LSU’s Ed Orgeron talks positive weekend of camps and visits

“It was great to have everything back to normal, what a great camp, there were a lot of smiling faces on campus this weekend.” Orgeron said.

LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron recently joined 104.5 Off The Bench to discuss the success of the recruiting camps and the impact this summer’s recruiting cycle will have after a long awaited chance to host on-campus visits.

“We had over a thousand campers here, five official visitors, several unofficial visitors,” Orgeron said.

“It was great to have everything back to normal, what a great camp.” He continued. “Everybody got coached up. There were a lot of smiling faces on campus this weekend.”

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These camps provide both the coaching staff as well as the rest of the LSU team the opportunity to learn more about their commits and how they will react to on-field coaching. If you look at the highly touted commits such as Walker Howard, Will Campbell and Jake Johnson, the LSU staff had the chance to see first-hand the way each player carries themselves, both on and off the football field.

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“One of the things at these camps, I want to see the way they get coached,” said Orgeron.

“It was an opportunity for us, especially guys committed to us, who knows he’s coming to LSU, I want to see the way he gets coached.”

The 2021 season will be an important one for LSU, and the future looks bright.

LSU HC Ed Orgeron: ‘my gut feeling is we’re going to play’

Orgeron has been optimistic in his outlook for the season.

There’s been no shortage of speculation surrounding what the 2020 college football season will look like for schools like LSU — or if it’ll happen at all.

Coach Ed Orgeron has been optimistic in his outlook for the season from the start, and has maintained that even in the midst of a spike in coronavirus cases.

The Southeastern Conference has some very important decisions to make as the season’s projected start date looms near, and Orgeron is ready to get his team back on the field after winning a national championship back in January.

“My gut feeling is we’re going to play,” Orgeron told ESPN’s Marty Smith. “Whether we start Sept 5 or a little after that; in-conference, out of conference, that doesn’t bother me. . . . I do know this: I believe we’re going to play. I’m almost certain we’re going to play.”

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As of now, the SEC has made no changes to the schedule or the list of opponents teams will play, but could always follow suit in playing a conference-only schedule like the Big Ten and the Pac-12.

It will be interesting to see how things continue to unfold in a rapidly changing situation, but for now, the Tigers are still set to take on the UTSA Roadrunners on Sept. 5 in Baton Rouge.

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