The Book: 2002-03 Louisiana Football season

[CajunGrad94]

Coach Bustle has said in the past that special teams are very important to him and will use his best players on them. VT has done this for a long time and has had a ton of success.

I think Stamps may be his BEST option.

[Turner]

UL 21
NM20

[Cajun1997]

2002 Sun Belt Conference Team Statistics Through games of Oct 06, 2002


PENALTIES G No Yds Avg/G
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Louisiana........... 5 27 226 45.2
Idaho............... 6 31 278 46.3
Arkansas State...... 7 49 382 54.6
New Mexico State.... 5 32 288 57.6
Middle Tennessee.... 5 29 288 57.6
North Texas......... 6 50 465 77.5
ULM................. 5 53 401 80.2

This improved discipline will lead to more wins.

[Cajun1997]

#074 New Mexico St., 2 home games, 29,596
#083 Middle Tenn, 1 home game, 27,519
#087 Utah State, 3 home games, 25,576
#097 Louisiana, 2 home games, 20,064
#108 Arkansas St., 3 home games, 15,460
#111 Idaho, 4 home games, 14,467
#113 North Texas, 2 home games, 14,164
#117 ULM, 3 home games, 10,370

[RaginRash]

Louisiana 28
NM State 20


Count on it!

[CajunGrad94]

UL 33
NMS 29

[Cajun1997]

This is our longest road trip of the year. Playing so close at Houston, Baton Rouge allowed many Cajun fans to follow. Hopefully we will have big crowds (20,000+) for our 3 game home stand and a good following to Monroe.

[Turbine]

I know I am in the minority, but here is why I would have gone for 3 points instead of trying to get a first down.


• I would have gone for 3 so as to prove we learned something from the last meeting in 1938 when Louisiana turned the ball over to LSU on downs at the 6-yard line.
  
  
• I would have gone for 3 just to get that 8 game (now 9) goose egg score off our back.
  
  
• I would have gone for 3 as the Cajuns would have had the longest scoring drive (67 yards) of the night. (LSU's longest 60)
  
  
• I would have gone for three to show that the ½ billion $ to 1 billion $ funneled into LSU athletics over the 100-year interim between the first and most recent match has only garnered LSU an additional 3point gap in their margin of victory. Although the increased 6 points-it should be noted- is a better performance than the 1902 LSU team.
  
  
• The main reason I would have gone for 3 is because if Louisiana had kicked the Field Goal . . . . I have no doubt they would have ended up scoring at least 10 and perhaps 17 points.

[Turbine]

NM State strikes first
7-0

[Turbine]

Louisiana strikes back
7-7