The Book 2008 Football

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 When the timing proved to be right, UL dug into its playbook and found the perfect play last week against Arkansas State.

The Ragin' Cajuns trailed 10-0 at the time midway through the second quarter. On the first play of their second drive in the period, running back Tyrell Fenroy ran for 52 yards down to Arkansas State's 18-yard line. After Fenroy was stopped for no gain on the next play, UL called a time out to set up the trick play.

Out of the shotgun formation, quarterback Brad McGuire ran to his right and pitched the ball to wide receiver Jason Chery. He then tossed it back to wide receiver Richie Falgout.

Falgout, a sophomore who grew up playing quarterback before changing positions at Lafayette High, fired the ball to tight end Luke Aubrey in the right corner of the end zone. The 18-yard scoring strike pulled the Cajuns closer at 10-7.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • October 24, 2008

[Cajunbander]

Got some pics on Facebook from the football games so far. Nothing great, although it does show the games from a bander's (a word my little brother made up) point of view.

http://www.facebook.com/editphoto.ph...71&id=47907792

[DestinCajun]

Young'uns Daylon and Brad stepped up big time in this game.

Sweet!

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  Coming into this football season, UL coach Rickey Bustle talked about how any team in the Sun Belt Conference could win the league championship.

Seven games into 2008, Bustle's opinion remains unchanged.

UL, which went 3-9 a season ago, needed a fourth-quarter rally last week to edge past Arkansas State, 28-23. That kept the Cajuns (4-3 overall, 3-0 Sun Belt) tied atop the conference standings with Troy (4-2, 3-0).

Arkansas State and Florida International have one league loss apiece. ULM and defending conference champion Florida Atlantic both have two losses. North Texas and Middle Tennessee have already lost three games in conference play.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • October 25, 2008

[Zeebart21]

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Derrick Smith, a senior wide receiver, reminds UL fans to slow down on the post-season projections.
"Right now, it's FIU," Smith said. "That's who we are focusing on. That's who is important and the next team in our way to winning the conference."

"All the coaches are preaching that hard," said redshirt freshman quarterback Brad McGuire. "FIU is all we're thinking about.
"If we just take care of us and worry about one game at a time, the bowl games and everything else will work itself out."

"Troy is going to be a team to beat, but we're not worrying about them yet," said senior wide receiver Jason Chery. "That's a long way away for us. FIU is the next team we have to worry about. Everybody else in the conference is stepping up their game, so we have to step up our game. With any little slip-up we can lose a game at any time.
"So we're not taking anybody lightly. We're going to play our game and keep our goal in mind - and that's to win the conference."

attitudes like that might just make this a special season.

Z

[CajunFun]

Joshua--

Good article. One correction: We did not win the Big West Conference chamiponship outright in 1994, it was a three-way tie, which is why we didn't get to the Las Vegas Bowl. Same for 1993.

Our last outright championship was the 1970 team, when we were in the Gulf States Conference.

In fact, I think that was our only outright football conference championship in the history of the school...

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Leslie Marcelle Saloom of Lafayette will reign as UL's 2008 homecoming queen.

Saloom is the daughter of Judge and Mrs. Douglas J. Saloom of Lafayette and the granddaughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Herman Bienvenu and the retired Judge and Mrs. Kaliste J. Saloom. Sigma Gamma Mu, the Communication Honor Society, nominated her to the court.

Saloom is a senior majoring in public relations with a minor in business. She is a member of the Public Relations Student Society of America, the Association of Future Alumni, the Honors Program, Rho Lambda (Greek Honor Society) and Phi Kappa Phi (Business Honor Society), as well as being vice president of public relations of Kappa Delta, staff liaison for the Ragin' Peppers, president of the Order of Omega (Greek Honor Society), and an intern in the Office of Compliance in the UL Athletic Department.

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[CajunFun]

Interesting.

I was just walking across campus, they were hosting a reception for the HC Court at the Alumni Center.

In addition to a Saloom as queen, Margo Huval's mother is also Lebanese. I spoke to them briefly as they walked up.

I can remember her parents bringing her to games when she was 6 years old, in a cheerleader outfit. She's not 6 years old any longer...

[Zeebart21]

_ Interesting.

I was just walking across campus, they were hosting a reception for the HC Court at the Alumni Center.

In addition to a Saloom as queen, Margo Huval's mother is also Lebanese. I spoke to them briefly as they walked up.

I can remember her parents bringing her to games when she was 6 years old, in a cheerleader outfit. She's not 6 years old any longer... _

Tough to beat those Lebanese women, Fun...

Z

[Zeebart21]

Cajuns dont play, still move up 3 spots. We'll take it.

Z

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefoo...lls/120/index2

[CajunFun]

Tough to beat those Lebanese women, Fun...

Z

You right.

You try to beat 'em, they'll put you in the ICU for a few weeks...

[CajunFun]

Cajuns dont play, still move up 3 spots. We'll take it.

Z

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefoo...lls/120/index2

That's because we took the open date seriously...