Yes.
No.
A rival is someone you want to play 3 times a year to prove beating them was no fluke.
In a dream world, we would have LSU scheduled every year, and they would be our rival.....don't see that happenning.
In a perfect world, we would be in the same conference with Tech or Tualne, or be able to schedule one of them every year, and they would be our rival....don't see that happenning.
In order for a school to be your rival, you HAVE to play them every year, and there has to be some animosity built in to the games.
This is where ULM falls short. Most Cajun fans are ambivalent in their opinion of ULM.
We don't hate anybody on our yearly schedule. We have no rivals.
That's fine with me, 'cause there's nothing worse than a manufatured rivalry.
If you would drop down to Division II where you belong, maybe Delta State would be your rival.
Bustle is 1 for 6 against ULM, we can hardly entertain them at this point, much less claim rivalry. The Middle Tennessee series is a little closer with the Cajuns at 4-2 (Bustle), I like it more because of the loses we have managed to hand each other at homecoming games in the last couple. The North Texas series is starting to even out, but I've still got nightmares from those first three spankings from 2002-2004, So my vote is for Middle. If we beat ULM by something in the neighborhood of 3 touchdowns for the next 2 years in a row, then, maybe.
If anyone wants that rivalry, the way you play that game has to change. I think on that last series before halftime, you have to pound the ball in on 3rd or 4th down going into the locker room...especially when you are a 3 win team on senior day (against your rival). We kicked the ball as if we were protecting something. But I do understand trying the pass a couple times for clock.
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