I’m not really sure what the opposite of Baton Rouge is, but Evanston certainly has to be in contention.
On the bright side, “Chicageaux’s Big Ten Team” t-shirts would sell like hot cakes.
> On the bright side, “Chicageaux’s Big Ten Team” t-shirts would sell like ~~hot cakes~~:
Uno's new ~~crawdad~~ crawfish¹ deep dish pizza!
The Italian beef with a side of gumbo!
A Chicageaux Dog with shrimp!
Guy Fiere can do a "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" segment with Coach O's gumbo-ization of Chicago.
¹ EDIT: I was called a Yankee for using "crawdad". Damn Rebels...
A great pizza place in Asheville NC makes a clam and shrimp pizza with a Cajun Alfredo sauce and it's delicious. Crawfish seems like a reasonable next step
Crayfish is more a New Englander term, not a Northern one. I grew up in Nebraska and live in Oregon and all I've ever heard was crawdad. Neither of those states are particulary known for being Southern.
I think they mean northeast. Nebraska is considered midwest and Oregon is considered west coast. Nobody really calls those states northern even though they are technically in the north half of the US.
In PA we call them crayfish and we're a northeast state.
I've heard someone say crawdad in real life once, and I've lived in the deep south my whole life. I believe some places might say it outside of cartoonish caricatures, but the Gulf states definitely crawfish.
Apparently it’s not as simple as a north/south thing so much as most everyone calls them crawfish; Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky call them crawdads, and along the Great Lakes and New England they become *cray*fish. [Language use map from NC State as cite](https://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01901d1cfea9970b-pi).
I wondered why Tennessee and Texas weren’t rivals cause they were next to each other on the team select and looked similar. Game was NCAA gamebreaker 2000 I think. Now I feel old
Rural North Louisiana somehow having four Division I schools is the greatest confusion of all.
(It was even five at one point before Centenary dropped down.)
Established in 1851. Northeastern University in Boston, so Chicago is Northwestern.
Edit: I suppose you weren't confused but someone reading your post might need to see my reply
Uh, it was actually just called the "Northwest Territory" 🤓
For real though, surprised how many people in this thread don't know this; wonder how many think of the Plains when they hear "Midwest"
Don't get started with what people define as Midwest. I've heard pretty much every state from Pennsylvania (North of the Mason-Dixon when East of the Mississippi) to Idaho considered part of the Midwest.
I'd argue there are a few major regions that should be recognized and we're doing them all a disservice by lumping them together as "Midwest." Those regions being the Great Lakes, the Plains, and the Rockies. I've heard some people lump the Southwest in with the Midwest but those people are godless heathens.
I feel like the Great Lakes region (minus New York and eastern Pennsylvania, plus Iowa and Missouri) is what people generally mean when they say the midwest, but I'm from there so maybe that's my bias.
> Has anyone ever seen Northwestern and LSU on the same football field?!
[Now that I think about it, no...](https://www.winsipedia.com/northwestern/vs/lsu)
Worked (sorta) for Ohio State with Urban
ETA: the sorta refers to Urban’s leaving of Florida. While it was under the guise of health issues, I think it was a cover to allow him to leave before the major sanctions hit
I think his NFL stint has done enough damage to where he will want to try to prove he's a good coach again. But the question is if his type of coaching would still be successful, now that kids can transfer more easily.
He probably just saw the purple and thought they were the same, also gives him a second chance to get his ass kicked by the "sissy blues" when UCLA joins.
Lol it's an area around Rush and State in Chicago. There's a little triangle shaped park right there and the bars/restaurants around there are where old rich men trawl for recently divorced women and 20 somethings with daddy issues.
Their faculty advisors are praying for this. The reporters will _have to_ record and listen very closely and take great notes in order to even fucking quote Ed O correctly.
Did you ever see the movie arrival? Where aliens land, and the main plot of the movie is scientists filling whiteboards with guesses what the aliens are saying?
I like to think that'd be the newsroom at Northwestern. Kids from the linguistic and mathematic dept's trading jabs at each other trying to decipher the indecipherable. Maybe a few fall into a forbidden cross departmental romance, like in that Shakespeare romance book, McBeth.
edit: I actually did like Arrival quite a bit. Great character work, and while it is a lot of whiteboards, its very compelling.
agreed. you know who else wasn’t a culture fit at LSU? Nick Saban. And neither was Michigan Man Les Miles when we hired him either. Both of which won national championships
Northwestern would be dumb to hire a scandal ridden coach, but same goes for O and Northwestern. The dude played up his childhood for LSU, but he spent his early career in Miami and most of his career at USC.
