He has has been in on a couple of plays, probably going with Johnson due to success.Quote:
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did i miss any "word" on why travis smothers has been absent?
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He has has been in on a couple of plays, probably going with Johnson due to success.Quote:
Originally posted by snote
did i miss any "word" on why travis smothers has been absent?
After Kickoff and NT penalty
NT starts from 7 yard line.
3rd and long for NT after Travis Bass tackles for loss.
4th and 8
PUNT
39 yard line
1-10 R Chester Johnson 3
2-7 P Kimmie Lewis 6
3-1 R CJ +0
4-1 Direct snap to Lane Pass to Bartel
44 yard line
1-10 P Stamps :47 seconds left 27 yard line
1-10 P Bill Sampy out of bounds :36
14 yard line Time out Cajuns<hr>
1-10
Shuffle pass to Chester Johnson
2-3 P caught 6yard line :20
3-1
4-1 Field Goal :11
NT 26
UL 13
5 more and we win like Dallas
<h1>HalfTime<h3>
North Texas 26
Louisiana 13
Second half Cajuns get safety.
NT drives down field, Antionne Spann saves TD and intercepts at 3 yard line.
Cajuns go 3 and out.
Autry kicks from back of endzone.
High snap
3rd Safety of night.
NT 30
UL 13
Sorry I am working on some streaming software
Bill Sampy TOUCHDOWN
North Texas 30
Louisiana 20
North Texas fumbles on first play after kickoff
from 18
1-10 P incomplete
2-10 P complete Sampy 6
3-4 P incomplet wisely throws pass away
4-4
opinion (Must go for field goal) 30 yard try
GOOD
1:43
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NorthTexas 30
Louisiana 23
Down by 7 at the end of the 3rd.
Cajuns lose by 21
NorthTexas 44
Louisiana 23
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>North Texas pulls away from Cajuns in fourth quarter.</b>
DENTON, Texas — Rickey Bustle was looking for a defining moment for his Ragin’ Cajuns here Saturday night.
The Sun Belt Conference game at North Texas was a chance for Louisiana to revive a season in jeopardy.
UNT’s Mean Green was opening defense of its Sun Belt title and was primed to impress a crowd of 19,271 at Fouts Field.
If UL was going to get back on beam, the challenge was there for the taking.
The Cajuns took a surprising 7-0 lead and remained combative at halftime, but the 44-23 victory stamped UNT as the team to beat once again.
It was 30-23 after three periods, but the Mean Green put it away with two scores in the final quarter, capping a night when they had touchdowns measuring 29, 54, 39, 14 and 37 yards.
“We fought our tails off to get it to 30-23, and then — boom — they hit another big play on us,” Bustle said. “We also hurt ourselves with turnovers and penalties that had us backed up.”
Senior quarterback Eric Rekieta hit 21-of-35 passes for 192 yards and ran for a four-yard score in his first start of the season for the Cajuns. But he also suffered three interceptions.
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Junior Scott Hall also made his first start of 2003 for UNT, and looked sharp with first-half touchdown passes of 29 and 54 yards to Johnny Quinn as UNT overcame an early touchdown deficit.
For the night, Hall hit 9-of-16 passes for a career-high 222 yards. Five of those connections went to Quinn, who had three scores and 176 yards.
The Mean Green’s Patrick Cobbs also excelled after missing two games with a bruised thigh, rushing 26 times for 157 yards and touchdowns of 39 and 14 yards for coach Darrell Dickey.
And the feared UNT defense came up with an NCAA-record tying three safeties in the victory.
It would have been easy for Bustle’s squad to buckle when the Mean Green responded to an early 7-0 deficit with a 26-point surge into a comfortable second-period lead.
With UNT’s sturdy defense and ball-protecting offense, that kind of deficit was large.
But the visitors crept closer with a pair of Sean Comiskey field goals, the first from 48 yards out and the second a 23-yarder 11 seconds from halftime, to make it a 26-13 game at the break.
Ross Brupbacher’s third-down, blitzing sack of Hall for a 10-yard loss to the UNT 11 on its first possession set up the visitors’ first score.
The Cajuns began on the UNT 39 after the punt and Rekieta hit Fred Stamps for 22 yards to the 10 on third-and-three. Rekieta’s 4-yard TD run was also on third down.
Hall’s 17-yard option run to the UL 43 keyed a 78-yard, 9-play answering drive, capped by his first strike to Quinn.
Nose tackle Brandon Kennedy nailed Travis Smothers for a safety 36 seconds later, and two plays after the safety kick Hall found a wide-open Quinn for the 54-yarder to make it 16-7.
