LSU Football: Recent revelation makes Ed Orgeron look even worse

LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron is in charge of leading one of the most prestigious programs in the country.

He essentially has the keys to a Bugatti.

But he’s driving it like it’s a Pinto.

The Tigers have a world-class program led by a retread coach who caught lightning in a bottle in 2019 thanks to one of the most talented college football rosters of all time.

Orgeron can recruit — no one has ever denied that — but he can’t coach. He’s not a good CEO of a program.

But here’s the thing — he’s being paid like he’s one of the best CEOs in the sport.

LSU Football is paying Ed Orgeron a lot to be mediocre

We already knew that Orgeron was making a lot of money to lead the Tigers to mediocrity.

The extension that Orgeron signed after the 2019 season was ill-advised at best.

Sure, Orgeron won a national championship — something very few college football coaches have accomplished.

But why give Orgeron that big extension? LSU is the job that Orgeron covets the most. He was never going anywhere. I even think he’d coach the Tigers for a discount.

It just wasn’t a good business decision.

That extension led to this week’s revelation, via the latest USA Today coaching salary database, that Orgeron is the second-highest paid coach in college football behind Alabama’s Nick Saban.

Orgeron’s total pay is an insane $9,012,917.00.

Over $9 million for 8 wins in the last 16 games.

A coach making $9 million should never leave the top 15. I understand there will be down years. There will be years where the team is younger. But this LSU team is a top 25 team — even with the plethora of injuries the program has dealt with this season.

Orgeron can’t go fast enough at this point. Too bad it’s going to cost over $20 million to push Coach O out the door.