Scelfo Fired at Tulane, ire at UL, hired at Tech

[shof]

It was only money. More per year, and multiple years. How can you blame the guy?

Got to wonder if we'll ever know the whole story. Did we have an "official" offer on the table? Was there any delay due to the football conference in San Antonio last week? Was Bustle still considering other OC candidates? Did we even know LaTech was considering/offering him? Would that have mattered anyway? That is, could we have upped the offer to get him in here? So who are we looking at now? I have to admin, it was a good sign to have 2 quality/proven coordinators coming in to Lafayette!

[BurninCayenne]

All I know is if these guys are worth their salt and UL insists on pinching pennies by waiting for everyone’s respective contracts to run out we may end up losing these guys.

Jinx

[Just1More]

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, REREAD GURU's POST. READ AND COMPREHEND. WE HAVE A PROBLEM. IT'S TIME FOR DR. A AND HIS CRONIES TO GO! FOOTBALL DRIVES THE BUS. IT MAY NOT BE RIGHT, BUT IT IS A REALITY. COACH BUSTLE IS NOT BEING ALLOWED TO BE SUCCESFUL. MAKE YOUR VOICES HEARD NOW, CAUSE ONCE BUSTLE IS GONE.....who will we get. CHANGES NEED TO BE MADE IMMEDIATELY.

Z.

What do we do Z? Obviously, every other state school in the nation that prospers in sports, directly or indirectly, prospers in all other university endeavors... including education. Investment in athletics IS investing in education. Is this his beef? I am getting sick of his lack of vision.

Do I think the enormous amount of funds that get thrown into college sports is a highly redeeming action? NO. Do I think that having everyone, including alumni more knowledgable about and more proud of winning sporting events than knowing what academic achievements have been made are redeeming? NO. Do I think you can use sports to build a more credible foundation to launch your research and education pursuits. YES.

And gee... is it all that bad that it would be a whole lot of fun for our students, student/athletes, faculty and admin, alumni and fans? NO!

[BurninCayenne]

Got to wonder if we'll ever know the whole story. Did we have an "official" offer on the table? Was there any delay due to the football conference in San Antonio last week? Was Bustle still considering other OC candidates? Did we even know LaTech was considering/offering him? Would that have mattered anyway? That is, could we have upped the offer to get him in here? So who are we looking at now? I have to admin, it was a good sign to have 2 quality/proven coordinators coming in to Lafayette!

The other thread says UL was waiting for the Tulane conract to expire. What reason could there be for this?

[Cajun Express]

The other thread says UL was waiting for the Tulane conract to expire. What reason could there be for this?

Actually I think they were waiting for Scelfo to settle up with Tulane who wanted him to stay. Totally different slant, but the same resutl IMO.

[ragin2112cajun]

The only person behind this is Dr."FIDEL"Authemont.I don't care how much good he has done for academics.This S O B has got to realize the money that can be brought in annually with a winning D1 football team.The money can be
generated for us to have well payed coaches who deserve the pay.He needs to be held accountable for this,he needs to run athletics with the same passion he has for academics.Why cant he approach it with the idea it takes money to make money.We either sell ourselves out when it comes to having a top notch program are don't have one at all.This sucks!
We were once right there with Southern Miss and now ten years or so later,we are no where near their program.

[rhineaux]

The only person behind this is Dr."FIDEL"Authemont.I don't care how much good he has done for academics.This S O B has got to realize the money that can be brought in annually with a winning D1 football team.The money can be
generated for us to have well payed coaches who deserve the pay.He needs to be held accountable for this,he needs to run athletics with the same passion he has for academics.Why cant he approach it with the idea it takes money to make money.We either sell ourselves out when it comes to having a top notch program are don't have one at all.This sucks!
We were once right there with Southern Miss and now ten years or so later,we are no where near their program.

president@louisiana.edu

There's his e-mail address as posted on louisiana.edu. I don't suspect that if you e-mail him and ask him to retire, that he will, but if you think you got a shot, go ahead and do it. Also, if anyone wants to use force to physically remove him from office, I shook his hand at graduation a few weeks ago and I'm pretty sure i can take him all by myself, while you guys are distracting his secretary.

Other than that, can we impeach him or something? Is he impeachable? Can we start a petition? I imagine its not that easy since its not an elected office, but an assigned position. Somebody call Joe Savioe and tell him to just show up on Monday morning and be sitting at Ray's desk when he gets there. He'll get the idea and then walk back home.

[scotto_25]

Money was definitely the main factor in Scelfo's decision!! You can't offer a guy of his calliber 80,000 a year, an 8-month contract, and free lunch in the cafeteria and expect him to commit here??

Ragin Cajuns athletics looks to be on a downward spiral..............please BASEBALL save us from dropping down to district 6-3A, because with the teams we're putting on the court/field these days, I believe we'd lose to teams such as STM and Northside........maybe even an allstar squad from Franny's day care could take us down to the wire.

Here's an idea, lets hire Desormeaux as our coordinator while he's still playing on scholarship, that way we won't have to pay him................and everyone knows he's always the answer to every problem.

Lastly, I know a couple of heavy eatin buddies of mine who are looking for jobs... I may have them send a resume in because they surely wouldn't turn down free hot plates in the union!

Thanks for your time

[evangelinetiger]

Major Applewhite, OC from Rice is from Baton Rouge, would be a good fit. Young, QB at Texas, from Louisiana, would fit in well with recruiting these areas.

Applewhite is being considered by LSU and AL right now, I doubt if he even knows where ULL is located.

[evangelinetiger]

I agree that he is being "Looked At" but I still don't believe LSU or Bama would hire him. The minute anything went wrong, the Ligers and Elephants would go BA-ZURK on the kid. Those programs want SUCESS and they want it NOW. They want PROVEN leaders and they're not about giving "Trial Runs". That's why I say, Come on Down to Laffy Major, gurantee you'll enjoy your stay.

Well LSU is enjoying plenty of success right now, number 3 in the nation I beleive. Applewhite is up for the QB coach at LSU right now and Saban wants for recruiting purposes.

[scotto_25]

I see us running the draw about 70 times a game next year, gaining an average of about 2.5 yards per carry.............. Dr. A is probably thinking to himself, "hmmm, why hire an offensive coordinator when you can take that suggested salary and hire 3 new English teachers?" This isn't Yale or Harvard, you need to dump money into football and not into the arts and craft department there Dr. A!!!!

I think our Techmo Bowl playcalling will be back next year guys, sorry to say it but it's true

[LSUfan20]

It is only rumor but I have heard applewhite will be at alabama. Only rumor but sometimes rumors come true.

Yeah. Basically, he would be co-offensive coordinator with OL coach from the Houston Texans is the rumor. And I bet Applewhite will take the job and move on in two or three years to Texas to position himself for the HC job there when Mack Brown retires.