SEC MEDIA DAYS: THAT NOISE IS ED ORGERON
That noise you hear is Ed Orgeron speaking at SEC Media days, where he's just finished up a booming and "optimistic" rundown of the Ole Miss Rebels, all the while winning the Al.com pool for "most likely to fry our audio equipment."

Mock at your own risk. The Orgeron has endured tougher battles.
The Orgeron, putting down his croker sack full of blue chippahs, had two of the most intriguing quotes thus far from the Alabama equivalent of the Cannes Film Festival. One, he took a nifty slap at that pipsqueak Saban:
Orgeron first commented on Saban's impressive record saying, then belittled him saying "he won a share of a national championship." Saban claimed the 2003 BCS championship at LSU while Orgeron was an assistant coach at Southern California, a team the AP and others declared was the real national champion.
Then he finally explained how a Delta State walk-on became the starting qb at Ole Miss, saying that Brent Schaeffer's automatic spot as starter under center was an error on his part.
Orgeron raised eyebrows last year by naming Schaeffer the starter before he played a down. Now, he calls that a mistake.
"I wish I hadn't done that," he said. "That was for recruiting."
OWCOACHOBARRINDASOLETODATUBBYNINNYBOYMEDIATAHPES! BEENWATCHINDAOPRAH, GEDDINTOUCHWITHDAFEELINS'! Please, please let Ole Miss have a moderate amount of success this year--a league without Orgeron would leave us rent with grief. He's learned how to elbow other coaches properly at Media Day. He's evidently starting to learn from his mistakes (though the John Thompson hiring still has us befuddled.)
As long as the tally of wins doesn't include a victory on September 22nd, we're fine with whomever he beats, on the football field or in a dark alley in Oxford. Judging from some of the advance stuff we've heard about Feldman's book following Orgeron's recruiting around for a season...you'll be pulling for him, too.
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I can’t wait to see the video. Also, you might want to fix the italics, Orson.
by Year2-Dave on Jul 27, 2007 12:12 PM EDT reply actions
Wow, done before my comment even made it up. Bravo.
by Year2-Dave on Jul 27, 2007 12:13 PM EDT reply actions
“Orgeron first commented on Saban’s impressive record saying, then belittled him…”
Am I the only one that didn’t see the comment on Saban’s impressive record? Or is the lack of comment simply reflecting the “impressive” record (0-0-0)?
Nevermind, I don’t have time for this shit.
by crabs on Jul 27, 2007 12:13 PM EDT reply actions
Hey, Saban is right now only the second undefeated coach in Alabama history, right up next to Mike Price. Not even the Bear himself can say that.
by Year2-Dave on Jul 27, 2007 12:15 PM EDT reply actions
I was late in reading the last couple threads, but I would just like to express my appreciation for everyone’s comments on Jim Delaney/Big Ten. It was one of the funniest comment threads on here. 100 Cocktails for all (and me in about 1 hour).
by bhors on Jul 27, 2007 12:19 PM EDT reply actions
Nugget from al.com video.
From the Orgeron on John Thompson.
“The thing about John is his expertise is the back end. My expertise is the front end. I think it’s gonna be a good match.”
hehe
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
by TigerNacho on Jul 27, 2007 12:37 PM EDT reply actions
Yo yo yo yo yooooo yo yooooo yo BLOODSPORT
by irishoutsider on Jul 27, 2007 12:42 PM EDT reply actions
Hiring John Thompson after his stellar career thus far is proof-positive The Orgeron will not survive the season…the reason SOS is still at USCe is because he retired JT early in the season as soon as he saw his defense started to enjoy watching offensive football…
by sb on Jul 27, 2007 12:43 PM EDT reply actions
- - I just watched it, and he actually said it would be a good marriage, not match, which potentially makes it even funnier.
by Year2-Dave on Jul 27, 2007 12:44 PM EDT reply actions
Well, I don’t know if the Orgeron quotes up there are accurate. The media types may have just been making their best guess at what he said.
by Tom on Jul 27, 2007 12:49 PM EDT reply actions
Magnanimity Dept:
The Orgeron did NOT belittle Saban by saying that
"he won a share of a national championship." That’s a lot of praise, actually, from The Orgeron-meister.
