BATON ROUGE, La. -- Ed Orgeron’s recruiting strategy was initially meant to help whoever became LSU’s next head coach. It might wind up helping Orgeron complete this recruiting cycle with a bang.
After taking over as LSU’s interim coach in late September, Orgeron accepted only one official visitor during football season: early enrollee JaCoby Stevens, who planned to sign with LSU no matter who got the full-time head coaching gig. Orgeron hoped he would be the eventual winner in the school’s coaching search, but just in case, he figured it would be poor form to hamstring the next coach by using up official visits before athletic director Joe Alleva announced his hiring decision.