He’s stepping down and not getting fired for cause, so getting his $$$. Apparently, the AD didn’t have faith in any of his assistants to be interim HC either. Guessing they didn't want anyone fluking their way into a few wins and feeling any kind of pressure from players, etc. to keep them on. Letting O coach means they can completely clean house at the end of the year without any of that in the way. A lot more reporting on the agreement today. It seems O was all but gone after the UCLA game, but they finally approached Coach O and signed the deal the Monday after the Kentucky game. Essentially, Orgeron gets his money and finishes the season, LSU is assured that he walks away quietly and doesn’t tell the press (or the courts) where all the skeletons are buried in the Title IX and rape scandal coverups. It’s shady as horsefeathers. Since that 2019 championship season, Coach O has been in the middle of covering up player rape allegations, told a heckler he wanted to “take him down to a fishing hole” where supposedly they’d never find his body, the UCLA “sissy blue shirt” comment walking into the Rose Bowl right before he got his ass kicked, AND tweeting selfies of himself in bed with hot women. STILL, if he weren’t 9-8 since the title game, no one would give a horsefeathers.