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ahhhhhhhh, you blew it!! :rolleyes:
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Depending on when running back Undrea Sails becomes eligible, UL might see some shuffling on the depth chart behind starter Tyrell Fenroy.
The Cajuns are still waiting for Sails' final course from College of the Desert to be processed.
The junior from Alabama arrived on campus during the first week of preseason camp.
"I think we're close," said UL coach Rickey Bustle, whose Cajuns play at 2:35 p.m. Saturday at Kansas State. "We were hoping to maybe get it done today, but it didn't get done."
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Sails accounted for 11 touchdowns last season and rushed for 639 yards on 119 carries 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.
Redshirt freshman Julian Shankle, who had surgery to fix a broken ankle in the spring, tweaked the same ankle last week in practice and missed the 44-27 win over Kent State.
With Shankle banged up, the Cajuns are working true freshman Yobes Walker with the varsity team this week.
Walker, who previously held offers from Texas A&M and Alabama, made his commitment to UL public a few days before the start of preseason camp.
The 6-0, 195-pounder led the Houston area in rushing with 2,174 yards on 324 carries and 17 touchdowns as a senior for Class 5A Brazoswood High in Texas.
Bustle recently said he expected Walker to redshirt this season along with true freshman Draylon Booker, a bruising back from Conroe, Texas.
There's a chance, Bustle said, that both Sails and Walker could play this season.
But that decision has yet to be made.
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UL defensive coordinator Kevin Fouquier got a phone call the other day from Mark Smith, the defensive coordinator at Ball State.
Smith had just watched film of last week's 44-27 win for the Ragin' Cajuns over Kent State, which opens Mid-American Conference play on Saturday against Ball State.
It was then that Fouquier received the biggest compliment he's heard all season about his defense.
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"After he (Smith) watched us on film, he told me 'Holy crap, you guys can run and you look really physical,'" Fouquier said. "That's a tribute to the kids."
Those words also offer encouragement as the Cajuns (1-2) prepare this week for Saturday's 2:35 p.m. game at one-time Big 12 power Kansas State (2-1) in Manhattan, Kan.
All 11 defensive starters were with the program last season when UL opened with five consecutive losses and finished 3-9 overall. While last year's Cajuns ranked seventh nationally in rushing offense, they struggled on the other side of the ball as injuries crippled the defense. They finished 113th in rushing defense, 106th in scoring defense and 104th in total defense.
Last season's struggles continued in a 51-21 loss at Southern Miss in the 2008 season opener.
The Golden Eagles gained a school-record 633 yards, including 427 rushing.
But the Cajuns have made a drastic turnaround since the opener.
UL nearly shut down a high-powered Illinois offense that was averaging 44.5 points in a 20-17 loss on the road on Sept. 13. The Cajuns followed that with last week's 17-point win over Kent State at Cajun Field.
Kent State rushed for 227 of its 396 yards, but Fouquier said the numbers are deceiving. Quarterback Julian Edelman picked up 96 yards on scrambles out of the pocket.
In year two under his leadership, Fouquier believes the Cajun defense is getting better each and every week.
"There's a lot of carryover from last season because the kids are in the same package and hearing the same calls," said Fouquier, who previously rebuilt defenses at Florida International and Middle Tennessee. "They're feeling more comfortable in it.
"They don't have to think about it. Now they're turning and running and playing."
Some of UL's biggest defensive contributors are also the youngest. Sophomore linebacker Grant Fleming leads the Cajuns with 20 tackles. Redshirt freshman cornerback Dwight Bentley is tied for second with 15 stops.
UL free safety Gerren Blount said the team's youth on defense - the Cajuns start three sophomores and two redshirt freshmen - has not been a major factor this season.
"If you're in the right spot doing your job, then the plays will come to you," said Blount, a junior from Garrison, Texas. "I feel like they've been in the right spot, so they're making plays."
Now the Cajuns are ready to play a Kansas State team that ranks eighth in the country in pass offense at 307.7 yards per game. With 6-foot-6 junior Josh Freeman at quarterback, the Wildcats have yet to allow a sack this season.
This will be UL's first game this season against a pro-style quarterback. Through three games, the Cajuns have five sacks. That includes a team-high 2.5 sacks by redshirt freshman Nate Douglas, a back-up defensive end.
"With as fast as we are, we'll be able to break on the ball and make plays," Blount said. "I believe we have enough speed to do our job. I know our defensive line will contain the quarterback. Hopefully, we'll make the tackles.
"Just because they haven't given up a sack doesn't mean we're not going after them."
UL coach Rickey Bustle said the team's attitude - especially on defense - is a big change from previous seasons.
"We're not doing what we did last year or the year before or the year before," Bustle said. "It's not in the vocabulary."
Freeman, who passed for 313 yards and three TDs in last week's 38-29 loss at Louisville, thinks he knows what to expect from the Cajuns.
"They have a pretty good secondary," Freeman said of UL. "Their front seven, from what I saw on film, does a pretty good job. I know they are going to come in here ready to play.
"We have got to defend our ground."
The same goes for the Cajun defense.
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I sure hope Sails becomes eligible soon. I love Tyrell and I think Walker is going to be a stud, but with the loss of Wallace from last year and it seems Shankle is in and out of the lineup with injuries we are lacking at backup RB. I would rather not take the redshirt tag off of Walker and save him for next year, but I think there is huge hole behind Fenroy.
Sails and Shankle can be successfull behind him, but one is still waiting for the NCAA clearinghouse and the other can't stay on the field long enough.
We need to spell Fenroy periodically, that what was so nice about Wallace last year. There is just a huge dropoff right now down to Matt Dupre, I think the coaches would perfer to keep the redshirts on Walker and Booker and Roberts.
The band is THE PRIDE OF ACADIANA, is and always should be. Another former member of The Pride of Acadiana.
Agreed. A CURRENT member of the PRIDE OF ACADIANA
I made it a point to stay after the game and sing the alma mater while they played it. Had a friend next to me look at me strange cuz I actually knew the words.
And you can make Louisiana work in place of Southwestern. Phonetically, I say "Lwee-zee-anna". The "Lwee" is one syllable and the "l" is VERY briefly pronounced with the "wee" getting the biggest chunk of that one syllable. :p
I too enjoy it very much, the alma mater being played. I've always been an advocate of when we play the fight song at the end of the basketball games, putting the words up on the video screen, same with the alma mater at the football games.
God Bless
GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS FOOTBALL!!!
p.s.- nice little "name" tidbit.... Stevie P said on his show this morning that the K-State press release has our name listed as "University of Louisiana (formerly known as University of Louisiana at Lafayette)" .~.
Did we really just rack up over 660 yards of offense and NOT get the offensive player of the week? Hmmmm.........
A travesty
<pre>Desormeaux (UL QB) Leonard (ASU QB)
Rushed for 150 Rushed for 74
Passed for 253 Passed for 292
Total yards 403 total Yards 366 </pre>