Ed Orgeron is from Down the Bayou.

And unless you are from south Louisiana, you don’t know what that means.

But Orgeron is from Larose, La., a hamlet in LaFourche (pronounced La-FOOSH) Parish, deep in the state’s Bayou region. The joke down there is that everything is located in one of three directions: Up the bayou, across the bayou and down the bayou.

And Larose — for everybody who’s not from Cut Off, Galliano or Golden Meadow — is DOWN the bayou. Way, way, way down.

This is a man with the very Cajun nickname of “Ba Ba” (pronounced “Bay-Bay”). You don’t get more “Down the Bayou” than that.

If it’s appropriate for LSU to have a Louisiana head coach, you don’t get much more Louisiana than the man from Down the Bayou.

Here are five things to know about Ed Orgeron:

He’s boyhood friends with ex-Saints QB Bobby Hebert

Orgeron and Hebert were teammates at South Lafourche High, a school that takes on all the kids from the Down-the-Bayou towns. The Hebert- and Orgeron-led Tarpons — an apt mascot for an area where the fishing industry is such a big deal — won the AAAA state championship in 1977.

Orgeron went on to play at LSU, but after a year left to play with his friend Hebert at Northwestern State in Natchitoches, La. He was a good player for the Demons and was named one of the top 100 players in school history in 2007.

As a coach, he became known as an ace recruiter

After stints as a graduate assistant coach at Northwestern State and McNeese State, he was briefly a strength coach at Arkansas before joining Jimmy Johnson’s staff at Miami.

There, he began to build his reputation as a solid recruiter. He coached the defensive line and recruited some of “the U’s” better defensive linemen from that era, including Cortez Kennedy, Russell Maryland and Warren Sapp.

He lost the Miami job due to off-the-field issues but later resurfaced, first at Syracuse, then under Paul Hackett and Pete Carroll at USC, where he continued to build his recruiting chops and was named Carroll’s recruiting coordinator in 2003. He was named national recruiter of the year in 2004.

His first head coaching job didn’t end well

In 2005, he was hired to replace David Cutcliffe at Ole Miss, and things did not end well.

In three years, he went 10-25 before he was fired. He tried to bring a USC-style offense and a level of toughness to his players. He would challenge his players physically in blocking drills. He would rant and was known for his fiery demeanor.

But he also couldn’t win, and those days quickly ended.

Yes, that was him in the ‘Blind Side’

If you want a good peak at Orgeron’s loud, very Cajun personality, pick up Michael Lewis’ book, the Blind Side, a book (really, a business book at heart) that tells the story of tackle Michael Oher, who went from homeless to playing for Ole Miss with the help of a wealthy family that took him in.

Oher was recruited to Ole Miss by Orgeron, and when the book was made into a Hollywood blockbuster film in 2009 (starring Sandra Bullock), Orgeron took the role of playing himself. He wasn’t the only coach to do that for the film. Other “as himself” stars in the movie included Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville, Lou Holtz, Phillip Fulmer and Houston Nutt.

He also gave access to author Bruce Feldman for his book “Meat Market: Inside the Smash-Mouth World of College Football Recruiting.” That’s another book that gives pretty good insight into Orgeron’s personality.

Another coach who wasn’t ready got him a second chance

After a brief stint as an assistant coach with the New Orleans Saints, he was hired by Lane Kiffin at Tennessee, then followed Kiffin to USC in 2010.

That went about as well for Kiffin as Orgeron’s tenure at Ole Miss. And when Kiffin was fired in September of 2013, Orgeron was named the interim head coach.

This time, the man from Down the Bayou handled the job with a much different, more mature, demeanor. He went 6-2 for the rest of the season for the Trojans, and there was a groundswell of support for USC to take the “interim” tag off his label and name him head coach.

It didn’t happen.

Instead, USC opted for another former Carroll assistant, Steve Sarkisian, and Orgeron was again looking for another job.

More Orgerons are in football

Orgeron’s in his second marriage, and he and his wife Kelly have three children. When Orgeron took the USC job the second time, he lived in a hotel while his wife stayed at their home (from his year with the Saints) in New Orleans’ Northshore suburbs.

There, two of his children, twins Cody and Parker, became stars at Mandeville High School. They signed together in February to play for McNeese State, an FCS power in Lake Charles, La., one of the schools where their father served as a graduate assistant.

While Cody, a quarterback, appears headed for a redshirt season as a true freshman, Parker Orgeron is already starting as a slot receiver for the Cowboys and has 11 receptions for 123 yards in four games.

After 38 years, he returned to LSU in 2015

The first time Orgeron was at LSU as a college freshman, he didn’t stick around very long, opting to transfer.

LSU hired him as defensive line coach in 2015 and this time, Orgeron hopes to stay.

He joined a talented recruiting staff and mentored a talented defensive line in his first season. After 2015, longtime recruiting coordinator Frank Wilson got the head coaching job at Texas-San Antonio and Orgeron, the noted recruiter, slid into that role for Miles and the Tigers.

This season, his group was off to a fast start. Davon Godchaux and Lewis Neal have been outstanding at defensive end, nose tackle Travonte Valentine is rounding into shape and Arden Key, who plays a hybrid outside linebacker/defensive end role, has been one of the nation’s best pass-rushers with 6.5 sacks in four games.

But LSU is off to a 2-2 start, Miles is gone and Orgeron is back in the familiar “interim” role.

Can he save the season the way he did at USC?