The Book: 2003 Football

[CajunCharlie]

Originally posted by big hurt
Once again, as I mentioned in my previous posts, the O-Line is terrible. UL has not scored an offensive TD in 2 games. This game was a blow out. The University of LA belongs with McNeese in IIA football. This is a travisty. I think I will begin writing about those tigers in Baton Rouge. They were ready this weekend, not the peppers.

Yea, do that,please, so that we do not have to endure your fair weather fan observations.

[Cajun1997]

Originally posted by cajun tom
I hope the fans do not stop coming after only one loss.

I am sure there will be some dropoff but I have seen people posting (on Delphi and here) concerned about us meeting the attendence requirement now, WTF :confused: All this negative BS is ____ing me off. We all knew this was a young team with a lot of new players before the season started and now all of a sudden after ONE (I repeat ONE) bad game the sky is falling, WTF :confused: We had one hell of a week and a great turnout for this game. For people who have never seen what a "real" college game day atmosphere is this (yesterday's tailgating) was just a small taste of the fun that can be had, the money the community can make, etc...The team laid an egg and did not have a good showing, so now people will just quit coming. I worked for Ole Miss for three years, win or lose they had people in "the Grove" tailgating like crazy EVERY game. Now either these people are diehard Rebel fans or they just like to party. I guess my point is that, yes I am ____ed off that we not only lost (to a team that is our oldest rival) and lost badly but that we have so many what I thought were true Cajun fans already jumping ship. Out of that 24,211 do you think at least 13,158 will show up for the next 5 home games? That is exactly how many we have to average to meet the 15,000 (which by the way does not count this year anyway). Make that 13,157 because my _____ will be at every home game. The team and university need our continued support if they are going to get we we all want them to be.

[Cajun1997]

Time to put the Tech game behind us, up next the University of Houston

Cougar's Den

[Turbine]

My prediction was 23,456 so

 



24,211

23,456

=  755

[Cajun1997]

                   LA Tech    Louisiana

TOTAL FIRST DOWNS     26          14 

Passing               10           8 

Rushing                9           6 

Penalty                7           0 

3rd-Down Efficiency    2-12       5-13 

4th-Down Efficiency    0-0        0-1 

  

TOTAL NET YARDS       470         292 

Total plays            75          64 

Average gain          6.3         4.6 

  

NET YARDS RUSHING     183          95 

Rushes                 39          23 

Average per rush      4.7         4.1 

  

NET YARDS PASSING     287         197 

Completion-attempted  21-35     24-39 

Yards per pass        8.0         4.8 

Sacked-yards lost     1-11        2-7 

Had intercepted        1           1 

  

PUNTS-AVERAGE       2-45.0      6-37.5 

  

RETURN YARDAGE        65           3 

Punts-yards          5-65         1-3 

Kickoffs-yards       1-19         2-44 

Interceptions-yards   1-0         1-0 

  

PENALTIES-YARDS     16-114        9-104 

FUMBLES-LOST         3-1          2-2 

TIME OF POSSESSION   35:11        24:49 

[Turbine]

Here is another

Coog Fans

[RaginFan2]

This kind of ____ really ____es me off. We have a bad game and all of the nay-sayers start spouting how we don't belong in 1A. I bet no one says the same thing about Arizona not belonging after they got plastered 59-13 by LSUA&M-BR last night.

McCown is an outstanding passer and Tech has a talented offense. I was expecting that. What surprised me was their defense. Of course, I haven't been overly impressed yet by our offense so far in the Bustle era. I do think they play with some heart (contrary to one observer's comments). I thought our offensive line would open a few more holes than I saw last night. I was most disappointed in so many poor tackling attempts, too much arm tackling. I also thought a few of the offensive play calling series were questionable. But isn't that always the case when you get beat as badly as we did last night. I do agree that the refs made numerous bad calls (and no-calls ... how do you NOT call holding when the O-lineman all but tackles the D-lineman???). Had they made the correct calls (IMHO) on those occasions, it would have probably made for a closer, more interesting game, but Tech would have still won. They just have a better team than us at this time. Just give it another year or 2 and then let's compare again.

