LSU is yet to hire a replacement for the recently departed Matt Canada, but if you follow the tea leaves, it seems this is all leading toward a promotion of Tight Ends coach Steve Ensminger. Ensminger, of course, played at LSU, and was the Interim OC during Orgeron’s interim head coaching gig that eventually earned him the full-time position in 2016. So first, let’s backtrack a minute.
The offense showed tremendous improvement under his watch in 2016, after struggling through the first four weeks of the season under Miles/Cameron. Each week it seemed some new record was being broken (though admittedly, at times, it seemed Orgeron went hunting for records to make the claim).