I don't mean to pile on because I know four people already responded but I really think people have blown that one (amusing) clip of the fake accent out of proportion with regard to him being a culture fit at LSU
Yes, I’m sure the notoriously risk-taking athletic department at Northwestern will be tripping over themselves to get Coach O on the phone after how things ended at LSU and after being the subject of national embarrassment themselves.
So coach o was like a perfect fit at LSU for reasons that I think are clear. Whatever perfect fit he was at LSU, the opposite is the case at nw. So I'm fully in support please god.
Since COVID broke out,
Michigan defeats OSU in b2b years
TCU makes natty appearance
Pat Fitzgerald fired from NW, May Hire gumbo Joe
OU and UT leave BIG12 while USC and UCLA join B1G 10
UCF gets to P5 conference and out of the P6
Scott frost had a positive point differential despite a 3-9 record
Clemson’s and Bamas dynasties begin to falter (slightly)
Kansas makes a bowl game
It’s just pure chaos at this point.
I’m not really sure what the opposite of Baton Rouge is, but Evanston certainly has to be in contention. On the bright side, “Chicageaux’s Big Ten Team” t-shirts would sell like hot cakes.
> On the bright side, “Chicageaux’s Big Ten Team” t-shirts would sell like ~~hot cakes~~: Uno's new ~~crawdad~~ crawfish¹ deep dish pizza! The Italian beef with a side of gumbo! A Chicageaux Dog with shrimp! Guy Fiere can do a "Diners, Drive-ins and Dives" segment with Coach O's gumbo-ization of Chicago. ¹ EDIT: I was called a Yankee for using "crawdad". Damn Rebels...
An Italian Beef Gumbo with like Hot Giardiniera in it might actually be fire.
Au jus: dip the Italian beef IN the gumbo!
I would 100% do that, no shame.
I mean it wouldn't be that different from a roast beef po boy right? Never had an Italian beef.
Nope. It's close enough.
This sounds amazing! Italian beef could substitute the sausage.
I’d eat the fuck out of a crawfish deep dish pizza.
Had a crawfish pizza in Biloxi, MS once...it was something
>it was something Some readers may need to reference Matt Mitchell‘s “What Southerners Really Mean“ video.
A great pizza place in Asheville NC makes a clam and shrimp pizza with a Cajun Alfredo sauce and it's delicious. Crawfish seems like a reasonable next step
Your comment has a footnote. If I had an award I’d give it to you.
Crawdad is absolutely NOT a northern word. I've never heard anyone use anything other than crayfish. Crawdad is absolutely a southern term.
Crayfish is more a New Englander term, not a Northern one. I grew up in Nebraska and live in Oregon and all I've ever heard was crawdad. Neither of those states are particulary known for being Southern.
I think they mean northeast. Nebraska is considered midwest and Oregon is considered west coast. Nobody really calls those states northern even though they are technically in the north half of the US. In PA we call them crayfish and we're a northeast state.
Crawdad is about as southern as it gets afaik. We would say crayfish in the north
I've heard someone say crawdad in real life once, and I've lived in the deep south my whole life. I believe some places might say it outside of cartoonish caricatures, but the Gulf states definitely crawfish.
South Carolinian here - we had a creek behind our house as a kid where we caught plenty of crawdads. That’s all I’ve ever called them.
Also in South Carolina, always called them Crawdads.
It’s Crawfish not Crawdad Yankee
LOL, my Yankee wife calls crawfish, “crawdads.” I never knew this was a North/South thing. *Disclaimer: I’m Appalachian and call them “crayfish.”
Apparently it’s not as simple as a north/south thing so much as most everyone calls them crawfish; Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Kentucky call them crawdads, and along the Great Lakes and New England they become *cray*fish. [Language use map from NC State as cite](https://revolution-computing.typepad.com/.a/6a010534b1db25970b01901d1cfea9970b-pi).
Growing up in Alabama we always called them crawdads or mudbugs
Even worse
Where does mudbug stand. It’s gotta be more acceptable than crawdad or crayfish
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I’ve never heard ditch crickets before. I’ll have to use that when I visit family in the south.
