A Conversation With Dr. Maggard

[CajunVic]

What is wrong with cheese?!?

It means you have just done a substantial amount of whining about your athlete, coach or university.

[cajungrad2001]

Just wanted to thank you for the excellent podcast this morning and for all the podcasts that is published on this site. Thanks to all the different podcasts that helps me get my Cajun fix for the week . Wouldn’t be the same for sure without all the different podcasts.

[Scott Malkinson]

How refreshing it was to listen to the state of our program as described by our great AD.

It looks like many here need to listen well to what he has to say because it paints a totally different picture than the portrait generally painted here.

Kudos to our AD and all of our athletic programs discussed here by him and to those who generally paint a similar portrait here of our athletics programs as you heard from Dr Maggard in this podcast.

To the others with cheese in their mouths, it may be prudent to listen attentively and learn a little bit . . .

Cheese eaters are suck azzes where I'm from

[JamesTheJeweler]

Cant say enough how incredibly lucky we are to have Maggard here!!

[RedTails]

My ears perked up when he was talking about football schedule far out in the future and he said "if I'm even still here." I'm too nervous for you to be saying that Dr. Maggard.

[CajunEXPRESS]

Just wanted to thank you for the excellent podcast this morning and for all the podcasts that is published on this site. Thanks to all the different podcasts that helps me get my Cajun fix for the week . Wouldn’t be the same for sure without all the different podcasts.

I must add these podcasts have vastly improved since they started last year. Roarman is great, RaginReview and Prather and Jay. All extremely well done.

Back in the day USL was invisible outside the Lafayette metropolitan hub. Nothing on the Nola papers TP, and States Item. You could get a little on the old Morning Advocate, the best sports section in the state, and an occasional comment on WWL AM radio.

There was a section in the TP that covered the top 25 football. Two or three sentences. Of course we never quite got to that.

[Turbine]

How refreshing it was to listen to the state of our program as described by our great AD.

It looks like many here need to listen well to what he has to say because it paints a totally different picture than the portrait generally painted here.

Kudos to our AD and all of our athletic programs discussed here by him and to those who generally paint a similar portrait here of our athletics programs as you heard from Dr Maggard in this podcast.

To the others with cheese in their mouths, it may be prudent to listen attentively and learn a little bit . . .

Unlike you, I heard everything I've heard here. The key difference being, on the podcast I heard it from a person in authority.

I know the quote you had to love "focus on the letter not the number." I think he was paraphrasing you.

I appreciate his admitting his inexperience when it came to basketball scheduling.

[CajunT]

Yesterday I sat down for about 40 minutes with Dr. Maggard and we covered a variety of topics.

(In no particular order)

1. Where we stand with Cajun Field renovations?
2. The process of adding teams to the Sun Belt Conference
3. Will the new teams conceivably join by next season?
4. What is the likelihood the Cajuns go to one of the five bowls contracted to the SBC?
5. His thoughts on Commissioner Gill.
6. Basketball scheduling
7. Football scheduling.
8. The SBC championship game
9. Having nine nationally televised games
10. The status of LR/UTA
11. Can anything be done about the number of home midweek games we have in one season.

The conversation should be available late today or tomorrow. Go to the "Ragin' Cajuns Connection" graphic on the athletic website.

Hope you enjoy it. We cover a LOT.

Great! So let me eat crow now and congratulate Sun Belt Commissioner Keith Gill on delivering 4 new members to the conference. I was vocally skeptical of his lack of experience in such matters and he has proven my opinions to be misplaced.

[CajunVic]

Lots of crow on many subjects needs to be eaten here after listening to Dr. Maggard in this podcast. T has stepped up, it will be interesting to see who else steps up.

[Turbine]

Lots of crow on many subjects needs to be eaten here after listening to Dr. Maggard in this podcast. T has stepped up, it will be interesting to see who else steps up.

You will have to be specific because I don't see any crow that needs to be eaten.

[Duckster]

All your questions hit the nail on the head. Will listen this evening.
Thank you sir!

[CajunVic]

You will have to be specific because I don't see any crow that needs to be eaten.

Denial or deletion does not make anything go away. There is plenty that was said by Dr. Maggard to address probably 90% of the bietching that goes on over here. And there is a lot of bietching going on here. You obviously delete it from your noggin when you delete it from RP.