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BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — LSU coach Ed Orgeron says his boisterous and sometimes profane locker room speech after the top-ranked Tigers beat Alabama was not meant for public consumption and not meant to hurt anyone.
An unidentified LSU player posted about 14 seconds of the speech on social media after Saturday night's 46-41 victory in Tuscaloosa. A rowdy Orgeron can be heard yelling that LSU is going to beat Alabama in recruiting and "every time they see us." Orgeron also uses an expletive to mock Alabama's "Roll Tide" rallying cry.
Orgeron said Monday when asked about the social media post that "the things that I say outside, to the media, those are things I want to get out, and if I wanted that to get out, I would have said that outside. ... It was no means to hurt anybody — nothing like that. It was just a fiery moment, a very emotional moment."
The social media post has been taken down and LSU declined to identify the player.
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