BREAKING: LSU & Ed Orgeron Reach Separation Agreement, Players Reportedly Didn't Want To Play For Him

BREAKING: LSU & Ed Orgeron Reach Separation Agreement, Players Reportedly Didn’t Want To Play For Him

October 17, 2021, 1:13pm EST (Updated: January 29, 2023, 9:02pm)By Darrelle Lincoln

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It took just 21 months for Ed Orgeron to be on top of the college football world to being at the bottom.

On Sunday, it was reported that the head coach and LSU “reached a separation agreement: He will not return in 2022 but expected to complete this season,” according to a report from Ross Dellenger of Sports Illustrated.

#LSU and Ed Orgeron have reached a separation agreement: He will not return in 2022 but expected to complete this season, sources tell @SINow.

Negotiations began last week before UF win.

It’s unprecedented in the sport – coach & school divorcing 21 months after winning it all.
— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) October 17, 2021

What made things so dire was that the players did not want to play for him, nor did the coaches on the staff wanted to coach for him.

A source familiar with the situation at LSU: “It’s one of those things where no one wanted to be there anymore. The players didn’t want to play for him, the coaches didn’t want to coach for him.”
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) October 17, 2021

Over the weekend, Ed Orgeron and the LSU Tigers had a huge 49-42 win over the Florida Gators in a week where the coach was subject to hot-seat talk as the team came in 3-3. The Tigers blocked out the noise, however, and got a huge win over their SEC rival.