The Orgeron, like almost everyone outside the “Little Arm-Pit Smelling State of Louisiana” knows that USC was the best team that year and those !#$ computers kept them from getting the second half of the mythical title. Hope all of the polls are right this year and USC smashes LSU in this year’s version of the MNC game.
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Jul 27, 2007 12:54 PM EDT reply actions
Orgeron was just telling the truth – Saban and LSU won the BCS share of the National Championship against a team that didn’t even win its conference (OU lost 35-7 to KState in CCG) and lost to Ron Zook’s 20# ranked Florida team while Carroll and the Trojans beat the Big Ten Champions and only lost to Cal by 3 points in double overtime.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 27, 2007 12:55 PM EDT reply actions
- - Thanks, bhors! I can’t even go into an Orgeron thread without having to read more Big 10 slams.
I can’t wait for the season to start.
by jebushchrist on Jul 27, 2007 1:05 PM EDT reply actions
Beating Big 10 champions isn’t that hard.
It’s a pedestrian affair for the SEC.
by NewAZTiger on Jul 27, 2007 1:09 PM EDT reply actions
If only we could get Dennis Dodd interviewing the Orgeron: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e5Bvg02a8c
by Halleck T. on Jul 27, 2007 1:10 PM EDT reply actions
Jebus -
be honest with yourself – if 90% of us weren’t slamming the Big 10, it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun for you now would it?
by Jerkwheat on Jul 27, 2007 1:12 PM EDT reply actions
as your still frame from blood-sport illustrates: sometimes the line between fighting and screwing is mighty thin. This begs the question “Is this ‘O’ a fake?”
by numberedhats on Jul 27, 2007 1:31 PM EDT reply actions
Stacy Keibler – Are you implying that Louisianna smells like armpits or Louisianna folks like to smell other’s armpits? (btw, i agree w/ both)
by PSUrob on Jul 27, 2007 1:44 PM EDT reply actions
#17
It wasn’t too pedistrian for Bama when they lost to Michingan in the Orange Bowl.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 27, 2007 1:48 PM EDT reply actions
Hey, PSURob! Unfair. I’m a Louisianian and I most definitely do not…
/sniff,sniff/
Oh.
Nevermind. Carry on.
by TigerNacho on Jul 27, 2007 1:55 PM EDT reply actions
The Orgeron is 7 feet tall. Kills men by the hundreds. And if HE were here, he’d consume the the media with fireballs from his eyes, and bolts of lightning from his arse.
by lanceharbor on Jul 27, 2007 1:58 PM EDT reply actions
Careful all, if there’s more SEC/Big ten bickering in this thread, the Orgeron will come to your houses, stick you in a Blendtec blender, and give the resulting smoothie to his trained alligators that he tamed himself on the bayou to help teach his team how to “finish” this year.
by Year2-Dave on Jul 27, 2007 2:03 PM EDT reply actions
TOSU,
JEEBUS MARY MOTHER OF FUCKING GOD, DO YOU EVER SHUT UP?
by Steve on Jul 27, 2007 2:11 PM EDT reply actions
#25: “Three yards and a cloud of smoke… whew, don’t breathe this!”
YES, IT BLENDS!
by Rob on Jul 27, 2007 2:29 PM EDT reply actions
Nah Lens Dept:
#21, Stacy Keibler – Are you implying that Louisianna smells like armpits or Louisianna folks like to smell other’s armpits? (btw, i agree w/ both)
PSU Rob: Actually, one of my best vacations was in New Orleeens, LA. Had an amazingly great time. I was just providing some West Coast smack for some laughs and stuff. But, I do remember taking one of those alligator river type tourist clap-trap tours and thinking in certain areas: “…man, this is still considered part of the USofA?”
by Stacy Keibler Luvs Me on Jul 27, 2007 2:30 PM EDT reply actions
tosu – while your message is exactly opposite, your method is the exact same as that one guy, LSUREALNC or something like from a couple of years ago that posted on many message boards and blog sites that LSU and only LSU deserved that national championship. He quit posting when he said his shrink said he had to get over his demons (or something like that) and with aliases, he spread false rumors about his own suicide. At what point “does the shrink tell you to stop posting?”
by Out of Conference on Jul 27, 2007 2:32 PM EDT reply actions
Orson,
Arkansas State Fulmer Cup points.
