Coach O is definitely one of the worst hires ever. On top of that hes a complete doofus. I have a freind whos a retired Mississippi HS football coach, he had a lot of big names come through his football team over the years, some of which went on to be stars in oxford and starkeville. He told me a story recently about Orgeron when he was at Ole Piss. It goes something like this...
A number of state highschool coaches and assistants, himself included, were at a summer coaching clinic in Jackson one year. They were in a classroom one morning and looking over X's and O's on an overhead projector (you remember those, they shine light through the clear plastic sheets that you write on with a dry erase marker and broadcast the image on the wall) with one of the guest speakers, a college coach. The session ends, they go on break. They come back, sit down and Ed Orgeron is introduced and walks in. He comes up to the front of the room and says that he was a "DQ" for many years and they were gonna talk about defensive alignments. He grabs a PERMANENT marker, and begins to write on the overhead glass (NO PLASTIC SHEET). One of the other coaches sees whats starting to happen and tries to intervene but Orgeron just ignores him and keeps going. By this point the class is somewhere between laughing and wondering if this guy is for real or just clowning. My friend said he draws up a couple of the most basic "hat on hat" concepts that you could imagine, the kind that you learn in pee-wee and then goes on and on about how "YOU GOTTA PUNCH UM IN DA MOOUTH!" After 20 minutes of his cajun drivel he finally starts to wrap up and repeats that he was a "DQ" for many years and if anyone ever has any questions, that they can call him up. Finally, some guy in the room raises his hand and asks him, "Coach, whats a DQ?" Orgeron looks at him like HE'S crazy and says, "Well HELL brotha, its a DEFENSIVE COOORDINATOR!!" Orgeron then takes the permanent marker and starts to write his cell phone number on the projector glass, starting with the area code first. He writes down 'XXX-XXX-XXX' and starts to walk away. Another coach speaks up and says, "But Coach O, thats only 9 digits, your missing one." Coach O turns around, looks at the number, says "Ahhh, what the hell," adds a zero to the end of the number and then walks out the door.
IQ of a turnip.
