{"id":1951,"date":"2013-12-02T17:57:46","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2013-12-02T17:57:46","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T22:57:46","slug":"ed-orgeron-quits-after-usc-hires-steve-sarkisan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/02\/ed-orgeron-quits-after-usc-hires-steve-sarkisan\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Orgeron quits after USC hires Steve Sarkisan"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1952\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1952\" alt=\"getty images\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/edorgeron.jpg\" width=\"594\" height=\"382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/edorgeron.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/edorgeron-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/files\/2013\/12\/edorgeron-85x54.jpg 85w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ed Orgeron wanted to be the next head coach at USC, instead the university hired Steve Sarkisan away from Washington.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by ESPN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Orgeron was &#8220;outraged&#8221; by athletic director Pat Haden&#8217;s decision, even though Haden offered to make Orgeron an assistant head coach and one of the nation&#8217;s highest paid assistants, according to the source.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Under Orgeron the Trojans went 6-2 and had crept back into the top 25 prior to a defeat against UCLA on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong> <a title=\"Female UCLA fan pelted with beer and bottles while standing on Tommy Trojan statue (Video)\" href=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/2013\/12\/02\/female-ucla-fan-pelted-with-beer-and-bottles-while-standing-on-tommy-trojan-statue-video\/\">UCLA fan plunked with beer while celebrating with Tommy Trojan statue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarkisan was an assistant at USC for seven seasons (2001 to 2003 and 2005 to 2008).\u00a0In 2007 and 2008, he was the Trojans&#8217; assistant head coach and offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With Sarkisian on Pete Carroll&#8217;s coaching staff, the Trojans were 74-15 &#8212; including 22-3 when he was offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Orgeron wanted to be the next head coach at USC, instead the university hired Steve Sarkisan away from Washington. As reported by ESPN: Orgeron was &#8220;outraged&#8221; by athletic director Pat Haden&#8217;s decision, even though Haden offered to make Orgeron an assistant head coach and one of the nation&#8217;s highest paid assistants, according to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[157,135,134,156],"coauthors":[7],"class_list":{"0":"post-1951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaafb-news","8":"tag-ed-orgeron","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-ncaafb","11":"tag-usc-trojans"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/ncaafb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}