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=sports&id=5516225
by matt on Jul 27, 2007 2:32 PM EDT reply actions
OOC 1000 cocktails to you if you get that idiot to stop posting
by Willet on Jul 27, 2007 2:35 PM EDT reply actions
I don’t mind having tOSU in here. He makes a few good arguments, but his posts are a little too wordy.
by PW on Jul 27, 2007 2:45 PM EDT reply actions
I think we all just need football season to start- oh and tittles. Excuse me, I’ll be over at the cheesecake thread pointing and gawking.
by Out of Conference on Jul 27, 2007 2:54 PM EDT reply actions
- - Leave me out of this.
@ Jerkwheat – it would be the exact same amount of not fun.
by jebushchrist on Jul 27, 2007 3:13 PM EDT reply actions
To paraphrase William Faulkner, O will not merely endure, he will prevail. So will John Thompson. The talent level and SEC caliber depth are rising in Oxford guys. Jevan Snead (the real deal) at QB for 3 years starting next fall.
Jerrell Powe cleared to play this year in the next 2 weeks or so I predict. And Little St. Nickie gets his butt kicked in Oct. in Oxford. Talk about a Napoleanic complex.
by eosiiiI on Jul 27, 2007 3:24 PM EDT reply actions
Orson, I say we start a pool on what The Orgeron breaks his hand punching this year.
I’d like to cast the first entry for an African Black Rhinocerous…
by Billy in Baton Rouge on Jul 27, 2007 3:26 PM EDT reply actions
Damn – let me have a hit of that purple drank, eosiiiI. My midget in the suitcase wants some as well.
by Out of Conference on Jul 27, 2007 3:34 PM EDT reply actions
I was actually amazed that I could understand the O this morning, while doing other things, in a different room. It was a let-down. I did catch the statement about him and JT..hehe. I am guessing that next year, the media demands that Richt goes last, as he seems to never use his full allotment of time. It takes a lot of hard work to be that inspiring to reporters. However, did anyone else notice that all the questions came from South Carolina outlets. Yeah, they are a bit obsessed.
by Meg on Jul 27, 2007 4:19 PM EDT reply actions
Yaw naw dat footbaw at Ole Miss gonna beyah bettuh dis yeyah. Jus gottah win da close gayme. Gottah playah for da full siddy minutes. Ohxford, footbaw and da smelluh fresh cud grhass….t’aint nuttin bettah induh wholrd.
by Hassan on Jul 27, 2007 4:30 PM EDT reply actions
What the hell is with all the hate directed at tOSU’s posts?
Steve- you dont make pints in an argument by SHOUTING DOWN YOUR OPPONENT dipshit!
Willit- What exactly has he posted that is so egregious? How are you offended?
Out of conference- My understanding of your post #30 is tOSU is somehow deranged. Is this your message and, if so, how did you come to this conclusion?
When did you all become so easily offended by arguments that are systematically defended?
by tzubear on Jul 27, 2007 5:04 PM EDT reply actions
Any team that loses at home to [name redacted] should be immediately disqualified from national title consideration. End of argument.
by John on Jul 27, 2007 6:03 PM EDT reply actions
TZUTeddy – Though I don’t speak for everyone, obviously, but I don’t think anyone is offended by tosu’s posts. Annoyed most certainly, but not offended.
by Out of Conference on Jul 27, 2007 10:35 PM EDT reply actions
we gotta beegbahs dis yeah, jerra pow, micah oar, an da okra qwaterbak!!! beet da tad, tagerz, peegs, dawggs n katz!!!