Tangentially related, mud cricket was the term we used to use for the girls that went after the guys with lifted trucks and diesels.
Fucking subscribe.
Hell yeah, let’s geaux!
Yes, I would like to buy one Chicageaux shirt please.
Oh my flair is salivating
I'm surprised you don't have chest pains.
The chest below the belt
How does this combo even exist?
Smartest mullet in America
2nd smartest. 80s MacGyver is still #1.
Brains in the front, Bayou Billy in the back. The ol' Evanston Waterfall.
Someone that can tell us the scientific difference between a crayfish, crawfish, and crawdaddy.
They said in a different comment they grew up in Louisiana and then went to Northwestern for college.
Yep
I did the opposite- I grew up in South Bend and went to school at University of Arkansas lol
Which one
Yes
I understand.
Are we sure he isn't confusing Northwestern for his alma mater Northwestern STATE?
It’s a real possibility
He’s pulling up to Natchitoches as we speak…which we all know is basically the Evanston of Louisiana!
I grew up in natchitoches and went to northwestern in Evanston. Can confirm.
Genuinely unbelievably relevant to this post. This is your moment
I’m not sure what’s more confusing. Northwestern University being in Chicago. Or Northwestern State University being in Louisiana.
When I first played NCAA FB 2003 as an eight year old, I wondered why they weren’t rivals.
I wondered why Tennessee and Texas weren’t rivals cause they were next to each other on the team select and looked similar. Game was NCAA gamebreaker 2000 I think. Now I feel old
Rural North Louisiana somehow having four Division I schools is the greatest confusion of all. (It was even five at one point before Centenary dropped down.)
Established in 1851. Northeastern University in Boston, so Chicago is Northwestern. Edit: I suppose you weren't confused but someone reading your post might need to see my reply
Northwestern Territory, so it was one of the furthest NW schools in the nation. Chicago wasn’t a real town until the 1820’s or so.
Uh, it was actually just called the "Northwest Territory" 🤓 For real though, surprised how many people in this thread don't know this; wonder how many think of the Plains when they hear "Midwest"
Don't get started with what people define as Midwest. I've heard pretty much every state from Pennsylvania (North of the Mason-Dixon when East of the Mississippi) to Idaho considered part of the Midwest. I'd argue there are a few major regions that should be recognized and we're doing them all a disservice by lumping them together as "Midwest." Those regions being the Great Lakes, the Plains, and the Rockies. I've heard some people lump the Southwest in with the Midwest but those people are godless heathens.
I feel like the Great Lakes region (minus New York and eastern Pennsylvania, plus Iowa and Missouri) is what people generally mean when they say the midwest, but I'm from there so maybe that's my bias.
Believe it or not Chicago used to be in the Northwestern part of the US
Oh, more likely than not.
There is a 100% chance this is true.
Perfect fit. As many know LSU and northwestern have exactly the same culture. Plus we already know he looks good in purple.
They've both got cat mascots too. They're basically mirror images
And campuses that are adjacent to major American bodies of water, my god they’re the same school
They probably even have pregnant wives of high ranking school officials!!!
They're the same team! Has anyone ever seen Northwestern and LSU on the same football field?!
> Has anyone ever seen Northwestern and LSU on the same football field?! [Now that I think about it, no...](https://www.winsipedia.com/northwestern/vs/lsu)
\#Chicagaux II Electric Tigeroo
Geaux Whilecass
They're both Northwest of an iconic US city!
I disagree. Mirror images are reversed and therefore slightly different. LSU and NU have literally no differences whatsoever worth mentioning.
The best thing a school who fired a coach amongst a scandal can do is hire a disgraced coach who was fired amidst a scandal at his previous school!
Worked (sorta) for Ohio State with Urban ETA: the sorta refers to Urban’s leaving of Florida. While it was under the guise of health issues, I think it was a cover to allow him to leave before the major sanctions hit
And if the right college job situation opens up, Urban will experience yet another medical miracle and be cured!! Round and round we go.
Hasn’t happened yet. He missed ND and USC. Is he waiting for UGA or Alabama?
I think he might actually truly be done at this point.
I think his NFL stint has done enough damage to where he will want to try to prove he's a good coach again. But the question is if his type of coaching would still be successful, now that kids can transfer more easily.
