Ed Orgeron to be the Rebs head coach. Now I know and have worked with Ed. Good fella, but sure does come with a ton of baggage. I've heard he's turned his life around and I hope so, sure makes a great story. Surely the folks at Ole Miss know about his baggage, if not it could be a short run for Bebe. Definitely makes me wonder why Ole Miss would fire Cutcliffe to bring in Orgeron :dis: The guy is a great position coach, no question, but sure seems like a push to me at best. Just makes me want to say Go To Hell lefire: even more!
Well, he took the Ole Miss job - so, if you are referring to his crack addiction he may have had a relapse...
This is an excerpt from the Commercial Appeal in Memphis ... commercialappeal.com, registration required. In 1985, while a graduate assistant at McNeese State, Orgeron pleaded no contest to a charge of simple battery stemming from a fight outside a sports bar in Natchitoches, La. His first full-time coaching job was as the defensive line coach for the University of Miami in 1989. In 1992, Orgeron was arrested in a bar fight in Baton Rouge, La., after head-butting the bar manager. The police claimed he was ''highly intoxicated'' at the time of his arrest. The bar manager dropped the charges and settled with Orgeron out of court. Following the incident, Miami placed Orgeron on athletic department probation. He took a three-month leave of absence for personal reasons before resigning July 15, 1993, then taking a year off from coaching.
If his last "baggage" is from 1992, I don't see where this is a huge deal. Jeez, I have an ex-husband I married in '92, but I don't wish for him to be held against me in 2004.
Alcohol problem. Too bad. If there's anything that would challenge one's sobriety, it would be living in Oxford and trying to win in the SEC West.
No, his baggage includes a lot of the things TigerWins listed in his post. Orgeron was a fast living, hard partying, hard drinking, rabble rousing dude and anyone who knows him knows this. I really don't want to poor mouth the guy because he is a good fella, IMO he's just not what you'd picture a head coach who would be trying to establish discipline in a program. Ed was more like the professor who goes out partying with students. Now, like I said I've heard he's had some epiphany and turned his life around and obviously the folks at Ole Miss think so. So much so that they've hired him to run their football program. He has been one of the top position coaches in the country for a while, but it just begs the question of why the Rebs would fire their best coach in 40 years in Cutcliffe, to hire Ed Orgeron...kind of baffling IMO.
They had to resort to him probably, because they fired their best coach in 40 years--after one bad season.
