Head Coach Mike Desormeaux

[raginsaints]

When is Des’s presser?

[Cajun Monkee]

Anybody with a set of eyes can see Levi’s weaknesses. Because he shows them consistently. I’m not gonna get into your CHNI straw man shuffle you got rolling today (bias is showing padnuh).

You said that we had film that was 24 hours old that proved Levi was a bad quarterback.

Not only did that film show us that Levi (Suspiciously named the second best quarterback in the conference) outplayed the conference is newcomer of the year, but he did it for the second time this year.

I think your assessment of Levi is either painfully uninformed, painfully ignorant, or just simply biased in the fact that you don’t want to admit that you’re wrong in your assessment of him.

But I digress.

A week or two ago, I started a thread about where we were going with regard to hustling up and bustling up, then holding the rope, and now living the #cULture.

My point being that we can’t change our direction for a fourth time with a fourth coach.

Whether or not it was read I even sent the same thoughts to the athletic administration.

I think Mike is what we wish for in all our fantasies: the local kid who gets hired to our alma mater, has success, and stays.

Mike played under a coach that I think jaywalker called and offense of genius (maybe I’m taking liberty with his description)

Mike coached under the turmoil with Hud.

And Mike was kept by Napier and has been there the whole four years.

I think Mike has some good bona fides. And maybe he just gets it.

Yeah, it’s A risk.

But I’ll still see all y’all at Cajun Field next fall.

[cajunhawk]

I hate that term “optics”. It’s either good or bad. I personally am surprised and was thinking he would be OC here or somewhere or a FCS coach first, but clearly Maggard thought he was ready.

I’m sure Maggard knew there would be doubts. I’m sure he knows it’s a little out of left field for those outside the program. All word from in the program is overwhelmingly positive.

I was thinking the best thing for Des to do was to not get the job, leave and go do it elsewhere. If Maggard liked what he saw, let’s roll the dice and hope it’s not snake eyes. This could be a foundational hire for a long term successful head coach. It could be a wet fart also. I trust Maggard. But I think we need to have an extra pair of draws just in case.

[cajunhawk]

You said that we had film that was 24 hours old that proved Levi was a bad quarterback.

Not only did that film show us that Levi (Suspiciously named the second best quarterback in the conference) outplayed the conference is newcomer of the year, but he did it for the second time this year.

I think your assessment of Levi is either painfully uninformed, painfully ignorant, or just simply biased in the fact that you don’t want to admit that you’re wrong in your assessment of him.

But I digress.

A week or two ago, I started a thread about where we were going with regard to hustling up and bustling up, then holding the rope, and now living the #cULture.

My point being that we can’t change our direction for a fourth time with a fourth coach.

Whether or not it was read I even sent the same thoughts to the athletic administration.

I think Mike is what we wish for in all our fantasies: the local kid who gets hired to our alma mater, has success, and stays.

Mike played under a coach that I think jaywalker called and offense of genius (maybe I’m taking liberty with his description)

Mike coached under the turmoil with Hud.

And Mike was kept by Napier and has been there the whole four years.

I think Mike has some good bona fides. And maybe he just gets it.

Yeah, it’s A risk.

But I’ll still see all y’all at Cajun Field next fall.

Game I was at showed us go up on App State and then watched Levi struggle to be a QB letting App back in the game. He made good throws, and his run was a thing of beauty. Unfortunately he made way more bad decisions and terrible throws. That game should not have been close at all.

[Turbine]

Has there ever been a situation where a hire was not approved?

That was in response to someone who said his being a HC at Louisiana was already part of his resume.

[JamesTheJeweler]

I trust in Maggard. That said…I’m not understanding how this is the best hire we could make right now.

Agree 100%

[Turbine]

Seems like we did what Notre Dame did. They could have hired just about any head coach in the country. But they promoted within a guy with no previous head coaching experience. I support the hire and think we have enough of the negative discussion. Time we all get on board with this. We'll see soon enough as Coach Des leads UL to the NO Bowl.

Norte Dame thinks they are invincible sometimes, and it has caused them to make stupid mistakes.

They once hired a high school coach.

[RaginDave]

I wonder if ascension episcopal head football coach Matt Desormeaux joins the staff in some capacity.

[RedTails]

Think CMD brings Lamar Morgan back home?

[CajunVic]

Agree 100%

Two in a row’s strong suite is not understanding . . . Oh well . . .