I don't know if you heard, but UL does not have a video feed for the FAU game... if this is one of the attractions that had you skip the Tech FB game to come to Lafayette. Just wanted you to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken_Horndawgs
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I don't know if you heard, but UL does not have a video feed for the FAU game... if this is one of the attractions that had you skip the Tech FB game to come to Lafayette. Just wanted you to know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ken_Horndawgs
This would be crazy. Why play a in-state team that we should be playing yearly.
We need the exposure, so bring on a BCS team.
End of discussion.
We're facing the 3 toughest games of the season with a wounded bunch of Cajun warriors. For that reason the bowl talk isn't all that fun anymore. I hate to say that because I love the fanspeak on bowling.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trigger74
Dude y'all have been D1A for a lot longer than Tech but haven't done anything with it. All I did was use all of the available information on the NCAA website.Quote:
Originally Posted by Just1More
We've been hamstringed by bad administrative decisions from Jim Oakes but finally he is out of the picture. We are setup for success in football and both W and MBB.
I was just pointing out the gross inaccuracy of the "worst cajun attendance is always better than Tech's best" statement. That is laughable. Of course the Cajuns have to have good years for good attendance.
Yes the Cajuns have potential and that is great. No I don't believe for a second that the Cajuns would regularly beat Tech RIGHT NOW.
Maybe we DO need to face off in a bowl game ;)
....yeah so you can make it 2-86 vs the BCS all time....and 0-3 on the year.Quote:
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Howard Schnellenberger gave the warning before the 2008 football season even started.
During Sun Belt Media Days back in July, the eighth-year Florida Atlantic head coach cautioned anyone interested in anointing the Owls as the runaway favorite to repeat as Sun Belt champions. The program went 8-5 the previous season, sharing the league title with Troy before blowing out Memphis in the New Orleans Bowl.
"Remember that what happened in the past has no bearing on the future," Schnellenberger said at the time. "We will have a better football team this year than we had last year."
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But that did not translate into success early this season.
FAU opened the year 1-5, including losses to Texas, Michigan State, Minnesota, Middle Tennessee and Troy, before rebounding with a three-game winning streak.
UL offensive lineman Jonathan Decoster is smart enough to be expecting a hungry opponent when his first-place Cajuns (5-4 overall, 4-0 Sun Belt) take on the Owls (4-5, 2-2) at 3 p.m. today at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
"They've kind of struggled early in the season," Decoster said of FAU. "But I think they're as good as they were last year. They just haven't had the ball fall their way.
"I'm sure they're going to have a big chip on their shoulder, so we're going to have to watch out for them."
The recent turnaround for FAU is largely due to the improved play of junior quarterback Rusty Smith and the league's top defense, which is led by senior linebacker Frantz Joseph.
Smith and Joseph were named the league's preseason offensive and defensive players of the year. Smith, who set conference single-season records last season by passing for 3,688 yards and 32 touchdowns and is the reigning conference player of the year, has thrown for seven touchdowns and only three picks during the team's recent winning streak.
Joseph, who spent one year at Boston College before transferring to FAU, is fourth in the nation this year in tackles per game (11.11). He's the leader for an Owls defensive unit that's first in the Sun Belt this year in pass defense and total defense in league action.
FAU, which was third in the nation last season in turnover margin, has also taken better care of the ball recently. The Owls had 16 turnovers and five takeaways in their first six games. In the past three games, they have only seven turnovers and seven takeaways.
"This is a Florida Atlantic team that in the past three weeks is finally playing like the team everyone thought they would be," UL coach Rickey Bustle said. "They're playing well. You don't have to look at their first few games.
"They were a good defense last year, and they have a lot of the same people back. We are going to plan that the good team will show up for them."
Against UL, FAU will face an offense with a banged-up quarterback in senior Mike Desormeaux (sprained right knee) and a defense that might be without its leading tackler in sophomore linebacker Daylon McCoy (hamstring). The Cajun defense has already lost three starting linebackers this season.
UL is coming off a frustrating 37-24 loss to UTEP, which snapped a four-game winning streak.
