Granted UL quarterback Mike Desormeaux rushes for seven yards next Wednesday against Middle Tennessee, coach Rickey Bustle can boast about his senior signal-caller and running back Tyrell Fenroy finding another place in the record books.

Desormeaux, thought to have gone over 1,000 rushing yards this season in last week's 48-3 loss to Troy, lost eight yards off that total on Wednesday. That's when Troy's stat crew fixed a scoring error from the game, changing a play that was incorrectly recorded as an incomplete pass to intentional grounding and an eight-yard sack.

So Desormeaux now has 993 rushing yards this season, leaving him just short of making history with Fenroy as the Cajuns (5-6 overall, 4-2 Sun Belt) prepare for their final home game of the year. If Desormeaux can hit the 1,000-yard mark against the Blue Raiders (5-6, 3-3), he and Fenroy would become the first quarterback and running back combo in NCAA history to do so in back-to-back years.

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Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • November 30, 2008