Head Coach Mike Desormeaux

[JMV JustMyView]

Twitter just lost another one of our commits to UTSA about 30 min ago

We can get those guys back.

[Jacob81]

Yes social media is a blaze with the Dez hire a bunch of ...meh

At least Bob Marlin a has complementary coach in football

Can someone find this guys opinion of the Napier hire 4 years ago?? I can’t imagine any positivity.

[CajunVic]

Everybody knows we do Tweeter here, not Twitter . . . all will be fine once things settle down . . .

[Bandwagon King]

As I tried to explain last week, this was a unique coaching hire for UL.

Because every other football hire ever, we were trying to fix something.

Now we are trying to sustain it.

You think Dr. Maggard is taking a chance here. I do not.

I think taking a chance would be to hire ________________, watch him fire the whole staff, watch a dozen or more players enter the transfer portal to go along with the graduating seniors and have to rebuild something that didn't need rebuilding.

Or you take the advice of a man who took your program to heights we've only dreamed of, along with other former coaches who all said the same thing: Mike is ready.

Now, some of you said ( and I totally understand) about Mike never having coached anywhere else....that he needed experience. What you aren't understanding is, the experience was brought to HIM in the person of Billy Napier.

I think promoting from within was absolutely the smartest move. Now, he'll have to make good hires with Toney, Juluke and Hocke leaving. We will miss those guys and there's a reason why Billy is taking them to FL.

And, we know what's going to happen now. Every time we lose a game, some of you will be screaming Maggard made a mistake, just like some of you screamed every time Levi didn't make a play.

Now, to answer some questions that were asked but not answered here.

Mike will be formally introduced Tuesday afternoon. Everyone will be on the road recruiting tomorrow. I'm pretty sure the public will be invited, and I"m sure it will be at the Stadium Club.

Bryan did not give terms of the contract because there are still a couple of things to be worked out. That will be unveiled Tuesday as well. And, yes, Mike does have representation.

Mike was offered the job noon Friday.

As I said earlier in the week, Mike checks every one of Maggard's boxes.

I've known Mike since he set foot on campus. He was one of the best competitors I've ever covered and was as tough as anyone we've had at the QB position. He has a high moral compass. He's a good family man.

I think Dr. Maggard has hit another homer.

Can we put the baseball & big game hunting/big splash talk in the closet. It gives me the wooleys when I know what's about to happen not too far from here with new trophy coach. Besides, there's no such thing as a home run coach without homerun assistants. So all of that talk means didley pooh. My question is what kind of resources & help is Mike going to get to help him get those guys that will make him a home run hire & not an infield fly. Could it be a great hire? It could be the greatest UL hire ever. But it could also be train wreck without the proper support personnel who buy into Mike's system. It's the most important hire in the history of the Louisiana athletic department. That is not debatable.

[cajunhawk]

Didn’t you watch Napier’s presser today??? Stars don’t mean squat.

Billy’s classes got more stars than any class in our history. That’s why we are ranked.

[Jacob81]

Think about it. Napier’s considered a top 20-30 coach in the country. So we expect to replace him with better at UL. Let be real. As good as we’ve been we still aren’t a top 50 job.

Mike D is the man for the job. Wait and see.

[cajunref]

Yes social media is a blaze with the Dez hire a bunch of ...meh

At least Bob Marlin a has complementary coach in football

We get it. You don't like the hire.

[Scott Malkinson]

Can someone find this guys opinion of the Napier hire 4 years ago?? I can’t imagine any positivity.

I was hyped after looking at his coaching tree. Then more so after the staff he brought in with juluke from Texas Tech and RR from SLU.

[Scott Malkinson]

We get it. You don't like the hire.

I mean a postion coach with zero experience outside of Acadiana... I don't see many positives

[Jacob81]

Billy’s classes got more stars than any class in our history. That’s why we are ranked.

I think the point was develop and coach up players. There’s a lot of
6-6 even 5-7 teams with 5 stars on them.

We don’t need to rebuild because we are still building. Best yet to come!!!!

[cajunhawk]

Think about it. Napier’s considered a top 20-30 coach in the country. So we expect to replace him with better at UL. Let be real. As good as we’ve been we still aren’t a top 50 job.

Mike D is the man for the job. Wait and see.

Why aren’t we a top 50 job? We’ve finished in the top 25 two years running, and our coach just got poached by one the elite programs.

Saying this isn’t a job young and hungry coaches wouldn’t fight for is simply incorrect.

The issue here is…Did Maggard hire to Des to keep everything together or because he was the best candidate?

There’s always going to be more than one way to skin a cat. Napier’s way worked, but will it always work? College football evolves at break neck speed.

I want to be dead wrong, but this hire reeks of being too scared to roll the dice and start over from scratch. I’d rather not be the program that tries to repeat what worked in the past while every other program is moving forward trying to find the next big thing.

[Rainman66]

We are getting trounced on thr recruiting trail even after announcing a new coach from the staff.. not a good sign if Dez was our main recruiter

We are losing the Texas kids that Toney recruited.