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A Tiger keeps his stripes: Ed Orgeron holds on to his dream job

Ed Orgeron is one of college football's biggest personalities, and for much of his life, he's done everything big.

He's coached big, played big, lived big -- and, yes -- he's also dreamed big.

On Saturday, this self-described Cajun brawler realized one of his most cherished childhood dreams when LSU introduced him as its full-time head football coach.

For somebody who grew up on LSU football in the small Cajun town of Larose, Louisiana and helped lead South Lafourche High School to a state championship in 1977, Orgeron considered the "Tigahs," as he calls them in his unmistakable baritone voice, football royalty.