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I agree with you, although presently he's too light & plays too high as a tackle against the competition they play. Would love to see him at defensive end where he could use his height & athletic ability. The same goes for tight end, but his head is just not in it. I find out tonight about this one.
I like beer.:h:
Liability? I mean if they are worried about Liability don't you think they shouldn't sell it at any other sporting event.
Its sold at Basketball and Baseball, why not Football?
I look at it this way, the students will drink regardless.
I mean, is it just me or hard liquer gets you messed up a little more than beer.
So heres my solution: Serve beer, students won't bring in the hard stuff, and not that we have a problem but there will be less extrememly drunk people like myself.
Those straight whiskey games really get to me.
Haa you know what i mean, buy a coke and poor almost the whole thing out and feel it with a whole pint.
IM not an alchy
oooops i denied it ok I am an alchy, hmmm what is one who drinks suppossed to say.
Who cares let me drink in peace.
UL
Beer is sold at Robertson stadium ...UH
I believe we actually have a sponsership with Budweiser...only Bud and Budlight are sold...4.50 a pop ...good revenue
I havent seen any unrulely fans either, everyone just causually drinks during game times...tailgate is when you can slam em back
<blockquote><p align=justify>In addition to Louisiana’s Sun Belt Conference football opener against North Texas, two other league teams square off Saturday in the first weekend of true conference games.
And one of them will be making a first-time Sun Belt appearance, with Utah State debuting in the league against UL Monroe.
“It’s our first opportunity to play a league game in three years,” said USU coach Mick Dennehy, “so we’re looking forward to it. Since the end of last season, we’ve had fans in withdrawal in terms of the opportunity to play league games again. People have been talking football all spring and summer long.”
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Utah State, also playing its first home game, hasn’t played a conference game since the Big West died out after the 2000 season. The Aggies had been operating as an independent before accepting Sun Belt membership last fall.
There’s also excitement in Logan, Utah, with the weekend’s visitors. ULM head coach Charlie Weatherbie coached at Utah State for three seasons (1992-94).
“I had some great memories in that stadium and coached some good football teams, so it’s going to be fun to see some of the old friends that I left there,” Weatherbie said. “It’s inevitable that when you’re in coaching long enough, you’re going to play against a team you coached at. Those things just happen.”
One thing Weatherbie is familiar with, more than anybody else on the Monroe campus, is the altitude that the Indians will face this weekend. Logan’s nearly a mile above sea level.
“It’s as much a mental thing as anything else,” he said. “It usually takes 48 hours or more for someone to feel any effects of altitude, and our guys are in pretty good condition.”
For one, ULM senior nose tackle Corey Conde, a former All-Stater at Iota, isn’t worried about being that far above sea level.
“We’re conditioned enough to adapt,” he said, “and besides we like the cool weather when we go up north.”
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?: UL coach Rickey Bustle and Middle Tennessee boss Andy McCollum, whose teams are a combined 0-8, had the chance to commiserate last week.
“Most of the teams in this league have played a lot of big schools,” Bustle said, “so everybody is in the same boat. Andy called me last week and we talked about what we’ve been saying to our guys, because he’s been through the same thing.”
Middle has faced eighth-ranked Georgia, Clemson and 23rd-ranked Missouri in the last three weeks, all on the road, and the Blue Raiders dropped a heartbreaking 41-40 overtime decision to Missouri last Saturday.
“I was proud of our players in a third straight environment like that,” McCollum said. “We had a chance to put the game away and didn’t make the play. We were very disappointed in that our guys felt they should have won the game.”
WHAT HAPPENED?: Arkansas State coach Steve Roberts was shocked by the outcome of his squad’s designated Sun Belt game last Saturday. The Indians were playing a Tulsa team that had won only three times in its last 26 games, and got blown out 54-7.
“We were shell-shocked early and never were able to turn the tide,” Roberts said. “Every bounce and every break seemed to go against us and Tulsa made the most of those opportunities.”
The Golden Hurricane scored 24 points in 16 minutes in the first half and then scored on its first five possessions of the second half. Meanwhile, ASU’s first nine possessions resulted in seven punts and two pass interceptions.
“It was a total team defeat,” said Roberts, whose team takes on much-improved Memphis Saturday on the road. “There wasn’t a unit on the field that played well enough to win.”
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<blockquote><p align=justify>LOUISIANA La. — Eric Rekieta stepped up, so now it’s time for Jerry Babb to step back — at least for now.
When Rekieta relieved a struggling Babb and threw two touchdowns last week at Minnesota, he showed UL Lafayette coaches that his surgically repaired arm had caught up to his senior-year savvy.
That has thrust Rekieta into the starting quarterback role for this week’s Sun Belt Conference game at North Texas for the 0-4 Ragin’ Cajuns.
“The biggest thing that Eric gives us is that little bit of experience,” offensive coordinator Rob Christophel said after Tuesday’s practice.
Rekieta hit 65-of-113 passes for 652 yards and four touchdowns as a junior college transfer in 2002, but spent the spring on the sidelines with Tommy John elbow surgery and a broken hand.
Babb moved into the starting role at that time, and held it through the Cajuns’ first four contests. But when he started poorly at Minnesota, Rekieta was called.
“It took a while for him to knock some of the rust off in two-a-days,” Christophel said. “We brought him along slowly until he started to feel good.
