2006 Football Previews

[ulforlife]

barring any unforeseen circumstances, we ought to "truck" these dudes at Cajun Field this year.

No reason for RB to call off the dogs this year. NO REASON!

Z.

should have been 70 at least... this year we'll pile it on

[NewsCopy]

Although likely unintentional, the administration at Louisiana-Monroe sent a message when it chose center court of Fant-Ewing Coliseum as the first place to display its new Warhawks logo on campus. As ULM officially moves into the Sun Belt Conference today, the basketball programs will be the centerpieces of the school's transition. That new logo at center court is a symbol of the new era of ULM athletics. "There's no question our job now as an athletic department and a university is to help build a new tradition with this new mascot," men's basketball coach Orlando Early said at the logo unveiling on Monday. "We must make a commitment to excellence." A strong challenge awaits. ULM athletics director Bobby Staub has stated a number of times that the Sun Belt raises the bar as far as the level of competition for ULM athletics both on and off the playing field. The rest of the story By Michael Kern mkern@thenewsstar.com

[Zeebart21]

woo hoo....

[ulforlife]

dam, its time to get out of the sunbelt

[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...