Selections for new coach

[ULGrad@HOU]

When the change does come, Please no High School Coach. I don't mind if he has high school coaching experience, but we need someone who knows what they are doing at the college level. Either a very successful lower division college head coach, or a successful assistant at a BCS school. I would even go with a former D1 head coach, like the guy from USM. A coach that is more hands on in recruiting, because that is where success starts.

[jazzpop]

_ Applewhite will be a head coach at a BCS school. I dont think he will have to coach at a mid major first and if he does it will be at a midmajor with a budget more than twice ours. Also a school that isn't known for being a dead end to coaching careers. _

Re: deadend...
wow, didn't realize this until now...every living UL coach ended his career here...all in real estate or insurance or whatever. That's not a great come on.

[JMV JustMyView]

Louis Cook and Brent Indest!!! Proven winners!!!

[Just1More]

No local highschool coach as the HC. I understand it being the first lightly lit bulb that goes off in local heads... but in the bigger scheme... it's the absolute wrong thing to do. The worst decision possible. We are already perceived as mental midgets... we need to stop proving that we are every time we go out in public. We want the other programs we compete with to pick some local highschool coach, in their backyard, as their next college coach.

The next coach... for UL... needs to be a name that is recognizable way beyond the state of Louisiana. We'll get our good local recruits, not by having them say "hey, I played against him in highschool... he's really good", but by having them be impressed that UL has finally done what it takes. If we get a local person, our competition will remind that recruit of how podunk UL is for having selected some local yocal highschool coach. It will cost us way more than it will benefit us. The disconnected fan is not going to reconnect with needed money, if we go 20 miles down the road and pick up some highschool coach.

UL... first and foremost... has to come up with a massive compensation package that couples up to a pay for performance contract. We have to borrow and consider this money as the greatest single investment we can make. It will impress recruits and their mentors in selecting their college, far more than any single item on the list. Then, we simply need to go on a search. The following are ingredients I would like to measure the next candidate against:

1. If it's a guy who is a great coordinator then I want one who is a young up and coming high energy guy. I do not want a poor public speaker and definitely not a coordinator that may have only succeeded because he was at an already established university. That is the biggest mistake. If that individual is the reason talent goes to his program... fine... but we need to stop being impressed by coordinator guys at big schools that coach superstuds successfully.

2. We need to dodge the list that is trying to give some guy whose been buried in the ranks for years, but that the college football world "thinks" is a good choice for UL.

3. The guy we get at UL has to be someone who can work closely with high financial boosters. In other words, given our history, he needs to have a personality that when he engages with people with strong financial means, he overcomes their massive doubts about our administration. The admin needs to suck it up, pick up a hellraiser young high energy coach, and just let him kick this big fat ugly slow system in its big fat ugly slow butt.

4. I would prefer a guy that is a head coach in FCS, is young and energetic, and is at the top of the list for the next mid-major program. If there is a high energy, sharp-minded, coordinator at a mid-major or a BCS, that was a HC in the FCS, then that is the guy we need. But, a key is that he has name recognition within the college football world. We need the pub. All recruits, even some kid in the back part of small town Acadiana, that is a highly touted talent, is going to dismiss the silliness of UL, if our coach isn't a college-known commodity - NO local highschool guy. That reulet wheel left Lafayette 25 years ago.

5. Publicity... it may be as vital to the deal as the brain of the next coach. We need to make a huge step change... by the announcement of a huge compensation package... and the recognizable name of this next great high energy, innovative minded coach.

6. There are two things that kill UL. Being conservative and following the same old beaten path... and not snagging some of the best recruits in south Louisiana. We need a young coach with a seriously high football IQ - at the collegiate level. I think it will work well with parents of recruits and the recruits themselves.

7. There does need to be a local recruiting magnet on the staff. Basketball did it right with Butch Pierre and we need it in football. We have got to understand that and just do it. The "local flavor" needs to be some staff additions that can recruit... THAT should be a conversation with the new HC and the RCAF board. We need a national figure head coach and some local talented position coach recruiting staff members.

8. Keep talking to Savoie/Walker/Farmer. BUT!!!! Get to know the people on the board of RCAF. They are key to forcing improvement in our future athletic system. Business people love the "trouble" and figure out excellent solutions. They focus on the goal and the benefits and don't get caught up in how much work it may require.

[Turbine]

My simple criteria for a hire (when that day arrives) is someone who has been successful in college as a HEAD COACH with a budget smaller than the budget he will have to work with at UL.

[cajuntbob]

Bustle needs to geaux !

UL's Admin. & Boosters need to get on the same page, right now you're not in
the same book. Pony up the bucks, fire his _____ and hire a search committe to find a young acsending college assitant coach from at least a quality mid-major program. Everyone needs to admit this mistake and move the program forward. Wake up, get your money together, do what needs to be done.

As noted earlier in this string, Bustle was better than Baldwin in terms of W-L records at UL. He's teams have been marginally better other than that.

But that is it! He has not made any significant improvements (quality wins consistently, whether inside or outside of the SBC) to the program.

This year is especially dissappionting, it's the second time in 3 years the team has let an opprtunity for an outright conference championship and bowl appearance slip through it's fingers.

Make no mistake, Bustle is the problem. He is and always has been a mediocre coach at best. He's claim of developing QB's at VT is a load of crap.
The Hokies have not missed a beat since Bustle's departure.

My son is a UL grad and former football player under Bustle. We take each loss and losing season personally.

Calling ALL Cajuns, Do what needs to be done. Fire this clown after this season.

Find a real coach, someone who will do right by the players, the university, and by the people who love, support, and are proud of being, Ragin'Cajuns.

