2014 Louisiana (20) vs La. Tech (48)

[HOUCajun]

Or they just drive it down our throats, or complete 3rd and a mile like they did the whole game. The rest of the game suggest I would most likely be right. That's not how the game works, you can't just take away plays. How about they take away our scoring plays then they would have shut us out. If we don't pull broadway maybe he throws 2 more pick 6's. Slice it however you want, we got our azzes kicked because we were unprepared. I also feel like our head coach and fan base got a big slice of humble pie. Respect your opponent, always. Especially when you are more known as a program that lays an egg than pulls upsets.

LT was 6 of 15 on 3rd downs. The Cajuns were 8 of 17. It sure felt like LT did better than that.

[cajunhawk]

It's not as simple as eliminating 3 plays. However, this game was nothing like the stAte game at home a few years ago where they gashed us on every single play. That was a much worse defensive performance than this one I think we can all agree. Hopefully we will see a more inspired performance Saturday.

I agree with that...Arkansas State had the boot to our throats from the word go. Tech had some huge momentum swings and we had no answer to how to swing it back in our favor.

[CrazyCajun]

But they weren't doing much on offense until the 99 yard run. Think about how huge of a momentum shift that is. You are backed up on your one yard line. Offensively you haven't done much. Instantaneously you have a 7 point lead on an offense that is putting up yards but not scoring. That changed the entire dynamic of the game. A dynamic we were not prepared for...at all.

But it did happen, you can't hit reset, this isn't a video game. If HUD prepared for anything but a dog fight, he was wrong. It was a big play but you gotta respond, we didn't. Senior laden team took 1 haymaker and stayed on the mat. This would be less embarrassing if people would own it and stop making excuses. I sure hope the team and coaches aren't trying to find excuses. What did we do after the 99 yard play? What did we do right out of the locker room? 80 yard touchdown. We quit, I had never seen a HUD team quit before Saturday, even in previous blowouts I never saw quit. Not sure what's going on but it's weird to me, starting with HUD not knowing the status or the reason why his most explosive player didn't go back in the game. His comments about maybe we thought we were better than we are, well that's his job as a coach to watch film and figure that out. Starting off on the road against P5 is really tough to start the season, now maybe latech starting with Oklahoma had them better prepared. For 2 weeks we heard how taking it easy on the veterans to have them healthy for game 1, then on Friday before opening day an article is written how he is worried they didn't have enough live work. Lots of back and forth lately. Did we go rocky road or do we have some wrinkles left? Which is it?

[jllanclos]

There's this double speak going on that makes me scratch my head. First, "I'll take the humble pie... coaches' fault." Then there's "our gameplan is sound. We won't have many changes." "I didn't have them ready" vs. "we had a good game plan. We just didn't execute."

WTH?

We'd better come with a better plan. This offense has plenty of talent, and there's no excuse for this.

There's no excuse for a scheme on defense that plays 10 yards off everybody and then "scrambles to the football like nobody's business."

I'm sorry... but when I take my vermilion colored glasses off, I see bad in-game coaching consistently. It's been that way for years.

Those who have seen my posting history know I don't call out coaches for in-game decisions. But we're pretty consistently bad in that area. It's just that we play in a terrible conference, and we can out-muscle most of these teams with a poor gameplan.

I'm not confident in this coaching staff's ability to consistently beat teams close to our level of talent. Hell, La Tech isn't close in talent and they skull-dragged us.

[HOUCajun]

But it did happen, you can't hit reset, this isn't a video game. If HUD prepared for anything but a dog fight, he was wrong. It was a big play but you gotta respond, we didn't. Senior laden team took 1 haymaker and stayed on the mat. This would be less embarrassing if people would own it and stop making excuses. I sure hope the team and coaches aren't trying to find excuses. What did we do after the 99 yard play?

I will not argue with you that the team quit. But to answer your question about what we did after the 99 yard play, long touchdown drive to score a TD to tie the game.

