Ricky Bustle has landed a new job as OC at NC A&T

[RaginDave]

I live in Greensboro, where A&T is located, it is a HBC. Good luck to Ricky, I hope he has some success here. I will be rooting for him. I know he has had a rough go of it recently.

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[Turbine]

Good to hear.

I love land on your feet stories.

[RCAJUN90]

Glad he found a job. I wish him much success. I'm just floored a big time program hasn't picked him up as HC.

[snote]

certainly do not wish to say it.. will allow others to... (a ha ha ha)

[CrappDaddy]

Wow! To think he held the same job at Virginia tech.

[BrockMeaux]

Good for him. Wish him all the success in the world, and even though they never were able to reach the heights we all might've liked, I'll forever be grateful for Coach Bustle and his staff coming in and stabilizing our program.

[RaginScotsman]

I always respected Bustle in spite of some poor seasons and the fact that we never really could get over the hump. We really did have some fun teams to watch during his tenure. I wish the coach all the best.

[alum81]

I'll always remember the coach that brought us Fenroy and Desormeaux. That was some fun to watch. Good luck coach Bustle.

[CajunRed]

God luck, Coach! Good people deserve good things.

[CajunEXPRESS]

So happy for the man that saved UL football. He was a God send. I know he did not quite live up to all our hopes, but he is the reason we were even good enough for Hud to consider coming here.

Ricky is a wonderful person, and a good coach. He deserves to go out employed for as a coach.

[RaginDave]

I know I will be in the minority, but he did live up to my hopes, somewhat. to think of the situation we were in when he arrived and to get us back to some sort of respectability was huge. I wish he would have done better, but Ricky gave us reason to believe, more than can be said about his predicessor. And like Express said, without the success of Ricky, Coach Hud would not be here today.

Thanks coach, good luck at NC A&T. I would love to see you back coaching FBS football in the near future.

Rough stretch

Offensive Coordinator at Va Tech
Hired at UL, takes over a program that did not have enough OL to hold a Red/White scrimmage when he arrives
Takes UL to a conference championship and multiple .500 seasons
Struggles in last season at UL
Fired from UL
Hired with a lame duck coach at Toolame as QB coach and fired the next season
Hired at USM as OC, health issues steps down as OC and a coach that went 0-12 and fired that season
Hired as OC at NC A&T

[raoul]

Does anyone have his email address? I would like to send him best wishes. He is a nice, good man.

[Bandwagon King]

Let's not go overboard here. The most accurate description of Bustle is he was the guy who led UL football from rotten and totally forgettable, to the verge of mediocrity and a little less forgettable. And he accomplished it all in only NINE freaking years?! Sure he was nice, but that did NOT make him a great coach. I thought he underachieved as a coach several seasons and definitely provided UL with some of it's most embarrasing moments in sports history. Getting skull drug by WKU for their first 1-A win in history and getting butt kicked by McNeese in the swamp were both unforgivable coaching blunders that should eternally wipe his name from the pages of the good coaching fraternity history book.


EDIT: Make no mistake about it UL fan. Those two losses did as much to hurt the reputation of the university for years to come as anything in the school's history despite hiring the HUD. Anyone who doesn't recognize this is being willfully & foolishly blind.

[CRAWFISH61]

Let's not go overboard here. The most accurate description of Bustle is he was the guy who led UL football from rotten and totally forgettable, to the verge of mediocrity and a little less forgettable. And he accomplished it all in only NINE freaking years?! Sure he was nice, but that did NOT make him a great coach. I thought he underachieved as a coach several seasons and definitely provided UL with some of it's most embarrasing moments in sports history. Getting skull drug by WKU for their first 1-A win in history and getting butt kicked by McNeese in the swamp were both unforgivable coaching blunders that should eternally wipe his name from the pages of the good coaching fraternity history book.

He was a good man, decent coach and did bring us back from Baldwin years. We don't need to thrash him. I don't think anyone is calling him a great coach or calling for him to come back. Many people including myself are just wishing him well in his new endeavors.

[CajunRebel]

I don't know what you guys are talking about. In only 2 years he went from Tulane to NC A&T. That's a huge step up in program for him.