what would 11-2 do for recruiting?

[CDeb]

Keep in mind that Bustle is no spring chicken. While it won't prevent a BCS school from hiring him, it DOES seem that the BCS schools are hot for the up-and-comers.

[MiamiCajun32]

Keep in mind that Bustle is no spring chicken. While it won't prevent a BCS school from hiring him, it DOES seem that the BCS schools are hot for the up-and-comers.

great point. You are right. Seems like the BCS programs like to only hire the 40 year old clean cut up and comer guys who like like they are 30.

I am an alum of University of Florida and I am still amazed that UF hired Urban Meyer over a Steve Spurrier return, no matter how successful Urban has been, as it does not and will not compare to Spurrier's success.

Seems like there are very few of the 60+ BCS head coaches and even fewer that are hired to by a BCS school at 60+.

[MiamiCajun32]

Bustle actually has an ideal situation down here... he is in the most fertile recruiting grounds in the country... even if we get big12 and sec cast-offs down here, they are still better than the top guys in many parts of the country...


Should Bustle leave, will this be our new head coach (to keep the spread offense going)?

Rob Christophel

Cajuns unfortunately don't yet get the SEC and Big 12 cast offs consistently. Those kids go to Conference USA usually before even a greatly positioned sunbelt program. If Cajuns were in better conference then those second tier recruits would consistently come to Cajuns over most other second tier programs. Unfortunately the sunbelt is a third tier conference, maybe in the third tier all by itself, although 2/3 of the WAC belongs there too.

It would take consistently winning the Sunbelt to attract consistently recruits away from programs like Southern Miss. Even then, it would be a challenge. Cajuns will always get a few players that could go to BCS school and a number of others that had Conf USA options, but across the board half or more of the Cajuns recruits may be Conf USA cast offs, not just Big 12 and SEC.

Great recruiting and great coaching can make up for that problem, but it is a challenge and the Cajuns are not necessarily in position to catch consistently the Big 12 and SEC cast offs, just because of a great geographic location.

Evan

[Just1More]

I agree that Bustle is not at risk for BCS school interest any time soon, if at all. More $ to a WAC/CUSA/etc would be the threat. UL football has to accomplish dominance in the Sunbelt before anything credible will surface. The south is a good place to coach football and UL is far from peaking. Bustle may be wise enough about the area to know what he could do here. If we keep up the winning and get the right private funding organization in place, we can start having lots of meaningful conversations about interesting possibilities.

I think the single entity holding this program in check, other than Ws, is the private funding component. We have limits in this state that arguing is not going to resolve. I do not discount the power of winning records, but we need an infusion of funds.

PS I have heard that we "have private funding" and so on and so forth. I am talking about a new group modeled after LSU's TAF.

[UL Ragin Cajun]

PS I have heard that we "have private funding" and so on and so forth. I am talking about a new group modeled after LSU's TAF.

We do?????

[VObserver]

We do?????

Yes, we do. It is called the UL Foundation. Any moneys donated for athletics to the UL Foundation will be spent on or invested on behalf of athletics. The problem we have with 'private' funding is that:
1) Not enough people know about the Foundation. and
2) Many of those that do know about it don't trust Doc A to honor their requests on how their money is spent.

[UL Ragin Cajun]

Yes, we do. It is called the UL Foundation. Any moneys donated for athletics to the UL Foundation will be spent on or invested on behalf of athletics. The problem we have with 'private' funding is that:
1) Not enough people know about the Foundation. and
2) Many of those that do know about it don't trust Doc A to honor their requests on how their money is spent.

I am talking about a new group modeled after LSU's TAF.

I know about the foundation but when you said modeled after TAF I though you meant an outside organization.

[VObserver]

I know about the foundation but when you said modeled after TAF I though you meant an outside organization.

I didn't say 'modeled after TAF'. Someone else said that. I was just answering the question about whether we had 'private funding'.

Personally, I would much prefer an Athletic Foundation totally separate from the UL Foundation, and one which is much more aggressive in pursuing funds.