How much more or less did it cost us to change travel plans by going to Shreveport and have the time of departure etc. change??//Quote:
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How much more or less did it cost us to change travel plans by going to Shreveport and have the time of departure etc. change??//Quote:
Originally Posted by zephyr
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Originally Posted by ULtimateCajun
Hey Bro, we're fishing in the same pond...sort of. I did NOT say that he was a great passing QB. You questioned my comment whether he was IMPROVED that I made after the USM game. I'm only saying that I think he'll be able to adequately move the ball this year via the pass to help our running game. This is a two way street though. Your WR's like Chery who is a senior need to run better routes and hold on to the freaking ball. Chery's drop on the drive where we missed the FG when we would have got a first down was crucial. I've seen a marked improvement in MD's passing this year especially deep but you will witness it on Saturday
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I have no clue but it cost me a chance to go to the game. I wasn't riding a bus to Shreveport to have to board a plane to Illinois.
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Sails, a junior from Alabama, is still waiting for his final course from College of the Desert in California to be processed. He arrived on campus during the first week of preseason camp.
Whenever Sails is cleared, UL coach Rickey Bustle expects him to fight for time behind starting tailback Tyrell Fenroy. Bustle is unsure whether Sails has a redshirt season available.
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"We're looking for him to compete for a back-up spot," Bustle said. "It's just about getting him out there to see what he remembers from the playbook and how he executes.
"We've got to wait and see."
Sails accounted for 11 touchdowns and rushed for 639 yards on 119 carries last season as College of the Desert went 9-1. The 5-foot-8, 200-pounder averaged 71 rushing yards per game - the fifth-best mark in the Foothill Conference.
Fenroy has rushed for 78 yards on 27 carries and one touchdown this season. The senior missed the second half of the season opener against Southern Miss with a head injury. He became UL's career rushing leader in last week's 20-17 loss at Illinois but finished with only 20 yards on 14 carries.
Redshirt freshman Julian Shankle and junior Matt Dupre have shared time behind Fenroy. Shankle is third on the team with 44 rushing yards and one touchdown on 10 carries. Dupre has logged seven carries for 23 yards.
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UL defensive coordinator Kevin Fouquier liked what he saw from middle linebacker Richard Brooks, who made his first career start last week against Illinois.
The redshirt freshman from Texas tied for the team lead with eight tackles after starting in place of senior Brent Burkhalter. Brooks and Burkhalter rotated in and out all afternoon.
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"Brooks did a couple of good things in his first start," Fouquier said. "He did an outstanding job in that environment and atmosphere."
Fouquier said Brooks has a strong shot at starting again in the Saturday's 6 p.m. Herbert Heymann Football Classic against Kent State at Cajun Field.
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UL and Kent State, which face off in Saturday's 6 p.m. Herbert Heymann Football Classic at Cajun Field, mirror each other in many ways.
Both teams feature coaches trying to turn around their program, Rickey Bustle for the Cajuns (0-2) and Doug Martin at Kent State (1-2).
Both teams feature dynamic quarterbacks and productive running backs, Mike Desormeaux and Tyrell Fenroy at UL and Julian Edelman and Eugene Jarvis for the Golden Flashes.
Both teams come from conferences looking for more respect on the national scene, the Cajuns from the Sun Belt and Kent State from the Mid-American.
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"I think the MAC and the Sun Belt are similar conferences," Desormeaux said. "They're both on the way up and trying to get to the level that some of the other conferences are at."
With Kent State coming to Lafayette, it marks the third consecutive season the Cajuns have played a MAC team at home. Last season, UL fell to Ohio, 31-23, in the lone meeting between the two leagues in 2007.
The Cajuns lost the game, but it was shrouded in controversy. Needing a touchdown and 2-point conversion to tie the score, UL advanced to the Ohio 2 on Desormeaux's pass to wide receiver Louis Lee in the final seconds. But Ohio cornerback Julian Posey forced a fumble that the Bobcats recovered to end the last-minute rally. Local television and a still photo later confirmed Lee's knee was down before the fumble.