A 20-yard Nick Bazaldua field goal upped it to 19-7, and it was 26-7 with 10:09 left until half on Cobbs’ 39-yard dash.
Rekieta converted a fourth down with an 8-yard hit to Bill Sampy to the UNT 29, leading to Comiskey’s 48-yarder, and Matt Lane slipped into the game in punt formation and hit Eric Bartel for another 8-yard conversion at the Mean Green 44 on the next series.
Rekieta’s 12-yarder to Sampy tip-toeing the sideline then got it to the 14 just 36 seconds from the half. The Cajuns settled for Comiskey’s 23-yarder and some hope.
UNT picked up four points in the third period on two safeties to stretch it to 30-13, but the Cajuns rallied again.
A 69-yard, 11-play march, sparked by a 35-yard completion to tight end Josh Joerg, was capped by a two-yard TD to Bill Sampy on fourth down with 2:58 left in the third period.
Then, Brupbacher’s fumble recovery led to a 30-yard Comiskey field goal and it was 30-23 after three.
But Cobbs finished a 77-yard drive with his 14-yard score, and one play after Rekieta was picked off. Hall hit Quinn for 37 yards and the final cushion with 7:41 to play.
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With Greg Hodges out of the lineup it is very plain to me that the rushing production has suffered.
<center><table width=525 cellspacing=4><TR ALIGN=CENTER><td class="s2"><b>Rushing per game<center></table><TABLE border=1 cellPadding=2 cellSpacing=1 width=525><TBODY><TR ALIGN=CENTER><td class="s2"><b>Opponent</b></TD><TD><b>Rushing yards per game</b></TD><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD>South Carolina</TD><TD>132</TD><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD>LA Tech</TD><TD>95</TD><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD>Houston</TD><TD>139</TD><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD>Minnesota</TD><TD>50</TD><TR ALIGN=CENTER><TD>North Texas</TD><TD>27</TD></TR></TABLE></CENTER>
<blockquote><p align=justify>DENTON, Texas — Champions make big plays when the game is on the line, and the North Texas Mean Green showed Saturday night why they’re two-time winners of the Sun Belt Conference.
In the 44-23 victory over UL Lafayette, UNT had touchdowns covering 29, 54, 39, 14 and 37 yards.
They also tied an NCAA record with three safeties.
That was enough to hold off coach Rickey Bustle’s Cajuns, who played with spirit but still fell to 0-5 overall and 0-2 in SBC action.
“Those big plays were incredible,” Bustle said. “I thought we played with a lot of effort, but they kept hitting those plays on us.
“There were times when we had people in the vicinity, but they just made the plays.”
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UNT junior Scott Hall hit 9-of-16 passes for a career-best 222 yards and touchdowns of 29, 54 and 37 yards to redshirt freshman Johnny Quinn, often using play-action and pump fakes to good effect.
“I thought they would take some shots,” Bustle said. “On the first one, we manned-up with him, but he just ran away from us.
“And, we probably peeked into the backfield a little bit. Give them credit, though. They made the plays they needed.”
It was especially damaging for the Cajuns after they battled to within 30-23 after three quarters, only to have the Mean Green hit two more big scores. The last time here, the Cajuns took a 17-14 fourth-period lead, only to lose 42-17 on a 28-0 UNT blitz down the stretch.
“We felt real good at that point (30-23),” Cajun quarterback Eric Rekieta said. “It’s been a while since we had been in a game, and we were pumped up.
“You’re on the sidelines, and it’s third or fourth down and you’re figuring what you’ll do when you get in. And then they hit that big play.
“At that point you just try to pick it up. You try not to watch, so you can avoid that emotional roller coaster and stay level. But, it does make you want to get out there and hit a big one of your own.”
“You have to take it in the context of the whole game,” said linebacker Ross Brupbacher, who had a big early sack and also recovered a fumble. “It’s only one play, and you try not to get down about it.
“You try to put it behind you.”
That’s hard to do, especially after that 30-23 juncture.
“We were in high spirits,” Brupbacher said. “Everyone was upbeat. We felt we could come back and still win.”
The Cajuns did play hard, and at times played well and with spirit. But they couldn’t overcome the big plays produced by the Mean Green throughout the evening.
“Maybe it was a step in the right direction,” Brupbacher said. “There were moments.”
Just not enough of them.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>Not that long ago, people wouldn't cross the street to watch Northern Illinois play football.
Now the Huskies are part of a mid-major resurgence by Mid-America Conference members.
NIU improved to 4-0 Saturday afternoon with a 24-16 win over Big 12 member Iowa State and is currently the No. 20 ranked team in the nation, owning earlier victories over Maryland at home and Alabama on the road.
