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Originally Posted by FormerPokeCenter
Ok, you've had your win. You've had you fun. Time for you to move on.Quote:
Originally Posted by FormerPokeCenter
I wouldn't want you to suffer a let down this weekend.
And before you get all in a tizzy, your board is running our people on the "time to move on" bit too.
You're totally right. Plus it's not always about how good a player is... but will he fit into our system? One guy might be a great pocket passer, but he doesn't fit our offensive style...mainly because we have a younger, smaller offensive line that won't block as well for a pocket passer. Therefore we may have to pass on him and pick up a decent scrambler instead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just1More
When your child has trouble in school do you give up on them? When a loved one is in trouble do you ignore them? When some one makes a mistake you hold a grudge or do you forgive them. Last week was last week, this week is this week. Sometimes sports are like a bad dream or movie that you cant control. If all you ever do is focus on the negative that is all you will get. The Troy game is the most important game now because it is the next game. Athletes are taught the 24 hour rule. You get 24 hours to celebrate a win and 24 hours to grieve over a loss. Pack the Stands and Support The Cajuns. We are Lafayette's Team.......2005 start season 1-5...result Sunbelt Champions! Remember and Believe
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Originally Posted by RealCajun70
The True Fans will Be out There. So go out there and show Troy what the real Cajuns Are.
It is so great to read something positive and really accurate. Thanks for a great post..I feel my depression lifting!!!!! You made my day. Good luck to UL on Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by RealCajun70
Hey, we're averaging approx 28,500 per game so far this year! We're on a record pace & have not even won a game yet. I think this makes Cajun fans some of the best in the nation! Just think what wins would do. Stay positive, the potential here is fantastic. :rolleyes:
"I press on toward the goal, to win..." - Philippians 3:14
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so i heard some interesting stats about troy so i decided to do some comparisons, here goes
Rushing offense:
UL, national ranking:21, 228 ypg, 685 total, 4.77 yards per carry, but only 3 rushing tds
Troy, national rank: 79, 129 ypg, 389 total, 3.7 ypc, 7 tds
passing offense:
UL, national rank: 99(t), 160.7 ypg, 482 yards total, 4tds
Troy, national rank: 22, 295 ypg, 885 total, 5 tds
Rush Defense:
UL, National rank: 98, 207 ypg, 623 total, 8 tds
Troy, national rank: 119, 285 ypg, 855 total, 10tds
Pass defense:
UL, national rank: 55, 217 ypg, 653 total, 4tds
troy, national rank: 43, 194 ypg, 584 total, 5tds
troy stands 1-2 losing to arkansas and florida, but winning against oklahoma state.
UL stands 0-3 losing to South Carolina, Ohio, and Mcneese
troy's schedule is definitely tougher, but we have played close games against south carolina and ohio
arkansas beat troy but lost to alabama, florida has beat WKU, troy and tennessee, oklahoma state beat FAU but lost to troy and georgia
south carolina has beat UL, georgia, and south carolina state, ohio has beat UL, gardner-webb, but lost to virginia tech
arkansas has the number 4 ranked rush offense, 104 pass offense, 63 rush defense, 96 pass defense
florida has the number 15 rush offense, 24 pass offense, 6 rushing defense, 71 pass defense
oklahoma state has the 42 rush offense, 68 pass offense, 40 rush defense, 93 pass defense
south carolina has the 39 rush offense, 77 pass offense, 92 rush defense, 6 pass defense
ohio has the 76 rush offense, 84 pass offense, 78 rush defense, 97(t) pass defense
so what do i make of all these numbers? troy has the worse run defense in the country to date, that works in our favor, our pass offense is near the bottom that works in troys favor. looks like it may rain saturday, that would definitely give us an advantage. while we sit at 0-3, troy is only a game better at 1-2. the spread on the game is less than 10 last time i heard, in troys favor but the line has moved in our favor nearer the end of the week. while we are 0-3, we can still win 6 games or better so long as we dont fall apart. This week will be the test, i think we may upset troy this week and start us down the right path into sun belt play. anybody else wish to share any interesting numbers please feel free.
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The radio talk shows, the Internet chat rooms, and the calls and letters to the newspaper offices have been in overdrive mode since last Saturday.
