Another bowl win would put UL in unique group

[MelRock]

that lost to APP state was a bummer. We should have been 9-3 going into the bowl game.........

I don't think anyone would argue that point, but I am sure someone will.

[Just1More]

Where in the last half century of Ragin Cajun football have we ever been a winning program? Since 1970 we are 73 games under .500. It would take 6 undefeated seasons to get to .500. No wonder some aren't happy. You've been thinking we are something we aren't for years. Now that we are becoming a winning program, you feel like it's been like that forever.

You can't even go along with a guy that tried to post something realistically positive? He was talking about the last 4 years. We went from finally winning... to winning consistently. He was being POSITIVE!

[CajunRage]

You can't even go along with a guy that tried to post something realistically positive? He was talking about the last 4 years. We went from finally winning... to winning consistently. He was being POSITIVE!

When he clarifies that he was talking about 4 years, I agree with him. Very easy to see what he was saying as we've been a winning program just never strung together multiple years and that is not the case. Not by a long shot.

I apologize 81, I misunderstood your post. Doesn't change my feelings on the glass half empty crowd.

[CajunEXPRESS]

So I do not get it, did we overachieve with those 8-4 teams, and achieve about right with this 8-4 team.

Did our P5 loses look any worse or better in any of those years? Did not really expect to beat Boise, but did not expect to get keel-hulled either. Was pretty sure we would beat the Dawgs, but they got a QB in his 5th year who was much better than their guy last year.

Granted we suffered two major loses one on offense and one on defense early, but most teams lose important cogs.

Point is this team by any observable standard is about like the Bustle talent ladened teams, and come to think of it, we got some NFL players out of that talent.

[VObserver]

It's called being a ____ing realist. A lot of you think you are being realists in thinking that we should have gone from the worst program in football to a 10-2 access bowl participant. I really don't know what you base than on. Fact is we overachieved in the first couple of years. There was no progression to the top. We went worst to first. Now we've stalled for a year or two and people are in meltdown mode. 4 years people. Not 4 decades. Tell me a mid-major outside of Boise and TCU(no longer midmajor) that is showing the consistency we have. We haven't won the big game yet. So what? We've had a committed Athletic Department for less than a decade.

My point of getting into this thread is because not a single god damn thread can go on here without someone ____ting on the accomplishments of this athletic program. We are about to be in rare company with 4 straight 9 win seasons. Enjoy the ____ing ride.

Not 4 years. 10 years. We have been bowl eligible in 8 of the last 10 years. That is a 'winning program' by most people's measure. The Cajuns are 65-57 over the 10 year span, not stellar, but steady. We have been nowhere near 'the worst program in FBS' since about year 3 of the Bustle era, when Bustle had managed to heal some of the nearly mortal wounds that Baldwin gave the program.

[VObserver]

Where in the last half century of Ragin Cajun football have we ever been a winning program? Since 1970 we are 73 games under .500. It would take 6 undefeated seasons to get to .500. No wonder some aren't happy. You've been thinking we are something we aren't for years. Now that we are becoming a winning program, you feel like it's been like that forever.

Bowl eligible in 8 of the last 10 years. Case closed.

[Turbine]

Bowl eligible in 8 of the last 10 years. Case closed.

UL had the cereal, they just needed the milk.

[CajunRage]

Bowl eligible in 8 of the last 10 years. Case closed.

Since 2004 we've had 5 seasons with an above .500 record and 4 of them were since Hud got here. That is not a clear cut case. .500 football does not constitute as winning. So the 6 other years, you had 1 winning season and that was a 6-5 season. We've been a winning football program for 4 years.

[Turbine]

We've been a winning football program for 4 years.

That is milk.

Let's milk it for all its worth.