The Book: 2002-03 Louisiana Football season

[VegasRaider]

Well, we're in the middle of a reversal of fortune. Our defense is looking really good, but our offense has been anemic.

The only teams that have been able to score a decent number of points on us were Alabama (22 in first quarter, and 7 near the end as a gift from our offense) and Kentucky.

Even the mighty UT-Knoxville was only able to score 17 points on our defense (the rest were scored by UTK's defense and special teams).

I sure hope that last night's win over the Vanderbilt Commode Doors instilled some confidence in the offense.

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Box Score

UAB vs Louisiana (Sep 21, 2002 at Lafayette, La.)



Score by Quarter   1  2  3  4   Score

Louisiana             0  10 17  7     34  Record: (1-3)

UAB                   0   0  0  0      0  Record: (1-3)

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Stadium: The Swamp
Attendance: 19,616
Kickoff time: 6:00PM
End of Game: 9:40PM
Total elapsed time: 3:07 (:33 minute rain delay)

Officials:
Referee: Dave Witvoet; Umpire: Tony Payne Linesman: Daniel Capron
Line judge: Tom Ransom; Back judge: Dino Paganelli
Field judge: Jim Filson
Side judge: Terry Anderson; Scorer: Guy Rials

Temperature: 88
Wind: NNW 5-7
Weather: Drenching

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Scoring Summary:
2nd 02:50 UL
Comiskey, Sean 37 yd field goal, 10-52 4:14,

UAB 0 - UL 3

00:37 UL
Stamps, Fred 62 yd pass from Van Cleave, Jon (Comiskey, Sean kick), 3-80 1:16,

UAB 0 - UL 10

3rd 07:57 UL
Coleman, Jerome 1 yd run (Comiskey, Sean kick), 10-51 4:12,

UAB 0 - UL 17

00:46 UL
Comiskey, Sean 45 yd field goal, 9-38 4:55, UAB 0 - UL 20

00:23 UL
Smith, Jamal 43 yd interception return (Comiskey, Sean kick), ,

UAB 0 - UL 27

4th 08:51 UL
Temple, Elliot 1 yd run (Comiskey, Sean kick), 9-39 4:33, UAB 0 - UL 34

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                                    UAB      UL 

FIRST DOWNS...................        8       18

RUSHES-YARDS (NET)............   28-122   53-123

PASSING YDS (NET).............       94      242

Passes Att-Comp-Int...........   20-6-2  23-16-0

TOTAL OFFENSE PLAYS-YARDS.....   48-216   76-365

Fumble Returns-Yards..........      0-0      0-0

Punt Returns-Yards............      3-8     5-39

Kickoff Returns-Yards.........    4-104     1-21

Interception Returns-Yards....      0-0     2-45

Punts (Number-Avg)............   9-40.9   7-39.3

Fumbles-Lost..................      6-2      1-0

Penalties-Yards...............     8-55     5-34

Possession Time...............    20:27    39:33

Sacks By: Number-Yards........     3-14     3-11

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RUSHING:
LOUISIANA
Coleman, Jerome 30-96
Van Cleave, Jon 7-14
Johnson, Cheste 4-4
Williams, Wenda 8-4
Temple, Elliot 2-3
Lindon, Dwight 1-2
Stein, Wayne 1-0

UAB
GIBSON, Kendal 11-63
COX, Thomas 9-30
BURKS, Dan 2-24
DUDLEY, Theron 4-9
HACKNEY, Darrel 2-minus 4.

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PASSING:
Louisiana
Van Cleave, Jon 16-23-0-242

UAB
Hackney, Darrel 4-11-1-35
Cox, Thomas 2-9-1-59

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RECEIVING:
Louisiana
Stamps, Fred 5-111
Joerg, Josh 3-54
Bourque, Blake 3-40
Coleman, Jerome 2-13
Temple, Elliot 1-11
Bartel, Eric 1-11
Stein, Wayne 1-2

UAB
Duncan, Carl 1-43
Dudley, Theron 1-18
White, Roddy 1-16
Thomas, Trav. 1-7
Cleveland, C. 1-6
Gibson, Kendal 1-4

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INTERCEPTIONS:
Louisiana
Reed, JC 1-2
Smith, Jamal 1-43

UAB-None

FUMBLES:
Louisiana
Van Cleave, Jon 1-0

UAB
Burks, Dan 3-1
Cox, Thomas 2-1
Hackney, Darrel 1-0

Started game for Louisiana

POS ## OFFENSE
LT 74 Raush, Jonathan
LG 61 Batiste, D'Anth
C 69 Harvey, Ronnie
RG 62 Hodges, Greg
RT 77 Brooks, Demetri
FB 33 Bourque, Blake
QB 3 Van Cleave, Jon
TE 87 Joerg, Josh
WR 22 Bartel, Eric
RB 32 Coleman, Jerome
WR 2 Stamps, Fred

POS ## DEFENSE
LE 49 Rudick, G.W.
LT 95 Smith, Charley
RT 94 Sampson Walter
RE 47 Floyd,Antonio
LB 30 Villia, Peter
LB 51 Berry, Marrious
LB 8 Calais, Ricky
LB 26 Smith, Jamal
CB 5 Tillman, Charle
FS 36 Deamer, Brian
CB 27 Taylor, Ivan

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Advertisers-Dan McDonald
LAFAYETTE - Rob Christophel's been in the collegiate football coaching profession for 19 years.

Rick Christophel has been coaching collegiately for 27 seasons.

The two brothers had never coached against each other, and after Saturday they still haven't - but only due to a technicality.

Rob, the offensive coordinator for Louisiana, had been planning to face off with Rick ever since he joined the Ragin' Cajun staff in December and saw the UAB game on the schedule.

Rick had been on the Blazer staff since 1995, the last two as defensive coordinator, meaning that the two were going to match wits.

That was before former athletic director Herman Frazier left the staff during the summer, head football coach Watson Brown took over a dual role as head coach-AD, and Rick bowed out of active coaching to take the post of senior associate athletic director.

"It was actually a lot of relief," Rob said prior to Saturday's game of not calling plays against his brother's defense. "It would have been mentally tough."

Instead of coaching, Rick now spends his days with administrative duties, running the day-to-day operation of the UAB program.

"I've been in more meetings in three months than I had in 27 years of coaching," said Rick, who was in the UAB coaching box during the game. "I go from one meeting to the next. It still feels a little weird. People always ask me what's going on at practice, and I never go ... I don't have time."

The relationship between the brothers goes back to the late 70's, when Rick was an assistant coach at Austin Peay and Rob was the quarterback.

"I had to pull him out a couple of times," Rick laughed. "He didn't know the difference in cover 2 and cover 3."

"I told him it was just bad coaching," Rob responded.

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[LSU Bob]

Where is the one for LSU? LOL