3. Ed Orgeron, LSU Tigers head coach
On running back Derrius Guice’s running style… “He runs the ball like Warren Sapp played defensive line for me at Miami.” – Ed Orgeron, LSU Tigers head coach
Easily, without question, the best part of Day 1 of SEC Media Days 2017 was LSU Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron taking the podium. It’s not just the Cajun accent or the lovable personality that we all gravitate toward, it’s that he said almost all the right things. This is the first time in a decade he’s at SEC Media Days as a head coach and he couldn’t be more excited.
A big reason he’s so fired up to coach the Bayou Bengals is that he might have the best running back in the country in junior Derrius Guice. In essentially mop-up duty backing up No. 4 overall draft pick by the Jacksonville Jaguars in Leonard Fournette, Guice ran for over 1,300 yards as a sophomore.
Not only does Guice have the fashion sense and the on-camera personality of a Takkarist McKinley, he is an absolutely punishing running back. To be compared to arguably the greatest player in the history of Miami Hurricanes and Tampa Bay Buccaneers football in Warren Sapp is a comparison we should not take lightly.
Keep in mind that Orgeron got his first big break as a college coach on Jimmy Johnson’s staff at the University of Miami back in 1988. Orgeron recruited Sapp to Coral Gables back in the early 1990s. While Orgeron may be a tad out of bounds in this comparison, Guice is that promising of a running back to the point that we really want to believe what Coach O is saying. Geaux Tigers!