[cajunhawk]

But it did happen, you can't hit reset, this isn't a video game. If HUD prepared for anything but a dog fight, he was wrong. It was a big play but you gotta respond, we didn't. Senior laden team took 1 haymaker and stayed on the mat. This would be less embarrassing if people would own it and stop making excuses. I sure hope the team and coaches aren't trying to find excuses. What did we do after the 99 yard play? What did we do right out of the locker room? 80 yard touchdown. We quit, I had never seen a HUD team quit before Saturday, even in previous blowouts I never saw quit. Not sure what's going on but it's weird to me, starting with HUD not knowing the status or the reason why his most explosive player didn't go back in the game. His comments about maybe we thought we were better than we are, well that's his job as a coach to watch film and figure that out. Starting off on the road against P5 is really tough to start the season, now maybe latech starting with Oklahoma had them better prepared. For 2 weeks we heard how taking it easy on the veterans to have them healthy for game 1, then on Friday before opening day an article is written how he is worried they didn't have enough live work. Lots of back and forth lately. Did we go rocky road or do we have some wrinkles left? Which is it?

He didn't prepare for a dog fight. That was evident to anyone who witnessed our team running around chasing our own tail. We did respond actually. We drove down the field and scored on the very next drive. Then things only got worse. We couldn't get off the field on 3rd down. The drive after our touchdown drive was Tech feeling like they had a shot to win this game. No 99 yard run...they likely don't drive the length of the field. Momentum is a strange thing...and can turn a game on it's head in a matter of seconds.

[CrazyCajun]

I will not argue with you that the team quit. But to answer your question about what we did after the 99 yard play, long touchdown drive to score a TD to tie the game.

So then don't bring up the 99 yard play as the deciding factor.

[cajunhawk]

So then don't bring up the 99 yard play as the deciding factor.

Why not...it was the first sign of life Tech had and before that play seemed listless. Is there a problem you have with us discussing causality?

[cajun4life]

LT was 6 of 15 on 3rd downs. The Cajuns were 8 of 17. It sure felt like LT did better than that.

TDs on a 99 & 36 yard run, 78 yard TD pass and a 46 yard INT.

You know what else they did? Not
Much.

[CrazyCajun]

Why not...it was the first sign of life Tech had and before that play seemed listless. Is there a problem you have with us discussing causality?

Because we had plenty of time and chances to change that and we didn't. You realize we were the 2 td favorites at home right? It that play was such an anomaly, why did we have 2 more in the same game. We got our azzes handed to us, we picked up late garbage time scores. If the starters stay in the whole game I only see the score being worse. With or without the 99 yard run. I hope the whole game was an anomaly, maybe tech is a lot better with a competent QB and good DC than we think they are. It was a busted play I. The first half, we lost by 4 touchdowns and it wasn't even that close.

[cajunhawk]

Because we had plenty of time and chances to change that and we didn't. You realize we were the 2 td favorites at home right? It that play was such an anomaly, why did we have 2 more in the same game. We got our azzes handed to us, we picked up late garbage time scores. If the starters stay in the whole game I only see the score being worse. With or without the 99 yard run. I hope the whole game was an anomaly, maybe tech is a lot better with a competent QB and good DC than we think they are. It was a busted play I. The first half, we lost by 4 touchdowns and it wasn't even that close.

If a building is a solid structure and a well placed explosive at the base of the foundation causes a slow degradation of the building until collapse...you wouldn't say the building was going to collapse eventually. Throwing causality out the window is not a smart move.

The exact same play was run by Tech earlier in the game on the 4th down try we stuffed. Let's say we stuff that run and force them to punt from their endzone. We were gaining yards in bunches already just not cashing in. It was only a matter of time before the flood gates opened. Diaz was not blitzing at the beginning of the game. Our team was not prepared at all for this to be a dog fight, or a blow out on the wrong side of the ball. But you cannot turn a blind eye to how much that 99 yard run affected the game.

[CrazyCajun]

If Peyton manning doesn't miss the first snap of the Super Bowl the broncos win, that's what that sounds like.