com novemba we be in lanner beetin da gayters affa we whup de wes!!! go onta da beeeceessss an whup peete carrul at ewesc!!! purrfec sesun!!! nashunl campunshup!!!
den da coachO invite eveerbod to com to oxfard n do his slip n slud, even coach crooms!!!
by yoyofutbawl on Jul 28, 2007 1:00 AM EDT reply actions
My apologies if I’ve become a thorn in the side of the comments section of this site. I’ll try to keep things a little on the lighter side.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 28, 2007 9:13 AM EDT reply actions
tOSUBuckeys – it’s football man- no apologies needed. I can admit, if you aren’t a huge fan of the SEC, visiting an SEC team’s blog (even a light hearted one like this) can make one get defensive. The same as if someone that wasn’t a huge fan of the Big 10 visited a great blog like MZone or another Big10 blog. I honestly hope USCe meets your Buckeyes in a bowl game again. My closest cousins are huge ticket holder Buck fans from Athens- and I keep hitting them up for tickets, but no dice. 100 cocktails to you, sir!
by Out of Conference on Jul 28, 2007 10:01 AM EDT reply actions
OOC is the WORST type of Gamecock fan, one with redeeming qualities.
The guy is funny, not delusional, (at least not publicly), and appears to still enjoy binge drinking as a sport even though, apparently, he is “blessed” with children.
Nice work…
by Coop on Jul 28, 2007 12:26 PM EDT reply actions
TOSU – what, couldn’t find any OSU victories over Bama to yuck over ?
How about South Carolina ?
Florida ?
Georgia ?
A Buckeye relying on the Wolverines to carry his water for him – that’s just sad to watch.
by BamaCPA on Jul 28, 2007 3:28 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks Coop. Somehow I think I’ll be regetting that I ever thanked a Tigger come November. I’m sure Tommy has something planned. Hopefully we put up 50 and hope that’s a big enough cushion against the Spiller/Davis road show.
Not to side with a Bammer, but somewhere I read that of all of the Big 10 teams, only 2, or maybe 3 have winning records over the SEC, OSU is not one of them from what I remember. One was Mich and the other one or two may have been Ind and/or Purude… I can’t remember and now with the minivan and this Mu-Mu fitting me hellacool, I’m too lazy to look it up.
by Out of Conference on Jul 28, 2007 4:22 PM EDT reply actions
#34
Who here saw some titties? C’mon, raise your hands if you just saw some titties!
by MCab on Jul 28, 2007 7:26 PM EDT reply actions
The truth hurts. As far as I know, my team has yet to defeat an SEC squad-or Air Force.
Other than hat, we have a pretty good history. We just need to work on the South. Maybe we’ll have an OSU-Mississippi Outback Bowl.
by Jorgé the Bass Player on Jul 28, 2007 8:18 PM EDT reply actions
Thanks OOC – as to #49 the ironically sad part is that as I mentioned earlier, Ohio State is the boat anchor of the Big Ten battle ship in the war against the SEC. Purdue, Illinois and NW are win less against the SEC (0-4) but in their defense they were sent as Big Ten representatives, in most part, because the usual “big dogs” were in a down year.
Penn State (4-2), Michigan (4-2) , Iowa (2-1), Michigan St. (1-1) and and Wisconsin (2-3) have all held their own for the most part and collectively hold a winning record against the SEC in bowl games at: 13-9.
And although tOSU is 0-6 vs. the SEC in bowl games, there are only 2 games that really burn my ass – 94 against Bama – something about watching Jay Barker throw a screen pass off the wrong foot late in the 4th quarter to a painter just makes me sick. And of course the loss to the Florida this year. I couldn’t care less about a win or a loss in the Outback bowl or any other minor bowl – in my mind we should lose just for being at one of those crap bowls.
by tOSUBuckeyes on Jul 29, 2007 5:01 PM EDT reply actions
Orgeron? Ole Miss…..Where is David Cutcliffe when you need him?
by Robert Emory on Aug 3, 2007 6:07 PM EDT reply actions

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