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Ed Orgeron (mumble mumble)

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Recent revelations suggest USC has filled their vacant Strength and Conditioning Coach position as well...
 
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For those unfamiliar with what an absolute piece of trash Orgeron is, I offer this:

Controversy
In 1991, while an assistant at Miami, a "permanent injunction of protection" was granted to a woman by a Dade County court against Orgeron prohibiting "any act of domestic violence." Orgeron was ordered into a 26-week domestic violence counseling program. Subsequently, a "highly intoxicated" Orgeron was arrested in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana bar fight in 1992 and charged with felony second-degree battery among other charges. The charges were eventually dropped but Orgeron was placed on probation by the Miami athletic department.[10]
Calling those moments of his life "shattering," Ed Orgeron returned home to his family in Larose, LA, to get his life back in order. Said Orgeron of the troubled period, "I stayed home with my parents and my younger brother (Steven), and got back to my roots and let everything pan out like it should."[11][12]
Controversy arose for Mississippi and Orgeron after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. One of the most affected institutions was Tulane University. After Tulane football players were displaced by Katrina, Athletic Director for Mississippi, Pete Boone, suggested that Orgeron contact Tulane over the future of their football program and the possibility of player transfer.
Tulane head coach Chris Scelfo was less than pleased with the idea. Scelfo attacked Orgeron after the incident, called those coaches or administrators connected to the Tulane controversy "lower than dirt" and later stated that "there's people in our business who do not belong in our business". The Southeastern Conference investigated the alleged infractions but found that no league or NCAA rules were violated and exonerated Mississippi and Coach Orgeron.[13]
In 2007, 20 Mississippi football players were placed on indefinite probation by the University for having stolen pillows and clock radios from hotels in which the team had stayed. All 20 players paid for the stolen items and therefore no NCAA rules were broken, according to the NCAA. Coach Orgeron stated that the incident would be dealt with internally and that no one would miss the season finale against arch-rival Mississippi State, because none of the 20 players had been a discipline problem before. For the same reason, that being no previous discipline issues, the school refused to release the names of the players.[14]
Orgeron was the subject of the 2007 book "Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting" by Bruce Feldman that highlights the recruiting season during Orgeron's time at Ole Miss.[15]
After his departure from the University of Tennessee, reports surfaced that he called midterm enrollees at the school to offer them a scholarship at his new school, USC. This was just hours before they were scheduled to begin classes, which would have limited their transfer options. Furthermore, some of these calls were purported to take place during a team meeting, with the players turning on their speaker phones so that their new teammates could listen to him talk.
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BB73;1642369; said:
What should the NCAA do about Ed Orgeron, if last night he really did tell some incoming freshmen at Tennessee to not attend classes at UT today (the first day of classes), in order to be able to transfer to USC?
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Taken another direction... does USC get any sanctions added on top of what may be coming since Orgeron acted on behalf of USC? Could be one more item on top of a potentially growing mountain towards "lack of institutional control".
 
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Lane Kiffin: "We are not trying to recruit UT commits"

Ed Orgeron: "I did call UT recruits and to the best of my knowledge, did not break any rules"

Mr. Orgeron, did you contact UT recruits?

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NFBuck;1643001; said:
Lane Kiffin: "We are not trying to recruit UT commits"

Ed Orgeron: "I did call UT recruits and to the best of my knowledge, did not break any rules"

Mr. Orgeron, did you contact UT recruits?

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BB73;1642369; said:
What should the NCAA do about Ed Orgeron, if last night he really did tell some incoming freshmen at Tennessee to not attend classes at UT today (the first day of classes), in order to be able to transfer to USC?

Note - per Tennessee AD Mike Hamilton, Orgeron's alleged comments indicate a lack of knowledge about the rules. Hamilton said this morning that "after 12:01 on the first day of class, if the student athletes are here on campus and they are enrolled in a minimum of 12 hours of classes, they have matriculated to the University of Tennessee."

Personally, assuming the reports are true, I am disgusted and outraged by Orgeron's saying those things to students who are on campus and only hours away from starting classes. It's a serious embarrassment to college football and I think the NCAA should take the harshest action possible toward Orgeron for his unethical bahavior.

I'm suggesting that they ban him from having contact with any potential football recruits for a 5-year period. No phone calls, no text messages, no e-mails, no Tweets, no electronic communication of any kind. Also, no contact with any recruits, either on or off-campus.

If USC wants to have him as an O-line coach, that's fine, but the NCAA should ban him from all recruiting activities for several years, assuming the reported conversations with incoming UT student-athletes did take place.

It may sound harsh, but I'm serious.
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My solution is to allow him to do whatever it is he does. Give him a warning, short suspension, and put him on notice that one more violation in a 3-5 year period and he is done coaching, period. If Kelvin Sampson proved anything he proved that within a year he will be gone. The no-contact rule is unenforceable. It would be too easy for Orgeron to use somebody else's phone for calls, texting, whatever, and that is the paper trail the Sampson left behind. UCLA fans would take care of the monitoring, you can bet on that. Let the man have the remainder of the rope.
 
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Reminds me of the Robert Smith - Elliot Uzelac fiasco back in 1991. I'm kind of surprised that Pat Haden made Orgeron the acting head coach.

Ex-USC Football Player: How My Coach Called Me A “Motherf—-r” for Going to Class

When Bob DeMars was a football player at mighty USC back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, he wanted to major in the school’s prestigious cinema program. Since some of the prerequisite classes interfered with football practice time, however, DeMars says that the athletic department wouldn’t allow it. So he majored in business instead.

In order to show up on time for a required statistics course one semester, he says he had to leave spring practice twenty minutes early, once a week. His defensive line coach, Ed Orgeron, wasn’t happy. "You motherf---r", DeMars remembers Orgeron, who went on to become head coach at Ole Miss from 2005 to 2007, and is now back at USC as assistant head coach, shouting at him. “He M-F’d me all over the place,” says DeMars. “He made me feel like a bad person for going to class.”

Read more: http://keepingscore.blogs.time.com/...ed-me-a-m-r-for-going-to-class/#ixzz2h9cUzHvY
 
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