Ed Orgeron tells Fighting Irish football team ‘you’re going to win it all’ during visit to Notre Dame with sons

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Former LSU soccer coach Ed Orgeron is at Notre Dame this week with two of his sons who’re excited about teaching careers, Notre Dame coach Marcus Freeman instructed ESPN on Wednesday.

It is a weird teaching connection between the colleges, as former Notre Dame coach Brian Kelly left to interchange Orgeron at LSU in late November, after it was introduced in mid-October that Orgeron wouldn’t return in 2022. Freeman, who changed Kelly at Notre Dame, additionally interviewed with Orgeron at LSU in early 2021 for the Tigers’ defensive coordinator place.

Freeman stated he met Orgeron throughout his interview at LSU final yr, and referred to as him “an ideal human being.” They stayed in touch, even after Freeman referred to as Orgeron to say he wasn’t taking the job.

Orgeron has three sons, Tyler and twins Parker and Cody. Parker and Tyler have been members of his LSU teaching employees.

“He was like, ‘I’d love for my sons to have the ability to come up and expertise what Notre Dame soccer is all about,'” Freeman stated. “I stated, ‘Coach O, positive, everytime you wish to come up.'”

Freeman stated they arrived on Monday and are leaving Thursday or Friday.

“Anytime you’ve any individual that has performed the issues he is performed — he has 43 years, I feel he stated at the moment, of expertise … I am a idiot to not attempt to seize a few of that data,” Freeman stated. “I had an opportunity to have him discuss to the staff. He is been at a few of our conferences, I decide his mind on various things as a head coach. He introduced to our employees at the moment on his imaginative and prescient, a few of the issues he is realized in 43 years of teaching on what it takes to have a profitable soccer program. And so for us, it has been simply as useful to have him right here as hopefully it has been for his sons.”

Notre Dame defensive lineman Isaiah Foskey stated Orgeron spoke to the gamers on Tuesday and instructed them they’re like a “fist,” in that they’re higher collectively as an alternative of 5 people unfold out like fingers on an open hand.

“We’re all larger collectively,” Foskey stated. “He was speaking concerning the O-line, we noticed an incident the place one individual went down, and everybody picked up and saved going, surrounded him. We’re higher as a staff.”

In response to a video offered to ESPN of Orgeron chatting with the Combating Irish, Orgeron instructed the gamers they are going to win a nationwide title.

“I do not know when it may occur,” he stated, “however with this employees, and this staff, you are going to win all of it.”