Trying not to get my hopes up, mainly because TOC is so adamant that it absolutely will not happen and I’m naturally a pessimist lol.
Look, I will be honest as ****. I am giving an "opinion" that is not my personal opinion, but is based on over 35 years of observations about how UM does things. I have seen administrators, staffers, and professors who were "let go" based on "things they did" and there was never any pretension that they could ever return to UM employment under any circumstances.
Some will complain about this, but I would imagine that the "well-known" nature of Orgeron's past employment at UM, coupled with some of the things that were reported RECENTLY (as recently as his time at LSU) would become problematic. To give an example, even if Mario "hired" Orgeron today, there is nothing stopping a sizable contingent of UM professors, employees, and administrators from going to Frenk to veto the whole arrangement. It happened at Tennessee with Schiano. It just happened at Grambling with Art Briles. And I am not sure that Mario would want his "undefeated hiring record" over the last few months to be tarnished by objections to the hiring of Orgeron.
Again, I can't stress this enough. I believe in second chances, I don't hate Orgeron, ****, I was fine with bringing Butch back too. But a lot of posters look at these things as individual people ("oh, Coach X has changed, he shouldn't be a problem") without looking at decades worth of UM hiring (or non-hiring) practices.
Could it happen? Maybe. Is it likely to happen? No.
But some posters are reeeeeeaaaaalllllly going to focus on that "maybe"...
Maybe we can just 1099 Ed O to do remote video review work from Louisiana...