The Book: Lady Cajuns softball 2007 Season

[CajunRed]

_ Two and a Bar-B-Q, Lady Cajuns are O U T!!!


What is going on with these ladies??

Confused,
DaddyCajun


ps I still love you Ladies!!!! Pick your chins up and crank it in Regionals!!!!!! _

It is not guaranteed that they will make the regionals.

[Clutch0364]

_ It is not guaranteed that they will make the regionals. _

If not I believe we are getting screwed...we have a higher RPI than last year and are 6-1 against top 25

[shof]

No boo bird here; but you've got to be scratching your head about now. I'm just wondering if they're pressing right now. They are (should be) the class of the conference, have performed very well against quality competition; but sometimes inexplicably lose to less talented teams. Perhaps the success against the "better" competition is that they don't have a "fear of losing"; hence they play looser. Well, I'm not a sports psychologist; but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

Hopefully we're still in the NCAA tournament and they can perform up to their abilities.

Shof

[Zeebart21]

No boo bird here; but you've got to be scratching your head about now. I'm just wondering if they're pressing right now. They are (should be) the class of the conference, have performed very well against quality competition; but sometimes inexplicably lose to less talented teams. Perhaps the success against the "better" competition is that they don't have a "fear of losing"; hence they play looser. Well, I'm not a sports psychologist; but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

Hopefully we're still in the NCAA tournament and they can perform up to their abilities.

Shof

Not trying to start anything because I am not privy to any of the inner workings of UL softball, but....you have to wonder if there is some internal chemistry problem???

That will put pull even the most talented teams apart.

Very strange happenings the last half of the season for Louisiana Softball????

Z.

[CajunRed]

_ If not I believe we are getting screwed...we have a higher RPI than last year and are 6-1 against top 25 _

But its not just RPI and not just what you did against top 25 RPI teams.

When you look at our last half of the season, we suck. When you look at our last 10 games, we suck. We failed to win a weak conference championship. We were two and out of a weak conference tournament.

I want us to be in... but I could not belly ache if the committee thought otherwise!

[shof]

_ But its not just RPI and not just what you did against top 25 RPI teams.

When you look at our last half of the season, we suck. When you look at our last 10 games, we suck. We failed to win a weak conference championship. We were two and out of a weak conference tournament.

I want us to be in... but I could not belly ache if the committee thought otherwise! _

I look for us to be in; but like you, would not be shocked if omitted. I mean look at the year's we were very strong only to get seeded 3rd, and sent to very difficult regionals, etc. I would sure hate for the season to end this way, and I'm positive the young ladies and staff feel far worse about this tournament than any fan. Let's all hope they've got a few more games (at least) to try and get this thing turned around.

[IHateLaState]

_ Not trying to start anything because I am not privy to any of the inner workings of UL softball, but....you have to wonder if there is some internal chemistry problem???

That will put pull even the most talented teams apart.

Very strange happenings the last half of the season for Louisiana Softball????

Z. _

I love the ladies like anyone but when I heard the score the same thing ran through my mind... Whats going on here... Coach comes on the radio and calls out the Seniors....im not sure what to think.... I was thinking next year we had a legit shot at the gold ring.... not an appearance but winning it all.... hope things (whatever they may be) can get worked out

[LuLu]

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What do you mean, "Coach comes on the radio and calls out the Seniors..." Was that a bad thing? I don't listen to the radio show and I don't know what you mean. Did one of the coaches say the seniors weren't pulling their load?
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The Sun Belt Conference with the addition of Florida Atlantic has risen in STATUS in the major conferences. The last I looked in the Warren Nolan Report for RPI, the Sun Belt was listed as # 10 in Conference standings. That is not a bad thing, since there are 31 Conferences. The Sun Belt has improved tremendously. The records of the teams in the league are not good because they are playing tough competition in order to be ready to play well at the end. AND they have.

Check here:

http://www.fullysports.com/softball/2007/conferencerank

[NewsCopy]

Two and through. No one expected UL's 23rd-ranked softball team to make this early a departure from the Sun Belt Conference tournament, especially since the Ragin' Cajuns had never lost a game in the event's history. Thursday morning, they lost for the second time in less than 24 hours, falling to sixth-seeded Western Kentucky, 4-1, in an elimination game at Middle Tennessee's Blue Raider Complex in Murfreesboro, Tenn. That loss left the Cajuns (46-16) as the first team eliminated from the tournament - one they had won every year since it was inaugurated in 2000 - and left UL in question of receiving an at-large bid when the NCAA tournament field is announced Sunday afternoon. The loss also meant that UL went 0-2 in the tournament against teams they swept during the regular season. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[CajunCharlie]

The Lady Cajun softball team went into a tailspin. What are some of the consequences that could arise?

One thing I really fear is that the ladies that committed will get a lot of pressure from teams who also recruited them to change their minds. Are they strong enough with their committment to withstand the pressure?

Do we get a bid to a Regional? I don't think so, but I have been wrong more times than I have been right.