Suddenly, a ticket to a Huskies game is a hot item.
UL Lafayette played NIU for nine straight years beginning in 1988, first as intersectional rivals and then as members of the Big West Conference.
The Cajuns won six of those contests, and two of the three defeats were controversial, close losses in DeKalb.
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I remember the first trip to DeKalb in 1989, Brian Mitchell's senior season at UL.
As the buses neared the NIU campus, we saw what looked liked a high school stadium rising out of the cornfields. Surely there had to be another facility nearby.
No, that was it.
Huskie Stadium is on campus, a short stroll across the street from student dormitories, much like old McNaspy Stadium was on UL’s campus. On a bright fall day, it seemed like a good opportunity to see a game.
But the seating capacity of 30,000 was less than one-third full by kickoff.
Apparently there was something really good on TV, or the students went home or it was too much trouble to cross the street.
The Cajuns had thumped the Huskies 45-0 the previous season at Cajun Field, yet no one seemed intrigued by the possibility of revenge.
NIU option quarterback Stacy Robinson led a late drive for a 23-20 win, and a mini-rivalry was born.
The most memorable game came in 1991, when 40 mph winds whipped across the field and frozen players on both sides suffered frostbite. Cajun coach Nelson
Stokley didn’t even have his team practice on the Friday before the game for fear they’d want to stay in the hotel the next day.
Amazingly, the Cajuns won 13-12 on two long field goals in those brutal conditions.
UL wrapped up the nine-year series with a 45-31 win behind Jake Delhomme in 1996.
The Huskies were 1-10 that year under coach Joe Novak, and 0-11 in 1997. They kept losing, too, with a losing streak reaching 23 games the next season.
They were 2-9 in 1998, 5-6 in 1999 and had a winning campaign in 2000, the first in 10 years.
Novak is still there, and now the Huskies are winners. They’re also preseason picks to win the MAC.
Novak was the only coach to offer a scholarship to running back Michael Turner, a Chicago kid who dreamed of playing in the Big Ten. Now Turner is the key to NIU’s attack and an underdog Heisman Trophy candidate.
There’s no logical reason why the Huskies should be so revived, other than
Novak’s pedigree as a product of Miami of Ohio — the “Cradle of Coaches’’ — but here they are.
The Ragin’ Cajuns beat Texas A&M in 1996 in the program’s most memorable achievement, yet finished 5-6 that season and haven’t had a winning record since 1995.
Going into Saturday’s game at North Texas, UL was 12-59 since 1996.
There’s no way DeKalb has more resources than Lafayette does. No reason Rickey Bustle and his coaches can’t equal what Novak’s staff has done.
It looked bleak in DeKalb just a few short years ago, like that day in 1991, but the Huskies survived and are flourishing.
The Cajuns can do the same.
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...for the 8-game season:
With the loss against NT and little chance against OSU this week, I just have one thing to say: LOOK OUT REST OF THE SUN BELT as the LOUISIANA RAGIN' CAJUNS run the table on the rest of the schedule and finish the final 8 games 6-2!!! ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. ..O.. ..O..
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Scott Hall wins the quarterback battle over Cajuns’ starter.</b>
LOUISIANA La. — Two experienced quarterbacks made their first start of the season last Saturday night in Denton, Texas, and Scott Hall was the victor over Eric Rekieta.
Hall led the surprisingly explosive North Texas Mean Green to a 44-23 victory over Louisiana as UNT opened defense of its Sun Belt Conference title, while UL senior Rekieta battled uphill all night as the Cajuns remained winless.
“I could have played a lot better,” said Rekieta, who hit 21-of-35 passes for 192 yards and a touchdown but was intercepted three times and called for a safety for intentionally grounding the ball in the Cajun end zone.
“I let them read my eyes a lot. We were able to move the ball pretty well, considering the situation we were in.”
The “situation” was the Mean Green’s refusal to let the Cajuns run the ball, as evidenced by UL’s 31 carries and 27 net yards. Being one dimensional is usually fatal against a defense as good as North Texas, and that was the case last Saturday.
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UNT tallied an NCAA record-tying three safeties on the night, once dumping Travis Smothers for a loss, once on the Rekieta mishap and once when a deep snap went over punter Grant Autrey’s head in the back of the end zone.
Rekieta scored himself for an early 7-0 lead, only to have the Mean Green tally 26 unanswered points before a pair of Sean Comiskey field goals drew the visitors within 26-13 at the half.
The second and third safeties made it 30-13, but Rekieta rallied the Cajuns with a two-yard touchdown pass to Bill Sampy and another Comiskey field goal to make it 30-23.
But UNT kept coming up with big plays.
