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But it just may hurt us the week after. I see a continuing trend here against BCS schools. Last year, 24-17 against UA-Fayetteville, then losing to the Monrovians convincingly didn't help. Then almost, beating USC, only to get blow out by another LA opponent, this time at home. A win may help the name recongnition for the upset, but what about next week? What happens if we come out flat again? Then what will the masses say??
A win at Oklahoma State, or Minnisota, HELL, even a win over UNT at UNT would get a great amount of fans to the game. Those fair-weather fans that left after La Tech, would certainly be back.
tuffguy
What is the injury situation?
<blockquote><p align=justify>LOUISIANA La. — If Art Briles looks relieved on the Houston Cougar sideline the rest of the season, there’s a good reason.
The Big House is behind him.
He doesn’t have to take his team to play at Michigan again, in front of 109,580 screaming fans.
His Cougar football team may not see that many opposing fanatics at its other five road games combined, a five-game set that begins Saturday when UH visits Cajun Field to take on UL.
“I’m just glad to be alive,” Briles joked on Monday. “Somebody asked me what was the biggest advantage Michigan had last weekend, and I said about 50 years of tradition.”
The Cougars got spanked to the tune of 50-3 by the fifth-ranked Wolverines last Saturday, one week after his club pulled a similar trick in an easy 48-14 victory over Rice in its home opener.
So, even though Houston will bring a 1-1 record to Acadiana Saturday, Briles still isn’t sure what to make of the Cougars in his first year at the helm.
“I haven’t gotten a gauge on what kind of team we have,” he said, “and that bothers us a little bit. The Rice game, we weren’t able to look at a bunch of things we needed to look at, and at Michigan we were fighting for our lives. We’re still very much in a feeling-out process.”
The feeling-out process could easily describe Cougar quarterback Kevin Kolb, who became the first true freshman to start a season-opening game in UH history when he took the opening snap against Rice.
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Kolb wasn’t expected to be in that role as late as the start of fall drills, especially since Houston returned both of its alternating starters from last year. That duo included Barrick Nealy, who bedeviled the Ragin’ Cajuns with two touchdown passes and a two-yard run for another score in the Cougars’ 36-17 win last year.
However, Nealy transferred to another program and senior returnee Nick Eddy became an academic casualty, putting Kolb — a product of the storied Stephenville (Texas) High program — under center.
“Kevin had a good outing against Rice,” Briles said. “Last week Michigan heated him up a little, but he didn’t turn the ball over and still threw some good passes. He got frustrated a little bit. He’s doing fine ... we just have to have some other people making some plays.”
Briles, for the past three years an assistant at Texas Tech, was Stephenville’s head coach for 12 years and was legendary for rolling up big offensive numbers. His 1998 team had a national-record 8,650 yards of total offense during a six-year stretch when Stephenville was 90-2-1, and Kolb had the opportunity to work in that offense even though Briles had departed.
“They line up all over the place and try to give you a lot of problems,” said Cajun head coach Rickey Bustle. “It’s surprising they do so much with a young quarterback, but he’s had enough background in that offense to be comfortable with it.”
Kolb was 17-of-22 for 246 yards in the opener, throwing for two scores and running for two more against Rice, but Michigan slowed the UH offense to a crawl last Saturday in allowing only a third-quarter 42-yard field goal from Dustin Bell.
“They’re very fast defensively,” Briles said of Michigan, ‘but what allowed them to be that way was we couldn’t put any pressure on them from an offensive standpoint. They were able to sit back and run to the ball. Hopefully we’ll learn from it and get better, but I hope we don’t play anybody with that much speed back there the rest of the year.”
It’s a little different this week. The Cajuns allowed 266 yards passing and 449 yards offensively to La. Tech last weekend, and the Cougars’ young defense (only four seniors on the 23-man depth chart) will face a UL unit that hasn’t scored an offensive touchdown.
But Briles won’t be lulled into a false sense of security after last week, not to mention that the Cougars were 1-4 outside the Houston city limits last year and have won only twice in its last 18 road games.
“They (Louisiana) play extremely hard, especially on defense,” he said. “They play a swarming defense and do a great job of getting all over the field. We’re going back on the road, and we’ve got four of our next five there so we need to learn to win on the road.”
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No. It's a separate pepper design that was developed in 1999.Quote:
Originally posted by UH1990
Nice Pics. Is ULL sponsored by Chili's?
NO INJURIES!
i am glad to here you haven't done it yet. but if you know anything about football, and i'm sure you do, take notice: a freshman QB first game at home, family,friends/schoolmates, big crowd,want to do well maybe a little too excited, juices flowing......timing patterns off, what do you think, oh! and a runningback should have scored but took the wrong angle on two occasions, had stamps open several times(timing), guys not being dicipline and missing assignments. we'll be fine, those things with will be fixed and jerry will do fine. do you come to the quarterback luncheon? if not try to make one, very interesting. one of the players spoke last monday(bartel)he said the players got togather and that they know what needs to be done.......hang in there. "GEAUX CAJUNS."
Not sure - what's the coaches name? I haven't heard about this, and I'm sure it would have come this week.Quote:
Originally posted by nujaC 1
Question: Do you have a son of one of our oaches playing for Houston?
Coach Bartel's stepson, was a Sr. TE for you last year. I don't recall his name or if TE is correct.Quote:
Originally posted by UH1990
Not sure - what's the coaches name? I haven't heard about this, and I'm sure it would have come this week.
I see on the Ragin' Cajun athletics website that you have a link to internet radio. Will this weeks game be broadcast?
Thanks, and good luck this Saturday.
CC
try KPEL
Right now I just care about a win over Houston .~.