Selections for new coach

[zephyr]

_ So you think it's stupid that I think we should focus on sports that outside people actually care about? _

How many "outside" people do you speak of? Just because the softball team is a phenomenal program doesn't mean that they should be the signature sport of this university. Football is the biggest money generator for ANY athletic program and as long as this is the case, we should strive for bigger and better things. I bet you became a Carolina Panther fan back in 2005 too didn't you?

[daryl johnson]

_ I did not say don't recruit kids from Miami. Rickey Bustle did. I am just telling you what he instructed his staff to do. So this does not tell you how dumb I am. If you are going to call someone dumb you need to look to the coach. _

I should not have called you dumb. But what I will say is that the attack on Coach Jenkins was wrong. This guy worked hard for the time he was here. Not to say other Coaches didnt. He has always done well by UL. To try and slander him now that he has left is wrong. I think he is a guy that will do a great job as a Head Coach. He is well respected and he does a good job recruiting. Every year he was here his kids have performed. In fact several of the players have stated that they wish he was still here. Every kid a coach brings into a program will not make it or will make a mistake. Just ask U TEN. Do u think they had any ideal those three young men would do what they did. Is the coach that recruited them a bad character guy. Should they not recruite those area's anymore. If Coach bustle stops recruiting that area of florida because of the mistake a kid made then he should not recruite the area that the other kids made mistakes as well. some of those kids made multiple mistakes. Now once again I think Coach jenkins would be great for the job.

[waterboy]

Dude you are an _____clown, if you think Brian Jenkins is the best that we can do. Seriously, you need to climb out of the bong your living in, and come out into the real world.

Don't you have some game planning to do for Syracuse? Glad to see you won Thursday night, good luck the rest of the way Brian.

[Cayenne Eyeman]

_ I'm embarrassed that our joke of a head coach wears polos that are two sizes too big for him and embarrasses himself and the university in his terrible endorsement deals, and here's the kicker... he can't coach very well. He should thank Tyrell Fenroy for keeping his job for as long as he has. Screw upgrading the softball field, let's use money to hire a coach for a sport that will get us recognition outside of Acadiana. _

There are 3 problems with your logic regarding upgrading the softball facility. Firstly, softball is a program within the UL athletic program that deserves a facility that is worthy of their consistent performance record and will enable them to host post-season tourneyment play and even better their chances to continue to be successful. You don't deprive a program that ain't broken to feed a program that is broken unless you want two broken programs. Secondly, the upgrade to the softball field is based mostly if not entirely upon the generosity of a huge fan and alumnus...not from the cajun athletic budget. I believe it is the individual's choice where he chooses to put his money. Now, if you want to ante' up your own money to offset our deficient athletic budget for the sake of football or any other sport, feel free to do so. Lastly, attending a few softball games does not make you a supporter of the program. Softball excells on a shoestring budget because of the efforts of true supporters who donate money and time helping to paint, pressure wash, garden, construct, repair, sweep, cook, etc., etc. for the program.

I hope football rounds the corner...one way or another... Just don't rob Peter to pay Paul.

[Pylon]

Reply from a new guy on the softball vs football funding issue. The challenge is that a healthy football program is the revenue center for most school's athletic programs and UL is no different. Without a healthy football program (and ours is far from that) softball and most other programs will suffer disproportionately. So, we have got get our house in order first. I get the support softball's success argument but what is good for football is good for all. Certainly we have made some steps in the right direction with facility additions and the start of the RCAF but we must continue to move the football program forward and we better do it soon. Step one is a commitment to the recruitment of a qualified head coach that can take this program forward. That will take money and a mind shift from what we have come to expect from the administration. If we want more we have to do more.

[Just1More]

_ Reply from a new guy on the softball vs football funding issue. The challenge is that a healthy football program is the revenue center for most school's athletic programs and UL is no different. Without a healthy football program (and ours is far from that) softball and most other programs will suffer disproportionately. So, we have got get our house in order first. I get the support softball's success argument but what is good for football is good for all. Certainly we have made some steps in the right direction with facility additions and the start of the RCAF but we must continue to move the football program forward and we better do it soon. Step one is a commitment to the recruitment of a qualified head coach that can take this program forward. That will take money and a mind shift from what we have come to expect from the administration. If we want more we have to do more. _

Very good explanation. It is not about, however, shrinking funding or attention to other sports in order to grow a healthier, totally required football program. If we were simply taking the pennies we have and arguing over their distribution, it would be one thing. But, we are talking about demanding our management keep our programs in as great a shape as we can... and absolutely leap 2 decades worth of building and achieving in football through an injection of massive money.

