BATON ROUGE, La. -- Some of the waitstaff at TJ Ribs wore shirts with "It's O time" across the front, but there was no escaping the feeling Wednesday night that Ed Orgeron's time at LSU was coming to an end. When the embattled head coach walked in for his weekly radio show a few minutes before 7 p.m., he passed a grim reaper among the Halloween decorations in the lobby and received little more than a golf clap.
For the next hour, he spoke about fighting through the losses, through myriad injuries, through all the bad breaks that keep piling up.