There were days during the spring where Ed Orgeron felt lonely in LSU's football operations facility. With players and staff in isolation during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, Orgeron spent the days in his office, seeing only a few faces every now and then.
At night, he'd sit on his porch overlooking the practice facility until midnight, wondering when normalcy would return.
It's far from normal, but something resembling it is back this week with the start of football practice, which Orgeron was happy to talk about Tuesday during a Zoom press conference with the media.