[JMV JustMyView]

_ No local highschool coach as the HC. I understand it being the first lightly lit bulb that goes off in local heads... but in the bigger scheme... it's the absolute wrong thing to do. The worst decision possible. We are already perceived as mental midgets... we need to stop proving that we are every time we go out in public. We want the other programs we compete with to pick some local highschool coach, in their backyard, as their next college coach.

The next coach... for UL... needs to be a name that is recognizable way beyond the state of Louisiana. We'll get our good local recruits, not by having them say "hey, I played against him in highschool... he's really good", but by having them be impressed that UL has finally done what it takes. If we get a local person, our competition will remind that recruit of how podunk UL is for having selected some local yocal highschool coach. It will cost us way more than it will benefit us. The disconnected fan is not going to reconnect with needed money, if we go 20 miles down the road and pick up some highschool coach.

UL... first and foremost... has to come up with a massive compensation package that couples up to a pay for performance contract. We have to borrow and consider this money as the greatest single investment we can make. It will impress recruits and their mentors in selecting their college, far more than any single item on the list. Then, we simply need to go on a search. The following are ingredients I would like to measure the next candidate against:

1. If it's a guy who is a great coordinator then I want one who is a young up and coming high energy guy. I do not want a poor public speaker and definitely not a coordinator that may have only succeeded because he was at an already established university. That is the biggest mistake. If that individual is the reason talent goes to his program... fine... but we need to stop being impressed by coordinator guys at big schools that coach superstuds successfully.

2. We need to dodge the list that is trying to give some guy whose been buried in the ranks for years, but that the college football world "thinks" is a good choice for UL.

3. The guy we get at UL has to be someone who can work closely with high financial boosters. In other words, given our history, he needs to have a personality that when he engages with people with strong financial means, he overcomes their massive doubts about our administration. The admin needs to suck it up, pick up a hellraiser young high energy coach, and just let him kick this big fat ugly slow system in its big fat ugly slow butt.

4. I would prefer a guy that is a head coach in FCS, is young and energetic, and is at the top of the list for the next mid-major program. If there is a high energy, sharp-minded, coordinator at a mid-major or a BCS, that was a HC in the FCS, then that is the guy we need. But, a key is that he has name recognition within the college football world. We need the pub. All recruits, even some kid in the back part of small town Acadiana, that is a highly touted talent, is going to dismiss the silliness of UL, if our coach isn't a college-known commodity - NO local highschool guy. That reulet wheel left Lafayette 25 years ago.

5. Publicity... it may be as vital to the deal as the brain of the next coach. We need to make a huge step change... by the announcement of a huge compensation package... and the recognizable name of this next great high energy, innovative minded coach.

6. There are two things that kill UL. Being conservative and following the same old beaten path... and not snagging some of the best recruits in south Louisiana. We need a young coach with a seriously high football IQ - at the collegiate level. I think it will work well with parents of recruits and the recruits themselves.

7. There does need to be a local recruiting magnet on the staff. Basketball did it right with Butch Pierre and we need it in football. We have got to understand that and just do it. The "local flavor" needs to be some staff additions that can recruit... THAT should be a conversation with the new HC and the RCAF board. We need a national figure head coach and some local talented position coach recruiting staff members.

8. Keep talking to Savoie/Walker/Farmer. BUT!!!! Get to know the people on the board of RCAF. They are key to forcing improvement in our future athletic system. Business people love the "trouble" and figure out excellent solutions. They focus on the goal and the benefits and don't get caught up in how much work it may require. _

Both Indest and Cook have coached in college!!! They are not only locally known, remember Indest was on the staff of LA TECH and there head coach was a top assistant with the Miami Dolphins under Saban...

[Zeebart21]

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[Chris V.]

_ My simple criteria for a hire (when that day arrives) is someone who has been successful in college as a HEAD COACH with a budget smaller than the budget he will have to work with at UL. _

As a curious bystander, IF you were the person who had the ultimate decision making authority, and IF that choice were to be made @ the end of the season, who would be the 5 names on your list?

[Just1More]

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Got it. Thanks Z. I really appreciate it.

[usl1969]

Louis Cook should be top proirity!! He was successful as OC back in the day and people like him! Besides what other "proven" HC/coordinator would want to come here? It's been a career ending coaching graveyard with this program over the past several decades! Let Cook come in and try to build the program back up and then when he decides he wants out, hopefully he'll have the program back to some sort of respectability and maybe someone that's "up and coming" might apply for the HC'ing gig. Until then it's highly doubtful that these names being thrown around will even want to sniff this program. Right now the perception of this program is not good, i.e. whinny and chronic complainers, rent a win, etc. That's not a good perception to have and it sux to be classified in those categories!!
Reality of it all is that bustle will probably be given another year since this was/is considered a "rebuilding" year!!
Just wait til that Beamer model really kicks in. LOL LOL LOL!!!

ok bustle is not doing so well and the talk of the town is that everyone wants a new coach. in all honesty if we could get a new one at the end of the season who would you want to shoot for?

My top 3
1. gary bartel (grand prarie H.S.)
2. jenkins (rb coach at rutgers)
3. anyone but bustle

igeaux.mobi

[CajunFan89]

_ As a curious bystander, IF you were the person who had the ultimate decision making authority, and IF that choice were to be made @ the end of the season, who would be the 5 names on your list? _

1) Terry Bowden-HC of North Alabama
2) Bryan Harsin- QB coach and Offensive Coordinator of Boise St.
3) Dick Bumpas- Defensive Coordinator of TCU
4) Rodney Garner- D-Line and Recruiting Coordinator for UGA
5) Tommy Tuberville- Former Auburn HC