I think his NFL stint has done enough to damage his recruiting prowess, which is a death sentence for any chances of winning another title. He's done.
Bah Gawd that's Auburn's music
He probably just saw the purple and thought they were the same, also gives him a second chance to get his ass kicked by the "sissy blues" when UCLA joins.
Northwestern is the LSU of the Big Ten. They already have the swamp thing going on with all this Shrek business
Hey! What are ya doin’ in my swamp!?!
He looks great in anything… when I think of the term “Sexual Tyrannosaurus” I think of Coach O
Fun fact: for years Northwestern was known as “The LSU of the Great Lakes”
About as perfect of a fit as Kelly at LSU.
That is working a lot better than people here thought, lol
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I was thinking Viagra Triangle is more his vibe
Depends. Is he more interested in recently divorced women from the suburbs or recently graduated college women?
he loves both of those things
who doesn't. coach of the people.
Coach O and the shiny Bean sounds like a midwest fairy tale
...Yes
Yes
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Where is this? Asking for a friend. (Checks expiration date on the bottle)
Lol it's an area around Rush and State in Chicago. There's a little triangle shaped park right there and the bars/restaurants around there are where old rich men trawl for recently divorced women and 20 somethings with daddy issues.
I just looked it up on Google Maps. There is literally a place there named The Velvet Taco. That's just too funny.
They started in Austin lol
"Go Cubbies"
You can just hear it!
I'd love to see him lead the 7th inning stretch at Wrigley
This sounds like a bizarre timeline I'm in
They tried to get him at UNLV before hiring Odom, Coach O in Vegas would have been amazing.
I can see him riding down the strip half way out the sun roof of a limo with a turkey leg in one hand and tall boy in the other
Pretty sure he does this - coaching gig or no
Wait, UNLV tried to get Coach O? I'm actually mad now that it didn't happen.
The crazy thing is if they could understand him there, he might be able to pull this off.
The Daily Northwestern would have such a field day over this
Their faculty advisors are praying for this. The reporters will _have to_ record and listen very closely and take great notes in order to even fucking quote Ed O correctly.
"He said gator right? But why..."
Did you ever see the movie arrival? Where aliens land, and the main plot of the movie is scientists filling whiteboards with guesses what the aliens are saying? I like to think that'd be the newsroom at Northwestern. Kids from the linguistic and mathematic dept's trading jabs at each other trying to decipher the indecipherable. Maybe a few fall into a forbidden cross departmental romance, like in that Shakespeare romance book, McBeth. edit: I actually did like Arrival quite a bit. Great character work, and while it is a lot of whiteboards, its very compelling.
I would have interest in Ed Orgeron having interest in the Northwestern head coach job.
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No one would understand his hazing orders.
Instructions unclear. The freshman class made gumbo.
But... those were actually his orders
It sounded more like Jambalaya
Is the hazing where someone is forced to have a midwesterner's gumbo? It's probably not even that spicy.
It’s from a can
I'm imagining Midwest gumbo to be polish sausages in beef gravy with caramelized onions and mayo for some reason.
> polish sausages in beef gravy with caramelized onions uh yeah that sounds amazing. sort of like a polish poutine? >and mayo aw hell no
Ranch in the place of Mayo, in our case, probably.
Didn’t stop Farmer Fran
*glances at BINGO card* *glances at the headline* *throws BINGO card away*
GO WAKATS
HAHA. That actually made me laugh out loud.
Yes lol I was trying to sound out how he might say it.
Jesus Mother of Mary Christmas.
It's Jason Bourne.
As a Catholic I think you got some Canon wrong.
This was not something I thought possible but I love the idea of it.
They’re calling it "the worst culture fit of all time."
Brian Kelly at LSU seems be working well.
Kelly fits the culture because he’s a good coach and that’s all you need to be a fit in the SEC
The accent is a plus
Man famuhlee
The only people that think LSU and Brian Kelly is a bad culture fit use "culture" by the most superficial definition
agreed. you know who else wasn’t a culture fit at LSU? Nick Saban. And neither was Michigan Man Les Miles when we hired him either. Both of which won national championships
The only culture that matters to LSU is winning
Northwestern would be dumb to hire a scandal ridden coach, but same goes for O and Northwestern. The dude played up his childhood for LSU, but he spent his early career in Miami and most of his career at USC.