"We have flipped the page and will now focus on FAU," Bustle said. "It will get tougher as we go."
A season ago, the Owls shocked the experts by winning the New Orleans Bowl despite being picked in the preseason to finish sixth in the conference.
Included in that magical run was a 39-32 overtime win over UL at Cajun Field. Desormeaux's 32-yard scoring run with 1:07 left gave the Cajuns a 32-25 lead, but the Owls marched down to tie it with seven seconds on the clock on Smith's 17-yard touchdown pass to Cortez Gent.
In overtime, FAU went ahead 39-32 on Charles Pierre's 1-yard scoring run. The Cajuns moved to the Owls' 3 on the next possession, but a sack, false start and incomplete pass ended the game before a stunned homecoming crowd.
"It was an intense battle until the end," Bustle said. "We scored with 50 seconds left, but it got away from us.
"It will be a battle again this year."
UL hopes to overcome similar odds with three games left in the regular season. The Cajuns need one more victory to become bowl eligible for the third time in four years.
A win over FAU would put UL in position to clinch the outright Sun Belt title with a win at Troy on Nov. 22 before closing the regular season on Dec. 3 at home against Middle Tennessee. The last time the Cajuns played in a bowl game and earned an outright conference championship: 1970.
Schnellenberger spoke about the Cajuns, picked to finish sixth in the league, with great respect.
"They are truly a magnificent football team," he said. "They've improved a great deal since last year. This football team has certainly matured.
"They play the way champions should play."
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BOCA RATON — Nobody in the country will face a ground game with a better running back/quarterback combination - at least statistically - than Florida Atlantic will Saturday.
Louisiana running back Tyrell Fenroy and quarterback Michael Desormeaux combine for more than 230 yards per game on the ground, with Fenroy fifth in the nation at 130.8 yards.
Their total, which comes out of a spread option offense, is more than that of 111 teams in the bowl subdivision.
"They are two of the best when it comes to running the football," Owls linebacker Frantz Joseph said.
The Ragin' Cajuns' are 5-4 overall and bring a 4-0 Sun Belt Conference record into Saturday's 4 p.m. game at Lockhart Stadium in Fort Lauderdale.
FAU (4-5, 2-2) has won three straight, albeit against sub-par competition, and must win its final three games to have any chance to repeat as conference champion.
Fenroy, a senior, is making history at Lafayette. He is the Sun Belt's all-time leading rusher (4,448 yards) and the NCAA active rushing leader. He is just the seventh player in NCAA history with four consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons.
If he isn't the favorite to follow FAU's Rusty Smith as the Sun Belt player of the year, then Desormeaux is. He is 15th in the nation in total offense with an average of 284 yards per game.
Overall, Lafayette is averaging 479.6 yards. The Sun Belt record is 481.4 by Middle Tennessee in 2001. Stopping the Ragin' Cajuns' complex and talented offense obviously isn't easy.
"There are so many positions where you can mess up and they can capitalize off that," Joseph said. "It's all about keeping your assignments."
FAU coach Howard Schnellenberger said the key is finding a balance between keeping those assignments and the hot pursuit that sometimes is necessary.
"It would be nice to have both," he said. "Take care of your own responsibility first and then get on the hunt."
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Gee, finally you post something I can agree with you on.;)Quote:
Originally Posted by IHateLaState
With the population in the greater Lafayette area, the Cajun enrollment, and the passion for college football found in the South, there is no good reason you shouldn't be able to reach the attendance figures you suggested. Hell, given the things I mentioned, 15-20 thousand should find their way on campus on a nice fall evening by accident.
We shall see next year with the OSU game. I might even have to try making that one. Thing is, I wear the evil grab to sporting events, but that should be ok...chants don't bother me. :D
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Originally Posted by 4LSU
OSU comes to Cajun Field in 2010. Anytime you're ready for real college football (versus pro football) just let me know.
Good luck to the Cajun's. A "wounded warriors" can be a terrible thing to face. Hopefully, Fla Atlantic will soon learn that fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by DestinCajun