Ed Orgeron gives surprisingly candid response when asked about hiring DC Daronte Jones
It’s no secret that LSU went through a number of defensive coordinator candidates this offseason.
There was Marcus Freeman from Cincinnati, who eventually took the Notre Dame DC position. There was Ryan Nielsen of the New Orleans Saints. He ended up staying with the Saints.
Eventually, the Tigers settled on Daronte Jones, a former assistant with the Minnesota Vikings. On Tuesday night, coach Ed Orgeron admitted that Jones was the Tigers “fourth or fifth choice” in a surprisingly honest and candid response:
Ed Orgeron on his hiring of defensive coordinator Daronte Jones: "Daronte was like the fourth or fifth choice, but who cares? So was I." #LSU
— Brooks Kubena (@BKubena) March 23, 2021
As Coach O said, he hasn’t been many teams’ first choice during his career. Perhaps that same underdog mentality will spur Jones to great things in Baton Rouge.
We’ll find out how Jones fares in his first year with the Tigers this fall.
“Daronte What? FU”
Coach Whiteboots is a garden variety South Louisiana yat that’s too stupid to keep his mouth shut and this is why he was at the bottom of the barrel as well.
No reasonable proto-human can spin his dullardness as a positive. The guy chits on his current assistants. Chits on his past assistants and openly admits he’s too lazy minded to interview high dollar coordinators and position coaches before he hires them.
Keeping this guy around is worth a “once in a decade” loss. I can promise you that.
No one worth having wants anything to do with Yawyaw. This season’s gonna go real hard on you folks.
That’s why we call him Coach zee-rO. This guy couldn’t draw up a play on a white board if his job depended on it. And it should. But somehow he got a free pass on the X’s and O’s part of the game. He got extremely lucky with Brady and Burrow.
Lucky? He brought in both of them. They didn’t just fall in his lap. He made the right hire and won a NC. He made some bad hires and the team fell to 5-5. We will see what this new group brings, but Orgeron has already accomplished more than Kirby. You guys can knock him all you want, but he’s undefeated against UGA with two blowouts.
I have faith in Kirby. From what I heard Brady wasn’t Zee-rO’s idea and not even that interested in the hire. But I’m surprised zee-rO hasn’t been let go already. I don’t think it will be long with all of the Myles coverup coming out now.
The only zee-rO is the amount of wins Kirby has against Orgeron. You should pick better battles. Maybe you’re just bitter that the blowout loss in Tiger Stadium without Brady cost y’all a shot at the playoffs. Or, maybe it was the blowout loss in the SEC CG. Either way, your coach is 0-2 against Orgeron. You should stick to cracking on teams y’all can actually beat. LSU isn’t it.
Hey dawglb…doesn’t matter who Georgia has as their coach you still will be 2nd tier.
Until you actually win something why don’t you STFU.
Talk about being too stupid to keep your mouth shut….I repeat my challenge to you, head down to S Louisiana with that language coming out of your mouth.
If you wouldn’t say it in person, don’t say it here. Unless that’s just your character.
He’s an SDS troll with multiple troll accounts. Definitely not worth responding to, even though we all have on occasion.
True … thanks for the reminder
And to think he could have had Todd Grantham.
Coach O … authentic! Truthful comment
Wanna…You’re right there…Coach “O” sugarcoats nothing.
Because he’s a complete idiot.
An idiot that’s 2-0 vs Smart
He’s a “complete idiot” with millions in the bank and at the helm of a perrenial contender, while you’re….well, I don’t really know – typing insults from behind your keyboard late at night. Hmmmmmm…………