Ed Orgeron says he’s ready to return to coaching football: ‘I am ready to coach again.’

Ed Orgeron, who last coached in 2021, has expressed a desire to return. He’s only seeking for the proper chance.

Orgeron told Jacques Doucet of WAFB-TV at the Patrick Queen Stadium ceremony on Wednesday night that he is ready to coach again. That doesn’t have to be a head coaching position either. He simply wants a setting that is suitable for him and available.

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“It depends on the best option available,” Orgeron explained. “But I am ready to coach again. I left a small amount of meat on the bone. I am ready to go.”

Orgeron is best recognised for his role as head coach at LSU. In 2019, he guided Joe Burrow’s team to a 15-0 national championship. That team is acknowledged as one of the greatest in college football history, particularly for its offence. Orgeron recently reflected on his success and run to the national championship.

“I felt like we were kings of the country,” Orgeron stated on Pardon My Take in August. “Everyone loved us, and many people supported us. The next day, I saw you (the Pardon My Take crew), and I went to bed a little early. We had a press conference, and you know we’re heading home. I was raised in the Bayou, where folks caught prawns for a living. “Great people.”

Over the 2020 and 2021 seasons, Orgeron would see his LSU squad fall from those heights, and he would put up back-to-back numbers. There are 500 finishes. That would end his time in Baton Rouge. He finished 51-20 overall and 31-17 in the Southeastern Conference.

Orgeron, a native of Louisiana, started his coaching career in 1984 as a graduate assistant at Northwestern State University. He would then advance to the position of defensive assistant, primarily coaching the defensive line or linebackers. He eventually became the head coach at Ole Miss from 2005 to 2007. That was a challenging time, with Orgeron going 10-25 and 3-21 in SEC play. He also served as interim head coach at USC, where he led the team to a 6-2 record. This would serve as a replacement for Lane Kiffin.

The college football coaching carousel is already in full flow. October has only barely begun, and there are already four Power Four positions open, one from each conference. Others are expected to open at various points throughout the season. These teams now have the opportunity to openly search for their next head coach, and Ed Orgeron, with his broad resume, wants to be a part of that conversation.