Even before the final horn at Cajun Field, one that mercifully ended UL's 38-17 loss to McNeese State, head coach Rickey Bustle, the Ragin' Cajun football staff and the UL players were being called out by legions of fans with access to phones or keyboards.
Fortunately for the under-siege UL family, athletic director David Walker isn't one for knee-jerk reactions.
"We're only three games into the season," Walker said Tuesday. "I haven't even talked to Rickey. You don't do that at this point."
The Cajun football squad is 0-3, but they've been here before. To be exact, six times in the last 10 seasons. This is, however, the first time in four years that UL has opened a season with three straight losses.
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But it's how UL reached 0-3 that has the masses simmering, and the bane of that discontent stems from last Saturday's loss to the hated Cowboys and circumstances surrounding that loss.
On a night when the Cajuns had a chance to win over most of a crowd of 33,828- the largest ever in Cajun Field for a game that didn't involve Texas A&M or Alabama - UL left the proverbial present in the punch bowl.
Nobody felt worse than Bustle himself.
"I know that we disappointed a lot of fans," he said afterward. "That's important to us, and I know this - I hate that we disappointed ourselves. It was important for us to win this football game and we didn't get that done."
The Cajuns hadn't lost to a Division I-AA team (now called the Football Championship Subdivision) since Bustle took over in 2002. Before that, especially under former coach Jerry Baldwin, UL made a habit of losing to I-AA competition, with Baldwin going 2-3 against that division as part of a 6-27 three-year run of ineptitude.
Cajun followers, though, were more upset with the who than the what. If it hadn't been McNeese - maybe Michigan-slaying Appalachian State or another I-AA power - the outcry would have been much less. After all, five I-AA teams have beaten I-A opposition already this season.
An argument can be made that the cries for change should be tempered by financial reality. While it is true that UL holds I-A (or the more politically correct Football Bowl Subdivision) status, the Cajuns' total athletic budget is well below the national I-AA average. Two of the I-AA teams that hold victories over I-A teams this year, New Hampshire and Northern Iowa, have athletic budgets that stand at more than $20 million and $13 million, respectively. Both dwarf the Cajuns' approximately $8 million annual athletic revenue total.
Michigan, which famously has a I-AA loss this season, had an athletic deficit last year greater than UL's total budget.
Where the average difference between I-A and I-AA athletic budgets rests at around $14 million, the difference between the Cajuns' and the Cowboys' athletic coffers is only around $2 million. In the 2006-07 fiscal year, the last under the Board of Regents' now-changed policy on university athletic funding, UL received $3.12 million and McNeese $2.74 million. That's a difference of less than $400,000.
The financial figures are important, but a program cannot be judged on money alone. All those involved with UL athletics - in reality, all who work in athletic programs at state-system schools - went into their jobs knowing that funding shortages is a given.
And the end result is quite simple in a fan's eye. It has nothing to do with dollars and cents - it's about W's and L's.
Past that, it's about perception, and the perception of UL's football team isn't good right now.
Bustle and his staff resurrected a program that was as behind-the-times as any in modern-day history six years ago. After the Baldwin debacle, Bustle's squads had progressively better records in each of his first four seasons, culminating with the 6-5 mark and a share of the Sun Belt title in 2005.
For many fans, that resurrection is ancient history, and the memories of winning five in a row to end the 2005 season are starting to wane. It doesn't help that the Cajuns never grabbed the Belt's football brass ring in the league's first six years - that New Orleans Bowl trip - and now have to battle against a league that has taken a quantum leap forward going by recent results.
While Sun Belt teams were whipping Big 12, Big 10 and Conference USA opposition over the weekend, UL was letting a just-as-important home field opportunity slip away. Fans are also losing patience with a program that's lost seven of its last nine games.
But it's still not fair to judge where the Cajun program stands by only one week, two weeks or three weeks. No evaluations can or should be made until season's end. And, after all, conference play hasn't even begun, with UL hosting preseason favorite Troy on Saturday in a huge opportunity for retribution.
"You're not going to find anybody more disappointed than that staff and those players," Walker said. "It is only fair to Rickey and his staff and his players to wait until the season's over before we start looking at those type of things.
"He's our coach, he'll remain our coach and we remain in full support of him and his players."
As it should be for now.
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