Hall, who threw for a career-high 222 yards, opened the fourth quarter with a pump-and-go hit of 40 yards to Johnny Quinn to help position a 14-yard Patrick Cobbs TD run. Then, one play after Rekieta was picked off, Hall found Quinn for a 37-yard score to decide it.
The Mean Green touchdowns covered 29, 54, 39, 14 and 37 yards, an average of 34.6 yards per scoring play. The 40-yard Quinn setup gave UNT six snaps averaging 35.5. In addition to that, the home team ripped off gains of 15, 17, 17, 10, 16, 10, 13 and 11 yards — eight plays at 13.6 a pop.
In all, 14 of UNT’s 63 plays gained 10 or more yards and 322 of its 451 total yards came on those 14 plays.
“Hall played well,” said Cajun linebacker Ross Brupbacher. “There wasn’t a lot they did that we didn’t give to them. We blew some coverages, which makes a quarterback look real good. But he made some nice throws.”
The loss dropped the Cajuns to 0-5 heading into next Saturday’s road game at Big 12 member Oklahoma State. They are sure to be challenged by Josh Fields throwing to Rashaun Woods, as well as by running back Tatum Bell and by a nationally-ranked OSU defense.
It’s enough to test the patience of Rickey Bustle and his UL coaching staff, not to mention the road-weary Cajuns.
“This has been a resilient bunch all year long,” Bustle said. “We want them to know we’re not giving up on them.”
“We’ll keep working, keep trying to get a win,” Rekieta said.
CAJUN CLIPPINGS — Senior Fred Stamps is No. 3 in UL history in receptions (137) and receiving yards (2,084, passing Wayde Butler’s 2,076 on Saturday) and fourth in TD catches (13) ... both UNT coach Darryl Dickey and noseguard Brandon Kennedy offered words of encouragement to Stamps on the field after the game ... Sun Belt teams are 6-31 overall this season.
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"In a season enough beer could be sold to eliminate one of those season killing BCS school games."
That's a good point. I just had a funny thought: after the Bustle-led Cajuns whip Miami in the Sugar Bowl for the NC, everyone will ask "how did they get so good, so fast?" The answer is "the Beer!" Ah well, just fantasizing while popping open another cold one!
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Pardon my math but that comes to $5 a beer, one for every 20,000 people at 5 home games to reach $500,000. If the beer cost $1 that is only $400,000Quote:
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Now that I know the answer, I think it is ludicrous that we don't sell beer at home. In a season enough beer could be sold to eliminate one of those season killing BCS school games.
<blockquote><p align=justify>Comiskey Receives Sun Belt Special Teams Honor
LAFAYETTE - Louisiana place kicker Sean Comiskey was named the Sun Belt Conference Special Teams Player of the Week for his effort this past Saturday at North Texas.
Comiskey was a perfect 3-for-3 on field goal attempts and 2-for-2 on extra points. He notched kicks of 23, 30 and 48 yards, marking just the ninth time in Sun Belt history that a kicker has been successful on three field goal attempts.
The individual Sun Belt weekly honor is the tenth for Louisiana.
It also marks the first time that a Cajun has earned Sun Belt weekly honors more than once. Comiskey was named special teams player of the week on Nov. 11, 2002.
Here he is perfecting his craft.
Some BCS games, (like the Minnesota game) gross $250,000.Quote:
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Pardon my math but that comes to $5 a beer, one for every 20,000 people at 5 home games to reach $500,000. If the beer cost $1 that is only $400,000
After travel expenses and everything you might bring home $215,000.
To use your and Chucks idea to save a BCS game, all Louisiana would have to make on beer is $43,000 a game.
I like the idea because it would perpetuate success. Fewer BCS games, and less top 24 schedules will result in:<li>More wins<li>More wins will result in more fans<li>More fans will result in more donations and game day receipts.<li>All of which will result in more wins.
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Sun Belt honors Comiskey</b>
LOUISIANA La. — Try a 48-yard field goal, into the wind, on the road against your defending conference champion?
No problem, if you’re University of Louisiana place kicker Sean Comiskey.
“During the week, we take a lot of time out of practice to work on long field goals,” Comiskey said. “We try a lot of them every Monday through Wednesday.
“Coach (Rickey) Bustle knew I could make it. When we got to the (North Texas) 31-yard line, he said, ‘field goal.’ ”
Comiskey made three field goals in the 44-23 Ragin’ Cajun loss to the Mean Green, starting with the season-best 48-yarder and including shots of 23 and 30 yards. The last hit got the Cajuns within 30-23.
That tied a Sun Belt Conference single-game record and earned Comiskey the SBC special teams Player of the Week honor.
