Orgeron fished for trouble with outburst

Come to find out, LSU may have been fishing in the wrong hole all along and it may be time for a new captain to man the ship at Tiger Stadium.
For those of us who have been living under a rock, the last year-plus of the Ed Orgeron Era haven’t gone quite as well as other years.
First things first, we will always have 2019 to celebrate. And Ed Orgeron will always be known as the head coach who helped put together what many believe is the greatest college football team of all-time.
At bare minimum, Orgeron was the architect of a staff that put together the best offense of all-time in college football.
Also, I’d like to note that with everything that hasn’t gone well within the last season plus of Orgeron’s tenure as head football coach of LSU, I would gladly put up with another coach’s hijinx if he delivered the type of season LSU’s 2019 team did.
All that said I’m tired of the hijinx. And it all came to a head during Orgeron’s weekly radio broadcast.
While Tony Marks was drinking another Diet Coke and interviewing coaches at the Crawfish Barn at his weekly coaches show, “The Voice of the Tigers” Chris Blair was doing all he could to make sure Scott Woodward wouldn’t reach for the hard stuff over a soda.
He wasn’t successful.
We won’t go into the alleged recreational activities that Orgeron has been involved with over the past two seasons. This is a family publication and this isn’t the time nor place.
But, when a caller cracked a joke at the expense of Orgeron’s recreation, he found a way to make his own missteps that much worse.
In case you missed, after the caller made his comment, Blair did his absolute to redirect and deflect back into Saturday’s Kentucky game.
Orgeron, however, chose to veer back into it, and said there were “fishing holes for people like him.”
There are a lot of ways to interpret that comment, and none of them are good.
Even if Orgeron had made this comment in 2019, it probably goes largely unnoticed as winning is the Neosporin for all public relations missteps a coach makes.
However, the big takeaway from Wednesday’s public relations nightmare is this: it should’ve been avoided.
You cannot control what callers say. That is an inherent risk of sports talk radio.
However, when the show’s host is giving you a cue to redirect you take it.
When you work for a multi-million dollar company and are the figurehead of it, you take the out.
When you have decades of media training designed to help you say and do the right things in the public eye, you utilize that training.
Unfortunately, Orgeron did none of those things, and quite possibly used gale-force winds on what was seemingly already a house of cards.