2006 Football Previews

[NewsCopy]

There's mostly good news for UL's football team in Athlon Sports¹ annual college football magazine, one of the first to hit the summer newsstands. The magazine picks the Ragin' Cajuns to win the Sun Belt, and also has the Cajuns finishing 8-3 with one "swing" game. The losses are to LSU, which Athlon ranks 11th, Texas A&M (33rd) and Houston (64th), and the swing game is against Arkansas State. The Cajuns themselves are 99th of the 119 Division I-A teams, but that¹s still good enough to lead the Sun Belt Conference. The next-highest Sun Belt team is ASU at No. 105, and the rest of the league are among the bottom dozen in the national rankings. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[Pirogue]

The photo in the Athlon magazine of Jerry Babb may be one of the greatest photographs of all time...

I laughed...
I cried...
I went through all the emotions.

[Turbine]

The photo in the Athlon magazine of Jerry Babb may be one of the greatest photographs of all time...

I laughed...
I cried...
I went through all the emotions.

A proud papa whose child was put up for adoption without additional consent. . . .

OK they would have had to pay for the download and you made a couple of pennies. What I want to know is this, how much would a freelance photographer make in a direct sale to a magazine of this sort?

[JonathanSCS]

SouthernCollegeSports.com just released it's 2006 preview of the Sun Belt....thought you guys might like to check 'er out. It's linked below!

http://SouthernCollegeSports.com

[NewsCopy]

With the preseason conference player of the year in 2005 in Steven Jyles, college football magazines all ranked Louisiana-Monroe in the top half of the Sun Belt going into last season. Still, none picked the eventual Sun Belt co-champions to bring home the title. This year, the Warhawks will once again have to defy the preseason prognosticators in they desire a conference title. By and large, the preseason magazines are predicting a rebuilding year for ULM, ranking the Warhawks anywhere from fifth to last place in the Sun Belt. Only collegefootballnews.com picked ULM to finish in the top half of the conference, ranking it No. 4 overall. Every magazine seems to have the same reservations about ULM. Who will replace Jyles at quarterback and how will the Warhawks rebuild a front seven that lost five starters and two key backups? The Sporting News, which ranked ULM seventh in the conference, mentioned ULM twice in its preseason notes and neither was good. Jyles was named as the biggest shoes to fill in the conference, while ULM was tabbed as the team "declining." "The program lost it's best player — quarterback Steven Jyles," Sporting News said, "along with the top receiver, the defensive line, and the second- and third-leading tacklers from last season. The rest of the story By Michael Kern mkern@thenewsstar.com

[ulforlife]

the truth hurts...

[Turbine]

SouthernCollegeSports.com just released it's 2006 preview of the Sun Belt....thought you guys might like to check 'er out. It's linked below!

http://SouthernCollegeSports.com

Very interesting, thanks.

[locoguano]

Just for the record.. I emailed Pete Fiutak at CFN.com and got him to correct the schedule on the UL preview...

http://www.collegefootballnews.com/s...te_preview.htm

[ISUCajunfan]

Collegefootballnews has their Sun Belt preview posted. They have the Cajun's offense as the best in the conference with the Cajun's having the #1 QB, RB and OL rankings for the conference. Should be a banner year for the Cajuns and I look forward to seeing them dominate in New Orleans!



http://www.collegefootballnews.com/

[ISUCajunfan]

I see where the New Orleans Bowl is on the 22nd, and if I'm not mistaken the Independence Bowl is the 27th. So if my Cajuns make the N.O. Bowl, and my Cyclones make the Independence bowl, (They've already played there 2 times in the last 5 years) old ISUCajunfan just may have to take a week and a half vacation and hit both. Now that would be one heck of a week!!

[El Sidonio]

mais yeah sha. You gonna have to come down here and watch some spicy football action and eat some spicy cajun food. Eatin boudin and watchin both the Cyclones and Cajuns kick some ___, mais das passin a good time!

God Bless

GEAUX UL RAGIN CAJUNS!!!!!!
GEAUX ISU CYCLONES!!!!!!

[NewsCopy]

Collegefootballnews came out with their Sun Belt preview, and they're sticking to their prediction that the Cajuns will win the league. [/url]

College Football News Update

Offense - Expect more of the same from the nation's seventh best rushing team with running, running and more running. The passing attack will produce a bit more if QB Jerry Babb doesn't miss time like last year, but there won't be too much fun 'n' gun with Tyrell Fenroy leading a loaded backfield that gets to run behind Brandon Cox and one of the Sun Belt's best lines. The passing game is a question mark with the top two receivers gone from an attack that cranked out a mere three touchdown passes. Depth on the offensive line will be a concern early on. The rest of the story