Ed Orgeron Makes Surprising Announcement About His Future In Coaching Football

Coach O clearing the air on whether or not he’d want to return to coaching football.

Ed Orgeron, better known as “Coach O,” has seemed to really enjoy his post-coaching life. With his successful college football background (he coached LSU to a national title in 2019), he could make a few phone calls and get back into coaching whenever he wants to. However, it seems like this pseudo-retirement that he’s been in has really kept him busy… and he definitely doesn’t have to get back into coaching, at least for financial reasons, because of the severance check that he hilariously and happily accepted from LSU.

If you somehow missed that part of Coach O’s story, here’s the video that went viral when he and the SEC powerhouse parted ways:

That video never gets old.

Isn’t is crazy that Coach O and LSU separated back in October of 2021? To me, it seems like just yesterday that the swamp monster known as Ed Orgeron was stomping up and down the Louisiana State University sidelines and yelling in his patented (and unprecedented) bayou accent. He was the perfect fit for LSU, and it’d be hard to imagine him coaching anywhere else.

But it sounds like he’s leaving the door open to a return to coaching, and to him, and it sounds like it would just need to be the right situation for him to “come out of retirement.”

Jacques Doucet, a two-time Louisiana sportscaster of the year, recently put Ed Orgeron on the spot and asked the former LSU head coach if the speculation that he’d return to coaching football sooner rather than later was true. A very fit-looking Coach O grinned ear-to-ear and confirmed that the rumors are true… he’s down to return to coaching.

Since you almost always need subtitles (or at least a little bit of help) when Coach O gets to talking, I went ahead and transcribed his answer to that question below:

“All depends what the best thing available is, but I’m ready to coach again. I left a little bit of meat on the bone. I’m ready to go.”

Left a little bit of meat on the bone, eh? Coach O saying that he has unfinished business?

Or is it that his LSU buyout money is about to run out? That wouldn’t have been as good of an answer for Orgeron to give to that question, but it just might be the truth. When the head coach agreed to walk out the door back in 2021, LSU said they’d pay him over $17 million in payments spread out across 18 installments.

Interestingly enough, the last installment is supposed to hit Coach O’s bank account later this year, as reported by Evan Cohen Radio:

“Coach O mentioned that his $17.1 million buyout payments from LSU end in December, and he wants to get back into coaching soon.”

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Ahh, now it all makes sense. Coach O isn’t simply hankering to get back into college football coaching… he’s got bills to pay! And once the $17 million well runs dry later this year, he’s down to return to the sideline for the right team. If all goes well, Orgeron will have a couple of successful seasons, then a few bad ones, and then get bought out again.

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