2006: UL-6 FAU-0

[ATXCajun]

You are correct. There were actually :07 sec. to go, not 5

Thanks. That makes a lot more sense. This conspiracy thread is officially dead, unless someone wants blame something on Jay.

[Ewhite]

Hearing it makes me want to read threads about putting the fleur back on the helmet....not.

I know where I am buying my yearly dozen roses for my wife in November.

[RaginCajun77]

Spedale's? Really...? Props to them.

Z.

Yes it's Spedale's. I'm curious to know how much that cost them, as they are going to get typically at least 10 spots in a game. (It's the Advertising major in me.)

BOP, how much does a 60 second radio spot go for on your show?

[CDeb]

Thanks. That makes a lot more sense. This conspiracy thread is officially dead, unless someone wants blame something on Jay.

There's ALWAYS something.....

[RaginFan2]

I'm 59-105 in my broadcasting career with the Cajuns.

Sooooo! It IS your fault after all!! I knew it. Zeebart was trying to mislead me when he whispered "Baldwin" (or was that "Rosebud"?).

[Clutch0364]

I don't care if it had been ten days or if FAU beat us last year. After houston the Cajuns were primed for a let down game, and survived.

Me and a friend were talking and he is a lsu fan but me and him have some pretty good talks about UL and LSU. This was before the FAU game that I thought we could go 10-2. He said that we could but he thought 9-3 was more realistic because of a let down game. And after the FAU game I told him we survived our let down game and he agreed. With that said I agree with what you just said.

[NewsCopy]

It’s a good thing for the UL football team that they survived their first Sun Belt Conference test of the season Wednesday night. Otherwise, things would have been even more miserable than they wound up being. The Cajuns held on in the closing seconds for a 6-0 victory over Florida Atlantic in Fort Lauderdale, and that’s the last good thing that happened to the team between the final gun and its arrival back in Lafayette — an arrival that happened after 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The squad was scheduled to arrive back at Lafayette Regional Airport at approximately 2 a.m. following the game on their charter flight. But that looked shaky even before takeoff from Fort Lauderdale because of weather in the Acadiana area. The flight circled Lafayette for a while, but eventually had to be diverted to Houston’s Hobby Airport were the flight touched down at 3 a.m. Not good, but better than the other option, which was a divert to Memphis. Waiting for the weather to clear and getting back on the plane wasn’t an option, partly because of weather and partly because of the plane’s crew already being at its maximum flying hours. The options then became a hotel stay in Houston and busing to Lafayette Thursday morning, or busing without the hotel stay. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[AstroCajun]

I know where I am buying my yearly dozen roses for my wife in November.

I think you just explained why they paid the money for the first down call.

[BirdofParadise]

Yes it's Spedale's. I'm curious to know how much that cost them, as they are going to get typically at least 10 spots in a game. (It's the Advertising major in me.)

BOP, how much does a 60 second radio spot go for on your show?

I don't know. I don't sell advertising.

Spedales bought the first downs and they also get three commercials in each football game plus a commercial in the coach's show.

On an average, they'll probably get closer to 15 first down mentions per game.

My understanding is they gave em a really good deal. But I don't know what it was.

We're just glad to have em on board. If you do business with them, make sure you tell them WHY.

[CajunShocker]

All I said was that I thought the play calling was bad and that I didn't see the same energy and emotion as in previous games.

As for this being the same offense as the Houston game, I agree that it was the same plays. The difference is that those plays were working against Houston, so there was no reason to do anything different. They were not working against FAU, so why did we keep running them. I have confidence in our coaching staff and I think that the system is good, but you have to be able to adjust if the need arises, which it did.

I am not satisfied with "squeaking out" a W against one of the worst teams in D1-A Football. If FAU ends up 6-1 in the Sunbelt, I'll eat a little crow, but I don't think I'll have to worry. But, like I said, I'm over it. If we win the Sunbelt and go to the NO Bowl, I probably be like, "FAU who, oh yeah, we beat them."