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(1-0) (3-2) Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns
(1-0) (1-4) Arkansas State
(1-0) (1-4) North Texas
(1-1) (3-2) Troy University
(1-1) (2-3) Utah State
(1-1) (1-4) New Mexico State
(0-2) (1-3) Middle Tennessee
(0-1) (1-4) Idaho
(0-1) (0-4) Louisiana-Monroe
Nice to meet the guys from New Iberia! Enjoyed the camraderie. We had a pretty good Cajun contingent at the Tailgaters. Nice to get the UL-FIU game on the big screen. Nice to meet Bobby & spouse and Jim (LSU alum but HS buddy of Bobby's who cheered along with us). A few other Cajun fans were there including the Zatarains. Fun time, exciting game and a victory!
ps. great time.. great win.. can't you just picture jay talking with tony samuels about next week's game?Quote:
Originally posted by that gumbo guy?
i also heard something simular .. not 100% of when he said it.. did hear him say "welcome to the radio"..
although, he also said something to the effect "according to what we have been told".. hence i am guessing he did not check w/the northshore.. (tee-hee)..
was i the only one calling him (and the stinking guy) during the game to be able to listen to us "blacked out".. i got no answer (grins..)
Got a chance to see the second half on a replay. Babb and the O looked dangerous.
Haven't seen a UL fb game on tv out here in a while (ever??). Cool! Congrats on the win!!
<blockquote><p align=justify><i> Defense steps up when needed with two big INT returns for TDs. </i>
MIAMI — One that looked almost too easy almost became upsettingly hard.
Louisiana escaped with a 43-34 victory over Florida International here on Saturday night, earning a 3-2 record to take to Las Cruces, New Mexico for next week's resumption of Sun Belt Conference play at New Mexico State.
Thankfully enough, bookend touchdowns on interceptions both began and ended the contest for coach Rickey Bustle's squad, saving an at-times impressive performance from turning sour.
Defensive end Travis Bass rambled 36 yards to score with a pickoff of Josh Padrick with 11:41 remaining in the first period for a 7-0 UL lead.
That was the one that almost sent a wrong signal.
“I think we did relax a little bit after that touchdown,” Babb said. “But then they scored their first touchdown and we got back in the groove.
“We knew then it would be a hard-fought game.”
He didn't know how hard-fought at the time, but he knew the touchdown was a special one.
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“It's always good to come back home and play,” said Bass, who had 20 family members and friends on hand from Fort Myers, Fla.
“It was great to have family and friends here, and then to score a touchdown got it off on the right note.”
Scouting reports helped produce the score.
“All week we had been working on our zone package, where the weakside end drops off,” Bass said. “I practiced my drop all week, and I was in the right place at the right time.
“Then I showed breakaway speed to get into the end zone.”
Victory wasn't clinched until Antwain Spann's 31-yard interception runback with 11 seconds remaining produced the final margin.
Spann slipped on the concrete at the back of the FIU end zone and fell on his backside at the end of the run, but was in good spirits afterwards.
“It was really more my ankle than my backside,” he said. “It was bent up under me.”
Jerry Babb had engineered a field goal drive just second before that pickoff for a 37-34 edge with 25 seconds to go.
“We've been there before,” Babb said. “There were two or three times last year when we needed to drive and score and were able to do that.”
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<blockquote><p align=justify><i> Comiskey’s foot, FIU miscues help Cajuns move to 3-2 </i>
MIAMI — It would be hard to find wilder moments on a balmy night in south Florida, even on South Beach, than fans saw Saturday at FIU Stadium.
Louisiana and Florida International put together a catalog of big plays and highlight reel material before a crowd of 10,022 with the visiting Ragin’ Cajuns finally prevailing 43-34 to improve to 3-2 and get an extended 8,800-mile road swing started on a positive note.
“It’s been a while since we’ve been over .500 at this point in the season,” said sophomore quarterback Jerry Babb, who hit 30-of-42 passes for 302 yards and a touchdown.
“The important thing is, we found a way to win.”
“That’s exactly right,” UL coach Rickey Bustle said. “Mistakes were made on both sides tonight. I don’t think we came out flat. We might not have been as focused as we could be.
“I’ll tell you what, though. Florida International has a heck of a team. I thought that when we saw film of the one game they’d played. They fought their hearts out.
“I told the players we might have got away with one. But we found a way to win and that’s what championship teams do.”
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The clinching score was administered by safety Antwain Spann, who picked off a Josh Padrick pass and dashed 31 yards to a touchdown with 11 seconds remaining.
UL’s Sean Comiskey had just delivered a 41-yard field goal with 25 seconds remaining to snap a 34-34 tie, the fourth deadlock of the evening.
The winning drive featured a fatal mistake by the Panthers, who forced a Cajun punt from the UL 42 but were penalized for illegal participation and gave the visitors a lifeline first down.
Babb’s 23-yard pass to Chester Johnson put the ball on the FIU 30, and the Cajuns positioned the ball from there for Comiskey.
