Ed Orgeron out at LSU less than 2 years after national title
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 17 October 2021
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Stew and Bruce discuss the breaking news that Ed Orgeron & LSU have reached a separation agreement. Coach O will see out the remainder of the season as LSU Head Coach. Bruce says Michigan State's Mel Tucker will be a strong candidate for the job. Is Florida Head Coach Dan Mullen also on the hot seat? Tennessee fans embarrassed themselves. #2 Iowa gets blown out by Purdue. Would Nebraska pay Scott Frost's 20 million dollar buyout? OU QB Caleb Williams followed up his big River River performance with a great game vs. TCU. Plus, the Big 12 and Pac 12 both have exciting title races.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's. |
| 0:17.8 | I'm Stuart Mandel, joined as always by Bruce Feldman on Sunday morning. |
| 0:21.9 | And this Sunday morning, we had breaking news to address so much so that we had to scrap |
| 0:27.4 | our original podcast intro and start over. So, Ed Ogeron, the LSU coach who won the national |
| 0:34.2 | title in 2019, even after his big win over Florida yesterday, is out. |
| 0:41.4 | The school and Ogeron have reached a separation agreement. |
| 0:45.4 | Bruce, from your understanding, he will still coach the rest of this season, but he's done after that. |
| 0:50.7 | Correct. |
| 0:51.5 | This had been going on for a little bit um you know because at one point i know |
| 0:57.7 | remember saying if you win you know the next two games does that change it and he was like i |
| 1:04.8 | think they've already made their you know made their decision essentially and so when they beat |
| 1:10.6 | florida even with like half a team, |
| 1:13.2 | I don't think that that wasn't changing anything. You know, like it's just a matter of when |
| 1:19.0 | does this get, when does this get finalized in terms of the contract and everything. And this isn't |
| 1:25.1 | like a for cause thing. They're going to have to pay him a lot of money to go away. |
| 1:29.0 | And I think the key things here is basically at O'Jromo is not the guy that |
| 1:34.7 | the new AED or relatively new ID, Scott Woodward, uh, had hired. |
| 1:40.2 | He's not the one, you know, he was there before. |
| 1:43.8 | So it's crazy in this regard. |
| 1:45.0 | It's 21 months from the time he wins a national title. |
| 1:48.3 | And Scott Woodward and the new president, they want somebody else in there. |
| 1:52.9 | So we'll see who they, you know, who they end up hiring. |
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