When the coaching staff is high on a recruit

[CajunVic]

First of all, we offered Napier a sizable salary increase to try to keep him here when Florida came calling. Ticket sales were no higher then and there was no discernable difference in RFAF funding from when we made that offer to Napier and hired Des. So, this whole thing about having to hire Des because we had no money to get a bigger name is dumb as ____. We never would have been able to even try to keep Napier with this so called $6 million deficit which I've never seen confirmed but ok.

You be you and I will be me. Dumb and naive is the thought that we could pay for some of the names thrown out here.

Anyone with any degree of ethics or honesty knows that whatever was offered to Napier was at most going to be a one time payment as he had already risen to the level where we could no longer afford him. It’s a nice gesture but it’s phoney money. It was never paid and it would have never been enough to retain him or hire the types of names that were being thrown around.

I say again, name the coach, the amount he would have taken and where the money would have come to pay him and cover the $6mm deficit, and we can talk. Otherwise continue to fanaticize in la la land . . .

[zephyr]

You be you and I will be me. Dumb and naive is the thought that we could pay for some of the names thrown out here.

Anyone with any degree of ethics or honesty knows that whatever was offered to Napier was at most going to be a one time payment as he had already risen to the level where we could no longer afford him. It’s a nice gesture but it’s phoney money. It was never paid and it would have never been enough to retain him or hire the types of names that were being thrown around.

I say again, name the coach, the amount he would have taken and where the money would have come to pay him and cover the $6mm deficit, and we can talk. Otherwise continue to fanaticize in la la land . . .

First of all, I don't have to name a coach. I didn't know who the hell Napier was when he hit our radar and neither did you. We got him for what we hired Des for, remember? I'm not in the business of scouting coaches and neither are you so, again, all you can do is just presume. Also, you have no ____ing idea how long Napier would have stayed had we made our 'phoney money" offer. To say that is reckless and just dumb so I will definitely take your advice and let you be you. We've got 22,000+ posts of watching you be you.

[CajunVic]

And you not presuming way up there is la la land . . . your ___ is making you really look bad . . . or shall I say worse than you ordinarily look on here . . . you can’t provide a viable answer to one single question concerning the very topic you are lodging complaints about . . . par for the course . . . And who is to say CMD is not the next Napier . . . He is on course . . .

[Turbine]

You be you and I will be me. Dumb and naive . . .

This will not age well with the ADD readers.

[CharlieK]

I hope not if so they need to fire the academic staff. You obviously don’t have a clue of the number of academic casualties because people weren’t doing their job.

He never has a clue.

[Cajun Monkee]

For some reason I thought Chantz already said he was coming to the Cajuns. But I could be wrong.

I don’t know either way. Sorry if it came across that he might not be coming.

I hope he is. Sounds like an incredible athlete and my daughter says he is probably the best young man to come out of Carencro athletics since she’s been there.

[KajunKrazy]

You guys act like UL had an out of ordinary mass exodus of players. I mean you do realize the same thing is going to happen this season, next season & the season after that? You adapt, you improvise, you reload, or you fall by the way side & get run over.

Go listen to Jays latest podcast with Dr Maggard he said the number of kids Des didn’t have from the previous years roster was 45. I knew it was in the neighborhood of 50. Thats out of 85 scholarship players.

He will be much better this year. IMO.

[Turbine]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Baldwin leave Bustle in even worse shape?

On top of that, I seem to remember Bustle being so concerned about future APR, that he only signed 17 to his first class.

[CrazyCajun]

Go listen to Jays latest podcast with Dr Maggard he said the number of kids Des didn’t have from the previous years roster was 45. I knew it was in the neighborhood of 50. Thats out of 85 scholarship players.

He will be much better this year. IMO.

that is only entire 2 deep on both sides of the ball, id say that's a mass exodus

[CrazyCajun]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Baldwin leave Bustle in even worse shape?

On top of that, I seem to remember Bustle being so concerned about future APR, that he only signed 17 to his first class.

did baldwin leave this place worse than napier? is that really a question?