James Willis ... UL Defensive Coordinator

[Just1More]

Get real people, he is staying bc hud is leaving sooner than later and hud will take his assistants with him.

Did that revelation occur between his resignation and today? Something more happened between resignation day and today. I guess it would be nice to find that out, but if Hud is pleased with having Willis return, then I don't care if we find out the actual reasons Willis reversed engines or not.

I stand by my belief that he doesn't want to leave UL with that prevent defense we used as his legacy. And if that is the case, I'm very pleased by his decision to come back and rewrite that legacy.

[CAJUNTODD44]

I am very glad for the players on defense, they will not have to learn a new defensive scheme that could have slowed our progress

[chauncey]

HUD must have sold the program to him like he does to everyone else.
2014 will be Sweet for the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns!!!! Cotton Bowl?
We will have the best team in the history of the program this year.

And then we are all hauling ___!

[Boomer]

Heck, that's 90% of the game right there.

---I haven't followed him closely but Whom did he recruit in his area and what impact did he have in swaying defensive kids especially LBs? Certainly not being derogatory but just wondering! I can tell you that this guy JULUKE from Tech seems to have recruited half of there guys the last 2 years!!! And he didn't have half the stuff going for them that we had except for the conference---But on the rivals or 24/7 it shows the recruiter and he is in all the areas of the state!!!

[Just1More]

I am very glad for the players on defense, they will not have to learn a new defensive scheme that could have slowed our progress

It may be a good thing that we're keeping Willis. But, I could care less if the defensive players have to learn new things to be better. Did our progress slow when we went from Bustle to Hud? Or Stewart to Willis?

Willis has much to prove at UL. I'm excited to see him do it. But to believe some serious cerebral work was done last year with our defense... is laughable.

[Just1More]

Who the hell knows how or why he got the job? I just know that FSU doesn't have a habit of hiring dummies for coaches. Evidently he wasn't the chump most of us wrote him off as.

You wrote him off as a chump? That's pretty harsh. I simply didn't like the defensive scheme we used last year. And I believe it had 5 times as much to do with Hud as it did Willis. I don't think either one are "chumps". I think they collaborated on a bad alternative defensive scheme. I don't expect to see it much this coming year. And hope to never see it again... unless it's by an opponent. But in fact, I don't ever see it used as the predominant defense by a single team in the FBS. And they all can't be wrong... can they? No worries... you won't see it next year.

[Just1More]

Heck, that's 90% of the game right there.

A whole lot truer than most realize.

[BeauCajun]

WILLIS IS NO petrino

Thank God he isn't that trash.

[NewsCopy]

One day after telling the Ragin' Cajuns players that he was leaving to accept an assistant coaching position at another university, James Willis has reversed his decision and decided to remain as defensive coordinator at Louisiana.

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Cajun Red Zone

[NewsCopy]

UL is in the market for a new defensive coordinator. Ragin’ Cajuns coach Mark Hudspeth confirmed Wednesday night that defensive coordinator James Willis has resigned to become linebackers coach at national-champion Florida State. “I want to ...

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[ULGrad@HOU]

Well........I guess, Welcome Back Coach Willis! Take the defense to new heights and show how good a Coach you are!

[CajunEXPRESS]

You wrote him off as a chump? That's pretty harsh. I simply didn't like the defensive scheme we used last year. And I believe it had 5 times as much to do with Hud as it did Willis. I don't think either one are "chumps". I think they collaborated on a bad alternative defensive scheme. I don't expect to see it much this coming year. And hope to never see it again... unless it's by an opponent. But in fact, I don't ever see it used as the predominant defense by a single team in the FBS. And they all can't be wrong... can they? No worries... you won't see it next year.

I guess Seattle settled the question, even in the pass friendly NFL if you give the receivers hell, and put a good rush on the quarterbacks you can win it all.

The problem is we as a team are a steady pass rush team, but we have no one who gets there quick enough to kill the big plays on man on man coverage. I do believe we recruited a couple of guys who will fix that problem pronto, if not I expect more hoping somebody misses a pass on third and ten.