The comedy of it all is... people keep looking in their wallets within our system... asking their traditional friends of UL for a buck or two... and calling THAT an "excellence campaign". BS It has to be heart-pounding and contraversial. We have to hear the rhetoric from the leadership, not that "they care as much or more than we do". I could give a rats butt about that. They get paid and they are the linchpins of whatever we do.

S C R E W any easy talk. S C R E W any "we love the Cajuns"... "we want to win as much as you do"... Show us some d a m n respect and we will take care of the rest. Our management has to get out in front of all of us and bang the gong every minute of every day with the absolute exact verbage I am!

I will absolutely guarantee Dr. S and all of us one thing... if we do not go ballistic in football, we will sit in .500 or less football for the remainder of our existence on earth. There is no way under God's great sun that Cajun football will ever back into any success.... EVER... until and unless these guys get absolutely insane about it. That is THE only way.

This clown talk about nickels to softball versus nickels to football is what has us in the shape we are in today in football. Enough already. There is no comparison whatsoever in the competition or accomplishment accolades in Louisiana or the south that you gain from all sports combined that you gain from accomplishments in FOOTBALL. AND, if you suck in football... you are flat out considered to suck in athletics as a university. So, if anyone who has any ties to the Cajuns has any sense in their skulls, they will begin to put massive pressure... and not the same old BS we've always had... on this administration. They aren't going to like it... you can bank on it.... BUT... it is the only way. Only way. Only... only way!!! Pressure on here doesn't mean jacksquat. Pressure the admin!

[Boomer]

_ I should not have called you dumb. But what I will say is that the attack on Coach Jenkins was wrong. This guy worked hard for the time he was here. Not to say other Coaches didnt. He has always done well by UL. To try and slander him now that he has left is wrong. I think he is a guy that will do a great job as a Head Coach. He is well respected and he does a good job recruiting. Every year he was here his kids have performed. In fact several of the players have stated that they wish he was still here. Every kid a coach brings into a program will not make it or will make a mistake. Just ask U TEN. Do u think they had any ideal those three young men would do what they did. Is the coach that recruited them a bad character guy. Should they not recruite those area's anymore. If Coach bustle stops recruiting that area of florida because of the mistake a kid made then he should not recruite the area that the other kids made mistakes as well. some of those kids made multiple mistakes. Now once again I think Coach jenkins would be great for the job. _

He is the reason we lost Derrick Forroux to McNeese!!!!

[daryl johnson]

_ Dude you are an _____clown, if you think Brian Jenkins is the best that we can do. Seriously, you need to climb out of the bong your living in, and come out into the real world.
Don't you have some game planning to do for Syracuse? Glad to see you won Thursday night, good luck the rest of the way Brian. _

Hey dude never said he was the best I said I thought he would be a guy that we should look at so lets get that straight. Sorry if you dont agree thats fine. I just think we need to get the right guy for the job thats all . Not just a big name guy. Look at the teams that are winning and birng in an assistant that has some drive and desire. Another thing I wish I was in Brian's shoes and was getting ready for the orange. Who do you think should be the guy

[waterboy]

Someone who's had success as a D1 head coach. Not another assistant like Bustle,Baldwin, or Stokley. We've gone that route forever, it's time to spend some money.

[Just1More]

Our AD should first get the top 25 list of recommended coaches from all RCAF members... then go to the neighborhood butcher and use that list to wrap a nice ham bone for his dog. After the dog chews on the hambone and does his work in the yard, the AD should use that list to pick up after the dog and dispose of it.

Then... the AD should go to a professional coaching recruiting service and explain who the Cajuns are. After the guy researches and figures out who he's talking to and stops laughing... then he should interview the AD and ask him if he did what I said to do with the list from the fans.

