BATON ROUGE, La. — During the press conference introducing Ed Orgeron as LSU’s new head football coach, the former Ole Miss head coach and USC interim head coach threw out an observation that, in the context of what he was doing, didn’t cause a stir.

“You come to LSU and the expectation is this is the greatest job in America,” he said.

Sure, maybe he’s pumping up his new job. Perhaps he said the same thing when he was introduced at USC when Pat Haden fired Lane Kiffin and named Orgeron the interim coach back in 2013.

Heck, maybe he would have said the same thing if he was being introduced as the new head coach at Kent State.

But it reminded me of what an NFL assistant coach once told me about LSU. He was asking about the job security of Les Miles — and this goes back a few years before he was ever really on the hot seat — and I asked him if Miles ever did leave, who would be interested.

“Everybody,” he said. “It’s the best job in football.”

Wait a minute. It’s a great job, without argument. But THE best job?

Let’s not get crazy.

He went on to explain. The NFL offers little job security, and it’s difficult to maintain a superior talent level because of the equitable nature of the draft and salary cap. That, in turn, threatens a coach’s job security. As for colleges, he argued, how many schools are in a state as talent-rich as Louisiana, but without a second major power?

“Plus, you have support, money, you have it all,” he said.

It was a pretty compelling, though not completely convincing, argument. If LSU is such a great job, why hasn’t it won more national titles? Alabama has 10 since the AP Poll era began in 1936. Notre Dame has eight, Oklahoma has seven and USC has five.

LSU has three, which makes it no slouch, but nowhere near the legacy of some of the other elite programs. Has it underachieved?

Maybe that’s part of what makes LSU, at this point in time, such an attractive and interesting opening following Sunday’s firing of Les Miles. YOU get to build a legacy the way you can’t at comparable programs.

Paul Dietzel led LSU to a 1958 national championship but left a few years later for Army. Nick Saban led LSU to its second championship in 2003 but left for the NFL and will now forever be more tied to Alabama than LSU in retrospect. And Miles wound up getting fired after leading LSU to the 2007 title. Charles McClendon is a beloved figure at LSU, but he never won a national championship.

So there is an opportunity in Baton Rouge for a coach to become an icon, the guy who makes it THE power.

Obviously, that’s not easy, but when you are a school with tremendous resources — and make no mistake, LSU athletics has those resources — it’s an interesting argument to make to a coaching candidate who thinks of himself as elite and has the ambition to want to make history.

For example, no matter how much Jimbo Fisher wins at Florida State, Bobby Bowden’s the guy who built the program. For Saban, getting out of the shadow of Bear Bryant and getting into the argument to be maybe the greatest coach in college football history came at about the same time. How steep of a hill was that to climb?

Michigan has Bo Schembechler. Ohio State has Woody Hayes. Oklahoma has Bud Wilkinson.

LSU? Yeah, it can claim Saban, but increasingly only in the same way Texas A&M can claim Bryant.

So that position — the one where they put the statue in front of the stadium and name the whole thing after you — is available for some coach to take at LSU.

And to try to pull that off, they’ll give you a salary competitive with any in the country. And they’ll pay your staff, too.

And you’ll coach in the sixth-largest stadium in college football — one that sells out every game — in front of arguably the most passionate, nay, rabid fan base in the sport.

What if somebody passes you in facilities? They’ll just dive into the Tiger Athletic Foundation fund and find the cash for a renovation to match or better it.

And you’ll get to maintain the “fence” around Louisiana in recruiting. Saban is largely credited with building it, Miles with maintaining it. But if you keep Louisiana players home, you don’t need to do a whole lot of national recruiting to win. Louisiana, after all, famously produces more NFL players per capita than any other state.

And if the state’s 4.6 million people don’t produce enough, neighboring Mississippi also produces a lot of players. And if you can’t find them in Mississippi, you can go drive four hours from Baton Rouge into the hotbed called Houston.

So why wouldn’t Tom Herman want to come? And although the Fisher ship may have sailed last year, if LSU comes calling again, he has to listen, right? Dabo Swinney? Why not? Chip Kelly? LSU should go for it.

And meanwhile, you better believe Orgeron is going to try everything to make this work because it’s an opportunity that will not likely come again. He’s lucky — or is he cursed? — to have twice been named interim head coach at one of the country’s storied programs.

At USC, he went 6-2 as an interim coach and had a groundswell of support to get the “interim” off his title. Had the Trojans not been blown out by UCLA to close the regular season, maybe he’d have that job, one of the few that one reasonably can argue to be more attractive than LSU.

He’s back in that same situation, interim coach at one of the best jobs in America.

But the best?

Let’s see what the next guy can do with it.