That type of excitement is what makes these games so entertaining. UL is 3-5 all-time against MAC schools, including a 3-2 mark at Cajun Field. Kent State is 2-0 against teams from the Sun Belt.
Wright Waters, the Sun Belt's commissioner, recently said his league finished with a power rating ahead of the MAC last season on a 120-point scale. The Sun Belt was 2.4 points behind C-USA, a difference of one or two wins.
Since the Sun Belt added football in 2001, the MAC owns a 7-4 advantage in head-to-head matchups between the leagues. That includes Middle Tennessee's 31-14 loss to Central Michigan in the 2006 Motor City Bowl and Troy's 34-21 loss to Northern Illinois in the 2004 Silicon Valley Football Classic.
"Week in and week out, the MAC teams are teams we should be able to compete with," Desormeaux said. "We're both in conferences trying to gain respect in the country and get up on the national pedestal.
"It's always an exciting game to be able to play a team out of that conference."
In '06, the Cajuns got the Sun Belt's lone win in four games against the MAC by beating Eastern Michigan, 33-14. After going 0-2 against the MAC in '05, the Sun Belt went 3-1 against the league in '04, with wins by Idaho, Middle Tennessee and Troy.
"When you beat those teams out of conference, it shows we have good teams in the Sun Belt," UL linebacker Antwyne Zanders said. "And we do have good teams in the Sun Belt."
Teams from the two conferences play each other only twice this season: Kent State at UL on Saturday and Florida International at Toledo on Sept. 27.
"I think this is a good game," Martin said. "I think it's a good trip for our players to get to see a different part of the country and get to play in a different area."
If the Sun Belt wants to improve its national standing, the league needs strong efforts in those two games against the MAC. That appears possible with Sun Belt members Arkansas State (Texas A&M), Florida Atlantic (Minnesota), Troy (Oklahoma State) and Middle Tennessee (Maryland) earning big non-conference wins in the past two seasons.
"The Sun Belt and the MAC have comparable leagues and comparable teams," said Bustle, who is 1-2 lifetime against MAC schools. "Whenever you play teams from comparable leagues, you need to play well.
"Those are games you need to win."
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KENT: Kent State ended its hold on the nation's longest losing streak last Saturday. And now the Golden Flashes (1-2) look forward to one more game before they begin play in the Mid-American Conference.
The next game is no pushover.
Louisiana-Lafayette (0-2), which will host KSU at 7 p.m. Saturday, only lost by three points to No. 24 Illinois last week.
Flashes coach Doug Martin sees a little bit of his team in the Ragin' Cajuns.
''It's really kind of mirror images on the offensive side of the ball,'' Martin said. ''A much better running team then they are throwing, although they are getting better. So, they are very similar to us in that aspect.''
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Quarterback Michael Desormeaux gave the Fighting Illini fits. The senior passed for 200 yards and added a 34-yard run before the Cajuns fell 20-17.
''He is Julian Edelman all over again, which is a bad deal for us,'' Martin said.
There isn't a comparison to KSU's Eugene Jarvis for the Cajuns.
Their senior running back, Tyrell Fenroy, at 5-foot-9, 185 pounds, is a stronger runner who runs over defenders as opposed to Jarvis' jitterbug style.
In his four years, Fenroy has rush for 3,347 yards, which is second in the NCAA among active running backs, and is the all-time best for Louisiana-Lafayette.
Fenroy is a two-time first-team All-Sun Belt Conference selection and is the first player in Sun Belt history to have three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.
The Flashes expect to have Jarvis back in their plans after a ''minor'' ankle injury last week.
The Cajuns are an aggressive defensive team that will bring a different type of stunt or blitz on nearly every play.
''They are going to bring pressure probably at least 50 percent of the time, and Illinois had a really hard time with it,'' Martin said.
