The legend of LSU head coach Ed Orgeron is growing by the minute.
ESPN has put together a feature that includes some of the greatest tales about Coach Orgeron, and they are fantastic.
First, check out this story about Orgeron at Syracuse:
Kyle Fetterly, Syracuse head equipment manager
One year, Syracuse head coach Paul Pasqualoni decided he wanted to start two-a-day workouts earlier, so he scheduled practice for 5:45 a.m. That meant the equipment staff had to arrive at 4 a.m. Sure enough, Orgeron was right there with them.
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Orgeron was always the first guy in, full of energy, and he’d work out on the field just before practice — sit-ups, push-ups, chin-ups, squat thrusts. One day, one of Fetterly’s assistants stopped him.
“Coach, you’re in good shape. Why do you do all this?” he asked.
Orgeron looked stunned. To take a day off would mean falling behind, and that’s not something Orgeron would ever do.
“Son,” he said, “the day I can’t whoop a man’s ass is the day I don’t get out of bed.”
Then, there’s the tale of Joe Burrow wanting to try crawfish during his recruiting visit:
Joe Burrow was on a recruiting visit to Louisiana. As a kid from Ohio, he wanted a taste of the local culture. And if anyone knew Louisiana culture, it’s Ed Orgeron, the LSU coach who grew up in bayou country and now leads the state’s beloved football program. So when the pair went out to dinner in May, Burrow anticipated the ultimate in local cuisine: crawfish.
The only problem: The menu at Mike Anderson’s restaurant didn’t include crawfish.
“I was looking forward to having crawfish in crawfish country,” Burrow said.
Orgeron made a call. Mike Anderson Jr. answered.
“Being in the business for a while,” Anderson said, “we have some vendors who can get that stuff when you need it in a hurry.”
One call led to another, and sure enough, 15 pounds of crawfish landed at the table for Burrow and Orgeron. They finished it all.
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