To Orgeron or Not to Orgeron . . .

Bebe Orgeron has been LSU's interim head coach and done a good job, not a great job but a very good job.  LSU fired Les Miles early in the season and took a chance of Coach Orgeron to lead the Tigers through the remainder of the season.  He certainly is a colorful man, a Louisiana native, and an experienced coach.  He was a dismal failure at Ole Miss but came through at University of Southern California as an interim head coach.

He failed to best Bama this year and lost a tear jerker with Florida but he got the team's attention and they responded well.  This time he was less of a screamer and more of an executive and leader.  Did he scream, of course he did, but seemingly in the right manner.  He used his staff and he did not do that at Ole Miss.  He had learned his lessons well.

He can recruit and he will do a good job in that area.  He has a first class talent in Coach Aranda and let's him do his thing.  Now as a head coach he can hire some people that he knows well and perhaps change the style of the Tigers.  The Tigers are a defensive minded team that likes to run the ball.  That is not always the most effective way to win.  He has great talent in quarterbacks and if he gets someone to really develop those young men, then look for LSU to start really throwing the ball.

With a wide open offense and great defense, he will have a most powerful and importantly, entertaining team.

I am sure Coach Herman would have been great too.  But I think his cost would be high and frankly he did not look that good against Memphis Friday.  Other coaches could do as well but they were not of the caliber LSU was looking for in the next few years.  Coach Orgeron may not last more than two or three years but there will be change and now plenty of time to get the next great football coach.

Les Miles was and is a great coach.  He just is hard headed and refused to change when change was needed.  Coach Orgeron recognized the signs, took over and changed the entire processes.  He could not easily side car the past of Miles and did use the running team talent that Miles developed.  But he added more flash to the game and that made a big difference.  He has seen and worked with West Coast offenses and understands the changes needed.  Les Miles will go on and be a head coach somewhere - Baylor, Indiana, even maybe Norte Dame (unlikely in my mind).  He too is a great recruiter.  Time will tell but he is history now at LSU.

I am surprised that many of the news outlets, especially the big sports venues refer to LSU as one of the best places in the country.  The alleged "storied" program that demands the best especially in football.  That tickles me but I think it is a bit of hype.  I would think it is a tough place to succeed.

Geaux Tigers!

Progress . . .

Judie has weaned herself off Percocet and all opiate drugs.  She just uses Tylenol when needed now.  And the Tylenol seems to do the job for her.  Albeit, it is about the maximum dose one can take but it works for her.

She wakes sometimes with leg pain, or leg and foot pain, sometimes only the right leg and sometimes both legs are effected.  All of that tends to tell me healing is going on and the Sciatica nerve is settling down.  The other pain was probably associated with the spinal bones healing where bone had been removed to make space for the nerves and by now they seem to be healed up from the operation.  She has a large scar and a couple of places are still scabbed over.  I touched them, and they seem to be residual stitches.  So that too will in time go away.  It has been a struggle and reminds us we are not spring chickens anymore and all things take longer to heal up.

She is much more stable now, uses her walker a lot less.  We are going to look into a cane to ensure her stability when walking.  She does go short distances now without the walker.  And she is doing more walking about.  Still no bending or stretching down for anything.  And no driving which kind of cramps her style.  But she is over all doing much much better.

Election Is Over . . .

The voters by state have decided whom they wanted for their President.  In doing so they repudiated the present administration and its candidate.  Now the ads will quite down but the recriminations have started.

We were told that should Trump get elected the stock market would go through the floor. It did not go through the floor, it accelerated upwards.  The market apparently likes growth and change rather than the status quo.  Times they are a changing.

The pundits and the polls generally picked Hillary to win.  She did not win and now there is soul searching going on.  Some even saying the Democratic party is in total disarray.  I doubt that, there will be endless analysis, etc. but times will move on.  New candidates will appear in time.  But hopefully the shenanigans will stop.  The question stealing and giving to one candidate, the exchange of lies here and there will stop.  Maybe integrity will reappear in the Democratic party.  Not that there is not any of that in the Republican party, but it was not aired like that of the Democratic party.  I personally can not understand how the Democratic party nominated such a candidate.

Hillary had to much corrupt baggage, lies to Congress, lies about her personal computer server and her Emails, about selling access to the Secretary of State to generated moneys for her and her husbands charity.  And using the charity to pay for non charitable events like the daughters wedding.  Corruption was flowing all over the place.

The American public is not stupid.  They were tired of Obama.  They were tired of the lies.  And now they are in shock that their candidate lost.

Well we no longer have to listen to candidate rhetoric.  Now we move on.  Perhaps we will wipe the slate clean again and start over.  That is the beauty of the great United States of America.