Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.
I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.
But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
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arkane
Yeah, I think the line moved. It's likely to move again one way or the other to encourage betting.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
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arkane
I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.
I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.
But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.
Make no bones about it, Florida was overrated. I think it was a decent matchup for us. Bottomline though is that we are a better program on all levels than many out there believe. We are much improved in the trenches on both sides of the ball which will allow us to compete at higher levels than in the past and is a reason this game will be closer than most predict. Our OL and DL will be better than you and most other Hog fans will want to presume and that will allow us room to make plays on both sides. I don't care what type of coach you brought in, I think you will have more trouble than you anticipate running the ball on us. This is of course, we don't run some crazy hybrid prevent like we did against Troy last year which yielded a ton of passing yards but very little on the ground. I think we will compete on the front lines and allow us to keep this very, very close
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
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arkane
I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.
I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.
But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.
First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.
Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.
Thanks for giving those guys hope.
Seriously, it took us putting a whipping on them (again for the fifth time in a row) to shut them up some.
And now, we've got the job of trying to beat you in you first home game with a new coach. That sort of thing has "trap" written all over it.
I don't know if we'll win, but we'll give you a good game.
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AstroCajun
First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.
Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.
Thanks for giving those guys hope.
Seriously, it took us putting a whipping on them (again for the fifth time in a row) to shut them up some.
And now, we've got the job of trying to beat you in you first home game with a new coach. That sort of thing has "trap" written all over it.
I don't know if we'll win, but we'll give you a good game.
In all due respect, I wouldn't say we've whipped them for the past 5 years as we've escaped with a couple of dramatic wins but..........Suck it hoax!
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AstroCajun
First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.
Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.
Well it didnt help that our OC only ran the ball ONCE the entire 4th quarter.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
A loss is a loss is a loss. As much as I would like to say last season didn't count due to the strange circumstances, it does in fact count and all I can do is forget about it as quickly as possible. But the answer to why we lost is simple: The biggest mismanagement of talent in all 126 FBS football teams of the 2012 season.
@zephyr; whatever, man. This is your board and your team, so you go with that. But keep in mind I'm under no illusion that your line play will probably be superior to ours. Our woeful pass protection is actually one of our biggest and most focal flaws.
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arkane
A loss is a loss is a loss. As much as I would like to say last season didn't count due to the strange circumstances, it does in fact count and all I can do is forget about it as quickly as possible. But the answer to why we lost is simple: The biggest mismanagement of talent in all 126 FBS football teams of the 2012 season.
@zephyr; whatever, man. This is your board and your team, so you go with that. But keep in mind I'm under no illusion that your line play will probably be superior to ours. Our woeful pass protection is actually one of our biggest and most focal flaws.
I was just trying to point out that in most cases, an SEC team will have a superior advantage on the line of scrimmage over a SBC team like ourselves but I don't necessarily think that will be true this year and that goes the same for the game against K-State. That is actually going to be our strength of our defense which needs to be drastically improved from last year if we want to win the conference and go to a better bowl game. I think you guys will have to pass the ball effectively against our young secondary early on the soften us up. I know your coach is more old school and will likely try to play a more physical and controlled type of game than you guys are used to but I just don't think there will be as much of an advantage there as some would think. That's all
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It will be interesting to see what our DL can do against your OL. Our DL is supposed to be the strength of our team this year too with both returning DEs being in the top 10 of the SEC in sacks last year. We expect our OL to be improved with better coaching this year, but they were so bad last year that it wouldn't surprise me if you lived in our backfield most of the game. Our secondary needs to get a whole lot better than they were last year or Broadway will carve us up.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
Betting drives the line. 97% of betters are going to use their knowledge of Arkansas and the SEC (only 4% retaining last year's ULM game memory - so it's irrelevant - as it should be). 32% of that 97% are going to factor UL and Hudspeth into consideration... and of that 32% of 97%, 64% are going to under-estimate Hud and the Cajuns. As for all but the very reasonable Hog fans... they are going to believe whole-heartedly that the Hogs will severely beat us.
As Zephyr pointed out, we... the Cajuns... are very, very capable of keeping both the Arkansas and Kansas State game a contest to the end. What he and I mean is... we will keep both games close. In the past, we "hoped" that sentiment into posts on this forum. Right now, there's no "hope" about it. We will make both games competitive. I firmly believe we will actually win one of the two. I'd never... with the exception of having fun "postulating"... make that "prediction".
I don't expect but 2% of Hog fans to truly consider our game being a "you pick it". 81% are going to smack talk us as the date draws near... either directly or amongst themselves. When we're within 48 hours of the game... better recon will permeate the Fayetteville faithful... and 92% of Hog fans will start the process of cinching their butt sphincter... the claims of dominance will evaporate... and the only contest that matters will take the field of play.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
Samford and Southern Miss should be gimmes for Arkansas this year. The other ten are going to be a tooth and nail kind of ordeal. Except, of course, games like Alabama, in which we'll most likely never be in the fight.
I expect that to change in the next couple of years (maybe even next year) and stay competitive in all our games, but this year is what it is.
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arkane
Samford and Southern Miss should be gimmes for Arkansas this year. The other ten are going to be a tooth and nail kind of ordeal. Except, of course, games like Alabama, in which we'll most likely never be in the fight.
I expect that to change in the next couple of years (maybe even next year) and stay competitive in all our games, but this year is what it is.
Good luck in your regional!
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
Obviously, this writer has never seen the hog faithful sit on their hands when we are in their house. We have been a pain in heir side and I do not see anything changing this year. The ball bounces in mysterious ways. Wait, ULM beat these guys last year? Right? Broadway will have a fun time in the old coral. So bet the farm; hide and watch and smile at anyone north of ElDorado tell you that tells you this will be a cakewalk for the hogs. Just ask the folkies in Gainesville.h
They have a new coach, yes, but we have HUD. Never underestimate HUD ....especially when he has a new OD in tow.
Re: Louisiana vs Arkansas
I will choose to wait until BWK comes to the RP Board and like last year tell us how UL will do against the SECs---Think his Florida prognostication was quite accurate!!! i also wait for his incoming freshmen evaluation!!!
