Should Bustle be fired

[RonMexico]

Polls like this need to show who votes in them. There is NO way almost 50% of the voters want Bustle to stay. A big reason I suppose, for the Kool Aid drinkers to close the delphi board was because too many people(not having UL's best interest in mind) were putting their nose into places it didnt belong.

L'te

[rhineaux]

Nothing personal, but its this kind of laid back thinking that I hate. We should never be ok with a season like this. If there was some decent, overbearing reason why we had this season, and it came after we had a few 7 or 8 or 9 win seasons, then you might have an point. But this, after a .500 plus 1, and a .500 season...what do we have to gain?

Like I've said before the risks and reprocussions of having another poor season next year are greater than the reward of this team maybe having a 6 win season next year. He has never won more than 6...what makes you think this team will win more next year. I hate .500, I want more.

[Rebel02]

The corndog stinch in this poll is really bad.

[Clutch0364]

_ Nothing personal, but its this kind of laid back thinking that I hate. We should never be ok with a season like this. If there was some decent, overbearing reason why we had this season, and it came after we had a few 7 or 8 or 9 win seasons, then you might have an point. But this, after a .500 plus 1, and a .500 season...what do we have to gain?

Like I've said before the risks and reprocussions of having another poor season next year are greater than the reward of this team maybe having a 6 win season next year. He has never won more than 6...what makes you think this team will win more next year. I hate .500, I want more. _

My thinking exactly...will everyone be happy next year with 6 wins? 6 wins isn't enough...we have to expect more if we want this program to become something great.

[shof]

_ Polls like this need to show who votes in them. There is NO way almost 50% of the voters want Bustle to stay. A big reason I suppose, for the Kool Aid drinkers to close the delphi board was because too many people(not having UL's best interest in mind) were putting their nose into places it didnt belong.

L'te _

Just because everybody doesn't agree with you doesn't mean they must be corndogs! I suspect most LSU supporters don't have a clue this poll is going on anyway. I am in no way happy, satisfied, or otherwise gleeful about this season; but I did vote "NO". Don't care about the contract buyout as that wasn't a condition of the question. This season has sucked; but I'm just not sure how much of that lay's directly at Bustle's feet. Yes, he is ultimately responsible; but there are still too many contributing factors to say fire him now. That said, I was on the fence answering this question. At this point I am not a "full fledged Bustle supporter." He should have done more by now; but he has had a tall ladder to climb to get this program respectable. He has had 2 "better" recruiting classes and many of them are getting playing time now. Honestly, how many quality players do you think wanted to come here following the Baldwin fiasco? One of the most important indicators of Bustle's continued support from this administration may well be this coming year's recruiting class. If it is seen as going backwards; then we will have little choice but to cut the cord. But if he can still get the quality/quantity of athletes he has gotten the last 2 classes, AND have a winning season in 08, he just may have finally turned the corner. But that's all I'm giving him.
Regardless of what happens, I'll still renew my season tickets for 08.

Shof

[blackjack]

Lets see should Bustle be fired. Well he only took over a program that was the worst in college football. Yes i said the worst. If you look at his first two years he really had nothing to work with. He spent majority of the time trying to get the Ragin Cajuns to a level of respect first of all. His third showed some promise. His fourth year the Cajuns tied for the sb title. His fifth year he was 6-6 with a win over conf USA champion. Also in that same year he had major injuries to key players down the stretch but still managed an ok record. Year six is bad. Other things that he has accomplished is that he has increased the graduation rate by almost 38%,now thats unheard of. Lets mlet it be known that he did have other job offers to leave after his conf title season and one of the offers was a Sun Belt school. But he stayed loyal to the cajuns. Hell no he shouldnt be fired we need to look past saturday night result and look at the overall performance of the total program. Maybe we are just like everybody else recruit thugs win some ball games and the hell with every thing else.

[anhil8tor]

I am really numb to the discussion. I will be buying season tix next year no matter what and I hope to see them win a home game or 4....

[J-Town Cajun]

I voted for Bustle to go. But at $194,000 a year that is expensive. We can keep Bustle and spend that $194,000 on facility improvements which will go a long way in future recruiting

[rhineaux]

BJ,I don't think anyone doubts or disagrees with what you are saying. But, the inverse to that is that we aren't a michigan or a USC or an oklahoma in that when they have a bad year, their attendance won't decrease by well more than half. I understand where you feel that we owe something to him for the good job he's done, but you and us are also fans and will return no matter what. You have to look at this decision through the eyes of the folks that we're trying to attract.if they aren't coming to games now, and we keep this coach, then what will make them come to games next year. And if you think that attendance is bad right now, just think of how bad it will be at the end of next year if he fails again. Then that 200k extra that it would have taken to by him out for '08 will seem like chump change compared to the lost revenue in season ticket sales and concessions, etc.

[Clutch0364]

_ BJ,I don't think anyone doubts or disagrees with what you are saying. But, the inverse to that is that we aren't a michigan or a USC or an oklahoma in that when they have a bad year, their attendance won't decrease by well more than half. I understand where you feel that we owe something to him for the good job he's done, but you and us are also fans and will return no matter what. You have to look at this decision through the eyes of the folks that we're trying to attract.if they aren't coming to games now, and we keep this coach, then what will make them come to games next year. And if you think that attendance is bad right now, just think of how bad it will be at the end of next year if he fails again. Then that 200k extra that it would have taken to by him out for '08 will seem like chump change compared to the lost revenue in season ticket sales and concessions, etc. _