BATON ROUGE, La. — This all started as a joke. Chad McGehee didn’t actually believe he’d be the man to fire Ed Orgeron. But after a humiliating defeat, and after a little booze, yeah, why not start the movement at 6 in the morning from your home in Dubai?



The funny thing is he was actually a fan of the Orgeron hire. He wasn’t sure about the other options. He saw Orgeron’s growth and his work as an interim coach. He liked hiring somebody who fit Louisiana.



He and some buddies played around one day after the hire asking questions to each other, things like, “What does he have to do to keep the job?” and then, “What does he have to do to lose the job?” And they all agreed, almost as a nonsensical throwaway, that there was one stipulation.



As long as he doesn’t lose to Troy.



Well. You know the rest. LSU did just that. It lost to Troy. In Tiger Stadium. After paying the Trojans $985,000 to come...