HUD on XM 91

[gatadotcom]

Jack Arute announced that Coach Hud will be on his show Tuesday during the second hour (beginning at noon Central).

[CajunJack55]

Coach Hud was great on the show today. Talked about Broadway and how much he has evolved. They touched on his recruiting philosophy a bit. Coach mentioned how he is not always after the 3 and 4 star players but really likes going after under the rader guys at under the rader schools who they know they can develop. He also pimped our Master Plan and stadium expansion a bit. He stressed our financial backing and how he wants to be more than a Boise State...more like the Lousville model. They asked about "distractions" AKA other schools reaching out to him. Coach Hud stressed how great Lafayette and the fans are and how he has learned to block out those distractions. They talked about how important it is for any employer to do whatever they have to in order to keep a great employee and make it work! After this interview, I feel really good knowing that we will do everything we can to keep this man.

On a side note....they talked about Lafayette being a big racing town (nascar) back in the day (70s and 80s) and the Labontes starting out in the Lafayette area???? Is this true? I have never heard of this??

[Turbine]

On a side note....they talked about Lafayette being a big racing town (nascar) back in the day (70s and 80s) and the Labontes starting out in the Lafayette area???? Is this true? I have never heard of this??

Lol must be confusing horse racing though there is a NASCAR driver named Jack Nugent from Lafayette . . . Colorado. !??

Ps thanks for the XM info

[CajunJack55]

Lol must be confusing horse racing though there is a NASCAR driver named Jack Nugent from Lafayette . . . Colorado. !??

Ps thanks for the XM info

That's what I was thinking but he specifically mentioned Terry Labonte and Billy Hagen and that being the last time he visited Lafayette. I'm not sure if it was Jack or Rick Neuheisel who mentioned it. Oh well...maybe he had the wrong Lafayette lol.

[douglas]

I liked how he slipped "here at the university of Louisiana" in there

[cajunhawk]

I liked how he slipped "here at the university of Louisiana" in there

Wouldn't be Hud if he didn't. If we could clone him and send him out en masse...the name deal would be over before lunch.

[HoustonCajun]

I liked how he slipped "here at the university of Louisiana" in there

How was he introduced? Head coach of Louisiana Lafayette? Whenever the Texas State coach is on that show, which is every week, he refers to us as Lafayette and Jack Arute refers to us that way as well. Good for HUD. I wonder if they picked up on it. Wish HUD would simply correct them on the name so they would take notice.

[CajunCool]

That's what I was thinking but he specifically mentioned Terry Labonte and Billy Hagen and that being the last time he visited Lafayette. I'm not sure if it was Jack or Rick Neuheisel who mentioned it. Oh well...maybe he had the wrong Lafayette lol.

Nope. Billy Hagen was a local business owner (of Stratagraph) and racing enthusiast that owned a race car (I believe Winston Cup). Terry Labonte drove for his team in the late 70's - don't know for how long. This is where Terry Labonte actually became one of the top drivers in NASCAR.

[Turbine]

I liked how he slipped "here at the university of Louisiana" in there

Mark Hudspeth is the best PR guy the University of Louisiana System has ever seen.

He's not to bad for the University of Louisiana either.

[Just1More]

Nope. Billy Hagen was a local business owner (of Stratagraph) and racing enthusiast that owned a race car (I believe Winston Cup). Terry Labonte drove for his team in the late 70's - don't know for how long. This is where Terry Labonte actually became one of the top drivers in NASCAR.

That's where they're making the race car connection. I remember Stratagraph and Digitran, run by Rusty Records and Charlie Prentice of Lafayette. They had some genius USL engineers and computer science grads. Those companies were so incredibly innovative in oil and gas high tech simulation and testing, in those days. They had no peers world-wide. People have no idea how Lafayette launched some of the most innovative start-up oilfield groups that were eventually bought out by the giants. The 80s oil bust created, falsely, by ultra environmental liberal President Carter in his 1976-1979 fabrication of an oil crisis (oil would run out in 15 years... and all the liberals believed it... because "the academians said so"... hummm... sound familiar?) that led to OPEC jacking the crap out of oil prices was devastating to some great businesses and business people in Lafayette.