One position that Martin will be watching closely on his team is the receiving corps. Senior tight end Jameson Konz remains questionable again this week with an ankle injury.
The receivers continued their poor play last week, dropping more passes.
''When it comes game time, some of [us] break down mentally or, like, [drop] a couple of passes,'' senior receiver Shawn Bayes said. ''Our receivers are a strength; we just need to show it in games.''
Junior Kirk Belgrave, who moved to receiver from cornerback at the beginning of the season, let a 50-yard pass slip through his arms near the goal line last week, and junior Phil Garner added two drops.
''One thing you can't teach kids is how to catch the ball,'' Martin said. ''You can either catch it or you can't.''
The Flashes have run through eight or nine players at the position this season. Martin plans on cutting that number to five or six Saturday.
''After this game, we've got to have the best people on the field we can possibly have to have a chance in the conference,'' Martin said.
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KENT: Kent State ended its hold on the nation's longest losing streak last Saturday. And now the Golden Flashes (1-2) look forward to one more game before they begin play in the Mid-American Conference.
The next game is no pushover.
Louisiana-Lafayette (0-2), which will host KSU at 7 p.m. Saturday, only lost by three points to No. 24 Illinois last week.
Flashes coach Doug Martin sees a little bit of his team in the Ragin' Cajuns.
''It's really kind of mirror images on the offensive side of the ball,'' Martin said. ''A much better running team then they are throwing, although they are getting better. So, they are very similar to us in that aspect.''
Quarterback Michael Desormeaux gave the Fighting Illini fits. The senior passed for 200 yards and added a 34-yard run before the Cajuns fell 20-17.
''He is Julian Edelman all over again, which is a bad deal for us,'' Martin said.
There isn't a comparison to KSU's Eugene Jarvis for the Cajuns.
Their senior running back, Tyrell Fenroy, at 5-foot-9, 185 pounds, is a stronger runner who runs over defenders as opposed to Jarvis' jitterbug style.
In his four years, Fenroy has rush for 3,347 yards, which is second in the NCAA among active running backs, and is the all-time best for Louisiana-Lafayette.
Fenroy is a two-time first-team All-Sun Belt Conference selection and is the first player in Sun Belt history to have three consecutive 1,000-yard seasons.
The Flashes expect to have Jarvis back in their plans after a ''minor'' ankle injury last week.
The Cajuns are an aggressive defensive team that will bring a different type of stunt or blitz on nearly every play.
''They are going to bring pressure probably at least 50 percent of the time, and Illinois had a really hard time with it,'' Martin said.
One position that Martin will be watching closely on his team is the receiving corps. Senior tight end Jameson Konz remains questionable again this week with an ankle injury.
The receivers continued their poor play last week, dropping more passes.
''When it comes game time, some of [us] break down mentally or, like, [drop] a couple of passes,'' senior receiver Shawn Bayes said. ''Our receivers are a strength; we just need to show it in games.''
Junior Kirk Belgrave, who moved to receiver from cornerback at the beginning of the season, let a 50-yard pass slip through his arms near the goal line last week, and junior Phil Garner added two drops.
''One thing you can't teach kids is how to catch the ball,'' Martin said. ''You can either catch it or you can't.''
The Flashes have run through eight or nine players at the position this season. Martin plans on cutting that number to five or six Saturday.
''After this game, we've got to have the best people on the field we can possibly have to have a chance in the conference,'' Martin said.
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I like Brooks a lot! I think if Zanders gets his final year next year this unit will be even better than this year's. With Brooks and Kyron Benoit ( who I thought had a great Fall!) getting more maturity, this unit will be faster, deeper and bigger overall.
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Am I assuming correctly this school has not posted his grade from the summer session???? Holy crap, is this for eveyone in that same class?
What is the deal with Yobes Walker??? Is he hurt, left, redshirting, or in the mix??????