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The UL Ragin' Cajuns will take today off from practice and will return to work at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the first of two practices over the weekend. UL will hold its most physical workouts of the week in the Saturday and Sunday drills.
"I told them when we started today that it's game week now," said Bustle. "Today was just like our regular Sunday practice, we normally take Monday off so that's what we're doing tomorrow (Friday), and Tuesday and Wednesday are our big days. That's what we'll do this weekend."
SCOUTING: The UL squad began working against scout-team competition simulating FAU looks and formations in Thursday's practice, and Bustle said his team's preparation will be very different than last week's preps for Houston's spread attack.
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"They're going to be physical and run it right at you," Bustle said of FAU, which was 1-4. "It's different from what we've seen. They'll run a lot of play-action, and defensively they'll bounce back between a lot of different looks."
The offensive unit controlled play during a practice-ending session pitting the top offense against the top defense. Contact was limited with the Cajuns in shoulder pads and shorts.
HOT KICKER: Drew Edmiston says he's not doing a lot of things differently, but he's enjoying his recent success as UL's placekicker.
The sophomore from Owasso, Okla., hit three out of four field goal tries last Saturday in the Cajuns' 31-28 win at Houston, including a lifetime-best 51-yarder late in the third quarter that began a streak of 18 straight UL points.
He's now six-of-eight this season, and his only miss outside 40 yards was a 50-yarder earlier in the Houston game.
"We got him to change some little things," said Cajun coach Rickey Bustle, "and it's helped him with his distance. Now we know he has the distance to get it there, and I'm not sure either he or I had that kind of confidence three or four weeks ago."
Edmiston made both of his efforts from 40 and 44 yards one week earlier against Eastern Michigan in a 33-13 victory, and takes a string of six field goal successes in his last seven attempts into Wednesday's Sun Belt opener at Florida Atlantic.
"It's not that I'm doing anything drastically different," Edmiston said. "I'm just hitting the ball better. Coach worked with me on hitting it a little higher, and that's where you get more power.
"More than anything else, I'm just a lot more comfortable right now and more confident."
Bustle showed confidence by sending Edmiston back out for the 51-yard try after the earlier long miss, with his team trailing by 15 points in the final minute of the third.
"That was a big boost for me," Edmiston said, "that he put me back in there. They try to put you in situations like that in practice so that we'll be ready. When I hit it, I knew it felt good."
Edmiston had a little wind help on the 51-yarder, but he's used to kicking in the wind after a prep career in Oklahoma.
"When it gets colder it affects the balls," he said. "They're harder and it stings the first few times you do it.''
"After that your foot's numb anyway. You've still got to kick them and you've still got to make them so the weather doesn't matter."
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