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Comiskey has hit 4-of-6 field goals in 2003 and is a perfect 3-of-3 inside the 40. As a freshman in 2002, he made 9-of-18 field goal tries including a 50-yarder. He’s stronger now, physically and psychologically.
“My consistency has really been due to coach Bustle,” Comiskey said. “Since the spring, he’s tried to help me with my mental state. I’m getting used to a lot of it now.”
That includes two straight weeks kicking off artificial turf, and not worrying what the surface is from week to week.
“With turf, you get a perfect hold every time,” Comiskey said. “It doesn’t matter to me whether we’re at home or on the road. Wherever the game is played, that’s where I’m going to kick from.”
Like the rest of the Cajuns, Comiskey is dealing with the 0-5 start.
“I know we’re a good football team,” Comiskey said. “We played at an SEC school like South Carolina, and came within seven (points) of them. We played Houston to a seven-point game.
“Last week at North Texas, we got within 30-23, and were one or two plays away from winning that game. Coach Bustle tells us that one play could change the tone of any game.”
If any of the Cajuns’ games come down to a pressure kick this season, Comiskey seems well-equipped for the challenge.
WEDNESDAY: Senior tight end Josh Joerg.
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<blockquote><p align=justify> LOUISIANA la. — When you’ve been treading water for five weeks, the last thing you want to see is a dorsal fin among the waves ... especially if you’re not in an area known for dolphins.
Louisiana is 0-5 and faces the unenviable prospect of playing the potent Oklahoma State Cowboys on the road this Saturday.
“Oklahoma State has a heck of a football team,” Ragin’ Cajun coach Rickey Bustle said on Monday. “When I looked at the schedule earlier in the year, I hoped we’d have a win or two by now, so this game wouldn’t seem so bad.”
As it is, the 3-1 Cowboys are loaded with talented players like quarterback Josh Fields, receiver Rashaun Woods and running back Tatum Bell.
“Their special teams are probably, overall, the best I’ve seen this year,” Bustle said. “Their offense and defense are solid, too.”
Fields has hit 61-of-111 passes for 750 yards and nine touchdowns, focusing on Woods (30-502-9), who set an NCAA record against SMU two weeks ago with seven TD grabs.
Bell is ninth in the nation in rushing (123.8) with 495 yards on 81 attempts.
“I’m not sure you think all of a sudden of a great plan to stop those guys,” Bustle said. “If they can run the ball any time they want, then those receivers are going to get loose. We’re going to double-team him (Woods) some, but you have to pick and choose when you do it.”
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One problem for Bustle is the grind his Cajuns have faced with five straight playing weekends including three on the road under new, more involved FAA security procedures at airports.
Also, the last two games have been played on artificial turf at Minnesota and North Texas, leaving the Cajuns even more bruised.
“We’re beat up right now,” said Bustle, who gave his team Monday off from practice. “We’ve got a lot of nagging injuries, mostly ankles and knees, from the turf. (Cornerback) Jerrell Carter probably won’t be back this week, and (linebacker) Stanley Smith hasn’t recovered yet, either.”
The fact that Big 12 member OSU had last weekend off before hosting UL triggered some dark humor from Bustle.
“I’m sure they spent the last two weeks getting ready for us,” he said.
The Cajuns fought hard, if not well, in last week’s 44-23 loss at North Texas. They led 7-0, fell behind 26-7, closed to 26-13 at halftime, were down 30-13, then trailed 30-23 after three periods before UNT closed it out.
“It was exciting to be on the sidelines for that game,” Bustle said. “At halftime, the kids felt they could win the game. We just gave them way too many opportunities. There was not anybody who didn’t think we were ready to win.
“Then they hit another big play, and it was like taking a punch in the gut.
“I knew that game would be tough. North Texas is obviously the model program of our conference. When they fell behind early, and then when it got tight in the second half, they found a way to perform.”
Through all this, the Cajuns have remained remarkably focused on getting better. A combination of Bustle’s staff, youth and senior leadership have helped keep it together.
“I think it’s a combination of all that,” Bustle said. “It’s the way we constructively teach, and the youth. The kids probably get over these losses better than I do.
“But they do see that if you do it the right way, it will create opportunities for us.”
As long as the Cajuns can somehow keep their heads above water, they keep hope afloat.
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Sean is as nice a young man you can find. My youngest son, who is student trainer, introduced him to me one Sunday at church. No pretensions, no ego, just a down to earth young adult. This is the type of athlete we need to recruit.
My dad and I know Sean personally. My dad likes to tell him, "If you can swim in 10 feet of water, you can swim in 10,000 feet of water."