Bustle has his work cut out for him, but I think he is more than capable of succeeding and has, in fact, already made noticeable progress. I seem to recall in the preseason that most knowledgeable folks were expecting us to win 4-5 games this year, so let's not get too panicky this early. Just remember the first half of the season has the toughest games. Most of wins will likely come during the second half of the season.

Geaux Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns !!!!!!

[RaginFan2]

I totally agree with you, SwampFox! Let's not throw in the towel. Just keep supporting OUR team. Win or lose, they ARE our team, representing OUR university. I agree that I expect a drop-off in attendance, but I don't expect it to be a drastic drop-off. Also, we've got to do something to get all of those tailgaters to come into the game. I understand that if all the tailgaters had come inside we would probably been looking at attendance of around 30,000. We need to figure out a way to get the rest of them into the stadium. Obviously the primary way would be to start winning consistently.

[Cajun1997]

Originally posted by RaginFan2
This kind of ____ really ____es me off. We have a bad game and all of the nay-sayers start spouting how we don't belong in 1A. I bet no one says the same thing about Arizona not belonging after they got plastered 59-13 by LSUA&M-BR last night.

McCown is an outstanding passer and Tech has a talented offense. I was expecting that. What surprised me was their defense. Of course, I haven't been overly impressed yet by our offense so far in the Bustle era. I do think they play with some heart (contrary to one observer's comments). I thought our offensive line would open a few more holes than I saw last night. I was most disappointed in so many poor tackling attempts, too much arm tackling. I also thought a few of the offensive play calling series were questionable. But isn't that always the case when you get beat as badly as we did last night. I do agree that the refs made numerous bad calls (and no-calls ... how do you NOT call holding when the O-lineman all but tackles the D-lineman???). Had they made the correct calls (IMHO) on those occasions, it would have probably made for a closer, more interesting game, but Tech would have still won. They just have a better team than us at this time. Just give it another year or 2 and then let's compare again.

Bustle has his work cut out for him, but I think he is more than capable of succeeding and has, in fact, already made noticeable progress. I seem to recall in the preseason that most knowledgeable folks were expecting us to win 4-5 games this year, so let's not get too panicky this early. Just remember the first half of the season has the toughest games. Most of wins will likely come during the second half of the season.

Geaux Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns !!!!!!

Good post RF2, here is some more stats FYI. After 2 games this year we have rushed for a total of 233 yards. Last year after 3 games we only had 124 yards. This year after 2 games we have 331 yards passing and 2 interceptions 0 TD's. Last year after 2 games we had 292 yards passing and 8 interceptions. Last year after 2 games the offense had scored 10 points this year after 2 games they have scored 3. Is there improvement? YES. Is it coming as fast as we fans (or the team) would like? NO. But we will get better.

GEAUX CAJUNS!!!!!!!

[CajunNation]

Yeah, but

Look, we won't win ANY games if we can't run the ball

At least with Van Cleave and Coleman SOMEONE was going
to score

We can't get Stamps the ball "in space" where he can
make a play

This offense MUST have a dominating line and top notch
running backs to work properly. Years away from that.

This game hurt us in recruiting

Don't mean to whine. Just wanted to let off some steam

[TheScout307]

We need to figure out a way to start scoring some points. This is getting out of hand , We cant win like that , Hell the offense didnt even need to show up ... UL Defense Vs. La Tech OFfense for 60 min is what it should ahve been ... I was at the game last night very unpleased in how it went, I really like our guys effort. I think there were some BS calls as well but thats just how it sometime. We need to start making the big plays . Babb needs to hit Fred in the honey hole for a TD when he gets a chance instead of over throwing him wide open like he did last night. We cant miss those oppurtunites and still win . I still belive but we need to figure out something quick b/c the D cant do it all...

Go Cajuns.... Be the reason

[RaginRash]

Originally posted by big hurt
THE MORAL OF THE STORY.

BUSTLE IS A GOOD COACH WHO CAN'T WIN BECAUSE THE PLAYERS DON'T KNOW HOW. GET SOME TALENT OVER THERE.

I can see why you are a FORMER coach! LOL!