“Sean is like money in the bank,” Bustle said. “I wasn’t concerned. I wasn’t worried. I knew he would hit it solid.”
“It felt like any other kick,” Comiskey said. “I knew what I had to do, just focus and take it off the ground and it was going to go. Being in that situation is like a dream. Being a hero’s fun sometimes.”
Comiskey had earlier hit from 47 and 29 yards for the Cajuns.
Both teams returned interceptions for touchdowns in a high-scoring first half that ended with the Cajuns ahead 24-17.
The first theft, a 36-yard ramble by UL defensive end Travis Bass, began the scoring.
But the second pickoff was even more dramatic, as FIU’s Gregg Moss gathered in a deflected pass and raced 77 yards to forge a 17-17 tie with just two minutes remaining in the half.
Moss’s interception, coming when Babb’s throw was high for Dwight Lindon, both halted a Cajun march and brought his team back into the battle in a matter of seconds.
But Babb responded in impressive fashion, taking his team 54 yards in seven snaps to regain the edge.
The drive featured passes of 23 yards to Kemmie Lewis, 9 to B.J. Crist and a 12-yard shovel pass to Johnson for a first down at the FIU 10-yard line.
It appeared the Panthers had held when they forced a field goal attempt, but they were guilty of defensive holding when a bad snap forced UL holder Matt Lane into a scrambling pass attempt.
Babb took advantage, hitting Travis Smothers for a 4-yard TD just 20 seconds before the break.
Penalties hurt the Panthers in that half. A 14-yard touchdown pass from Josh Padrick to Chandler Williams was called back by holding and the Panthers settled for a 44-yard Adam Moss field goal.
Then there was the second-chance gift to UL before halftime.
The Cajuns were dominant, aside from the Moss pickoff, as they owned a 266-137 yardage bulge and 19:07-to-10:53 mastery of the game clock. But they were still just a touchdown ahead of a program playing under provisional Division 1-A status and taking the field for only the second time in 2004.
A 67-yard FIU march knotted the count at 24 apiece on Padrick’s 11-yard pass to Harold Leath midway through the third period.
The Cajuns answered with Comiskey’s 29-yard field goal after a third-down blitz erased the chance for a touchdown.
It was tied again at 27 on a 41-yard Adam Moss field goal that bounced across the crossbar with 9:26 left in the game.
The Cajuns roared back with a 63-yard drive to go up 34-27 on Dwight Lindon’s second score of the night, but the Panthers got it to 34-34 with 2:29 to go on Rashod Smith’s 1-yard plunge.
It was that kind of game.
“They did a good job of not letting us put them away,” Babb said. “In the future, though, we’ve got to score touchdowns instead of field goals so they’ll have to score twice to tie.”
“We were once where FIU is,” Lindon said. “We know what it’s like not to give up. We had faith in each other that we could pull it out.”
That added up to a wild victory on the road for the Cajuns.
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<blockquote><p align=justify>MIAMI - Sean Comiskey's 41-yard field goal with 25 seconds left broke a tie, and Antwain Spann's interception return for another late score capped Louisiana-Lafayette's 43-34 victory over Florida International on Saturday night.
Comiskey's kick came on a drive where the Rajun' Cajuns were stopped near midfield and elected to punt, but Florida International was flagged for having 12 players on the field - and the five yards were just enough to provide Louisiana-Lafayette (3-2) with a first down.
Jerry Babb completed 30 of 42 passes for 302 yards and a touchdown for Louisiana-Lafayette (3-2), and Dwight Lindon rushed for 66 yards and a pair of scores.
Josh Padrick threw for 265 yards and two touchdowns for Florida International (1-1), which hadn't played since winning at Youngstown State on Sept. 10. The Golden Panthers had one game postponed and another canceled because of the flurry of hurricanes that have hit Florida in recent weeks.
Louisiana-Lafayette held off three second-half comebacks by Florida International, which was playing its first game against a Division I-A opponent.
The Golden Panthers trailed 24-17 at halftime, but Harold Leath made a diving catch of a Padrick pass in the back of the end zone to tie the game at 24. The teams then traded field goals before Lindon scored his second touchdown on a 5-yard run with 5:04 left.
Less than three minutes later, Rashod Smith scored on a 1-yard burst, tying the game again at 34. Smith had 94 yards on 28 carries for Florida International, but Comiskey's third field goal of the night put his team ahead to stay.
Louisiana-Lafayette outgained Florida International 445-347.
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Once again Bil confuses me, was the game blacked out in Lafayette?????
ps don't fear the mullet.
and whose pm mailbox is full? go figure.. (tee-hee)Quote:
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Once again Bil confuses me, was the game blacked out in Lafayette?????
well of course not.. i enjoy post's w/ps.'sQuote:
ps don't fear the mullet.
ps. maybe we just answer such direct question's to those that "have ears to hear", via the internet (smiling almost hard)
My PM mailbox is now empty.
And no Jay did not check in with the Northshore, probably because I bother him about streaming his show too. All I need now is Sportsnote to be streamed where I could listen with Windows Media Player, then all would be right in my world.