LGT Sunbelt Championship Final: Louisiana 3, Marshall 31

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Originally Posted by Bandwagon King

Has anyone come up with a sensible reason why UL just rolled over & crapped the bed last night? I mean it was for the conference championship. Did these guys just decide to mail it in for the semester? Will the real UL football team show up for it's bowl game? Did they just decide they wanted the 2nd place bowl over the 1st? Did someone really close to the program die? I just don't understand how any group of prideful players could play with such little effort all at once. Were they on strike? I'm seriously not trying to be funny. It was very sad & extremely unexpected to see this. It was for me anyway. I mean how do you let a conference foe come into your house & just beat your rear end like they caught you behind the bushes with their girlfriend?

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Injuries probably the main reason. We weren't a very healthy team on Saturday night.

Uhh, maybe because we had to play our true freshman 3rd string QB against a team that would have been a tough out even with our starter, or backup? It was 7-3 with us driving when Chandler was hurt. Chandler stays in, our offense is better, taking pressure off of our defense.

Why so many want to insult these kids effort is beyond me.

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Originally Posted by Cajun Bullet

Injuries probably the main reason. We weren't a very healthy team on Saturday night.

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Gotta look at the defense here. Last I saw these QB's weren't out there playing defense. Gave up 31 at your own house on a big stage begs the question. It is what it is.

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Originally Posted by babysitter

Gotta look at the defense here. Last I saw these QB's weren't out there playing defense. Gave up 31 at your own house on a big stage begs the question. It is what it is.

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Cause and effect situation IMO. Our offense was very ineffective once Fields went down. I believe we would have kept it close at a minimum had he not been injured. Once he went out our defense stayed on the field far too long. I thought the D played hard; but just got worn down. My 2 cents …..

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Originally Posted by shof

Cause and effect situation IMO. Our offense was very ineffective once Fields went down. I believe we would have kept it close at a minimum had he not been injured. Once he went out our defense stayed on the field far too long. I thought the D played hard; but just got worn down. My 2 cents …..

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Yes...our lack of offense and moving the chains didn't help our D. And, I don't think we win with CF if he had not been injured....but with BW, it could have ended differently. BW would have been able to audible out of things and take advantage of their fronts due to his ability to read defenses. A 7 year veteran vs. a true FR at QB is night and day difference. If you recall, even when DB had some protection, he didn't get the ball out quickly which is understandable. With BW, a INT or 2 with those tipped passes, we could have pulled it out.

Tired and burnt out for a confrence championship home game?

I hope not.

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Originally Posted by anhil8tor

Tired and burnt out for a confrence championship home game?

I hope not.

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Its a 12 ounce regular season.

Gotta be able to squeeze out one more ounce of energy.

A few major contributors knew they were portaling out and didn’t give a flying ______ anymore??? Maybe

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Originally Posted by babysitter

Gotta look at the defense here. Last I saw these QB's weren't out there playing defense. Gave up 31 at your own house on a big stage begs the question. It is what it is.

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The defense?!? We only scored 3 points. You will lose almost EVERY game when you can only score 3 points.

Going into this game, the Cajuns offense was averaging 35.6 points per game. If we score what we had been averaging all season, we win the game. Instead we scored 3 points (32.6 below our average).

Going into this game, the Cajuns defense had been allowing 22.8 points a game. They gave up 31 points to Marshall (8.2 points more than our average).

SUMMARY:
- Cajuns offensive underperformed by 32.6 points
- Cajuns defense underperformed by 8.2 points

...and you think the defense lost us the game?
What exactly were you expecting from our defense?

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Originally Posted by GreatestStory

SUMMARY:
- Cajuns offensive underperformed by 32.6 points
- Cajuns defense underperformed by 8.2 points

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I suspect that (in the last game) if the offense does their thing, the defense overperforms.

On that particular day, Marshall was better, deeper, healthier, more skilled, more prepared and luckier. Not saying every day, just when it counted Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Turbine

I suspect that (in the last game) if the offense does their thing, the defense overperforms.

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Absolutely, because at a minimum, you keep Marshall's offense off the field during sustained drives, and the defense gets a bit of rest.