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[Boomer]

. . . sonsissymia . . . can you give us some Cliff’s notes on this post . . .

-----hey Doc Fun---bACK TO MY JAY DAYS----"Quo usque tandem abutere Catalina patientia nostra"-----My patience for the Louisiana athletics name was growing slim....but finally---thanks again for your time and great research!!!

[Turbine]

120-POUND WEIGHT CLASS

Louisiana's Donald Harper won the National Title in 1942.

Louisiana was National "Team" Runner-up twice.

[CajunFun]

"I went back through my lengthy chronology on the history of UL and of the Cajuns & Creoles"

Can you post part of or link to this?

It's 18 double-spaced pages, 3600 words...

[CajunFun]

Another timeline perspective is their arrival was 8 years before the King James Bible was translated into English and published.

"Ragin' Cajuns: Older than the King James Bible"

Now there's a slogan...

[CajunFun]

I read this trivia a lot recently with his induction into the Louisiana Hall of Fame.

However Athletic excellence predates this.

In 1941 Louisiana's Louie Campbell (under the guidance of Coach Gee) won the National Heavyweight Boxing Title.

One of his teammates (lighter weight class) came in second.

Great! I added that to the timeline.

[CajunFun]

I miss visiting it as well.

Appreciate the historic perspective Doc. I am still in CMD's corner, but he will need to solve the puzzling week-to-week inconsistencies. I know a lot of people call him a "one-of-us" hire, but CMD victories sure do feel better primarily because of that.

Also, Dr. Stephen's didn't have to worry about other university presidents coming take his maturing oak trees with gas-powered tree spades.

Their gas-powered stuff is working less and less well. I need to do a post about that.

Patience, Grasshopper. We both saw Michael play. He was the third of our local products (fourth if you go back to Dwight Prudhomme) and like all of them, he reflected our local culture: work hard; don't complain; don't be intimidated by anyone; and keep the faith.

That last one is key. FORTVNA AVDES IVVAT: fortune favors the bold.

There was a difference with Mike, however: when the pocket collapsed, Lord have mercy on whomever was in his way. Des just busted people up.

Here's THP #1: Mike is a terrific recruiter. And we are in one of the most talent-rich states in the nation. The richer schools will constantly poach our talent, but Mike will find replacements.

THP #2: the team takes on the personality of the leader. It may take awhile, but the Cajuns are going to be like Mike: tough, fierce, unintimidated, sometimes out-played, but never out-worked.

We are not going to have a Saban team, a Kirby Smart team, nor even a Billy Napier team. We are going to have something like a Robichaux team. Mike will keep us up there on the stage (and really, why do we play football except to expose and promote the U?), he may occasionally bring us a top 5 finish, maybe even a NC one day.

But most coaches make a lot of compromises to win their NCs, and one of them is that the kids, their educations, and their futures, come second. Or lower. I don't want that. You don't want that.

And Mike sure as hell doesn't want that.

We need to keep our eye on the ball. Which is ironic, because the game ball isn't the ball we need watch.

[CajunFun]

So I realize that I left out a few important things.

First, the 4 black priests at Immaculate Heart were preceded by the black nuns of the Sisters of the Holy Family, founded in New Orleans in 1842. They created a school in Lafayette in 1903, and were put in charge of the Holy Rosary Institute in 1913. That was very influential in the region.

Second, in 1968 the Art Center for Southwestern Louisiana opened on land donated by Maurice Heymann. This would become the Hilliard Art Museum in 2004. (In response, LSU created their university art museum, but in a puzzling move they located it in the downtown, over a mile from LSU.)

Finally, and this is more trivia than a comment on our growth, in 1941 Fletcher purchased a Piper Cub for SLI, and offered Civilian Pilot Training. One of the students was Jefferson DeBlanc, who won the Congressional Medal of Honor during WWII. Badly injured after an amazing series of air battles, he swam for hours to a beach, but was captured by headhunters. They traded him to a tribe friendly with the US for a bag of rice.

One of my friends relayed that DeBlanc said, "Not many men can tell you what their lives are worth, but I can.

"A bag of rice."

[Policarp]

UL would be wise to promote "aka require" significant research funding commitments directly or in conjunction with peer institutions for any access to NIRC assets. This could (possibly quite easily) get UL over the 1/2 billion a year sum in research quickly. New Lab in NI is a great start. Most new research would likely be privately funded by pharmaceutical giants. Would guess FDA, military etc would then fall in line as huge clients as well. Have a near monopoly at NIRC.....leverage this wisely and its all very very doable.

[R1Letterman]

It's 18 double-spaced pages, 3600 words...

Awesome!

[R1Letterman]

"Ragin' Cajuns: Older than the King James Bible"

Now there's a slogan...

And his coat of arms had Fleur-de-lys