Damn cajun cordog! Was DLC in 1992 at........MIAMI! :rofl:
Playing history
He attended South Lafourche High School in
Galliano, LA with former
Michigan Panthers,
New Orleans Saints, and
Atlanta Falcons quarterback Bobby Hebert. Orgeron and Hebert played on the school's Class 4A state championship team in 1977. Orgeron then signed to play
college ball at
Louisiana State University, but he
transferred to
Northwestern State University after one practice. :rofl:
Coaching history
Orgeron returned to the college ranks in 1994 at
Nicholls State University before moving to
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Before being hired by Mississippi, he was the defensive line coach and assistant head coach for the
University of Southern California (USC) where played a key role in
Pete Carroll's
Trojans winning the Rose Bowl in 2003 and the outright national championship in 2004. He joined the USC staff in January 1998 under the coaching regime of
Paul Hackett, and was retained by Carroll when Hackett was fired in 2000. Under Carroll, Orgeron took on the added responsibility of recruiting coordinator for the Trojans in 2001, and was then named assistant head coach in 2003.
In previous years, Orgeron was an assistant at the
University of Miami, where he coached eight All-Americans, including
NFL first rounders
Cortez Kennedy,
Russell Maryland and
Warren Sapp. During his tenure at Miami, the
Hurricanes won the national championship twice (1989 and 1991).
Orgeron was the National Recruiter of the Year in 2004, also the same year he was hired at the
University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) after the school's firing of
David Cutcliffe.