We're just lucky to be able to have him refereeing our games! If you don't believe me just ask John himself.Understood. Why doesn't O'Neil ref when we play Rutgers? I just Googled him name and this came up. Coincidence?
Orgeron is out at LSU
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You don't have to look farther than how they responded to the guys that followed Bear Bryant to see what will happen.
No one really knows that anyone is willing to pay Franklin 2-3 million more. It’s all speculation.
OKEven Davey "tOSU" Jones sees it.
On Big Ten ref John O’Neill and the perception that an official could really want Penn State or any school to lose
The Big Ten says it was the replay official who had final say on overturning a Penn State touchdown at Iowa on Saturday night. But the veteran Big Ten football referee is still under fire from PSU fans after his previous transgressions.www.pennlive.com
Both his agent and Uncle Sam take a cut out of his current contract, so it's a big difference.
In CA it's a sizeable bite, in LA not so much, in TX it works to the earner's advantage.
He's stuck then because no school is offering him more than $9mm, at least not in the immediate future.
People as driven and motivated as Franklin are generally not afraid of failure or he wouldn’t have achieved what he has. Anyone who takes the Vanderbilt job isn’t afraid of getting fired and is supremely confident in there abilities.
I believe how Franklin and other big time coaches think is that he wants to compete for a national title. As much as I love my Dear Old State I think the other two places offer a better opportunity for that at this point in time for a variety of reasons. While I am not convincedFranklin would go to the West Coast I believe he would strongly consider the LSU job.
Signing bonuses? Never heard of that with a coach. As for "guaranteed years" that's as much driven by the school as it is the coach. And liquidated damages clauses accrue to both sides, the relative valuation depending on which side enjoys the bargaining leverage. Somehow I don't think that Nick Saban worries too much about being fired.
If it’s about winning a National Title he will go to LSU. I just think it’s easier to recruit kids that will get you to the dance. After the Pete Carroll and Reggie Bush era USC is still under a watchful eye.
Yeah, but in the SEC a coach will recruit against any number of programs that will recruit as well or better.
Tucker was an assistant there and is very highly thought of In Bayou country. Apparently Coach O made some sexual advances to an LSU administrator’s pregnant wife. He is in some sexual harassment trouble.
So his relationship with Pickens is really strained, I kid.
I actually think gundy would be an interesting hire for LSU. He has been really good at OSU, I know he is a bit controversial, clearly wouldn't fit at USC.
I don’t disagree with you, I do think watching Allar, he’s different than the average good high school qb. I like to think of it as being optimistic. As for Morelli, I agree 100%.
Doubt Franklin considers himself near retirement but I don’t know him so maybe.
Looks like O’s off the field behavior may have played a big part in his termination . For the Athletic subscribers , looks like a bigger article just released there .
Ed Orgeron Asked Pregnant Wife of LSU Official to Cheat With Him; His Womanizing Led to Firing
Ed Orgeron was married for 23 years. Then six weeks after becoming a GOD in Lousiana, he filed for divorce. Flushed with millions and free of his wife, Coach O did what many men did beforeblacksportsonline.com
Was going to post - from the article (SIAP):
On the night LSU won the national championship in New Orleans, Orgeron went back to his hotel room around 2:30 a.m. with his wife, Kelly. They had nothing to eat, but somebody handed them some Popeyes chicken and the two finished off the box before falling asleep. By the time he woke up five hours later for a news conference, he was the man with the most capital in all of Louisiana.
Six weeks later, Orgeron filed for divorce.
In his 23 years married to Kelly, Orgeron generally kept a low social profile. His personality will always be larger than life, but he didn’t go out often and wasn’t known to socialize much. After battling alcoholism and a past involving arrests and restraining orders, Orgeron lived a more stable and private life for 23 years with “Miss Kelly.”
Then, at his most powerful — and his most wealthy — Orgeron was single again. He had just signed a six-year, $42 million extension and was a Louisiana hero. And he was going to enjoy it. “Something that had priority in his life that didn’t have a priority before was talking to (women),” one LSU source said. “That just became too high on the totem pole.”
