Rabalais: C & # 39; was another LSU coach, Ed Orgeron, at the days of SEC in Atlanta … | LSU

ATLANTA – If you had the confident mind about the LSU football coach, Ed Orgeron, for or against, what he said on Monday at Southeastern Media Days Conference no. probably not much changed your feelings

the man who will bring LSU back to the glory of the championship, a program that has experienced its triumphs as well as its struggles through the ages, is a story that remains to be written. But let's say this about Orgeron: He knows what the problems are and what LSU and he have to do to overcome them.

Ed Orgeron is shown much more comfortable than the media this year compared to the one presented in 2017 in Hoover, Alabama. This version of Coach O spent about twenty minutes doing a painstaking dissertation (doing that painful) of the depth chart of his team.

This Ed Orgeron was still quite serious, draped in a gray suit as he dragged himself to midtown Atlanta for a meeting at Coca-Cola headquarters thereafter. But as suggested by his purple mauve tie, he was more willing to let this gregarious personality invade the room, even a room as large as the collegiate football Hall of Fame atrium where he climbed the podium Monday after- midday. 19659002] Orgeron tackled some important issues: Matt Canada's failed experiment, which will be his fourth in the fall and the gap between his program and the reigning Alabama national champion who must be crossed for anyone to consider. his tenure at LSU as a success.

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As for Canada, its former offensive coordinator, Orgeron admitted that he had taken him away from the University of Pittsburgh and that he had been trying to To install (offend) his crime of whirling dervish like a colossal blunder.

"It's hard when you make a mistake," says Orgeron, "but it's even harder not to admit that you've made a mistake, and that's not a good choice. And I had to do what I thought was the best for the LSU program. "

It was to send Canada packing (it is now in Maryland) and to send it back. install his loyal soldier Steve Ensminger as a visitor.

Orgeron played the familiarity card when he beat Ensminger, the SJU quarterback who was Coach O's coordinator during his acting interim in 2016. Orgeron said Ensminger will spread the ball of three, four, sometimes five sets of reception (if I ever see LSU doing that, I could fall out of the press box) with a pbad-heavy mentality.

"I have full confidence in the direction in which he will lead our attack," said coach O Coach E. "We are on the same length of time. wave".

As to who will lead the offensive On the field that Ensinger will be guiding from the coaches stand, Orgeron has somewhat astonished the prospect of using two quarterbacks if necessary, although this does not seems not to be his preference.

"We would like to have a starting quarterback by the late spring," said Orgeron. "It did not work that way."

The hypothesis, and Orgeron did not say anything to change that, is that it will work with Joe Burrow, a transfer from Ohio. But whoever wins the derby, Orgeron wants a victory that is clearly defined.

"I want it to be clear to our coaches and our players," he said.

The ease with which Orgeron behaved with the media on Monday in relation to his ironing behavior in 2017 is a good indication. Orgeron has his man. It should not be that the deductive skills of Hercule Poirot to infer that the man is Jeaux Burreaux.

But he also says that he has the kind of staff in place around him that suits him best. It's worth wondering if Orgeron made the best choices by choosing familiar and comfortable friends like Ensminger, special team coach Greg McMahon and Jerry Sullivan, who returned to the LSU to coach big receivers, but coach deserves to sink or swim with

Find the most productive quarterback to run Ensinger's attack offensive strategy, one day, take the measure of Alabama once again. The Tigers defeat series against the Crimson Tide is set to seven consecutive games of the January 2012 BCS championship. Orgeron has not started it, but it is his supreme task to finish it. To his credit, there is no illusions about the size of the elephant in his coaching career in Alabama.

"Almost not good enough against Alabama," said Orgeron, in reference to LSU's defeat in Alabama. A few years ago, at Tiger Stadium, a scoreless game in the fourth quarter. "I understand that the LSU coach, you have to beat Alabama."

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