Ed Orgeron
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| Sport(s) | Football |
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| Current position | |
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | LSU |
| Conference | SEC |
| Record | 6–2 |
| Annual salary | $3.5 Million |
| Biographical details | |
| Born |
July 27, 1961 Larose, Louisiana |
| Alma mater | Northwestern State University |
| Playing career | |
| 1979 | LSU |
| 1980–1983 | Northwestern State |
| Position(s) | Defensive lineman |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1984 | Northwestern State (GA) |
| 1985 | McNeese State (GA) |
| 1986–1987 | Arkansas (Asst. Strength) |
| 1988–1992 | Miami (FL) (DL) |
| 1994 | Nicholls State (LB) |
| 1995–1997 | Syracuse (DL) |
| 1998–2004 | USC (AHC/DL/RC) |
| 2005–2007 | Ole Miss |
| 2008 | New Orleans Saints (DL) |
| 2009 | Tennessee (AHC/DL/RC) |
| 2010–2013 | USC (DL/RC) |
| 2013 | USC (Interim HC) |
| 2015–2016 | LSU (DL) |
| 2016 | LSU (Interim HC) |
| 2016–present | LSU |
| Head coaching record | |
| Overall | 22–29 |
| Bowls | 1–0 |
Edward Jim Orgeron Jr. (born July 27, 1961) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head coach at Louisiana State University (LSU). Orgeron previously served as the head football coach at University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) from 2005 to 2007 and was the interim head coach at the University of Southern California (USC) in 2013. His nickname is "Coach O".
Born to Edward "Bé Bé" Orgeron Sr. (d. 2011) and Cornelia "Co Co" Orgeron, Ed and his brother Steve grew up in Larose, a town on the Bayou Lafourche in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana. He is of Cajun descent. Orgeron attended South Lafourche High School in Galliano, Louisiana with future Michigan Panthers, New Orleans Saints, and Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert. Orgeron and Hebert played on the school's Class 4A state championship team in 1977. Orgeron signed to play football at Louisiana State University, but left the program after his first year to transfer to Northwestern State University in .
Orgeron began coaching in 1984 as a graduate assistant at Northwestern State and the following year coached at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana. He then served two years as an assistant strength coach under Ken Hatfield at the University of Arkansas. In 1988, he began his tenure with the University of Miami, under then-head coach Jimmy Johnson and his successor, Dennis Erickson. He was their Defensive Line Coach for four of those years, in which he coached eight All-Americans (including NFL first-round draft choices Cortez Kennedy, Russell Maryland and Warren Sapp). While he was with the Hurricanes, the program won two national championships (in 1989 and 1991), and he recruited a young Dwayne Johnson (later known as "The Rock" in his professional wrestling and film careers) as a defensive lineman.
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