To people and sources inside the program, there was no moral issue with Orgeron enjoying his life, but it was noticeable that football wasn’t his entire focus like it had been in years past, and it became a distraction. There was the infamous 2020 photo of him in bed with a woman, among other photos made public. Multiple sources said he brought women around the LSU football operations building. It all took place as his decision-making and coaching performance declined.
“It was just a distraction,” one LSU player said. “In 2019, there was no, ‘What’s Coach O doing postgame or Sunday during the day? Is he laying by the pool with a lady?’ He was planning events other than football.”
It created messes for him, like the time Orgeron pulled up to a woman at a gas station wearing exercise attire. “Hey, you look like you work out,” he said, according to multiple sources. “We could work out together.” The woman informed Orgeron she was married and pregnant, to which he responded, “Why does that matter?”
(Jamie Schwaberow / Getty Images)
That woman was the wife of a high-ranking LSU official. Word of this reached the LSU Board of Supervisors, the collection of prominent Louisiana attorneys and business owners appointed by the governor who make the most important decisions at LSU. And of course, it reached LSU athletic director Scott Woodward.
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Was going to post - from the article (SIAP):
On the night LSU won the national championship in New Orleans, Orgeron went back to his hotel room around 2:30 a.m. with his wife, Kelly. They had nothing to eat, but somebody handed them some Popeyes chicken and the two finished off the box before falling asleep. By the time he woke up five hours later for a news conference, he was the man with the most capital in all of Louisiana.
Six weeks later, Orgeron filed for divorce.
In his 23 years married to Kelly, Orgeron generally kept a low social profile. His personality will always be larger than life, but he didn’t go out often and wasn’t known to socialize much. After battling alcoholism and a past involving arrests and restraining orders, Orgeron lived a more stable and private life for 23 years with “Miss Kelly.”
Then, at his most powerful — and his most wealthy — Orgeron was single again. He had just signed a six-year, $42 million extension and was a Louisiana hero. And he was going to enjoy it. “Something that had priority in his life that didn’t have a priority before was talking to (women),” one LSU source said. “That just became too high on the totem pole.”
To people and sources inside the program, there was no moral issue with Orgeron enjoying his life, but it was noticeable that football wasn’t his entire focus like it had been in years past, and it became a distraction. There was the infamous 2020 photo of him in bed with a woman, among other photos made public. Multiple sources said he brought women around the LSU football operations building. It all took place as his decision-making and coaching performance declined.
“It was just a distraction,” one LSU player said. “In 2019, there was no, ‘What’s Coach O doing postgame or Sunday during the day? Is he laying by the pool with a lady?’ He was planning events other than football.”
It created messes for him, like the time Orgeron pulled up to a woman at a gas station wearing exercise attire. “Hey, you look like you work out,” he said, according to multiple sources. “We could work out together.” The woman informed Orgeron she was married and pregnant, to which he responded, “Why does that matter?”
(Jamie Schwaberow / Getty Images)
That woman was the wife of a high-ranking LSU official. Word of this reached the LSU Board of Supervisors, the collection of prominent Louisiana attorneys and business owners appointed by the governor who make the most important decisions at LSU. And of course, it reached LSU athletic director Scott Woodward.
Franklin to lsu.
orgeron to PSU.
PSU's bagmen don't qualify for Orgeron...he would laugh at them.
Propositioning the pregnant, married wife of an lsu administrator…what an idiot. Shooters shoot, I guess.
Because writers need something to write and there is zero accountability to be correct...or even in the ballpark with what they write
Or they would list a bunch of D-2 coaches as candidates because they seem to think PSU is a stepping stone job.
Tangentially speaking, other "hot seats"
Miami
F$U (?)
Nebby
MIzzou?
Washington State (?) Not football related though
Arizona (not sure how long that coach has been there....or even who it is).
Miami
F$U (?)
Nebby
MIzzou?
Washington State (?) Not football related though
Arizona (not sure how long that coach has been there....or even who it is).
Pay me five million per year for five years and I am ‘near retirement’ no matter my age.........🤷🏼♀️
