LEGENDS!
Posted on 01/14/2020 6:47:30 AM PST by C19fan
Six football seasons ago, Ed Orgeron was out of work, spending his Friday nights sitting in the stands of Mandeville High School (Louisiana) watching his son Parker play. On Saturday afternoons he’d turn on the television.
“Sitting on the sofa at my house,” Orgeron said. “I remember watching SEC games, going, ‘I know I can compete with these guys given the right place.’ ”
He’d once been head coach at Ole Miss, but he won just three SEC games in three seasons. He’d essentially been retired into Southern football lore as a colorful character who couldn’t coach a lick. He’d clawed his way back to become interim coach at USC, but even after going 6-2, the Trojans deemed the barrel-chested, thick-accented, proud-of-his-Cajun-roots coach a bad fit for Los Angeles.
You can laugh at USC, which hasn’t won much since, but in the fall of 2014, it wasn’t like Orgeron’s phone was buzzing with anyone who saw him as head-coaching material.
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If you think pass interference is bad, look at holding, both by the offensive line and defensive backs. Yes, there are obvious cases, but it appears that most linemen hold on nearly every play.
Greatest individual season I’ve ever seen. From the Texas game thru Clemson, JB was The Best Ever
God bless Coach O and all the crap he’s had to put up with
A Magucal Season indeed
Clemson and Trevor will be the favorites in September
LSU was at 508 total yards a minute into the 4th quarter. They pretty much went into clock management mode when they got up 17 in the 4th quarter. They could have easily laid 50 on Clemson.
The announcers were talking in historic terms for this LSU team. I agree. Clemson’s 2 championships in 3 years is historic, too. This LSU team will go up there with the all time great teams. To beat a great champion like Clemson the way they did after winning their first 14 games is amazing.
But yeah, hell if I can figure out what pass interference is these days. What is 15 yards personal foul vs. 10 yards vs. "from point of contact". That last long touchdown called back for offensive pass interference was pretty weak relative to all the clutching and grabbing they don't call these days. Missed a few calls as well.
But good for Orgeron and LSU. They would have won despite any inconsistent officiating. And congrats to Burrow. He'll look great in a Bengals uniform. ::rolling eyes:: :-)
Refs don’t even know the definition of pass interference.
It has cost many teams a game.
Ahem
Saints
two years in a row (and screwed me over six ways to Sunday on my Saints plays but Vegas LOVED IT)
“Unfortunately for Riveron, not everyone agreed with his take on the play. Former NFL referee Terry McAulay, who served as the lead official in three different Super Bowls, tweeted after the game that it was an obvious interference play on Rudolph. “
And since they didn't do a lot in the first quarter, that meant they got most of those yards in just two quarters.
He said CLemson would have to kill them to win the game.
LSU got lucky. With Burrow hurt one of CLemson’s key players got booted from the game. It made a difference. LSU still might have won but maybe not.
It will probably be Alabama vs Clemson again.
For that, you can thank Pat Haden. Once hailed as a hero when he was the Trojans' quarterback, Haden turned out to be the Benedict Arnold of USC.
Completely agree lodi.
Clemson might have had a chance had they held onto some of that D line talent. Losing 4 to the NFL, 3 in the first round is no joke. (Similar to what Oklahoma’s O line went through last year to this, losing 4 of 5 to the draft.) Clemson was still loaded enough to make it back to the show but they needed at least a couple of those guys they lost to have had a chance.
628 total yards says it all. That was not a bad Clemson defense, JB and those receivers just outgun everybody in college this year. Just like Bama’s defense wasn’t that bad when LSU put it on them too. When you have a guy in JB that can scramble, and keep his eyes downfield, and still throw strikes while on the run, it just make defensive coordinators want to rip their hair out.
And Burrow is a throwing quarterback who can run.
That’s much better than a running quarterback who can throw.
Tick tock! Tick tock! Turn back the clock! Here's a hit parader blast from the past, a Golden Oldie!
Coach O--The Trojan Marching Band & USC Song Girls (2013)
LOL, don't know if you noticed but every sports announcer talks about every player or team in historic terms. That's why you get statistics after every play telling us that.... "NO team has accomplished anything comparable to what we are witnessing since 1953!"
Hype. That's their job, that's what they do.
That’s what you get from PAC 12 Referees. Guaranteed that had that been a regular PAC 12 game there would have been twice as many of those calls. Especially that one where the LSU Safety drilled the Clemson WR in the back. They would have ejected him for that...
Orgeron looks like a 60-year-old version of Flounder in Animal House.
LEGENDS!
Riverton made the same bonehead no-call that cost the Seahawks the chance at 1st and goal against the 49’s and a 1st round bye in the playoffs.
More like the Cajun coach from the Waterboy...
Yeah he is dfw. Reminds me of Mayfield (not his personality obviously). Neither guy is fast, 4.8 or 4.9 guys, but very quick and elusive, eyes downfield, find the open man or single coverage, throw strikes.
And LSU having Clyde Edwards Helaire healthy as a check down option made it even worse, even as little as he was used. It’s like they’re playing with 14 guys out there. Who do you even cover when, if all else fails, JB can just hit number 22 for a first down... or he can pull it and run it himself for a first.
Is handing cash out like this to LSU players legal???
I dont even know who OBJ is
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