Tag: Ed Orgeron

Ed Orgeron’s son Parker joins Miami football staff

Miami football added another Orgeron family member to its staff this week.

[autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] may be out of coaching for now, but his sons are keeping busy. The Orgeron family’s connection with Miami football continues to grow as [autotag]Parker Orgeron[/autotag] is set to join the staff as a defensive backs assistant.

Parker is now the second of former LSU football coach Ed Orgeron’s sons to take a job with the Hurricanes. [autotag]Cody Orgeron[/autotag] was already with the program, serving as a QB analyst.

Both Parker and Cody played for Miami defensive coordinator Lance Guidry when Guidry was the head coach at McNeese.

Prior to Miami, Parker Orgeron was at Baylor as a quality control coach on former LSU defensive coordinator Dave Aranda’s staff.

As for Ed Orgeron, he has yet to take another job since leaving LSU in 2021, but he made an appearance at Tulane last week as the Green Wave began their first spring practice under new head coach Jon Sumrall.

Orgeron spoke to the team after practice.

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Former LSU assistant James Cregg joins Las Vegas Raiders

A former LSU assistant found a new home in the NFL.

Former LSU assistant [autotag]James Cregg[/autotag] is on the move, leaving the 49ers staff to take the offensive line coach job with the Las Vegas Raiders.

Cregg worked at LSU from 2018-20 but was fired prior to the start of the 2021 season after alleged recruiting violations.

However, Cregg sued LSU for “illegitimate for-cause termination” of his contract. Cregg won the lawsuit and LSU was ordered to pay him $500K.

In 2019, Cregg was a member of LSU’s national title staff, coaching LSU’s offensive line all the way to winning a Joe Moore Award.

Following his time at LSU, Cregg joined Kyle Shanahan’s 49ers staff as an assistant offensive line coach, where he spent the last two years.

Cregg has served as an assistant offensive line coach before, but this will be his first time heading up the unit at the NFL level.

Along with LSU, Cregg made previous college stops at Tennessee and USC, where he was on staff with [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag].

Where former LSU head coaches went after leaving Baton Rouge

LSU’s had coaches get in fights with senators, head to the NFL and take athletic director jobs at rival schools.

LSU football has hired 33 head coaches since the program’s inception in 1893, most recently [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] in 2021.

For much of that span, LSU has been a destination job. It’s a place coaches know they can win a title. You don’t leave Baton Rouge unless you’re fired, pushed out or the NFL comes calling.

It wasn’t always that way. There have been cases where an LSU head coach took a job elsewhere.

Here, we’ll be looking at where head coaches went after they left LSU. From the first coach in LSU history up to [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag].

Here’s where former LSU head coaches went after leaving LSU.

Report: LSU hiring Ole Miss chief of staff to join football player personnel department

Austin Thomas is back for his fourth stint at LSU after serving as the chief of staff under Lane Kiffin the last two years.

[autotag]Austin Thomas[/autotag] is making his return to Baton Rouge after two years as the chief of staff under Lane Kiffin at Ole Miss. The news was first reported by Wilson Alexander of The Advocate.

The news comes in the wake of a shakeup to LSU’s player personnel department as its director, [autotag]Will Redmond[/autotag], left to take a similar role at Auburn. While Thomas’ job at LSU isn’t yet clear, it seems fair to assume that he will replace Redmond.

Thomas previously served as the general manager under [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] from 2016-18 and again in 2021. Between those stints, he served in similar roles at Texas A&M and later Baylor.

He wasn’t retained when [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] took over after the 2021 season, but he’ll become yet another staffer from that group who is returning to Baton Rouge after two years away.

Thomas began his career at his alma mater, Tennessee, serving as a recruiting and personnel assistant and later as a defensive quality control coach. He joined USC as an assistant director of player personnel in 2010 before leaving to direct that department at LSU in 2013.

He briefly returned to USC in 2016 to serve as an assistant athletic director for football, but Oregon brought him back when he got the full-time job.

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Report: Auburn expected to hire LSU director of player personnel Will Redmond to same role

Will Redmond has served as LSU’s director of player personnel since 2021.

While LSU reportedly completed its on-field coaching staff on Wednesday with the hiring of Tulane’s [autotag]Slade Nagle[/autotag] as the next tight ends coach, it now apparently has a key off-field role to fill.

On Wednesday, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported that Auburn was hiring LSU director of player personnel [autotag]Will Redmond[/autotag] to serve in the same role. A native of Franklin, Tennessee, and a graduate of Tennessee in 2013, Redmond has been on staff at LSU since 2021.

He previously served as the director of recruiting at Kansas and director of player personnel at Middle Tennessee State before joining LSU’s staff, where he was retained during the transition from [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] to [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag].

Now, Redmond is joining an Auburn staff that saw quite a bit of shakeup after the team finished 6-7 in the first year under coach Hugh Freeze.

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How Brian Kelly’s first two years compare to previous LSU head coaches

LSU football is a place where coaches have quickly found success. How does Brian Kelly’s year two compare to Saban, Orgeron, Miles and more?

With Year 2 in the rearview mirror, we’re starting to get a better idea of what Brian Kelly’s LSU program looks like.

It’s hard to quantify 2023 as a success or failure. LSU entered the year ranked No. 5 but its playoff hopes were dashed before October. At the same time, [autotag]Jayden Daniels[/autotag] won the Heisman and led LSU to back-to-back 10-win seasons.

Expectations will be high again next year, but 20 wins in Kelly’s first two years gives cause for optimism, especially given where LSU was at when he took over.

Let’s take a look at how Kelly’s first two years compared to previous LSU coaches’ first two years in Baton Rouge.

