Coaching staff has earned the opportunity to figure this out

[CharlieK]

I disagree, kicking hasn't been completely stellar. I actually put my hands on a kickoff against southern and I'm in section G. Trust me buddy, if I hadcaught that kick off, judging from our teams play this year, it was a possibility I was going take one back!
Kicking has been best phase but not great.

Punting has been stellar. Stover has been solid at FG. Kickoffs....we havn't scored enough to see enough...

[zephyr]

Yea I agree. I just bought into the hype machine all offseason so I'm struggling to readjust. It's not going to happen again.

LOL, yeah we all bought into the hype machine a little too much unfortunately even though truthfully, we had every reason to be excited.

[ulXrunner]

Punting has been stellar. Stover has been solid at FG. Kickoffs....we havn't scored enough to see enough...

You are very right on punting, bright spot for sure. Stover.. I'll buy what ya selling as well on terms of quantity.

[cajun4life]

Coach Hud's first year here was his best team here. His second year was his second best team. His third year here was his third best team. The jury is still out on his fourth year but I'm starting to see a trend.

The trend you have seen has nothing to do with HUD. We had a QB who could execute 100% of the playbook. TB is no where near the passer that BG was.

[cajun4life]

I honestly don't get why you guys are so down. When one looked at the season beforehand one would've figured 2-2 or 1-3 to start the season depending on what happened with Louisiana Tech. Now the Cajuns get into Sun Belt play and have every chance to win the conference and go to another bowl. Notably, they don't have to play Georgia Southern and Georgia Southern appears to be the toughest potential competition in the Sun Belt.

You take the three previous seasons and the Cajuns were 1 - 2 each time against non conference FBS competition during the regular season. This time they're 0 - 3. But maybe Louisiana Tech (in spite of the loss to Northwestern State in association with 5 turnovers) is better than 5-7 Kent was in 2011, 2-10 Tulane was in 2012, or 5-7 Akron was in 2013.

Time will tell. Louisiana Tech this year could very well be better than the teams the Cajuns beat in non conference regular season play during the previous three years.

Or that we had 3 turnovers including a pick 6 in that game to go along with giving up 5 big plays three of which resulted in TDs.

8 plays cost the Cajuns the game against La Tech.

[Cajun_Engr]

To be somewhat fair ... TB had a better completion % and QB ratings than Blaine in 2012, and I think 2013 as well.

However ... what Blaine could do is make the completions when it counted. Blaine might have a few passes sail that should have been completions ... but then the next drive make 6 straight completions and move the ball down the field in a less than a minute when it counted. Even when TB has thrown good he's never executed the kind of drives Blaine did in 2011/2012.