After that has been put to rest, the recruiting service guy will evaluate our pathetic football mindset and bring in a sports psychiatrist and recommend 8 intense weeks of psychoanalysis for our school's management. They will attempt to both figure out why heads have been buried in colon's for so many decades and why the residual post trauma still manifests itself today... whether we deny it or not. They will extract unhealthy loser thinking and restore a sense of conquering spirit that resides in all successful people.

Once that is done, they will begin to talk about success. The work it requires and the extreme benefits derived from it. They will explain how the fear and pain that it takes to begin your journey toward success begins to become very rewarding in and of itself. As long as you do not revert to climbing back up into your own colon.

Once this process is over, they will begin looking at great football coaching talent across the nation, and specifically in the south. They will have exceptionally stimulating discussions about the reality of being a piece of ankle meat for other teams to gnaw on as they prepare for bowls... or being a predatory team that gets upset when you don't win by 10 touchdowns or more in every game leading up to your bowl.

From that process, they will single out 3 young energetic high IQ UL football coaching candidates and the recruiting consultant will facilitate the courtships. Our management will be prepared to listen, negotiate, take risks, and begin a journey that ensures success. Then... and only then... will UL find out how the other half lives.

[Cayenne Eyeman]

_ Very good explanation. It is not about, however, shrinking funding or attention to other sports in order to grow a healthier, totally required football program. If we were simply taking the pennies we have and arguing over their distribution, it would be one thing. But, we are talking about demanding our management keep our programs in as great a shape as we can... and absolutely leap 2 decades worth of building and achieving in football through an injection of massive money.

The comedy of it all is... people keep looking in their wallets within our system... asking their traditional friends of UL for a buck or two... and calling THAT an "excellence campaign". BS It has to be heart-pounding and contraversial. We have to hear the rhetoric from the leadership, not that "they care as much or more than we do". I could give a rats butt about that. They get paid and they are the linchpins of whatever we do.

S C R E W any easy talk. S C R E W any "we love the Cajuns"... "we want to win as much as you do"... Show us some d a m n respect and we will take care of the rest. Our management has to get out in front of all of us and bang the gong every minute of every day with the absolute exact verbage I am!

I will absolutely guarantee Dr. S and all of us one thing... if we do not go ballistic in football, we will sit in .500 or less football for the remainder of our existence on earth. There is no way under God's great sun that Cajun football will ever back into any success.... EVER... until and unless these guys get absolutely insane about it. That is THE only way.

This clown talk about nickels to softball versus nickels to football is what has us in the shape we are in today in football. Enough already. There is no comparison whatsoever in the competition or accomplishment accolades in Louisiana or the south that you gain from all sports combined that you gain from accomplishments in FOOTBALL. AND, if you suck in football... you are flat out considered to suck in athletics as a university. So, if anyone who has any ties to the Cajuns has any sense in their skulls, they will begin to put massive pressure... and not the same old BS we've always had... on this administration. They aren't going to like it... you can bank on it.... BUT... it is the only way. Only way. Only... only way!!! Pressure on here doesn't mean jacksquat. Pressure the admin! _

I'm afraid I don't quite follow your rant. I agree with Pylon and understand the concept that "Football drives the bus" of the athletic budget both in terms of generating money and expenditures; however, if a single alumnus or group of alumni choose to donate $1 M to support a specific athletic program at our university, who are you, or me, or anyone else to tell them how they should spend the money? This point doesn't make me or other donors of time, money or support clowns. Quite frankly, if you tell that donor how he should spend his money, why would he not tell you to go to hell and keep it or spend it elsewhere. It's his money and his donating it to softball or baseball or any other sport does not take away from football. Football will need to find it's own donations by generating success and creating a market that people will support. And contrary to your argument that football is the only sport that commands respect outside of our area, I disagree. When I think Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina, Duke and many others, I don't think football; I think basketball...all well known programs. When I think Rice and Tulane in years past, I think baseball. La Tech for years was known for women's basketball. We hang our hat on softball, often on baseball and in years past, basketball. There is no shame in having other programs that are successful besides football and inspite of not having a football program that drives the bus. I hope changes are made to the football program and all sports benefit, but in the meantime, don't fix what ain't broken. JMO

[don63]

Check out #3 on this list. They list him as a potential coach here
http://digitalheadbutt.wordpress.com...division-i-aa/