Saturday Was A Great Day

[Big Poppa]

No one here cares about your walk through the mountains. This is a Cajuns forum to talk sports not family walks. I had a great day on my patio watching a pretty dang entertaining football game with my lovely wife and kids. Did we get the outcome we wanted? No. Will we be there to supports our alma mater and home town team next week? Hell yeah.

[JMV JustMyView]

What is most frustrating to me is that in the span of the last 25 years we have gone from FCS losses and 1 win seasons under Baldwin to now being just two years removed from consecutive seasons as the only ranked team in this state (our greatest football seasons), with the longest win streak in the nation yet here we are bleeding fans/alumni support and attendance is trending back to the Baldwin years.

The failure to capitalize on the Napier years is what I find disheartening.

Now you're making sense.

[Turbine]

I thought yesterdays game was very entertaining. I would love to see the true out come with out the bogus PI call and we actually get the 3 and out there that we deserved.

The old adage about winning in spite of refs usually allows for time in the game to overcome.

That striped "game interference" was unacceptable, especially in the closing minutes.

[Turbine]

Bolting fans a mere two years removed from back to back Top-25 finishes and after rising from a history of 1 win seasons should know better than anyone that winning is cyclical and that success will come again.

I would have been wrong but I would have thought it impossible to be jaded after 3 good years.

[cajun55]

Bolting fans a mere two years removed from back to back Top-25 finishes and after rising from a history of 1 win seasons should know better than anyone that winning is cyclical and that success will come again.

I would have been wrong but I would have thought it impossible to be jaded after 3 good years.

Well put, It’s still frustrating that we SUCCEED DESPITE administration decisions and apathetic community/ alumni support. Seeing JMU, App State hosting college gameday, meanwhile we barely get 5,000 vs Regional rival Southern Miss on ESPN.

Just frustrating, makes losing worse when you know the potential we have here at UL yet so many fail to see it or take it for granted, Martin Hall included!

It’s about way more than W & L’s.

[HelmutVII]

Bolting fans a mere two years removed from back to back Top-25 finishes and after rising from a history of 1 win seasons should know better than anyone that winning is cyclical and that success will come again.

I would have been wrong but I would have thought it impossible to be jaded after 3 good years.

It's a combination of things. For some reason the conference thinks it's a good idea to pick up homeless guys from the local circle k to be football and baseball officials, the apparent lack of interest from Martin Hall are two of the main things in my mind. Then the little things like scanners that don't scan, cell service at the stadium that suck so bad you can't download a progam. The young men and women and coaches don't want to lose any more than we do. It's like we take one step forward and 3 steps backwards. It gets to the point of one realizing, " this is crazy why am I putting myself through this".

[R1Letterman]

How would the average lafayette resident not affiliated with the school and viewing from the outside know that the problem.is martin hall. And why would they care to differentiate which decisions/ideas come from martin hall and which come from athletic department?

The little things.... from then on is an excellent post

[R1Letterman]

Gameday does not decide where to go based solely on attendance...
In 2014 game day went to Yale at Harvard when both were only averaging 11k in attendance for conf. Games

[Duggie35]

What is most frustrating to me is that in the span of the last 25 years we have gone from FCS losses and 1 win seasons under Baldwin to now being just two years removed from consecutive seasons as the only ranked team in this state (our greatest football seasons), with the longest win streak in the nation yet here we are bleeding fans/alumni support and attendance is trending back to the Baldwin years.

The failure to capitalize on the Napier years is what I find disheartening.

I couldn't agree more. I am frustrated as well, but to think I would give up after missing only 7 or 8 home games since the late 1970's and having a renovated Cajun Field taking place and living in the most successful 10 years of Cajun Football history is ridiculous and crazy. To believe Cajun Football will go 13-1 or even 8-3 every year is crazy. I agree that CMD must have a better win/loss record within the next couple of seasons (he will still be the coach for another couple of seasons) or a change must be made. We cannot get into another Bob Marlin situation, but giving any coach four years to prove themselves is not unreasonable in my opinion.

It is almost certain that those "fans" jumping off the bandwagon will jump right back on the next time the Cajuns are competing for another Conference Championship. Then they will all claim to have been onboard since the Baldwin years or before!

But each person has the right to do what they feel they have to do. Good luck to all of you. We'll see all of you back on the bus at the new Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium when the Cajuns are back to winning on a higher level again.

[R1Letterman]

What is most frustrating to me is that in the span of the last 25 years we have gone from FCS losses and 1 win seasons under Baldwin to now being just two years removed from consecutive seasons as the only ranked team in this state (our greatest football seasons), with the longest win streak in the nation yet here we are bleeding fans/alumni support and attendance is trending back to the Baldwin years.

The failure to capitalize on the Napier years is what I find disheartening.

Bump.... also we fault martin hall for not publicizing things, but the news, media, and of course eapn didn't help either.... how many of those outlets hyped up tulane last year but were silent when it came to UL winning and leading the state..

[JamesTheJeweler]

So the point of the post is to tell everyone that you are done? Did you stomp your feet on the way out too so that mom knew you were mad?

You sound like Martin Hall. They don't give a $#!+ either. That's exactly why we are where we are. Congratulations.

[JamesTheJeweler]

I couldn't agree more. I am frustrated as well, but to think I would give up after missing only 7 or 8 home games since the late 1970's and having a renovated Cajun Field taking place and living in the most successful 10 years of Cajun Football history is ridiculous and crazy. To believe Cajun Football will go 13-1 or even 8-3 every year is crazy. I agree that CMD must have a better win/loss record within the next couple of seasons (he will still be the coach for another couple of seasons) or a change must be made. We cannot get into another Bob Marlin situation, but giving any coach four years to prove themselves is not unreasonable in my opinion.

It is almost certain that those "fans" jumping off the bandwagon will jump right back on the next time the Cajuns are competing for another Conference Championship. Then they will all claim to have been onboard since the Baldwin years or before!

But each person has the right to do what they feel they have to do. Good luck to all of you. We'll see all of you back on the bus at the new Our Lady of Lourdes Stadium when the Cajuns are back to winning on a higher level again.

So having a new stadium will get us a winning program again? Then why hire another coach. The stadium will take care of everything.