“He has gained some confidence, and the offense has gained confidence with him.”
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Rekieta hit 25-of-33 passes for 256 yards in his first career start, a 13-10 win over Arkansas State, to earn Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Week honors. He also subbed for an injured Jon Van Cleave and led a 31-28 win over Idaho, and played well at SEC member Arkansas.
“You could see him start to come along last fall,” Christophel said. “He gained confidence and we won a couple of games with him starting. Then he played a whale of a game at Arkansas.
“An injury like he has, some (baseball) pitchers never recover from. He was ahead of schedule with his recovery, then he breaks his hand. We brought him along slowly until he felt like he was ready to go.”
The Cajun staff hasn’t soured on Babb. He just needs time to adjust to the college game.
“Jerry needed people to step up around him,” Christophel said. “Nobody was making plays. Oh, Fred Stamps made a few, but we need the whole espirit de corps to step up.
“He doesn’t need to feel like he has to carry the whole burden on his shoulders.”
Babb has hit 44-of-95 passes for 401 yards and run for 69 more, but is 8-of-31 the last two games.
“There’s no question that stepping back will help Jerry,” Christophel said. “He has gained immeasurable experience in the first four games, both good and bad, and eventually he’s going to be better for that.
“It would have been great if he had come in here and been a ring-tailed wizard right off the bat, but he wasn’t. At times he did play well.”
So Rekieta gets the chance to lead the Cajuns for this week, perhaps longer.
“Eric gives us a little more of a chance to have success on offense,” Christophel said. “We wanted him to play himself back into the position, and I think he did that Saturday night.”
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That is great news, not becuase I am glad Babb has had a slow start to his career but because I am anxious to see what Rekeita can do. I just hope he gets enough reps in practice.
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We want our Beer!
And
We want the "Bud Man" back as Mascot!
We cannot deny our Cajun Roots!
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<blockquote><p align=justify><b>Senior Eric Rekieta named the starter vs. North Texas.</b>
LOUISIANA La. — Eric Rekieta provided a lift when he subbed for freshman quarterback Jerry Babb in the second period of last Saturday's road loss at Minnesota.
He also displayed the calm a senior can give to an outmanned team.
By game’s end, Rekieta had hit 13-of-23 passes for 141 yards and two touchdowns to give UL Lafayette its only points in the 48-14 setback.
That performance has earned the senior the chance to start when the Ragin’ Cajuns return to Sun Belt Conference action this week at North Texas.
“Eric will start the game,” coach Rickey Bustle said on Monday. “He deserves the chance to perform.
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“He’s a senior who’s been biding his time a little bit while we try to bring along a young quarterback, and he stepped out there and showed us a little spark. We needed something to kind of kick-start us.”
“I just tried to go in and execute the offense,” Rekieta said of the Minnesota contest. “I wanted to put some drives together and hopefully get us some points.
“I wasn’t going to do anything fancy, or go for big plays. We wanted to get there little by little instead of going for the big play right away.”
Rekieta’s first chance to revive the team came when the Cajuns were already behind 31-0, and he promptly marched them 65 yards in nine plays for a four-yard TD pass to Travis Cones.
He also notched a late TD on a 2-yard fade route to Fred Stamps.
“I thought we were able to throw really well, considering how physical they were up front,” Rekieta said. “I tried to move the ball around and hit each receiver.”
“Eric is kind of a laid-back kind of guy,” Bustle said. “If you listen to him for too long, you might doze off. But the team responded to him.
“This is no slap at Jerry. We wanted to be fair to Eric and give him the opportunity to play. We were planning to put him in in the second quarter, anyway, and he drove us in for a score.
“In the second half, he was facing Minnesota backups who were probably more in line with what we’ll see this week.”
North Texas is the two-time defending Sun Belt champion, a team built around a physical defense and a conservative, ball-control offense. If the 0-4 Cajuns are going to resurrect their season, they have to do it this week.
“I hope our spirits are still up,” Rekieta said. “That 0-4 record is kind of deceiving, because week by week we’ve gotten better offensively. And, we’ve only got one loss in the conference.
“We’ve still got to try to play that perfect game.”
North Texas lost to Arkansas 31-7 last Saturday, serving up an uncharacteristic three turnovers to ruin any chance of springing an upset. The Mean Green is sure to be re-focused in its SBC opener.
“They’re the back-to-back champions,” said Rekieta, a Texas product. “Their defense is real physical, real basic.
“We know what we need to do. We just have to go out there and get it done.”
Rekieta will get the first chance to make that happen this week.
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The other day coach bustle said he tore the first 4 games off the schedule. This leaves us with an 8 game season.
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I went back and tallied UL's record for seasons in which the team played 8 games or less.<h3>14-3-6</h3>
14 winning seasons
3 seasons with a .500 record
6 losing seasons.
Odds are we will have a winning season.
Green slime, eh? Wait till your QB meets, uh, "Booger" Kennedy!:)
Go 'Belt!
PS Hope to see your great Rajun Cajun fans at Fouts Field! Many of us were duly impressed with them 2 season's ago.
Especially the ladies!!! YEAH BABY!!!! :DQuote:
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Many of us were duly impressed with them 2 season's ago.
.~. GEAUX CAJUNS !!! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !