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yeah it really does J.Smith brought alot to the table , now there are adjustments starting F/S David Prater will have to play both Free and Strong againts USC , and back now back up F/S Wendell Williams will have to be ready to play when david goes to Strong . I have faith in those guys buti wish Jamal was still healthy
They are talking about the university announcing today it would be available in the ESPN gameday package and PPV on an individual basis for 14.95? Any truths to this?
I think they also said on local cable on PPV.?
Called Cox and you can order the ESPN gameday, five games included, UL vs. USC included for 14.99
Hell yea
UL_Cajuns you are my hero, is digital cable required?Quote:
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Called Cox and you can order the ESPN gameday, five games included, UL vs. USC included for 14.99
Hell yea
<blockquote><p align=justify>LOUISIANA La. — Lou Holtz has earned a reputation as a doom-and-gloom coach in stops at North Carolina State, Arkansas, Notre Dame and now South Carolina.
If there’s something to fret about before a game, Holtz has it covered.
Whether it’s gamesmanship or a character trait, that worrisome demeanor is a Holtz trademark.
The Gamecocks are heavy favorites for Saturday’s season opener against Louisiana — more than 30 points by some estimations — yet Holtz knows the Ragin’ Cajuns of coach Rickey Bustle have their plusses.
“They blocked seven kicks last year,” Holtz said Wednesday of the Cajuns, who used a pair of blocked punts to shake Arkansas in a 24-17 near-miss in 2002.
“They also have a 26-year-old deep snapper (Justin Venable, who’s actually 23). I have a great deal of admiration for that young man, for the way he’s still playing after all the injuries he’s had.
“They have their punter (Grant Autrey) and place kicker (Sean Comiskey) back. Their place kicker is excellent. He made a 51-yard field goal, and only had two misses under 40 yards last year.
“Their special teams are a concern in this game.”
Not surprisingly, Holtz isn’t as impressed with his own kicking game.
Neither Daniel Weaver nor Stephen Stellfox has gained an edge at place kicker, while Josh Brown is back at punter.
“Our place kicker is completely untested,” Holtz said. “We’ve been very inconsistent on both field goals and extra points.”
Also, Holtz said, “we don’t block many punts, and our return men are new.”
Of course, the Gamecocks’ cupboard is far from bare.
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Beefy quarterback Dondrial Pinkins (6-foot-2, 245 pounds) hit 32-of-65 passes for 432 yards and a pair of scores in 2002, and he’s sure to test a rebuilt Cajun secondary with sophomore deep threat Troy Williamson (28.9 yards per catch) on Saturday.
There’s also freshman running back Demetris Summers, listed second at tailback behind sophomore Kenny Irons but sure to force his way onto the field before long.
“Demetris has certainly raised the level of competition in the backfield,” Holtz said. “The running back situation has improved tremendously since he’s gotten here. The others have had to raise their level of play.
“I feel very solid about our running back situation.”
South Carolina’s defense, moving to a 4-3 look this season, has been hampered by injuries to linebackers Orus Lambert and Ricardo Hurley.
“Those injuries have really set us back,” Holtz said. “We’ve continued to work hard, but we continue to make mistakes. We also have two new safeties (Rodriques Wilson, Jamacia Jackson) who’ve never played in the secondary before, so you just can’t tell.”
But defensive end Charles Silas recently got eligibility questions cleared up and resumed practice on Wednesday.
“He’s missed a few days of practice,” Holtz said, “but he could possibly play on Saturday.”
After a solid 5-2 start in 2002, the Gamecocks stumbled home with five straight defeats and a 5-7 finish. They need a solid opener against the Cajuns to get ready for their Week Two battle against No. 18 Virginia.
Holtz is in his 32nd year of coaching, his fifth in Columbia. He knows how to keep his team on edge, especially when it’s favored to win.
Bustle’s Cajuns would like to make his worries come true.
Of course, the Gamecocks’ cupboard is far from bare.
