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Former Ole Miss coach Ed Orgeron interested in return to coaching

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Oct 23, 2021; Oxford, Mississippi, USA; Mississippi Rebels head coach Lane Kiffin (left) and LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron (right) shake hands after a game at Vaught-Hemingway Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Petre Thomas-USA TODAY Sports

Former Ole Miss head football coach Ed Orgeron is the latest coach in retirement to want to get back into coaching. After winning a championship at LSU and having four years off, Orgeron is looking to return.

Orgeron joined Barstool Sports’ Pardon My Take on Monday to dish on his yearning to return to the sport. He didn’t totally commit to a return, but he’s getting the itch to be on the sidelines again.

“I think it’s time,” Orgeron said on the show. “I’m feeling it a little bit. Haven’t made the decision totally, but I’ve got my boys settled, coaching football now. It’s been four years since I’ve been out. I’m getting the itch again.”

Fresh off winning the 2019 national championship, LSU went 5-5 overall in the 2020 season. The pressure was on in 2021 but the Tigers started 4-3 and fired Orgeron in mid-October.

Orgeron coached at Ole Miss between 2005 and 2007, posting a 10-25 record with a 3-21 mark in SEC play. While known for his recruiting, the Rebels were a mess in most places during his tenure.

He went on to bounce around before landing in Baton Rouge as the defensive line coach before being promoted to head coach in 2017.

“After things didn’t work out, I changed some things and some approaches that I had to see if they’d work,” Orgeron said in 2019. “I finally got the coaching staff that I really believed in and obviously I have great talent [on the roster]. But I’m very appreciative of my time in Oxford.”

Orgeron – who led the Tigers’ program from 2016-2021 – joined the Dan Patrick Show and addressed LSU’s decision to fire him. And while no one enjoys being fired from a job, Orgeron said that he doesn’t have any bad blood with his former school and understands why he was let go.

“Yes,” Orgeron said in 2022 when asked by Patrick if LSU was fair to him. “I do believe that. Listen, I left LSU with no regrets. I knew that one day it was going to happen. Look, you can’t have two losing seasons at LSU – that’s the standard. We set the standard at 15-0. They gave me a great settlement. I don’t have to work again in my life if I don’t want. They were very fair to me.”

LSU was certainly fair to Orgeron, as he and the school agreed on a buyout of $16.95 million, which will finished up paying him in monthly installments through Dec. 2025. 

Ole Miss is fine and dandy years removed from the Orgeron era with three 10-win seasons in the last four years under Lane Kiffin.

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