Cannot defend the trajectory of the program

[RedTails]

Des defender incoming.

Billy also walked into the blank check writing version of our athletic office, along with the joy of not having to deal with college free agency (NIL + Transfer Portal). Which all of you already know, but that's kind of a big deal.

[JMV JustMyView]

Pfftt.. Maggard's only immediate goal is to get this stadium done so he can get tf outta here.

I'm not sure about that. He loves living in Lafayette and is very comfortable and on cruise control. I'm not sure how many other programs are beating down his door with job offers. I heard from third hand folks that he applied at Boise State and UCF and never got an interview.

[Jacob81]

Like the RR guy said,”I am one lottery ticket away from being a millionaire.” Both sound stupid when you think about it!

Great analogy!!! Sarcasm off. If we were getting blown out every week and it looked like Dez lost the team that would be a different situation. We’ve been in every game this year. With all the changes to the game that he stepped into and the fact it’s his first head coaching job. I’ll give him another year to get it going. Should he have been hired with no HC experience? That’s a different subject. He’s the coach we have and hasn’t done enough wrong to be on a hot seat. Not that he is anyway. He’s not getting fired and bought out of his contract. And he definitely won’t do anything to void his contract or lose a buy out.

He’s not going anywhere after Saturday, he doesn’t deserve too, he’s our coach so get on board and support the Cajuns.

[Turbine]

Like the RR guy said,”I am one lottery ticket away from being a millionaire.” Both sound stupid when you think about it!

Both sound stupid but one is reasonable, feasible and seizable while the other leaves you just as close to 300 million wrong options as it does to the right option.

[Big Poppa]

Point is we have talent to win the belt. Dez needs to make some adjustments in the Off-season and see need a better performance on the field next year. If it doesn’t happen then he might not be the guy for the job. Saying we’re back to the Baldwin days or he’s set the program back 10 years is just not true at this point. Am I the only one that wouldn’t be shocked if we win the conference next year?

I was hoping he would see the error of his ways last year and fix them this year. But he didn’t they just seemed to have escalated.

[JMV JustMyView]

I was hoping he would see the error of his ways last year and fix them this year. But he didn’t they just seemed to have escalated.

On the job training is what you get when you hire a high school level coach.

[JamesTheJeweler]

Both sound stupid but one is reasonable, feasible and seizable while the other leaves you just as close to 300 million wrong options as it does to the right option.

Allow me to bestow upon us, wisdom from the great PooPoo Broussard.
"An optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. Well, I'm a realist, me. Either way you gonna need some more damn water."

You can "almost" "coulda woulda shoulda" as much as you want. We didn't. Stop making excuses. He wasn't ready. Period. End of story. He was hired, why? Because he was gonna "keep it going", "maintain the culture". And enough with the NIL/portal excuses. Literally every team dealt with that. Including other teams that also got a new coach. And knowing we were now going to be dealing with this new NIL/portal age, why hire a guy with zero head coaching/play calling experience, and NO college experience other than here at UL? That's insane to think this was gonna go any other way. But hey, keep saying, "Yeah but".....our record is what we are. And certainly, if you WERE gonna hire a guy like DEZ because of the SUPPOSED, "we didnt have the money", then why the hell would you pay Dez 750K???!!!! I don't know why it's so hard for some to just say it was a bad decision. It's madness. And I'd rather spend 1 dollar buying a lottery ticket knowing I'm not gonna win, then to spend the countless amount of money, time and energy on something that keeps promising something, lies to me, makes seemingly everything harder than it should be, and generally, consistently, peeing on my leg and tell me it's raining. All the while, people around you saying, "we almost won". The lottery is a bargain and a no brainer.

[no1cajunfan]

Allow me to bestow upon us, wisdom from the great PooPoo Broussard.
"An optimist says the glass is half full. The pessimist says the glass is half empty. Well, I'm a realist, me. Either way you gonna need some more damn water."

You can "almost" "coulda woulda shoulda" as much as you want. We didn't. Stop making excuses. He wasn't ready. Period. End of story. He was hired, why? Because he was gonna "keep it going", "maintain the culture". And enough with the NIL/portal excuses. Literally every team dealt with that. Including other teams that also got a new coach. And knowing we were now going to be dealing with this new NIL/portal age, why hire a guy with zero head coaching/play calling experience, and NO college experience other than here at UL? That's insane to think this was gonna go any other way. But hey, keep saying, "Yeah but".....our record is what we are. And certainly, if you WERE gonna hire a guy like DEZ because of the SUPPOSED, "we didnt have the money", then why the hell would you pay Dez 750K???!!!! I don't know why it's so hard for some to just say it was a bad decision. It's madness. And I'd rather spend 1 dollar buying a lottery ticket knowing I'm not gonna win, then to spend the countless amount of money, time and energy on something that keeps promising something, lies to me, makes seemingly everything harder than it should be, and generally, consistently, peeing on my leg and tell me it's raining. All the while, people around you saying, "we almost won". The lottery is a bargain and a no brainer.

If Napier was making 2mil a year and was offered 3mil to stay, dont kid yourself when people say there was no money to go out and do a national search and get a guy better than dez just because we couldn't pay. Money is there. MH rolled the dice thinking Dez could keep the momentum going and not have to pay him. Now it's blowing up in their faces just like it did when they hired Baldwin. Their getting exactly what they deserve.

Dez will get another year just because they gave baldwin three years but if things don't get SIGNIFICANTLY better next year a new coach is needed.

[R1Letterman]

If Napier was making 2mil a year and was offered 3mil to stay, dont kid yourself when people say there was no money to go out and do a national search and get a guy better than dez just because we couldn't pay. Money is there. MH rolled the dice thinking Dez could keep the momentum going and not have to pay him. Now it's blowing up in their faces just like it did when they hired Baldwin. Their getting exactly what they deserve.

Dez will get another year just because they gave baldwin three years but if things don't get SIGNIFICANTLY better next year a new coach is needed.

Good post, very interesting.

My only question is why didn't they try and pay Dez even less, if money saving was ultimate goal.
He makes 750k??? Would he have turned down $550k? How does his contract read, could he even have stayed under prior contract just with "other duties as assigned" as most co tracts state? Probably not..... but why an increase? Is that to keep stature of the program to some extent?

[JMV JustMyView]

If Napier was making 2mil a year and was offered 3mil to stay, dont kid yourself when people say there was no money to go out and do a national search and get a guy better than dez just because we couldn't pay. Money is there. MH rolled the dice thinking Dez could keep the momentum going and not have to pay him. Now it's blowing up in their faces just like it did when they hired Baldwin. Their getting exactly what they deserve.

Dez will get another year just because they gave baldwin three years but if things don't get SIGNIFICANTLY better next year a new coach is needed.

What happened to the $3 mil that they Cajuns received from Florida? Nobody talks about that.

[SMD7636]

Hopefully, the 3 million was used to off set our debt from the COVID years.

[JamesTheJeweler]

I swear, this fanbase is like the old MadTV skit, "lowered expectations". The video speaks for itself. You can figure out who RICK is in the video. You? MH? Both?
https://youtu.be/atfDg4fLcks?si=ReUyhX8yUcYJdtxi