Glad Hud is in UL's rearview miror.

[CajunRebel]

I don’t know why people were expecting us to improve overnight. Hud’s first year was a fluke. Bustle left him a good team, he stole away some really good MSU recruits, and we still eked by and won a bunch of miracle games. This is not the kind of thing that happens every time a new coach comes in.

This is a rebuilding process. Napier had little time to recruit. This year won’t tell us much about how well coach Napier will do. A game against Grambling or MSU will tell us even less.

Saban lost to ULM his first year at Alabama. Sit back and relax guys. It will be a minute before we can start panicking/rejoicing.

[Boomer]

Grambling's 2 QBs with zero starting experience ran on us.....we have a wide open hole being exploited that needs to be plugged by our defense. Just not sure how we fix this with current personnel.

.......I go back to my pre game post of needing a “Spy’ Type defense on their QB.....prediction becomes reality!!!

[LifeTimeCajun]

We have DJ Loomey on our staff who was on the State staff last year. Same advantage they had with Hud. What gets overlooked is when you have SEC or ACC talent as a coach...it’s easy to look good. But you give that same coach lower mid major talent, he doesn’t look the same. And you have to do double or triple the work to get the same result. I’ve heard Napier say more than once “we have to do a better job as coaches putting them in a position to be successful.” It’s gonna be a big adjustment this year trying to figure that recipe for success out with this group. I expect them to get it right...but it’s gonna take several games to do so. Playing 2 really good sec teams this early and this close together will make it pretty tough on the entire staff to really figure things out

[Turbine]

We have DJ Loomey on our staff who was on the State staff last year. Same advantage they had with Hud.

Not exactly the same advantage.

D.J. Looney, spent 2017 learning to do his job at Mississippi State. He doesn't, couldn't know every MSU players tendencies intricately. In 2016 he was a grad assistant at a different school.

Hud knows many/most of the UL players from the proverbial recruiting ground up. "This guy bites on a fake to the left. etc. type of thing. ...

Similar but different, huge advantage Hud/MSU.

[Cajunsmike]

Not exactly the same advantage.

D.J. Looney, spent 2017 learning to do his job at Mississippi State. He doesn't, couldn't know every MSU players tendencies intricately. In 2016 he was a grad assistant at a different school.

Hud knows many/most of the UL players from the proverbial recruiting ground up. "This guy bites on a fake to the left. etc. type of thing. ...

Similar but different, huge advantage Hud/MSU.

I liked what Coach Napier said this morning in his interview with Stevie P. He admitted the performance was embarrassing. He also said we need to focus on solutions to the problems instead of focusing on the problems.

[Turbine]

I liked what Coach Napier said this morning in his interview with Stevie P. He admitted the performance was embarrassing. He also said we need to focus on solutions to the problems instead of focusing on the problems.

I like that, because the problem of having an opposing coach who know your players tendencies as good or better than you, won't happen again. Perhaps never again.

"Solution found, problem solved."

[CajunAmos]

I like that, because the problem of having an opposing coach who know your players tendencies as good or better than you, won't happen again. Perhaps never again.

"Solution found, problem solved."

Don't we play MSU next year?

[cajun4life]

Look, if we execute at a rate of 85% we still lose that game by 3 scores. We just aren’t there yet.

[Turbine]

Don't we play MSU next year?

Yes. A year from now Hud's advantage weakens dramatically.

[CharlieK]

If they didn't have HUD they still would have throttled us.