UL Coaching Feelers

[cajun4life]

_ The extension was for show. Make no mistake, he's on the hotseat.




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I know what the extension was, don't think I am foolish, Bustle is out of excuses and the 2009 season should have been the one to get us into a bowl game. With that being said I am very confident that we will be in position to go bowling next year.

With the exception of the Georgia game, our OCG are winnable. Ole Miss doesn't have McCluster or Sneed, Okie St. is minus Zac Robinson and Dez Bryant. Ohio had a good year, but it will be an evenly matched game. Sunbelt play is always competitive and Middle should be the favorite, but everyone else is beatable including Troy. So IMO we will be bowling next season.

[CajunProud]

_ Wrong, he coached at UNT as an assistant prior to taking the HC job at Southlake Carrol. _

I stand corrected, Dodge was an offensive assistant for two years (wow, big deal). Cook RAN the offense.

[cajun4life]

_ I stand corrected, Dodge was an offensive assistant for two years (wow, big deal). Cook RAN the offense. _

So what is your point? Cook ran the offense with an eventual Pro Bowl QB, was he successful without Jake? I don't think so. Everyone loves Louis Cook, hell even I do, but he is not the answer and never will be. Everyone needs to get over this local legend BS when it comes to coaches. We are not a high school, hiring a HS coach would do absolutely nothing for us in recruiting or on the field success.

[CajunProud]

_ So what is your point? Cook ran the offense with an eventual Pro Bowl QB, was he successful without Jake? I don't think so. Everyone loves Louis Cook, hell even I do, but he is not the answer and never will be. Everyone needs to get over this local legend BS when it comes to coaches. We are not a high school, hiring a HS coach would do absolutely nothing for us in recruiting or on the field success. _

I don't know if Cook is the answer NOW. He would have been the answer after Stokley was let go had it not been for The Curse. That's all I'm saying. Nothing more, nothing less.

[CajunProud]

_ I know what the extension was, don't think I am foolish, Bustle is out of excuses and the 2009 season should have been the one to get us into a bowl game. With that being said I am very confident that we will be in position to go bowling next year.

With the exception of the Georgia game, our OCG are winnable. Ole Miss doesn't have McCluster or Sneed, Okie St. is minus Zac Robinson and Dez Bryant. Ohio had a good year, but it will be an evenly matched game. Sunbelt play is always competitive and Middle should be the favorite, but everyone else is beatable including Troy. So IMO we will be bowling next season. _

I thought Sneed was coming back for Ole Miss? What happened, did he declare for the draft?

[zephyr]

_ I agree, but my point is that we do not have an opening and we are a complete off-season/spring/fall drills and actual season away from even thinking about a new coach. Personally I want to see Bustle stay and raise the bar even higher. He has turned this program into a respectable program compared to the joke that we were from '97-04.

If and I say if we are in search of a new coach Louis Cook should not even be on the list period. What kind of message would that send? Yes, he is a local high school coaching legend and he was the OC while Jake was here, but that does not even come close to qualifying him for a D1 HC gig. We are no longer a laughing stock program but if we hire a HC from a high school program we would be. _

Agreed. I'd like to see Bustle stay much longer because I truly think he loves this program and it would mean that he's built even more so upon what he has in his tenure thus far.

[Cajunsmike]

_ I thought Sneed was coming back for Ole Miss? What happened, did he declare for the draft? _

Sneed of Ole Miss did declare for the NFL Draft.

[gridiron]

_ Agreed. However Bustle is also becoming a victim of his own "success". I say that because its not like we're winning the conference or anything but he has made it an uneasy feeling to consistently go 6-6. I

Being twice as good as Baldwin aint nothing to write home about.

[VObserver]

_ Being twice as good as Baldwin aint nothing to write home about. _

Quick question, and then the answer. What teams in the SBC have been Bowl Eligible 4 of the last 5 years?

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Bustle ain't as bad as some might think.. But I agree he has a problem with losing one or two every year that he should win.

[zephyr]

_ Being twice as good as Baldwin aint nothing to write home about. _

Some great insight backed up by irrefutable evidence. I stand corrected.