Long before he became the beloved head football coach at undefeated LSU, Ed Orgeron made some of the dumbest mistakes of his life and nearly threw away his future.
NATCHITOCHES, La. — Long before he became the beloved head football coach at undefeated LSU, this is where Ed Orgeron made some of the dumbest mistakes of his life and nearly threw away his future, according to local legend.
“Just a total disaster,” he said. “He told me two of my players did all that, and it wasn’t the first time they had done it. One of them was Bébé Orgeron, and the other Bryan Arceneaux, both of them from South Lafourche.” After McCord was laid to rest last week in her hometown of Baton Rouge, these are the emotional connections that stretch across the state on the eve of Monday’s game. They flow from the Superdome in New Orleans, back to Baton Rouge and the LSU campus, and then up here to Natchitoches , the oldest permanent settlement in the Louisiana Purchase territory and the filming site of the 1989 movie “Steel Magnolias.
“I was expecting to see a couple of alligator chasers, filthy and uncouth and undisciplined and the whole bit,” Goodwin told USA TODAY Sports this week. “I was totally shocked. They dressed really nice, very polite, clean-cut, and it messed with my mind a little bit -- what I was seeing in one place and what I was seeing in another. We had a good visit, and I was going to give them one more chance.
“Everybody deserves a second chance,” he said. “You know, we learn. We mature. That’s why we need coaches.”“He brought me in and said, `Don’t cross it again,” said Orgeron, whose team beat Northwestern State 65-14 in Baton Rouge on Sept. 14. “Guess what? I didn’t. So I’m very appreciative of that, and I’m very appreciative of him drawing the line and make me do the right thing. That taught me that I needed it right there.
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