Report: LSU hosts team meeting, press conference after Ed Orgeron news
Ed Orgeron and LSU reached a separation agreement on Sunday morning, according to a report from Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellinger. The head coach will not return for the 2022 season.
Further reports from Dellenger indicate the LSU Tigers football program scheduled a 6 p.m. CT team meeting, followed by a 7 p.m. press conference with Ed Orgeron and athletic director Scott Woodward.
Despite the split between head coach and program, nothing will change ahead of Saturday’s game against No. 12 Ole Miss, where Oregeron previously coached. The team has agreed to keep the current staff together through the 2021 season.
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More about Ed Orgeron
Ed Orgeron’s career at LSU will come to a close after this season, but he will finish the 2021 campaign before he is formally dismissed. Orgeron boasts a 46-17 record in six seasons at the helm of LSU, and he won a national championship in 2019 — a season in which the Tigers finished 15-0 and put together arguably the greatest season in college football history.
21 months later, the two have agreed to part ways. Since the national championship victory over Clemson, Orgeron’s 9-8 record hardly puts him over .500.
Negotiations between Orgeron and LSU began last week, before the Tigers pulled off an unexpected 49-42 upset over No. 20 Florida on Saturday.
“A strained relationship between coach and administration — rooted in team management & public/private behavior — has warped into an untenable situation, distrust & outbursts,” Dellinger wrote on Twitter.
After going just 5-5 in last year’s COVID-abbreviated season, Orgeron was named in a Title IX lawsuit about allegedly mishandling a rape allegation, igniting conflict off the field at LSU. An amended lawsuit named Orgeron as a defendant in the case, and it accused Orgeron of not reporting the alleged rape of a former student, despite his knowledge of the situation.
LSU will pay buyout
National Championship-winning head coach Ed Orgeron won’t leave Baton Rouge empty-handed after he parts ways with the LSU Tigers. LSU will reportedly pay Orgeron his total buyout to release him and find a new coach. The program owes their head coach roughly $16.9 million, according to Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger.
Ed Orgeron is the second-highest paid coach in the country, making just over $9 million a year from the Tigers. Only Nick Saban makes more. Orgeron and LSU agreed to a six-year contract extension in January of 2020, just 21 months ago.