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LSU HC Ed Orgeron Was Almost Kicked Off His College Team for Trashing Dorm Room

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LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron enters Monday with a chance to lead the No. 1 Tigers to a College Football Playoff national title and a perfect 15-0 record if they beat Clemson.

However, Orgeron may have never gone down the path of potentially becoming a championship-winning coach had he been kicked off the Northwestern State football team in 1982 for trashing a dorm room.

Per Brent Schrotenboer of USA Today, former Northwestern State head coach Sam Goodwin considered removing Orgeron from his roster for the act.

Goodwin told Schrotenboer that the housing director for the school "took me into this one room, and every piece of furniture in there was broke.