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Ed Orgeron (born 1961) is an American football coach. He is currently the head coach of the Ole Miss Rebels. He was named the 35th head football coach at Mississippi on December 16, 2004; he is also the team's defensive coordinator.

Before being hired by Ole Miss, he was the defensive line coach for the University of Southern California. Orgeron was regarded as an excellent recruiter in 2004, which prompted the University of Mississippi to hire Coach Orgeron after the school's firing of David Cutcliffe.

Orgeron's earliest coaching days were mired with youthful ineptitude. In 1991, while an assistant at Miami, a "permanent injunction of protection" was granted to a woman by Dade County against Orgeron prohibiting "any act of domestic violence." Orgeron was ordered into a 26-week domestic violence counseling program. Subsequently, a "highly intoxicated" Orgeron was arrested in a Baton Rouge, Louisiana bar fight in 1992 and charged with felony second-degree battery among other charges. The charges were eventually dropped but Orgeron was placed on probation by the Miami athletic department.

Calling those moments of his life "shattering," Ed Orgeron returned home to his family in Larose, LA, to get his life back in order. Said Orgeron of the troubled period, "I stayed home with my parents and my younger brother (Steven), and got back to my roots and let everything pan out like it should."

Orgeron returned to the college ranks in 1994 at Nicholls State University before moving to Syracuse University in 1995, where he met his wife Kelly in 1996.

Entering the 2005 season, Orgeron had hoped to run a USC-style offense, but was met with limited success largely in part to a talent-depleted roster left by the former headcoach. As a result, the 2005 Ole Miss football team failed to compete with many of the teams on its schedule and finished the season with a record of 3-8, the worst record for the Rebels since [. In response to the results of his first season, Orgeron fired offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone, replacing him with former University of Miami offensive coordinator Dan Werner.. The changes are expected to be wholly beneficial in Orgeron's quest to restore the Ole Miss football program to its championship caliber roots from the 1950's and '60's.

Regarded as one of the fiercest recruiters in college football, Orgeron reaffirmed his recruiting legacy in February of 2006 by acquiring the written pledges of a national Top 15 signing class for the Ole Miss football program.

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