Fenroy, UL focus on Eastern Michigan

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Due to some tighter schedules of my party, We had to pretty much leave most of the activities in New Orleans and only stay in town for the game. Cajun Field: The seating arrangement is kind of like Eastern's except for the seats concentrated on the homeside and have more stable bleachers. The sound system is perfect and has a solid PA announcer to boot. At EMU, the system is subway-grade and requires a great comunicator in order to make it work. The concessions are considerably faster than what we're used to at EMU. If I'm right, they both employ volunteers so it can be done. The band has excellent range! Being from the midwest, I don't hear that very often. Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio, and Ohio State are excellent, then there's a big dropoff. In the south, I can't tell the difference between awesome and average. The Game: I'll be quick with EMU. This is our consistent game. These five losses aren't much different. The only thing I'm outraged about is that we have a kicker that drilled a 50-yarder into a powerful Buffalo wind, yet we don't use him in the first quarter with the wind at his back???? We also did the same stupid thing last year in Cincinnati. As for the Cajuns, I can see why they might win the Sun Belt. Babb, Cherry, and Fenroy make plays and the blocking looks good. Fenroy dragged Holtzclaw on more than one occassion and that doesn't happen too often to #44. The only other little guy who could do that would be Heisman candidate Garrett Wolfe. Defensively, I don't know what to say because EMU's offensive situation makes it hard to gauge what the Cajuns really have. I've heard good things about Adams but that's all I know. The special teams made sure they didn't screw up like last year. Don't worry about the blocked XP because EMU got a rare jump on it. EMU probably won't block another kick for the rest of the year. I don't expect the Cajuns to have another one blocked for the rest of the year. Overall: It's a great place to catch a game. If I lived in LA, I'd have to be a UL fan. I hope to find a good excuse to visit again, and for a longer stretch of time.

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LOUISIANA La.— If the Eastern Michigan offense looked familiar to the University of Louisiana at Lafayette defense Saturday at Cajun Field, that’s understandable. EMU’s formations were exact reproductions of what the Cajuns saw all week in practice. It also didn’t hurt that the Eagles offense was the same one the Cajun defenders saw all spring and in preseason practices. “We studied these guys real hard all week,” UL-Lafayette offensive coordinator Brent Pry said. “Eastern Michigan has the type of offense that can give you some real problems, but the coaches watched a lot of tape and the players came out and executed what we taught them.” It was no accident that UL-Lafayette’s defense anticipated a lot of what the Eagles were running offensively, in the Cajuns’ 33-14 victory. UL-Lafayette and EMU run similar spread offenses that use zone blocking. That helped UL-Lafayette, Pry said. “Our defensive guys did a lot of work against our offense all week, so when they came out here (on Saturday), they already were used to seeing what the formations were,” Pry said. EMU was limited to 246 total yards, an average of 4.2 yards a play. What was most important, Pry said, was the Cajuns were able to contain EMU freshman quarterback Andy Schmitt, the Eagles’ leading rusher. Schmitt ran 15 times for 62 yards, but his longest gain was a fourth quarter 17-yard run. The rest of the story By BOB ARDOIN Special to The Advocate

[CajunCherokee]

Great write-up!

[BrockMeaux]

I wonder if the coaches have considered what would happen if Mike gets hurt one time when he's in there blocking on a punt... then in the next series Babb does down. Doesn't look real smart to me... playing our back-up quarterback as though he's a utility player... but then that's just me.

At the same time, though, he's too good of an athlete and player to have sitting on the sidelines. If he's willing to play other positions to get on the field, then I say let him, because otherwise he'd just be waiting for Jerry Babb to get hurt. Simply put, we're a better team when he's on the field.

[El Sidonio]

Somebody needs to show this article to all the "finger-alley" pansies at NCAT. It's amazing how a D-IA school that's experienced real gameday environments knows what's up.

I was pleased by the results of the game (obviously) and even more pleased that the EMU fans enjoyed themselves.

Peace and God Bless

[Clutch0364]

Somebody needs to show this article to all the "finger-alley" pansies at NCAT. It's amazing how a D-IA school that's experienced real gameday environments knows what's up.

I was pleased by the results of the game (obviously) and even more pleased that the EMU fans enjoyed themselves.

Peace and God Bless

The big wide receiver Eric ? can't spell the last name, when he dropped the pass on the first drive the students section really got on him...every time he would head for the side line the Eric chant would start lol

[TheRaginCajun06]

The big wide receiver Eric ? can't spell the last name, when he dropped the pass on the first drive the students section really got on him...every time he would head for the side line the Eric chant would start lol

Hahaha.. Eric sure got an earfull from us.

I talked to one of the coaches before the game and he told me he expects us to be hard on them. He was a very cool guy and even after the game I said... what happened out there coach? He just smiled and nodded. He was from the south, so he knew what's up.

The EMU players didn't know how to handle the RED ZONE!

[rhineaux]

Jason played a fantastic game. Almost as good a game as Jerome Chery, Trent Fenroy, Mark Adams, and Bobby Burkhalter

[VObserver]

90% of those people would not have to buy a ticket anyway b/c they are students. You can't make people go to a football game! If we put a good team on the field and bring in teams that people have heard of people will go to the game. We should just be happy that more and more people are going out to the field eventually all those students will go to the game. maybe not now but we are laying the ground wotk for later. When these students get older and have kids they will still come to the field but will start going to the games.

True, you can't make them go into the game, but you CAN make them leave the parking lot. Very simple; from 10 minutes after the scheduled start time until game's end, any person in the parking lot must leave [for security reasons]. Which direction they walk is up to them.

This would be easy to do, and security is a valid reason for asking people to leave the parking lot. [After all, we only have a limited number of security personnel, and we need them in the stadium during games.]

The ONLY reason LSU has 10,000 people outside the stadium is because they can't get tickets.

[UL Ragin Cajun]

True, you can't make them go into the game, but you CAN make them leave the parking lot. Very simple; from 10 minutes after the scheduled start time until game's end, any person in the parking lot must leave [for security reasons]. Which direction they walk is up to them.

This would be easy to do, and security is a valid reason for asking people to leave the parking lot. [After all, we only have a limited number of security personnel, and we need them in the stadium during games.]

The ONLY reason LSU has 10,000 people outside the stadium is because they can't get tickets.

WOW.....I hope that never happens!!! The last thing we can afford to do is run off potential fans.