Don’t Call It A Comeback! Mama Coco Said Knock You Out!

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The pandemic-triggered quarantine left college football coaches with a luxury they don’t often possess: free time. Many of them embraced new hobbies, vacationed at beach houses and cozied with families they, normally, rarely see. LSU’s head football coach, already an imposing figure, a large, gravelly voiced Cajun man, took up the art of fighting.

Orgeron trains six hours a week at Morvant’s boxing club, Beat2Sleep, about 20 minutes from Tiger Stadium. They’ve boxed through the pandemic. Morvant shuts down his club three nights a week for one-on-one training sessions with the coach. Orgeron is a quick learner, says the 46-year-old Morvant. And despite turning 59 later this month, Orgeron is fast on his feet and lethal in his arm.

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“I have extra time now,” Orgeron told Sports Illustrated. “I get in there in the ring and I am the pupil. We go at it. He teaches me. It’s really good for me to see how it is to be the pupil again. It makes me a better coach.”

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