More than a Bowl

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Watch all of the 34 other bowl games, all of them, and you won’t see one like Saturday night’s New Orleans Bowl. That’s because the UL-Tulane matchup was much more than two teams celebrating successful seasons. It was the renewal of a rivalry. The numerous personal fouls, several offsetting, indicated these teams might dislike each other.

Tulane Head Coach Curtis Johnson’s post game comment about last year’s 41-13 loss to the Cajuns and that “we are gaining on them” implies the Cajuns are a standard of achievement for Tulane. And with the overall series record at 21-6 in the Wave’s favor, UL has a lot of ground to make up. Cajun oral legend has Tulane refusing to play UL in the late 1990s even if every game was played in the Dome. Supposedly, the Cajun program was beneath Tulane’s. Whether the legend is true, both programs are now close to dead even and on their way up. The two schools have enough similarities and differences to make for an exciting, intense rivalry.

It’s time to make UL vs. Tulane happen every year.

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The Ind.
Dan McDonald

[CajunEXPRESS]

Dan, Dan, Dan, there was nothing wrong with the Cajun Fans expressing their displeasure with the press on MVP. MVP was TB, or the Prophet. No Boradway no trophy IMO. The Prophet was the actual star of the game. The Lamer had three touchdowns, and some good runs, but his team lost, and in spite of 3 touchdowns his game was very average overall.

This was actually a case of the fans booing YOU members of the press, not the player, so I do get the retaliation on them. You guys are always thin skinned.

[Hammer58]

Yes, I was booing heartily but it wasn't against Darkwa personally but at the choice of a player from the losing team. A funny side note was when announcing it they had to come up with the creative "second place team" in referring to the losers. Now who has ever referred to the losing team in football as the "second place team"?

BTW, Tulane's Backup QB is Devon Powell not Devin Breaux. Looks like a Thumbs Down for Dan

[Turbine]

Tulane lost and Darkwa best represents their defeat and deserves the MVP.

Most Vanquished Performance.

[Hammer58]

Tulane lost and Darkwa best represents their defeat and deserves the MVP.

Most Vanquished Performance.

And, on the bright side, every time he looks at that MVP trophy or someone brings it up it will remind everyone, even if left unsaid, that it was a game that Toolame lost to UL.

[CRAWFISH61]

It was their participation trophy.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Yep, he will tell his grandchildren, 'yes, I recall it like yesterday, four touchdowns, 281 yards on the ground, five catches for 75 yards and, and, and, oh yea we lost'.

[Zeebart21]

21-6 in favor of Tool Lame? Lets talk 10-15-20 years, not decades when most of us weren't born......except Boomer.

Z

[CajunEXPRESS]

Now Curtis Johnson talking about gaining ground on the Cajuns. Humm? Sounds like that 21-6 record is a bit ancient, and has zero representation of the current status of the programs.

[Hammer58]

Now Curtis Johnson talking about gaining ground on the Cajuns. Humm? Sounds like that 21-6 record is a bit ancient, and has zero representation of the current status of the programs.

WaveProf, FW, and some of the other Lamers need to listen to that press conference.

BTW, notice none of the Lamers _____ing about the "booing"? That's because none of them were there to witness it. They all pulled a disappearing act that would make Houdini proud as soon as the refs signaled wide left. By the time we lined up in the victory formation their side of the Domewas emptied resembling a normal toolame home crowd

[HOUCajun]

We started talking about who would be MVP as the end drew near. No one in our group could come up,with a definitive answer. I think Orleans won by default and I don't have a problem with it. UL won the game and it was a close outcome. Eli was a great tackle by Schofield at the end on 3rd down from winning it. I did not boo the pick and neither did most people around me although I did hear some.

[CajunEXPRESS]

If it is close the winning team usually gets the MVP, now when Papo Ramos took the MVP of the LSU invitational regional in Baton Rouge, he was clearly the most outstanding player in that series. The TooLame kid was not outstanding if any of those runs is not a touchdown. Only one of the runs was special IMO, huge holes on two, one very much outstanding on him.

The problem is Dan wants to blame the fans as though they were booing the kid, when they were booing HIM, and any of the media that made this error. That is my problem, Dan not recognizing who was getting booed, even if he was not one of the voters he represents since he is making an issue of it.