Number 9

[cajun tom]

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Can anyone think of a former Ragin Cajun football player who wore number 9?

[cajun4life]

_ 9 more days until Louisiana's first football game this year. Can anyone think of a former Ragin Cajun football player who wore number 9? _

Damon Mason

[Tim LeBlanc]

Was Damon Mason a good player? Yes. Should his jersey be retired? No. Todd Scott wore #9 and was two times the player that Mason was. Scott had a thick body for a cover guy and moved like a freakin cat.

[Boomer]

Nobody's jersey should ever be retired---I hate the tradition--love the guys but sorry no taking the numbers away!!!!

[cajun4ever]

_ Was Damon Mason a good player? Yes. Should his jersey be retired? No. Todd Scott wore #9 and was two times the player that Mason was. Scott had a thick body for a cover guy and moved like a freakin cat. _

I agree. I played with both. Todd at the end of his career and Damon at the beginning. Todd was big for a corner but he was good. Great punt returner also. Played SS for the Vikings and went to the Pro Bowl. Damon was agressive and a unrelenting, but a retired jersey? He was very good but...

[jleb]

I agree there is no reason that Mason should be on that wall. Todd Scott was the man.

[Bankruptcyman]

Sidney Venable of Crowley High wore # 9 from 1974 to 1977. Sidney was a safety and the fastest guy on the team (besides Harold Porter). A quiet guy but a good teammate. He tragically lost his life in a drowning incident many years ago. Not sure of the details but maybe someone can elaborate.

[MetryCajun]

Retiring Mason's number was a travishamockery!
Mason and Scott were both very good players for the Cajuns!

[Boomer]

_ Sidney Venable of Crowley High wore # 9 from 1974 to 1977. Sidney was a safety and the fastest guy on the team (besides Harold Porter). A quiet guy but a good teammate. He tragically lost his life in a drowning incident many years ago. Not sure of the details but maybe someone can elaborate. _

When Sidney came ---one of the first days he was walking out in the Swamp and had a football in his hands --he jumps up over the crossbar and swapped the ball to the other hand---He then runs a 4.4 40 on soggy grass---Coach Lockwood was made a believer!!!!!!! His wife was a sister of a ND guy----Was that an Allemand????

[RaginDave]

you guys are C.R.A.Z.Y.....If Mason would have been bigger, he would still be playing in the NFL today. THe only thing that kept him out of the NFL was his size.

He was the greatest DB that the AFL has ever seen. I watched him play every year at U(s)L and will say this now just like I said then. Damon was the best cover corner we have ever had, bar NONE!!!!!!! Other DB's might have been better at certain things, but DM was the best we ever had, well deserved to be retired.

[Tim LeBlanc]

Thanks for proving my point. Did you say IF and AFL? Thanks again.

[RaginDave]

I proved nothing, his jersey was retired because of his college career, not his professional.

The guy was a stud at UL, no matter what he did after, that would be like saying that Kevin Brooks sucked because he did not play a long career in the NBA or that Phil Devey was not a successful college pitcher because he never made it to the majors. Both were two of the best players that our school has ever seen in there respective sports, one never played in the majors and the other played a brief stint in the NBA and finished playing in Austrailia and NZ. Both were extremely successfull professionally at lower levels.

Mason, for a college DB was great, his size kept him from the NFL, he went on to play a long career in the Arena League and is widely accepted as the best player at his position in that league.

Does his number deserve to be on the wall at Cajun Field, that can be argued for a long time, but what cannot be argued is why there numbers are retired. Look at Tyrell, he may never play in the NFL at this point it looks like he may not even get a chance, should we pull his name and number down because he may not play there? I don't think so, just like I don't think Damon's should be. Damon was a stud while UL.

I am sorry you did not get to enjoy the years he played here, you obviously missed out on watching a very good one. And if you did follow the Cajuns then, I am sorry you were watching something other then the best cover corner the Cajuns have ever had.