It’s official. New Orleans Saints defensive line coach Ed Orgeron will not be joining the LSU football staff as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator. Coach O is instead heading to LSU’s SEC rival Tennessee where he will join the father-son coaching duo of Lane and Monte Kiffin. Tennessee announced today that Orgeron will work as an assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and defensive line coach. He is expected make upwards of $600,000.
The hire is a coup for Tennessee, which appears to have been in a high-stakes biddin war with LSU to land Coach O. This week, multiple news sources quoted former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert, a lifelong friend of Orgeron’s, saying his former classmate appeared to be LSU bound. That all changed yesterday, when the Kiffins apparently flew to Destin and made Ogeron a better offer. Orgeron is widely regarded as one of the nation’s top college football recruiters. In his former posts as an assistant coach/recruiting coordinator at the University of Southern California and as head coach at the University of Mississippi, he was responsible for landing some of the schools’ best recruiting classes.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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