2013-14 Basketball

[Cajunsmike]

We do not have scholarships to fill. In fact, if you count the returning players and signees we are at 14 and the scholarship limit is 13. That means at least one person from last season's squad is not likely to return. Your guess is as good as mine who that may be.

[ImperialCajun]

We do not have scholarships to fill. In fact, if you count the returning players and signees we are at 14 and the scholarship limit is 13. That means at least one person from last season's squad is not likely to return. Your guess is as good as mine who that may be.

Not all players are full scholarship and some are walk-ons! If the new guys can help out inside and I am sure they will, this will be the best team UL has had in 10 years. I predict NCAA tournament.

[chauncey]

Imperial, I'm gonna be happy to ride that wagon!

[CajunEXPRESS]

Not all players are full scholarship and some are walk-ons! If the new guys can help out inside and I am sure they will, this will be the best team UL has had in 10 years. I predict NCAA tournament.

Imperial either they are full scholarship or are non scholarship players. Football and basketball have no partials.

Pardon me if I misread your comments, it just appears redundant or wrong.

NCAA tournament means we have to beat a vastly improving WKU. Beating WKU is not an easy task, and a much improved USA. I doubt anyone in the SBC can get an at large.

Those are the facts we lost every head to head fight over players with WKU and other high level teams in the SBC. We got the new Florida player because USA released him from scholarship. I just do not see us improving enough to beat either or both of those teams.

[Cajunsmike]

All basketball and football player scholarships are full. There are no partial scholarships on those sports. When I mentioned returning players, I was referring to returning "SCHOLARSHIP" players, walk ons are not included in the no. We may have the best time in 9 years as we have had eight consecutive losing seasons when you don't count non D1 games. There is reason for optimism as we have many returning players, the apparent improvement of Payton, a recruiting class that includes the best HS shooter in the Acadiana area, a JC guard who was SWAC freshman of the year in 2011, and three inside guys who should help Long on the boards. However, I am confident we won't match the team of 2005 as that squad had Dwayne Mitchell, Tyrus Wade, and Orien Greene.

[I_Bleed_RED]

We need a lot more than that

Yep. Those teams were 10x better than the teams we have now. They were also much more thuggish but damn they were good.

[CrazyCajun]

Yep. Those teams were 10x better than the teams we have now. They were also much more thuggish but damn they were good.

They also struggled to stay eligible and graduate, under today's apr guidelines some of those teams would have cost us scholarships and postseason bans. Times are a lot different now, coaches have to be a lot more careful of the kinda kids they bring in. You are forced to recruit "student athletes"... Not guys who get pulled over smoking pot driving the wrong way down McKinley st.

[moorecajun]

They also struggled to stay eligible and graduate, under today's apr guidelines some of those teams would have cost us scholarships and postseason bans. Times are a lot different now, coaches have to be a lot more careful of the kinda kids they bring in. You are forced to recruit "student athletes"... Not guys who get pulled over smoking pot driving the wrong way down McKinley st.

You're speaking hypothetically, right?

[I_Bleed_RED]

They also struggled to stay eligible and graduate, under today's apr guidelines some of those teams would have cost us scholarships and postseason bans. Times are a lot different now, coaches have to be a lot more careful of the kinda kids they bring in. You are forced to recruit "student athletes"... Not guys who get pulled over smoking pot driving the wrong way down McKinley st.

Oh I definitely get that. Isn't the reason Evans left was because we were about to fire him for screwing up our APR so bad? I'm pretty sure half the players on his teams were guys who were kicked out of big name schools.

[CrazyCajun]

Oh I definitely get that. Isn't the reason Evans left was because we were about to fire him for screwing up our APR so bad? I'm pretty sure half the players on his teams were guys who were kicked out of big name schools.

Yeah and the APR guidelines have been raised even higher since then.

[Cajunsmike]

Some of Coach Evans best players were transfers but it is an exaggeration to say half were kicked out of the other schools they went to. Dwayne Mitchell transferred from Auburn simply to get closer to his New Orleans home. Brian Hamilton transferred here as the first place he was at was an independent. Tyrus Wade transferred here simply because he wanted to be at a higher profile school. He did not play for Coach Evans as Coach Lee was in his first year in 2005. Regardless none of those guys gave trouble while here Michael Southall is the problem guy most people associate with Coach Evans and he did have issues.

[CrazyCajun]

Some of Coach Evans best players were transfers but it is an exaggeration to say half were kicked out of the other schools they went to. Dwayne Mitchell transferred from Auburn simply to get closer to his New Orleans home. Brian Hamilton transferred here as the first place he was at was an independent. Tyrus Wade transferred here simply because he wanted to be at a higher profile school. He did not play for Coach Evans as Coach Lee was in his first year in 2005. Regardless none of those guys gave trouble while here Michael Southall is the problem guy most people associate with Coach Evans and he did have issues.

Cedric Williams and his son jarret