2006: Louisiana-31 Houston-28

[BirdofParadise]

The SID (Chris Burkhalter) and assistant SID (Former UL head guy Jeff Conrad) are both UL grads.

They were proud to make sure LOUISIANA was on the scoreboard.

[Clutch0364]

I can see him getting it again after a huge game on national television...I hate to jinx him but I think we are looking at the offensive player of the year.

[Clutch0364]

Hah, I remember hearen yer chants.

I agree with that I know I got quiet when we had the ball and loud when they did...but remember this, you cant be quiet and ragin at the same time :-P.

Tuffguy

Yea, you are right...I yell in between offensive plays! I guess it will come with time.

[CrazyCajun]

Disagree, I really don't see us playing Houston in the New Orleans bowl. I say that because Houston will not be in the New Orleans bowl. They will make a different bowl. And who knows... maybe we will too!

i hope we don't go to a different bowl b/c that means we did'nt win the conference. Uab may win the c-usa which could put houston in the new orleans bowl, too early to tell. For the sunbelt to go to two bowls our second place teram would have to have a good showing as well. The winner of the sunbelt goes to new orleans bowl.

[Clutch0364]

i hope we don't go to a different bowl b/c that means we did'nt win the conference. Uab may win the c-usa which could put houston in the new orleans bowl, too early to tell. For the sunbelt to go to two bowls our second place teram would have to have a good showing as well. The winner of the sunbelt goes to new orleans bowl.

I don't see the bowl committee making a rematch game between anybody. I want Central Florida!!!

[CDeb]

The SID (Chris Burkhalter) and assistant SID (Former UL head guy Jeff Conrad) are both UL grads.

They were proud to make sure LOUISIANA was on the scoreboard.

Atta boy, Connie!

[Clutch0364]

Jr and I laughed about the way the PA announcer said "University of Louisiana nuthin" when giving the score (until the Cajuns scored). He put a lot of emphasis on the "nuthin".

Much like the U hou crowd he kinda lost his enthusiasm there in the fourth quarter. No pleas for noise or support, no "nuthin".

I turned to look at their student section during the long game winning drive and they were in shock like how did this happen and I loved it.

Funny thing is all week I had talked trash to a friend of mine that goes to UH and I said we would win 35-28 but it would be a great game. He said jokingly that it would be 62-3(boy was he wrong lol) But to make a long story short he sent me a text message after the first quarter like oh this is really turning into a good game so after the game I called him and he didn't know we had won because he left early lol He was shocked and it was a great way to end the night for me

[bigguill]

As I was walking to my car after the game, I heard one student say, "Man, we were suppose to beat them by three touchdowns!" I wanted to laugh in his face, but decided otherwise. Seeing all the red in the stadium was great, I felt like I was in Cajun Field!

[Pirogue]

I can see him getting it again after a huge game on national television...I hate to jinx him but I think we are looking at the offensive player of the year.

He was the preseason OPY

[Ewhite]

As I was walking to my car after the game, I heard one student say, "Man, we were suppose to beat them by three touchdowns!" I wanted to laugh in his face, but decided otherwise. Seeing all the red in the stadium was great, I felt like I was in Cajun Field!

I also was walking back to my car after the game and a guy said "Oh La La" well on cue because we had talked about it earlier actually listened to it on the way to the game that if anybody said Oh LaLA we would answer "Hey, Hey, Hey, Lazier Bon Temp Roulet, we are the Ragin Cajuns." The guys mouthed just dropped.

For those of you who don't know Oh La La is a Wayne Toups song from 91.

I choose to embrace the Oh La La instead of being insulted by it. Alas the eye of the Tiger.

More repeats of Saturday night and we won't have to worry about forcing them to call us Louisiana, RESPECT it's not given it's earned on 120 yards.

[Ewhite]

Is there an award for best post of the season? I nominate TuffGuy84 and his recap of the Houstin win because while reading it I felt like I was there.

I agree tuffguy was right on the money. I was in 218 and had a blast with our great fans.....I agree with the noise issue but to be truthful it was nice that they were loud at any point.

[Baronvonaggie]

The difference between those games is this...

THe aTm game was a small school with a great QB beating a big time program on a downward slope....

The UH game was an up and coming school beating a team that is considered by many to be a mid-major on the rise....

To me the UH win is bigger because we didnt catch a giant napping... we beat another small program, very similar to ours, except that they are a few years ahead in the building process (though, admittedly, the big difference is that they have been a nationally successful program before, while UL has not)...

We could use another 'downward slope' like that. We won the Big 12 2 years later in 1998.
Congrats on the win, ULaLa has a lot of pride and no quit in them. I knew ULaLa was better than the score indicated in our game with them, our strength just happens to be against the run.

UH was making a lot of noise in the Houson media about how they could beat Big 12 teams and they are a better team than us. You guys coming in and showing your the better team than UH will quiet the Coogs up.

I dont know if it makes you guys happy but you just made recruiting Houston a whole lot easier for us.

Anyway congrats on the win you guys are scrappy, have quality fans, and a quality program. Good luck the rest of the way.