Manchurian candidate of UL athletics

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Rant time…pull your toes in.

Other than FB, BB, MBB and SBL, what’s the fan base approach here with other sports? It’s absolutely a mindset of meh, don’t care. It’s a freaking cancer is what it is.

Look at other programs. Look at LSU. Look even at McLeast. Fans might not even attend those sports, but you know what? Their people care if they look bad. Here, we break off into little cliques. “Well, at least my sport is ok”. It’s not.

The hot topic first…the #1 “not my sport”.

We have “outrage” when MBB been actually dying on the vine for decades.
RR has been promoting doing something. But a legacy as a solution isn’t change; it’s going back to USLing. Change IS needed simply because it’s been sliding for years. MH tried hiring GC, ended up with last minute Lee was as a life ring and hired local support. And what happened, significant decline in attendance and performance. I expect “oh there were penalties” mantra, but then USL bounced back quickly after having NO team. Why give a pass here? CBM happens to be coach when it finally reached critical mass. MH is backed in a corner financially, so no fix is coming for a few years unless he retires. But the writing is on the wall, more is coming.

FB is in deep trouble. All money will flow here. The same infectious behaviors. And what’s happening? Nothing, until the stadium is done. But with the reseating plan coming out, many will take the “I’m not frying like an egg” approach and maybe come back in 3 years. You want a reason for a FOIA request? How many actual RCAF members are there? Access to that number went away. But alas, the university kept RCAF from being autonomous, they know. I promise many of you will want to know that number months before you’re assigned your RCAF reseating number. And the number after the reshuffle.

Baseball was getting meh in Robe’s last few years but it got turned around. Few whispered it or casually posted it here, but it was real. Deggs is Maggard’s second best hire after Napier. Keeps it afloat for now.

Softball, it’s coming. Softball is MH’s favorite sport, loved the little girls playing and Mr. Lamson covered the bills. Those days are slowly ending, the core fan base is aging out. The tail is starting to wag the dog. CGG was a great hire. But times are changing and the hires are becoming USL hires and not the best hires. Like Des, what program would have hired JR, especially a perennially ranked program? Think about it, CGG, with all his connections, hires a coach with zero paid NCAA softball coaching history?

T&F, gosh, once a great program. Today, a great athlete passes thru every few years.

WSOC, WBB, MTEN, WTEN and golf exist just for numbers. First, last, nobody cares.

The administration always been gun shy with success since MBB got busted. The cancer is flat out fan apathy.

And that allows MH to lord over athletics like a nun with a ruler. You “older” fans know exactly what that means.

They f’ed over the Greek system, athletics is next. Working on private money research, going to surpass LSU. Nice, but that same model can’t apply to athletics they will sadly learn.

Hell, nobody connected the dots for the east side of CF other than “state money”. LSU needed 100 mil for the PMAC. UL got their money, ULM getting their arena fixed, McNeese tons of hurricane related money and it goes on. Follow the money when it comes to getting votes. Nice move, not fan driven. And note, same period the lack of the use of “Louisiana” was a topic. We fought for Louisiana now jam it every freaking time down their throats. Get on the same page starting with freshmen orientation.

In the end, who is the Manchurian candidate of UL athletics?

It’s not a single person, it is the system we’ve allowed to permeate UL. RCAF isn’t large enough to break away, and history says, with MH, “that’s ok”. And for a long time, the fans said “that’s ok” too.

MH will have a very hard decision coming up. Either get creative fundraising, go max in state funding or chunk it in. I’d recommend option 1. The day is quickly approaching where that 3% will get cut. The state is broke, won’t go any further with that. But a day of reckoning is coming. Option 3 will result in more “outrage” but no results.

To paraphrase some phantom person on Twitter a few years back, a lazy one block search for money isn’t going to cut it.

I’ve attended UL sporting events for most of the last half century. I’m tired, and ready not to GAF.

But it’s bigger than a person, and designed and working as Huey wanted it.

[RaginScotsman]

Softball, it’s coming. Softball is MH’s favorite sport, loved the little girls playing and Mr. Lamson covered the bills. Those days are slowly ending, the core fan base is aging out. The tail is starting to wag the dog. CGG was a great hire. But times are changing and the hires are becoming USL hires and not the best hires. Like Des, what program would have hired JR, especially a perennially ranked program? Think about it, CGG, with all his connections, hires a coach with zero paid NCAA softball coaching history?

Lots of good points, but I will correct you on the JR comment. On the surface, it may seem like a similar hire to Des. We respect and root of both guys, of course. JR has done well in a short period of time. Not sure if it's been talked about and I won't go into too much detail because it's secondhand info, but we nearly lost him to one of the "big boys" or girls in the offseason. Got a promotion out of it and I think it was a good thing.

