Candidates 6 years ago? (2001)

[Clutch0364]

Hey guys I am sure someone one here knows...I have been trying to find out who the other candidates were when we hired Bustle but in every article I find they do not mention anything about the others. Can someone please tell me who the candidates were other than Bustle 6 years ago?

[Turbine]

Baldwin wasn't UL's first choice to replace Stokley three years ago. He wasn't even second or third. By the time Dave Cully, Rich Rodriguez and Chris Scelfo had taken themselves out of the running, the Cajuns were deep into the 1999 recruiting campaign and time was running out in Martin Hall. The LSU assistant coach and Troy State head coach Larry Blakeney were the last candidates standing and Authement chose Baldwin.

Now, three years later, he has another choice to make.

According to Don Allen's piece

Dave Cully

Rich Rodriguez

Chris Scelfo

Larry Blakeney

Jerry Baldwin

[anhil8tor]

Rodriguez???


holy smokes!

[Textitan]

I think the question was who was the candidates when Bustle was hired. Those were the candidates when Baldwin was hired. I think Mike Leach was also a candidate back then. Should'ves would'ves could'ves!

[Turbine]

_ I think the question was who was the candidates when Bustle was hired. Those were the candidates when Baldwin was hired. I think Mike Leach was also a candidate back then. Should'ves would'ves could'ves! _

You are correct.

When the time finally came to name a new head football coach in December 1998, Nelson Schexnayder was forced to make a choice.

There were 10 or 11 candidates for the job, said Schexnayder, the athletic director at Louisiana-Lafayette.

One of them was Jerry Baldwin.

Another was Mike Leach.

The rest of the story

"Interesting" this story (obviously with Nelson's input) says 10 or 11

[CajunNation]

_ You are correct.



"Interesting" this story (obviously with Nelson's input) says 10 or 11 _

Turbine, think about this.

Our great leader, in his vastly superior wisdom, basically said NO to:

Rich Rodriguez
Mike Leach
Larry Blakeney(twice)
etc. etc.

No matter what excuses you may hear as to why, each one of these men wanted to coach here, and we turned THEM down.

Now, we may have had to do some things that certain people wouldn't like, but they could have been given what they wanted.

Instead, we voluntarily kill the program, which has lead us to dealing with the aftermath of that decision 10 years later.

This is what you call a "LEGACY"

[CajunCherokee]

WOW.

Those are SOME names...

[Shammy]

_ Turbine, think about this.

Our great leader, in his vastly superior wisdom, basically said NO to:

Rich Rodriguez
Mike Leach
Larry Blakeney(twice)
etc. etc.

No matter what excuses you may hear as to why, each one of these men wanted to coach here, and we turned THEM down.

Now, we may have had to do some things that certain people wouldn't like, but they could have been given what they wanted.

Instead, we voluntarily kill the program, which has lead us to dealing with the aftermath of that decision 10 years later.

This is what you call a "LEGACY" _

By the time Dave Cully, Rich Rodriguez and Chris Scelfo had taken themselves out of the running,

Did they really want to coach here or was it a steppin stone for something better.

[Cajun Express]

_ By the time Dave Cully, Rich Rodriguez and Chris Scelfo had taken themselves out of the running,

Did they really want to coach here or was it a steppin stone for something better. _

Dude this job is always going to be viewed as a stepping stone, or a tombstone. I sure hope we get a lot of great coaches who use us as stepping stones and move on after a few great years here.

[Clutch0364]

_ According to Don Allen's piece

Dave Cully

Rich Rodriguez

Chris Scelfo

Larry Blakeney

Jerry Baldwin _

Turbine I was looking for the names of the other candidates when Bustle was hired in 2002? not when Baldwin was hired.

The list from when Baldwin was hired is pretty impressive though lol

[IHateLaState]

_ Dude this job is always going to be viewed as a stepping stone, or a tombstone. I sure hope we get a lot of great coaches who use us as stepping stones and move on after a few great years here. _

Agreed... But there is nothing wrong with providing that platform and being the beneficiary of that platform... Maybe after a couple of "steppers" our program will have become established enough to be seen as a permanent gig for a coach...

I think this next time (hopefully Bustle proves me wrong and the next time is a long time from now) we go out and find a young, agressive coach wanting to make a name for himself and is not going to hide behind excuses... Give us 5 years... Take this program to 9 or 10 wins... a couple of bowl games... then move on up... Then we do it again... works for me

[DestinCajun]

Dude this job is always going to be viewed as a stepping stone, or a tombstone.

rotflol...

[Just1More]

_ Dude this job is always going to be viewed as a stepping stone, or a tombstone. I sure hope we get a lot of great coaches who use us as stepping stones and move on after a few great years here. _

Or a kidney stone. One that is getting more painful by the second and is hard to get rid of.

You are correct... and I have always wanted to get some stepping stone stud that builds us up, finally reaches our full capability, and then goes on (unless we come up with the bucks)to a $ behemoth that is cycling coaches at the time. That is probably our best future in football. To me, that will be a rising young HC star in D1AA who doesn't take one ounce of excuse to force his will on the admin he signed up with. Why? Because his goal is to be a star.

[CajunNation]

_ By the time Dave Cully, Rich Rodriguez and Chris Scelfo had taken themselves out of the running,

Did they really want to coach here or was it a steppin stone for something better. _

You take your name out of the running when you are told the money you are asking for is supposedly too high, which is what pretty much Leach and Rodriguez did.

You see, at this point, funding the football program was put on the same level with building a new CajunDome.

By the way, the next coach of UL will make pretty close to what they wanted.

[CajunNation]

_ Turbine I was looking for the names of the other candidates when Bustle was hired in 2002? not when Baldwin was hired.

The list from when Baldwin was hired is pretty impressive though lol _

I can tell you for sure 2 of them were Bustle and Blakeney.

The discussion at the time revolved around Bustle, Blakeney, and Lewis Cook.