Live Game Talk: Louisiana vs. Northwestern State

[Esqueleto]

As far as attendance, if the numbers were based on scanner, it may be low. I had an odd experience. I do not have season tickets this year because last year I had family pack and my grandkids did not attend but like once. This year I decided to just play it by ear and buy tickets if needed. I bought myself a ticket this week at the Cajun Dome box office. They printed my ticket without me asking. I guess that is what they did with all in person sales. When I got to the gate to enter the game, The student looked at my ticket and said "you have to have an electronic ticket, we cannot scan a paper ticket." I was kind of frustrated and it probably showed. About that time another person came up and said to just let me in without scanning anything.

They need to prepare these kids better for this. I would have gladly taken an electronic ticket at the CD box office. I have an account with RCAF and season tickets to basketball. A printed ticket was all I was offered.

My paper tickets were scanned with ease. That's not the problem. Did he even attempt to scan?

[Crawfish]

My paper tickets were scanned with ease. That's not the problem. Did he even attempt to scan?

No, which I thought was odd.

[MetryCajun]

Agree with all the positives and negatives posted here.
On the QB front…it is the single most important position and that player has the most control on the outcome of close games. We had a true difference maker here for 3 years. Post Levi the staff is struggling to find which one of our flawed QBs is best.
We will probably be in 4-6 one possession games and we need a leader that can sometimes make a play out of nothing. From what we have seen Woolridge and Fields are both serviceable QBs, but not the type of players to lift an offense. Chriss is intriguing but he is obviously not better because he would be starting if he was.
It will be interesting to see this season play out. Is the OL really that bad at pass protection? Do we really have stone hand TE? Should we go to a 65/35 run/pass offense?
Bottom line is the staff has a lot of work ahead. There are no obvious answers to getting the offense back to what it was 3 years ago.

[ragincajun97]

When the game started I thought it was close to 20k

[Million$Mullet]

Offense was not on point. Hopefully they find their rhythm. Defense will keep us in every game this year. With any kind of consistency with the offense this is a 70 point game. NWST is not a good team.

[JMV JustMyView]

Offense was not on point. Hopefully they find their rhythm. Defense will keep us in every game this year. With any kind of consistency with the offense this is a 70 point game. NWST is not a good team.

Next opponent will present a greater test for sure.

[JMV JustMyView]

When the game started I thought it was close to 20k

20K in a newly renovated Cajun Field will look blah.

[cajun55]

20K in a newly renovated Cajun Field will look blah.

Hopefully we open it with a better opponent. What can we really expect vs an FCS and minimal area marketing, however 20k should always be the minimum.

[Policarp]

Just did my rewatch......

Defense gets a solid A. They did pretty much everything expected. Played as a cohesive unit at a high level......including tackling. I don't recall any obvious missed tackles the entire game.

I'm expecting our OL/QB to improve in week 2. Kinda hard not to......they didn't sustain a single long, time consuming drive the entire game.

OL had plenty issues. BUT.....At same time.....QB has to know where his hot route is. My biggest concern after watching game again is the large # of inaccurate SHORT passes. Ben was late in finding his hot route and when he did the passes were mostly terrible. At least 5 should have been caught......at same time most of these incomplete passes were within 5-10 yards from the line of scrimmage.

[BeauCajun]

Offense was not on point. Hopefully they find their rhythm. Defense will keep us in every game this year. With any kind of consistency with the offense this is a 70 point game. NWST is not a good team.

Good observation.

On a side note, thank you for the refreshments last night.

[JMV JustMyView]

Hopefully we open it with a better opponent. What can we really expect vs an FCS and minimal area marketing, however 20k should always be the minimum.

20K should be the floor, but is more like the ceiling. What good opponent can they get to come to Lafayette?

[JMV JustMyView]

Good observation.

On a side note, thank you for the refreshments last night.

Bud light?