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06/06/11 The University of Southern California's sanction saga continues. Recently, former USC running backs coach Todd McNair filed a lawsuit against the NCAA for dealing him "career derailing" penalties last June. Now it appears that the NCAA is going after USC head coach Lane Kiffin and USC assistant coach Ed Orgeron. In February, Kiffin was accused of violations that allegedly occurred at the ...
03/11/11 Lane Kiffin and his right-hand man in recruiting, Ed Orgeron, proved in 2011 that sanctions would not hold the Trojans back from being as big a force on the recruiting trail as they've been in years' past. USC has signed countless No. 1 and top-five classes through the past decade, stocking their roster with elite talent February after February. Now comes a top five class to Los Angeles in 2011 ...
03/07/11 Despite the uncertain status of available Trojan scholarships, the USC recruiting department just keeps chugging on. The latest feather in recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron's cap is a player at a position of need who, quite frankly, wasn't too much of a challenge to secure a verbal commitment from. Saying that USC was his "dream school," ESPN watch list linebacker Jabari Ruffin committed to the ...
02/07/11 With the wrappings only recently removed from the Trojans incoming recruiting class of 2011, is it too early to start paying attention to the upcoming class of 2012? As head coach Lane Kiffin would say quietly and recruiting coordinator Ed Orgeron would certainly bellow, the answer is a resounding "NO!" The type of effort by Kiffin and Orgeron that delivered this year's remarkable class will be ...
09/10/10 As the Trojans prepare to meet the Virginia Cavaliers this Saturday evening in the Colosseum, Ed Orgeron and the recruiting department continue to make small moves to shore up future needs in a variety areas. Four scholarship offers, one to a recruit for this years class and three for the next, have been extended to premier prep players from across the land. Interestingly, these offers don't all ...
08/19/10 As one of the perennial top conferences in the land, the Southeastern Conference has been known to chew up and spit out coaches it deems unworthy -- just ask former South Carolina coach Brad Scott and former Mississippi coach Ed Orgeron.
07/06/10 Matt Hayes and Dave Curtis Sporting News college football columnists Matt Hayes and Dave Curtis offer their 10 best for a specific topic each week. This week's category: impact assistant coaches at new schools. Dave Curtis' top 10 1. Ed Orgeron, defensive line/recruiting, USC : In helping restock the Trojans under rough circumstances, this ace recruiter and Lane Kiffin apostle will face his ...
05/27/10 Before going any further, it should be noted with abundant emphasis that Lane Kiffin, Ed Orgeron and the entire USC recruiting staff have done a marvelous job of swaying excellent prep talent to verbally commit to the Trojans. USC already has six pledges from highly regarded prep players including the star of the six, cornerback/running back DeAnthony Thomas. With this kind of head start on the ...
05/25/10 New Tennessee coach Derek Dooley showed some signs of his Cajun touch recruiting in salvaging this top 10 class. Defensive line guru and architect of USC's 2004 national championship Ed Orgeron persuaded some class members to join him at SoCal. This coup included Brandon Willis, a five star linebacker who bolted for the Men of Troy. However, Dooley kept future star quarterback Tyler Bray at ...
04/15/10 There are two "givens" regarding recruiting and Lane Kiffin in terms of USC football. One, at this time of year, offers made to prep football players are abundant, with the recruiting "net" being cast far and wide to prospective Trojans. The other is that Kiffin, along with his personal recruiting guru, Ed Orgeron, will make persuasive pitches to these young players, enticing them to consider ...
04/10/10 USC defensive line coach Ed Orgeron has praised his unit since the Trojans began spring practice, but he admitted reserve tackles Derek Simmons and DaJohn Harris are now performing better than he thought.
02/19/10 Lane Kiffin and Ed Orgeron stayed in Tennessee just long enough to lay some recruiting groundwork.The former Tennessee coach and his recruiting coordinator who bolted Knoxville to head up the football program at Southern California have been one of the strongest suitors for 6-foot-3, 280-pound defensive tackle Terry Redden of Whitehaven High School in Memphis.The Trojans face an uphill battle to ...
01/28/10 Now that head coach Lane Kiffin and assistant Ed Orgeron have taken their questionable recruiting practices with them to USC, they have resorted to begging for money.
01/23/10 There are far too many moving parts to completely ascertain the extent of the damage done to Tennessee's 2010 football recruiting class by former coach Lane Kiffin's departure.This much is known: the Vols have lost seven prospects who were once committed to Kiffin and recruiting coord-inator Ed Orgeron.Receiver Markeith Ambles is just the latest - and most high profile - prospect to declare he ...
01/15/10 TUESDAY8:30 p.m.: Media notified of briefing by Tennessee coach Lane Kiffin.9:50 p.m.: Kiffin steps down from Vols to accept position with Southern California while athletic director Mike Hamilton returns from meeting in Denver.WEDNESDAYApproximately 8 a.m.: Kiffin, former defensive coordinator Monte Kiffin and defensive line coach Ed Orgeron reportedly have phones shut off by UT. Orgeron is ...
01/15/10 According to a story in the Los Angeles Times, new Southern Cal coach Lane Kiffin and his lead henchman, er, recruiter Ed Orgeron may have committed an NCAA violation before they even landed in L.A.
01/14/10 Ed Orgeron says he 'followed rules' when speaking to players who'd given commitments to the Volunteers. Lane Kiffin had just finished discussing the "magnifying glass" of operating in the Southeastern Conference, and how it had taught him the importance of "complete attention on the rules."
01/14/10 The NCAA may choose to work with USC and Tennessee to gather "relevant fact and data" regarding Ed Orgeron's contact with UT recruits after Lane Kiffin's decision to leave.
01/14/10 Kiffin, 34, and returning assistant coach Ed Orgeron immediately faced questions about Orgeron's contact with Tennessee recruits in the 24 hours since their hiring at USC.
01/14/10 Ed Orgeron, left, and Monte Kiffin both come with new USC Coach Lane Kiffin from the University of Tennessee and both have NFL experience. ( Bruce Newman / Associated Press / Oxford Eagle; Kirby Lee / Image of Sport / US Presswire )
01/13/10 Within an hour of Lane Kiffin's shocking announcement that he's leaving Tennessee to return to Southern Cal, Scott Wolf of the LA Daily News announced that assistant coach Ed Orgeron was already working in Heritage Hall, likely chasing down Trojan recruits that were waving in the wind. | 
