, when he was hired at Florida Atlantic.[3] He left the offensive coordinator position on January 2, 2017, prior to the National Championship game on January 9 versus Clemson.[4]
Kiffin is the son of longtime NFL defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin.[5]
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