Louisiana vs Arkansas

[CajunEXPRESS]

My thinking is there is a new sheriff in Hogsville, and Vegas knows he plays old time power football and defense. The line is unsure, but I think similar to a BAMA team. They do not think we will score thirty points on the Hogs, but are not sure how good their defense will be, and how long it will take for them to implement a power football offense.

While the Hoax beat a number eight team, we will face a better team ranked lower, but at the end of the season, the Hogs will be ranked higher than they ended up last year.

[njustice]

My thinking is there is a new sheriff in Hogsville, and Vegas knows he plays old time power football and defense. The line is unsure, but I think similar to a BAMA team. They do not think we will score thirty points on the Hogs, but are not sure how good their defense will be, and how long it will take for them to implement a power football offense.

While the Hoax beat a number eight team, we will face a better team ranked lower, but at the end of the season, the Hogs will be ranked higher than they ended up last year.

+1

[moorecajun]

I'm on it

Nice job of defending the CAJUN NATION!

[arkane]

I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.


I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.


But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.

[arkane]

This one has Arkansas by 14.

[njustice]

This one has Arkansas by 14.

Yeah, I think the line moved. It's likely to move again one way or the other to encourage betting.

[zephyr]

I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.


I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.


But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.

Make no bones about it, Florida was overrated. I think it was a decent matchup for us. Bottomline though is that we are a better program on all levels than many out there believe. We are much improved in the trenches on both sides of the ball which will allow us to compete at higher levels than in the past and is a reason this game will be closer than most predict. Our OL and DL will be better than you and most other Hog fans will want to presume and that will allow us room to make plays on both sides. I don't care what type of coach you brought in, I think you will have more trouble than you anticipate running the ball on us. This is of course, we don't run some crazy hybrid prevent like we did against Troy last year which yielded a ton of passing yards but very little on the ground. I think we will compete on the front lines and allow us to keep this very, very close

[AstroCajun]

I agree that's a pretty big statement of confidence in this Louisiana football squad. However, it's not much of a slight to us, either. Although I seriously doubt you'll be 20 point underdogs by the time the game rolls around, I suspect it'll go higher than 8 or 9. If by shutting you down you mean shutting you out, no, that just doesn't happen very often… period (unless you're us last year vs. Alabama, haha). Louisiana is coming off back-to-back 9-4 seasons, I think we're going to have our hands full.


I'm fully expecting a win out of this, but you never know. We're not going to be nearly as good as Florida was last year, you had Florida on the ropes. If that UL team shows up, we're screwed. Then again, we don't know how competitive Bielema is going to have us right off the bat.


But after Florida's embarrassing Sugar Bowl performance against Louisville, I wonder if it was you who almost won that game, or Florida who almost lost it.

First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.

Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.

Thanks for giving those guys hope.

Seriously, it took us putting a whipping on them (again for the fifth time in a row) to shut them up some.

And now, we've got the job of trying to beat you in you first home game with a new coach. That sort of thing has "trap" written all over it.

I don't know if we'll win, but we'll give you a good game.

[zephyr]

First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.

Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.

Thanks for giving those guys hope.

Seriously, it took us putting a whipping on them (again for the fifth time in a row) to shut them up some.

And now, we've got the job of trying to beat you in you first home game with a new coach. That sort of thing has "trap" written all over it.

I don't know if we'll win, but we'll give you a good game.

In all due respect, I wouldn't say we've whipped them for the past 5 years as we've escaped with a couple of dramatic wins but..........Suck it hoax!

[gohogs14]

First off, thanks for coming over. Also appreciate your class and respect. We often aren't used to either from the big dogs.

Second off, why the hell did ya'll lose to Monroe? I know you had a freshman qb in the second half, but still.

Well it didnt help that our OC only ran the ball ONCE the entire 4th quarter.

[arkane]

A loss is a loss is a loss. As much as I would like to say last season didn't count due to the strange circumstances, it does in fact count and all I can do is forget about it as quickly as possible. But the answer to why we lost is simple: The biggest mismanagement of talent in all 126 FBS football teams of the 2012 season.


@zephyr; whatever, man. This is your board and your team, so you go with that. But keep in mind I'm under no illusion that your line play will probably be superior to ours. Our woeful pass protection is actually one of our biggest and most focal flaws.

[zephyr]

A loss is a loss is a loss. As much as I would like to say last season didn't count due to the strange circumstances, it does in fact count and all I can do is forget about it as quickly as possible. But the answer to why we lost is simple: The biggest mismanagement of talent in all 126 FBS football teams of the 2012 season.


@zephyr; whatever, man. This is your board and your team, so you go with that. But keep in mind I'm under no illusion that your line play will probably be superior to ours. Our woeful pass protection is actually one of our biggest and most focal flaws.

I was just trying to point out that in most cases, an SEC team will have a superior advantage on the line of scrimmage over a SBC team like ourselves but I don't necessarily think that will be true this year and that goes the same for the game against K-State. That is actually going to be our strength of our defense which needs to be drastically improved from last year if we want to win the conference and go to a better bowl game. I think you guys will have to pass the ball effectively against our young secondary early on the soften us up. I know your coach is more old school and will likely try to play a more physical and controlled type of game than you guys are used to but I just don't think there will be as much of an advantage there as some would think. That's all