Beefy quarterback Dondrial Pinkins (6-foot-2, 245 pounds) hit 32-of-65 passes for 432 yards and a pair of scores in 2002, and he’s sure to test a rebuilt Cajun secondary with sophomore deep threat Troy Williamson (28.9 yards per catch) on Saturday.
There’s also freshman running back Demetris Summers, listed second at tailback behind sophomore Kenny Irons but sure to force his way onto the field before long.
“Demetris has certainly raised the level of competition in the backfield,” Holtz said. “The running back situation has improved tremendously since he’s gotten here. The others have had to raise their level of play.
“I feel very solid about our running back situation.”
South Carolina’s defense, moving to a 4-3 look this season, has been hampered by injuries to linebackers Orus Lambert and Ricardo Hurley.
“Those injuries have really set us back,” Holtz said. “We’ve continued to work hard, but we continue to make mistakes. We also have two new safeties (Rodriques Wilson, Jamacia Jackson) who’ve never played in the secondary before, so you just can’t tell.”
But defensive end Charles Silas recently got eligibility questions cleared up and resumed practice on Wednesday.
“He’s missed a few days of practice,” Holtz said, “but he could possibly play on Saturday.”
After a solid 5-2 start in 2002, the Gamecocks stumbled home with five straight defeats and a 5-7 finish. They need a solid opener against the Cajuns to get ready for their Week Two battle against No. 18 Virginia.
Holtz is in his 32nd year of coaching, his fifth in Columbia. He knows how to keep his team on edge, especially when it’s favored to win.
Bustle’s Cajuns would like to make his worries come true.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>SOUTH CAROLINA - Rickey Bustle has seen college football's best, having tutored Michael Vick as Virginia Tech's offensive coordinator.
He has seen the sport's worst, like in 1978 when as a Clemson graduate assistant he was at Jacksonville's Gator Bowl when Woody Hayes' glorious Ohio State coaching career ended when he punched a Clemson linebacker.
These days, the Clemson graduate and former South Carolina assistant is seeing a little bit of both.
The 50-year-old Bustle begins his second season as Louisiana's head coach when the Ragin' Cajuns play USC at Williams-Brice Stadium on Saturday.
The Sun Belt Conference program Bustle inherited ranks among the worst in Division I-A, having gone 3-9 in his first season. But, after 25 seasons as an assistant coach for seven different teams, the former Summerville High School quarterback is enjoying having a team of his own to run.
"It's a program that was down and we're doing a lot of great things," Bustle said. "I spoke around 70 times last year at different places in Louisiana. People are buying season tickets again. Just getting the people back out is a big part of your job."
It's a job Bustle had plenty of experience before jumping into.
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At Summerville, he played for legandary coach John McKissick, who still coaches at Summerville and still keeps in touch with Bustle.
"Rickey was one of the best all-around atheltes that I remember in my coaching career," McKissick said. "He could play any sport. He was good at baseball. He played shortstop. He was on the basketball team and he played quarterback for Summerville. If he wanted to play badminton he could beat you. If he wanted to play golf he could beat you."
Bustle played college football at Clemson, where he was a three-time letterman as a wide receiver.
When his playing career ended in 1976, he became a graduate assistant for the Tigers under Charley Pell and Danny Ford.
Bustle made stops at Gardner-Webb, East Carolina, Northeast Louisiana (now Louisiana-Monroe) and the United States Football League's Arizona Wranglers before hooking up with Frank Beamer at Virginia Tech in 1987.
He values the time he spent helping Beamer build the Hokie program up from mediocrity from 1987-93.
"Sometimes coaches get jobs where things had already happened," Bustle said. "We were doing things at Virginia Tech for the first time. Being a part of building a program was a great experience for me. Being right there when times are bad, then all of the sudden you're playing in bowl games and playing for national championships."
