In a disagreement with his previous wife Kelly Orgeron over whether she is owed a portion of his LSU arrangements for 2020 and 2021 and his dismissal deal from the university, the Court of Appeal of Louisiana next Friday ruled in his favor.
The court’s decision was important because it revealed that while Orgeron and Ed actually separated and Ed filed a divorce petition in January 2020, the agreement was simply an “agreement to agree” rather than an legally binding contract for the payment of compensation. The term sheet was subsequently” superseded” by an employment agreement approved by LSU’s committee in April 2020.
In other words, the name plate may have been labeled “binding”, but never in a way that created a shareable resource for the wedding.

Orgeron, 62, coached Tigers from 2016 to 2021. He helped the Tigers win a national championship in 2019, finishing 15-0 overall. Orgeron received LSU’s name plate in January 2020 as a reward. It required Orgeron to join the top five educators in the NCAA and get paid more than$ 41 million over the course of the next six years, before bonuses.
The media reported the agreement as a new lease in a lot of places.
It was. Sort of.
On the one hand, the agreement contained certain details regarding Orgeron’s or LSU’s methods of dismissal, as well as salary and benefits. Additionally, it stated that” This is a legally binding Word Plate and may be interpreted and enforced in accordance with Louisiana’s laws.”
On the other hand, the bargain expressly stated it is” subject to acceptance by the LSU Board of Supervisors”. Additionally, it mentioned that Orgeron and LSU had “negotiate in great trust” to finish a “long- form Employment Agreement” that do” transcend the terms of this Term Sheet “—though “until that occurs, this Term Sheet remains in full force and effect”.
The Tigers were less powerful under Orgeron in 2020 and 2021, playing .500 sports and failing expectations. In October 2021, the university and Orgeron reached a termination deal. It called for Orgeron to be paid$ 16.95 million over 18 installments. After the Tigers lost to the Tigers in the Texas Bowl on January 4, 2022, LSU hired former Tigers head coach Brian Kelly.
This training schedule is crucial for understanding the Orgerons ‘ wedding timeline and the function of divorce law.
In 1997, Ed and Kelly Orgeron wed. A family court judge ordered the isolation of their home in April 2020. There is a premise that both families have equivalent shares in assets and home when they are purchased because Louisiana is a community property condition.
There is no notion of society for the “various types of money that came into Ed’s hands after the dismissal of the group regime,” as Judge Mitchell Theriot wrote in his attempt on behalf of himself and two other courts. This is important, Theriot explained, since the board’s approval “was not given until after the community had been terminated”.

The trial judge also took into account the language in the employment agreements for 2020 and 2021 in order to better understand how to classify the accompanying property. Orgeron was required to “keep working and performing” under those conditions.
While attorneys for Kelly Orgeron maintained LSU’s pay reflected a “reward” for past accomplishments—including the national championship—the trial judge sided with attorneys for Ed Orgeron. They argued that Ed’s future services were “payed for by LSU’s decision to terminate his client less than three years after the championship season” in support of LSU’s decision to terminate him. Theriot reaffirmed Orgeron’s claim, citing the fact that his position was intended to include leading a coaching staff and carrying out other responsibilities in the context of “future work.” In addition, the termination agreement required Orgeron to accept that LSU would continue to use his NIL, that he” cooperative with LSU in any investigation” and other possibilities that might arise after he leaves the institution.
Orgeron v. Orgeron serves as a reminder that those agreements are just “agreements to agree,” unlike when famous college coaches sign term sheets that frequently cause headlines. All that really means, the ruling explained, is” no agreement at all, since either party may avoid it by the mere failure to agree”.