BATON ROUGE, La. -- Ed Orgeron is proud to say that the man leading LSU today as its interim coach barely resembles the one who flamed out in his first opportunity as a head coach.
Down deep, Orgeron is still the intense, gravelly-voiced Cajun who took over at Ole Miss in 2005 and made a boatload of wrong moves in three unsuccessful seasons. But Orgeron now has a better idea about how to manage a program, precisely because he blew it as a Rebel.
"Look, that was a great opportunity for me," said Orgeron, who will lead No.