Head Coach Mike Desormeaux

[Gumbeaux]

I am going to say that the behind the scenes things that we as fans don't get to see, probably resonated with CBN enough to confidently endorse CMD.

If CBN gave his blessing, and Maggard inked the deal - I know those two people, better than most, understand where we came from and where the bar is now set.

Congratulations Coach Desormeaux!

[Policarp]

Congrats Coach Des! Looking forward to winning our bowl game in 2 weeks and many more in the season's to come.

Geaux Cajuns!

[Lexhead]

UL Cajuns are expected to promote Michael Desormeaux as their next head coach, sources tell @SINow.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) December 5, 2021

This is very risky. Hope it works out.

This right here. It is going to be an unpopular take. Desormeaux is a great guy. Everyone loves him. The players love him. He is one of us. It is a wonderful "feel good" selection. I just think it is too soon for him. He does not have the depth of experience that we need to take us up to another level. Nor does he have the network needed to find great assistants or to recruit like we need. I hope he surrounds himself with deeply experienced assistants. I also hope that a year from now I have to eat every word of this.

[CajunVic]

Congrats Coach Des! Looking forward to winning our bowl game in 2 weeks and many more in the season's to come.

Geaux Cajuns!

I resemble this post with all my heart . . .

[wcd35]

Don’t let this thread ever get deleted. Going to be plenty of good “I told you so” fodder one way or the other

Best of luck to Coach Dez

[Rainman66]

And exactly how did Bobby Bowden leave? Program sliding downhill and is yet to recover.

After winning National Titles, getting them into a P5 conference and making them nationally relevant on a yearly basis. I will take that in a heart beat.

[CrazyCajun]

High School? Apples and Oranges

You said he hadn’t been a head coach anywhere and he has. Napier hadn’t either before he got here. Mike was a HC before Billy

[cjr3888]

You played at Iota or welsh?

I was his center that year lol.

Loreauville

[KajunKrazy]

I knew this was going to be a tough position to fill. One of my first thoughts was maybe he might be a little young to become head coach of one of the best schools in the group of five. Maybe another year might have helped his resume, but we certainly did not want to
lose him to another school. He certainly would have had many attractive offers after his nuce run here. After further review he did serve as co OC and no telling how much sweat equity he has put into our football program. Billy was not a HC or tenured OC and he worked out well. Years from now we might be talking about Des as one of the great coaches to come from The Napier Coaching Tree. I trust that Dr Maggard feels this hire gives us the best chance for success. And I know how much heart and soul that Des has as a man, a player, and a coach. GEAUX CAJUNS!!

Billy was one of youngest OCs in the country at Clemson and he was OC at Az St. lots of coordinator experience. The OCs here over the last 4 years have been in name only. Billy was the OC and play caller.

[Rainman66]

Considering Napier got less than a million when he hired on and he had substantially more experience than des. I highly doubt he gets paid 1 million

That was 4 years ago. Coaching salary inflation could easily make it $1M.

[CajunFun]

C’mon HCMD, keep this train going. Congrats!

I like this hire for several reasons.

1) We have had great success hiring our own alums, in athletics, and in academics.

2) Michael is family. If he doesn't make it, I'll have no regrets. I'll be glad we gave him the chance.

3) As I mentioned elsewhere, the man is a beast. You needed to see him play.

And for those of you who aren't old enough to know how his face got messed up, he flipped a 4-wheeler in the woods and laid the side of his face wide open. His friends were freaking out.

According to the account I heard, he simply reached up, folded the huge flap of of his face back in place & held it there, and then said calmly to his friends, "Just get me out of here, I'll be OK."

[CajunVic]

This right here. It is going to be an unpopular take. Desormeaux is a great guy. Everyone loves him. The players love him. He is one of us. It is a wonderful "feel good" selection. I just think it is too soon for him. He does not have the depth of experience that we need to take us up to another level. Nor does he have the network needed to find great assistants or to recruit like we need. I hope he surrounds himself with deeply experienced assistants. I also hope that a year from now I have to eat every word of this.

Posters roll these conclusions out like they are fact. What do you really know about CMD qualifications? Do you really think each of those concerns you rolled off were not on Dr. Maggard and CBN’s list as they endorsed and chose CMD as head coach? . . . Do you think CBN pulled his finger out his butt and said “um, it stinks let me support CMD” . . . Do you think Dr. Maggard pulled his finger out his butt and said “um, it stinks, let me hire CMD as head coach” . . .