From 1987 until becoming Louisiana-Lafayette's head coach in 2002, Bustle spent all but one season at Virginia Tech. The only exception was his season at USC as offensive coordinator in 1994, when the Gamecocks went 7-5 and won the Carquest Bowl to give USC its first bowl win.
Memories of that season will come flooding back to Bustle when he returns to the Williams-Brice Stadium sideline this Saturday.
"I remember there were just great people," Bustle said. "Having a good year and being part of the first bowl win was exciting. But those are great college fans. And it was special coaching in your home state. Everywhere you went to recruit, you knew somebody. But the big thing was the great fans and great support they gave the university and our football program."
To help then-head coach Brad Scott deliver that landmark bowl win, Bustle's job was to point quarterback Steve Taneyhill in the right direction. It wasn't always easy.
"The relationships are the most positive thing about that year, but especially with Steve, who was a stallion in his own way," Bustle said. "It was one of those that started off rough but we got really close. We grew to trust each other."
In the end, Taneyhill completed 64 percent of his passes for 2,486 yards. The Gamecocks clinched their bowl trip with a 33-7 win at Clemson.
Taneyhill was the most valuable player in the Carquest Bowl, throwing for 227 yards and a touchdown while running for another score in the 24-21 win over West Virginia.
"He did a great job relating with Steve and Steve bought into coach Bustle's way of thinking," Scott said. "They had a great coach-player relationship."
Bustle's relationship with Beamer drew him back to Virginia Tech in 1995 as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator where he coached an even greater talent in Michael Vick.
In 1999, the Hokies averaged 41.4 points a game with Bustle calling plays and Vick executing them perfectly. Only a loss to Florida State in the BCS title game at the Sugar Bowl kept them from a national championship.
Back in Summerville, the nation's all-time winningest high school coach made sure to listen when his former quarterback came to visit.
"Since was offensive coordinator at Virginia Tech," John McKissick said, "he's given me more advice than I've given him."
Finally, Bustle got an opportunity to be a head coach at Louisiana-Lafayette, a program that hasn't posted a winning season since 1995 when the school was known as Southwestern Louisiana.
"It was a goal of mine ever since I started," Bustle said. "You don't know where that's going to take you."
Louisiana-Lafayette's three wins last season under Bustle tied for the most since 1996. It drew an average of 15,056 to its 31,000-seat Cajun Field.
And the Cajuns carry a 45-game losing streak against Southeastern Conference opponents into Saturday's game.
Yet McKissick has confidence in his former player.
"He's got a challenging job because that program got really run down," McKissick said. "Playing against Division I schools, you're not going to bring it back up in one year. But he has the knowledge and perseverance to stick with it and get it done."
In the weeks leading up to this year's season opener, Bustle has been busy getting tickets while game planning. He'll have 50 friends and family members in attendance Saturday night and a pregame tailgate party is planned.
He is looking forward to visiting with his mother, Barbara Bustle, who still lives in Summerville, and a brother who lives in Columbia.
All the while, he'll try to get Louisiana-Lafayette's program back where it was nearly a decade ago, when the Ragin Cajuns went 8-3 in 1994.
"He's been to the big time," Scott said. "He's proven. He'll do a good job there and you'll see him involved with even bigger jobs down the line."
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"I spoke around 70 times last year at different places in Louisiana. People are buying season tickets again. Just getting the people back out is a big part of your job."
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"He's got a challenging job because that program got really run down," McKissick said. "Playing against Division I schools, you're not going to bring it back up in one year. But he has the knowledge and perseverance to stick with it and get it done."
Geaux Caoch Bustle! :cool:
Besides Jamal Smith and Ken Haynes,are their any other players that are hurt and unable to play Saturday? I noticed that at Rover Saftey ragincajuns.com now list the starter as James Roberts (a transfer) and the backup as true freshman Jarrett Jones. Is C.C. Brown hurt or in the doghouse? He was listed as Smith's backup at rover.
I just wanted to wish all UL fans goodlook in the game with USC on Saturday.