Orgeron ended his coaching career at LSU Saturday night in Tiger stadium with a dramatic win over Texas A&M 27-24. And like LSU's last years regular season, this season ended up with the Tigers playing .500 ball once again. Orgeron's record the past two seasons was a combined 11-11 after going 15-0 in 2019 winning the SEC and a National Championship.
So LSU once again failed to maintain a consistent winning record under a new head coach and qualified for the playoffs only once in the past 8 years. To add insult, the Tigers finished tied for last place with Auburn in the SEC's West Division with a 3-5 record. Not a good place to be when you are a school that rates in the top five for recruiting each year.
Out of all the predictions by the LSU sports media prior to the season as what to expect from LSU, Politidose commentary published 3/25/21 was the more accurate one. Baton Rouge sports writers are too close to the team to be objective about their evaluations of the team and the coaching staff. Now the hunt is on for another new head coach for LSU and when the announcements are made, fans will hear all the superlatives about the new coach, but it will be time and time alone that writes the true story about the new hire.
This commentary written by Joe Lorio
Note: Former LSU head coach Charlie McClendon coached the Tigers for 18 seasons and had only one losing season. He never won a National Championship as a head coach and holds the record of winning at LSU with a record of 137-59. He was LSU's defensive co-ordinator on the 1958 National Championship team. In this writers opinion those years were the most steady years in LSU football.