LSU football’s 10 most dominant performances from last 10 years

Here are LSU’s 10 most dominant wins since 2014.

It’s been an interesting 10 years for LSU football.

Since 2014, three different head coaches have led the program, two quarterbacks have won the Heisman, and LSU’s had to weather the changes across the sport, just as every other program has.

But its hard to complain. There have been dips but Tiger fans are pretty happy with this era of LSU football. Today, we’ll be looking at LSU’s 10 most dominant performances from the last 10 years.

Making this list, I factored in the strength of opponent along with a few advanced stats. This isn’t just LSU’s 10 biggest blowouts. So without further adieu, lets jump right in.

Former LSU coach Nick Saban retires

Nick Saban most prominently ended LSU’s nearly 50-year national title drought in 2003.

Former LSU head football coach [autotag]Nick Saban[/autotag] has retired. Chris Low of ESPN first reported the news of his retirement.

The head coach of the Tigers from 2000-04, Saban is best known for bringing the program its first national championship in nearly 50 years in 2003. He finished his career in Baton Rouge with a 48-16 record, winning a pair of SEC Championships and Sugar Bowls.

Saban had a coaching career that spanned four decades, making stops at Toledo, Michigan State, with the NFL’s Miami Dolphins and at Alabama, where he won six national titles.

Saban is the fifth-winningest coach in LSU history, ranking behind fellow national champions [autotag]Les Miles[/autotag] and [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] but ahead of [autotag]Paul Dietzel[/autotag], who led the Tigers to a national title in 1958.

He leaves quite a legacy as one of four Tigers head coaches to win a national title.

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Bryce Underwood’s commitment solidifies LSU atop the QB market

Bryce Underwood’s commitment solidifies LSU’s spot atop the QB market

Not that long ago, LSU was stuck in quarterback purgatory.

Throughout the [autotag]Les Miles[/autotag] era, LSU was stacked on defense and loaded up on skill position players. But that QB spot, it was tricky.

After [autotag]JaMarcus Russell[/autotag] was the best quarterback in the conference in 2006 and [autotag]Matt Flynn[/autotag] led LSU to a national title in 2007, Miles struggled to find a signal caller that moved the needle.

Sure, guys like [autotag]Jarrett Lee[/autotag] and [autotag]Jordan Jefferson[/autotag] won a lot of games and in another era, they would have made perfectly adequate QBs, but the sport began to change.

As the sport grew more and more friendly to offense, you needed a professional quarterback. That doesn’t mean you needed [autotag]Cam Newton[/autotag], but at least someone like AJ McCarron, who was a Heisman finalist and remains in the NFL today.

LSU didn’t have that. Zach Mettenberger’s 2013 campaign was a step up, but it became an outlier. In 2014, LSU sat dead last in the SEC in passing yards and completion percentage. The passing attack remained near the bottom in 2015 too.

In 2016, it got a little better with [autotag]Danny Etling[/autotag], but LSU was still in the bottom half of the conference in passing yards and completion percentage while getting shut out in the Alabama game.

Miles was fired after four games in 2016. [autotag]Ed Orgeron[/autotag] took over and he knew the deal. He had to find LSU a quarterback.

Well, he did just that. [autotag]Joe Burrow[/autotag] transferred in and went on to win 25 games, a national title, and a Heisman trophy.

For the first time in years, LSU had a game-changer at quarterback. The narrative was flipped.

Burrow left and even as LSU struggled as a team in 2020 and 2021, the passing attack did alright.

Then [autotag]Jayden Daniels[/autotag] arrived with [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] in 2022. All Daniels did was become one of the most dynamic players in the country, helping LSU upset Alabama in 2022 and winning a Heisman in 2023 with a historically productive season.

That brings us to the present, where LSU just got even richer at the QB position. QB [autotag]Bryce Underwood[/autotag], the top player in the 2025 class, committed to LSU last Saturday.

It’s the first time in this era LSU’s landed a quarterback like Underwood. LSU’s signed some legit blue-chips, including [autotag]Garrett Nussmeier[/autotag], but this is the first time LSU’s landed the guy. I’m talking about someone with the hype of Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields.

Five years ago, LSU wasn’t even competing for these types. The true five-star QBs were all going to Alabama and Clemson, places with a track record of legit offenses.

With Underwood’s pledge, LSU’s 2025 class includes the top quarterback, wide receiver and running back. When recruits think of LSU now, they think of offense.

With Nussmeier on deck for 2024, the trend should continue. Offensive coordinator [autotag]Mike Denbrock[/autotag] is gone, but LSU’s staff remains well-positioned with assistants [autotag]Joe Sloan[/autotag], [autotag]Cortez Hankton[/autotag], [autotag]Frank Wilson[/autotag] and [autotag]Brad Davis[/autotag].

That’s what Underwood is buying in on. Recruits now see a program that’s developed two Heisman quarterbacks in the last five years.

LSU is out of quarterback purgatory, and perhaps there’s no bigger signal of that than Underwood’s commitment.

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How LSU fared in its last five bowl games

Here’s how LSU fared in its last five bowl games, which includes two NY6 wins and a national title.

LSU’s bowl game is fast approaching. In 10 days, toe will meet leather in Tampa Bay as LSU meets Wisconsin in the ReliaQuest Bowl.

It will be LSU’s third time in this bowl game, but first time under its current name. It was founded as the Hall of Fame Bowl, in which LSU played in 1988. Then it was the Outback Bowl, where LSU appeared in 2013.

LSU’s fared well in the postseason lately, with the Tigers winning six of their last eight bowl games. That span includes a Peach Bowl win and a national title.

Here’s how LSU fared in its last five bowl games.