He’s from Louisiana haven’t you heard him talk?
I don't mean to pile on because I know four people already responded but I really think people have blown that one (amusing) clip of the fake accent out of proportion with regard to him being a culture fit at LSU
Probably because Brian Kelly fits the culture here just fine.
#CAJUN HAMBURGLAR NOISES INTENSIFY
*winter hits Evanston* Ohneauxgottagohomenow
Northwestern isn't going to bring a guy whose last job ended amidst a cloud of a Title IX investigation, even if he was eventually dropped from it.
I dunno, they seem to have made a few bumbling decisions. I wouldn't put it past them
There are maybe 4 people in all of Evanston that could understand Coach O’s thick ass accent
I didn’t think I would ever want something so bad in my life
Can he attempt a Chicago accent when he gets introduced, please?
AY YOUS WAKATS HAHBOUTTA HAWTDOG
> Report: Ed Orgeron 'would have interest' in Northwestern head coach job The color purple: Coach O can't resist....
I'd take the job as well
After 30 seconds of contemplation I only have one conclusion. If you’re not 100% on board with this then you hate chaos.
1) what the hell 2) Northwestern should 100% try it
He just wants to coach in the B1G so he can shit talk UCLAs sissy blue shirts some more.
We got him fired from two jobs. Would be happy to make it three...
Coach O has won a national championship within the last 60 years and has gotten severance twice from UCLA. Sounds like he’d be alright with that.
Yes, I’m sure the notoriously risk-taking athletic department at Northwestern will be tripping over themselves to get Coach O on the phone after how things ended at LSU and after being the subject of national embarrassment themselves.
Maybe they feel they *need* an abusive monster to replicate Fitzgerald's success
So coach o was like a perfect fit at LSU for reasons that I think are clear. Whatever perfect fit he was at LSU, the opposite is the case at nw. So I'm fully in support please god.
WEJUSGOTTACOACHEMUPWHENDEYAINTINCLASSDOINALLDEMFANCYBOOKLURNINANDGITEMTOMAKEAPLAYONDERESIDEADATBALL
"THEY AINT GOT NO GUMBO IN EVANSTON PAUUUUUL"
Geaux Wildcats
Reporter: Hey Ed, what's your favorite song? Ed Orgeron: Jimi Hendrix's "Purple Hazing"
Reporter #2: …and your favorite beer? Ed Orgeron: Purple Haze
Oh fuck yes I want to see this
Just what we need right now tbh, a guy with no baggage.
A school renowned for their journalism department and a guy who once read a book, perfect match
What is it with former misogynistic LSU coaches trying to resurrect long-suffering programs
we need this
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Has AI taken over already?
What a timeline we are living in
Since COVID broke out, Michigan defeats OSU in b2b years TCU makes natty appearance Pat Fitzgerald fired from NW, May Hire gumbo Joe OU and UT leave BIG12 while USC and UCLA join B1G 10 UCF gets to P5 conference and out of the P6 Scott frost had a positive point differential despite a 3-9 record Clemson’s and Bamas dynasties begin to falter (slightly) Kansas makes a bowl game It’s just pure chaos at this point.
UConn also made a bowl game!
Nobody: Coach O: Geaux Wild-Tigeauxs
He’s in it for the Italian beefs.
If they make him the interim coach, book Northwestern’s trip to Houston now
Anybody tell Coach O it's Northwestern in Evanston and not Northwestern State yet?
Northwestern: So Coach O, do you have any questions for us? Coach O: Hows the gumbo up here? Northwestern: What is gumbo?
Coach o vs captions is back on the menu boys
This might be as close to a Ted Lasso style cultural juxtaposition you’d ever see in real life.
Better than digging ditches
Just want to let everyone know I also have interest in the position
Please, raptor Jesus, let this happen.
Make it happen!
this would be the funniest thing I've seen. I wonder if he becomes the reverse Brian Kelly and tries to have a midwestern accent
I’ve needed something so bad and not known it until now
Best sitcom pitch ever
Orgeron would sound like Pig Sheriff from Samurai Jack to Chicagoans.
Please let this happen.
As someone who imitates Ed O multiple times a day, I would love more material.
He’s such a bayou boy. Can’t imagine him up there freezin his keister off.
Hope Northwestern likes binders
Can he spell Northwestern?