LSU Football: Another potential defensive coordinator candidate for Tigers

LSU football head coach Ed Orgeron (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

LSU football needs a new defensive coordinator after parting ways with Bo Pelini.

One of the most important hires LSU football will make this offseason will be a new defensive coordinator.

Tigers head coach Ed Orgeron hired Bo Pelini this past offseason to replace Dave Aranda as LSU’s defensive coordinator and the move didn’t exactly work out.

Though it was a short season, there seemed to be plenty of tension between Coach O and Pelini (at least based on Orgeron’s media sessions).

Orgeron routinely passed up opportunities to praise Pelini and often appeared frustrated with the state of the Tigers’ defense. It certainly wasn’t…