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Former LSU Star Says No Way Orgeron Is Here Next Season

Published Jun. 30, 2017 6:28 p.m. ET

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When Ed Orgeron first took over as interim head coach of the LSU Tigers, not many gave him much of a shot to even be in the mix for the full-time head coaching position. The team was struggling mightily and had a tough schedule ahead of them, and winning some of those games looked like a task too big for the new coach. But now, after just two games, many in the fanbase and media are calling Orgeron the likely favorite to coach the Tigers next season after the way he has turned this year around.

You won’t find many people around the team not praising what Coach O has done and giving him a shot to win the job, but one interesting person who is going the opposite direction is former LSU Tiger Anthony “Booger” McFarland.

McFarland played on the defensive line while in Baton Rouge, and would later be a first-round pick in the NFL Draft. Earlier today, he appeared on ESPN’s College Football Live to give his take Orgeron’s potential to stay with the team beyond the current year. The rest of the show’s panel said they thought the LSU coach had a decent shot at winning the job, but here’s what Booger had to say:

“I think they’re looking for something they’ve never had. That’s a head coach with an offensive background, a head coach that can bring a young quarterback in here and get some excitement. … I don’t know of anything, in my opinion, that he can do to keep this job.”

“I would love for Coach O to be the coach, he’s my type of guy – he’s a defensive line coach. I would love for him to get that job – I’m just giving you the climate of what’s down there and what the people want. They want a guy that can be a quarterback whisperer.”

While I do think he makes a valid point in the fact that the LSU brass would prefer an offensive-minded head coach, the notion that Orgeron has not shot at the job is absurd. He has been able to make this year’s team explosive on the offensive side of the ball, and that’s something not even the coach with the highest winning-percentange in the history of the school could do. The way he has been able to motivate this team and adjust week-to-week has been great, and if he is able to win some of these games down the stretch, I think there’s no way he at least isn’t considered.

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