BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) \u2014 Ed Orgeron returned to LSU’s football program Wednesday, seven years after he coached the Tigers to the 2019 national title.<\/p>\n
LSU head coach Lane Kiffin added the 64-year-old Orgeron to the staff as a special assistant to recruiting and defense. Orgeron worked under Kiffin at Southern California and Tennessee.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m excited to bring Coach Orgeron back to LSU,\u201d Kiffin said in a statement. \u201cHe brings us tremendous value with his ability to recruit elite players nationally, but especially the impact he can have for us recruiting the great state of Louisiana.<\/p>\n
“Coach O understands my expectations and commitment to being a championship program. I look forward to seeing him with recruits and his intensity working with our defensive players.\u201d<\/p>\n
Orgeron spent six seasons as LSU’s head coach. He was fired after the 2021 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) \u2014 Ed Orgeron returned to LSU’s football program Wednesday, seven years after he coached…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[30404,7,1564,120614,49,48,27878,27876,120436,526],"class_list":["post-897052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-ed-orgeron","tag-football","tag-lane-kiffin","tag-lsu-football-ed-orgeron-lane-kiffin","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40789-ap-louisiana-sports-only","tag-tennessee"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116611185642856662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897052\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}