They just need to figure out their chemistry. Softball is still recruiting at a top level. They will as long as Glasco is there and we stay relevant. Even with one down season, history says you won't keep them down for long.

[HelmutVII]

Rant time…pull your toes in.

Other than FB, BB, MBB and SBL, what’s the fan base approach here with other sports? It’s absolutely a mindset of meh, don’t care. It’s a freaking cancer is what it is.

Look at other programs. Look at LSU. Look even at McLeast. Fans might not even attend those sports, but you know what? Their people care if they look bad. Here, we break off into little cliques. “Well, at least my sport is ok”. It’s not.

The hot topic first…the #1 “not my sport”.

We have “outrage” when MBB been actually dying on the vine for decades.
RR has been promoting doing something. But a legacy as a solution isn’t change; it’s going back to USLing. Change IS needed simply because it’s been sliding for years. MH tried hiring GC, ended up with last minute Lee was as a life ring and hired local support. And what happened, significant decline in attendance and performance. I expect “oh there were penalties” mantra, but then USL bounced back quickly after having NO team. Why give a pass here? CBM happens to be coach when it finally reached critical mass. MH is backed in a corner financially, so no fix is coming for a few years unless he retires. But the writing is on the wall, more is coming.

FB is in deep trouble. All money will flow here. The same infectious behaviors. And what’s happening? Nothing, until the stadium is done. But with the reseating plan coming out, many will take the “I’m not frying like an egg” approach and maybe come back in 3 years. You want a reason for a FOIA request? How many actual RCAF members are there? Access to that number went away. But alas, the university kept RCAF from being autonomous, they know. I promise many of you will want to know that number months before you’re assigned your RCAF reseating number. And the number after the reshuffle.

Baseball was getting meh in Robe’s last few years but it got turned around. Few whispered it or casually posted it here, but it was real. Deggs is Maggard’s second best hire after Napier. Keeps it afloat for now.

Softball, it’s coming. Softball is MH’s favorite sport, loved the little girls playing and Mr. Lamson covered the bills. Those days are slowly ending, the core fan base is aging out. The tail is starting to wag the dog. CGG was a great hire. But times are changing and the hires are becoming USL hires and not the best hires. Like Des, what program would have hired JR, especially a perennially ranked program? Think about it, CGG, with all his connections, hires a coach with zero paid NCAA softball coaching history?

T&F, gosh, once a great program. Today, a great athlete passes thru every few years.

WSOC, WBB, MTEN, WTEN and golf exist just for numbers. First, last, nobody cares.

The administration always been gun shy with success since MBB got busted. The cancer is flat out fan apathy.

And that allows MH to lord over athletics like a nun with a ruler. You “older” fans know exactly what that means.

They f’ed over the Greek system, athletics is next. Working on private money research, going to surpass LSU. Nice, but that same model can’t apply to athletics they will sadly learn.

Hell, nobody connected the dots for the east side of CF other than “state money”. LSU needed 100 mil for the PMAC. UL got their money, ULM getting their arena fixed, McNeese tons of hurricane related money and it goes on. Follow the money when it comes to getting votes. Nice move, not fan driven. And note, same period the lack of the use of “Louisiana” was a topic. We fought for Louisiana now jam it every freaking time down their throats. Get on the same page starting with freshmen orientation.

In the end, who is the Manchurian candidate of UL athletics?

It’s not a single person, it is the system we’ve allowed to permeate UL. RCAF isn’t large enough to break away, and history says, with MH, “that’s ok”. And for a long time, the fans said “that’s ok” too.

MH will have a very hard decision coming up. Either get creative fundraising, go max in state funding or chunk it in. I’d recommend option 1. The day is quickly approaching where that 3% will get cut. The state is broke, won’t go any further with that. But a day of reckoning is coming. Option 3 will result in more “outrage” but no results.

To paraphrase some phantom person on Twitter a few years back, a lazy one block search for money isn’t going to cut it.

I’ve attended UL sporting events for most of the last half century. I’m tired, and ready not to GAF.

But it’s bigger than a person, and designed and working as Huey wanted it.

What he said. I'm done.

[Boomer]

What he said. I'm done.

……/;.Because we are all in this together…..the Man candidates are the schools in the UL system……look at their hesitancy or refusal to call us by our athletic name…..got them all everyday anti Cajuning!…..Thank the Lord we have the leadership that has given us academic separation...let’s keep the athletics going!