BATON ROUGE, La. — In the Cajun country spanning the bayous, swamps and marshes of south Louisiana, LSU coach Ed Orgeron is known by the nickname, "Bebe," with the French accent aigu above each letter "e."
When the burley, raspy-voiced Orgeron places a call to someone of his French-speaking mother's generation, he could start the conversation with, "Comment ca-va. C'est Bebe ici," which translates to: "How's it going? It's 'Baby' here."
LSU rarely has had a coach like Orgeron, who is only the third Louisiana native to lead the Tigers since they joined the Southeastern Conference in 1933.