Napier Names Roberts New Defensive Coordinator

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Louisiana football head coach Billy Napier has announced that former Southeastern Louisiana head coach Ron Roberts has joined the program as the new Defensive Coordinator.

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UL football announced Friday that it has filled two coaching positions, including the hiring of Southeastern Louisiana head coach Ron Roberts as its new defensive coordinator.

Roberts resigned his position with the Lions, who went 6-5 last season, on Friday to take the UL job.

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[RaginDave]

Anyone else think this is a pretty big deal. Grabbing a head coach from SLU to to take a coordinator job with us. I like this move.

[Turbine]

Anyone else think this is a pretty big deal. Grabbing a head coach from SLU to to take a coordinator job with us. I like this move.

I do.

This should quite any anti-UL recruiting angles that might be used by in-state FCS schools.

[KajunKrazy]

We had a former SLU head coach as DC under hud. I hope this one works out better.

[Turbine]

We had a former SLU head coach as DC under hud. I hope this one works out better.

Lucas' last year as HC was 2011. His first year at UL was 2016

[cajun_lannister]

Lucas' last year as HC was 2011. His first year at UL was 2016

He was the DC at northwestern state when we hired him & his defense was pretty terrible but created turnovers and you know how much our previous coach loved turnovers

[CajunEXPRESS]

We had a former SLU head coach as DC under hud. I hope this one works out better.

I'm thinking more like Robe getting Szcfc. That was pretty successful for both.

[CrazyCajun]

Hud didn’t bring Mike Lucas here to be the DC

[Cajunfanatico]

We had a former SLU head coach as DC under hud. I hope this one works out better.

We had a lot of things under Hud that needed to work out better.

[cajun_lannister]

Hud didn’t bring Mike Lucas here to be the DC

He brought him in as defensive assistant ..When lucus took over as DC he had the greatest linebacker core UL has ever seen which hid a lot of his coaching inabilities that .. when they left his true abilities were shown

[CrazyCajun]

He brought him in as defensive assistant ..When lucus took over as DC he had the greatest linebacker core UL has ever seen which hid a lot of his coaching inabilities that .. when they left his true abilities were shown

Point being he wasn’t brought here to run our defense. He got the position under circumstances. He was brought here to coach LB’ers.