I've got to come clean and admit that I also am a Ricky Broussard supporter and will always be. But I love this University & the more I learn about and hear coach Cyp the more I like him.
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I've got to come clean and admit that I also am a Ricky Broussard supporter and will always be. But I love this University & the more I learn about and hear coach Cyp the more I like him.
Ditto, I to am impressed!! I will buy another seat this year for the newest Cajun in the Sonnier family!!
DaddyCajun!!
I am also a Ricky fan and still think that he was the best candidate for the job. Maybe Cyprien will hire the most popular candidate for the job as his top assistant.
Let's see how smart he is.
how do you pronounce Cyprien?
I believe it is Sip-pre-awn(as in lawn)
I think it's Sip Pre In
What's with the Kool-Aid references? Is this meant to be insulting or uncomplimentary? What do you have against Kool-Aid?
Try this link!..O.. ..O.. ..O..Quote:
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What's with the Kool-Aid references? Is this meant to be insulting or uncomplimentary? What do you have against Kool-Aid?
http://www.gbs.sha.bw.schule.de/jim_jones_history.htm
Lets see how the attendance does in the next basketball season.
<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Cyprien calls ULL 'special place' </b>
Louisiana La. -- Glynn Cyprien always thought the University of Louisianawould be a special place to be a head basketball coach. Now he'll find out.
Cyprien, an assistant coach under Oklahoma State's Eddie Sutton the last four years, Wednesday was introduced as the Cajuns' newest head basketball coach before a standing-room-only crowd in the Cajundome's St. Mary Room.
"This is a special day for me and my family," said Cyprien, a New Orleans native who played collegiately at Southern and was an assistant coach at six different schools since beginning his coaching career in 1988 at Texas-San Antonio.
"I've always felt this was a special place, and not just for facilities, but for the great tradition here," he said. "You guys expect for ULL to win games every year ... but not just win. I think we need to go to the next level and win two or three games in the NCAA Tournament and we want people talking about us over a long period of time."
Cyprien, 37, was selected from a list of more than 30 candidates, according to ULL Athletic Director Nelson Schexnayder. The list was trimmed to four last week -- Cyprien, ULL interim head coach Robert Lee, LSU assistant Butch Pierre and Mississippi State assistant Robert Kirby -- and a final choice was made Monday morning.
"It's always a challenge when I'm searching for a coach to lead our program," said Schexnayder. "The good news was that we had a bunch of quality people who were interested in the job.
"In one way, it was a very easy to pick a good coach to lead the Ragin' Cajuns. But it was very, very difficult to pick among those people who expressed a strong interest."
The decision to select Cyprien, however, became easier after Schexnayder made a few phone calls.
"I talked to Eddie Sutton, I talked to (former OSU athletic director and now Clemson AD) Terry Don Phillips, I talked to coaches in pros .... I talked to a whole bunch of folks," said Schexnayder. "And, obviously, people thought very highly of him (Cyprien) and what he had done and how he handled himself.
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"He's had success everywhere along the way that he's been part of and that, to me, is important. We had some quality candidates and not just Glynn. But in my opinion, Glynn was the most successful of the candidates we had and that's why we chose him."
Schexnayder said Cyprien would be given a 5-year contract, but the ULL athletic director would not disclose financial details. He did say, however, that the salary was more than the salary of former head coach Jessie Evans ($180,000) but less than what Evans was offered ($200,000) before he left to become the head coach at San Francisco University.
That salary makes Cyprien the school's second-highest-paid coach behind head football coach Rickey Bustle.
Cyprien, who threw out the first pitch at the ULL-Southeastern baseball game later in the day, said his first priority at ULL was to meet with returning players Wednesday night and get a feel for the current state of the program.
The Cajuns, coming off an NCAA Tournament season, lost four seniors and return eight players -- nine if Michael Southall returns after academic probation.
In addition, the Cajuns have signed two players this spring -- guard Derrick Gray of Jeanerette and guard Anthony Rhodman of Lewisburg College. A third signee is expected to send his paperwork in any day.
Cyprien said he might sign more players, despite the perceived late date.
"It depends on who's going to be back in the program," he said of signing any more players this spring. "That's the thing -- I have to figure out who's going to be back eligibility-wise.
"We're going to give everyone that's in the program a fair chance to become eligible and come back but I really can't tell anything right now."
Cyprien, who promises a tenacious defense and up-tempo offense, said his goal is to build the Cajuns program with a mix of high school and transfer players. The Cajuns depended heavily upon transfers under Evans.
"I think we're going to try to get some good high school players, which is very important over a four-year span. I also think you have to get one or two junior college players if you can get good ones, and I think we need to be careful on the transfers we take," he said.
"With this new (NCAA) legislation, you've got to get guys graduated now. So we have to be very careful with the players we've got coming in from other schools."
Cyprien also hopes to upgrade the Cajuns' schedule to include more SEC-type teams coming to the Cajundome.
"I feel it's important every year for us to play one or two SEC or Big 12-like teams," he said. "But we're going to start off playing SEC teams on the road only if they promise to come back here."
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