LGT Final: Louisiana 41, Wake Forest 38

[ultracajun]

Zeon Chriss (playing for Houston) was 1 for 4 with 1 int tonight. I wonder how many kids get buyers remorse when chasing NIL money?

Forget that dude

[Grantvb]

From ESPN Recap:

The game ended with Wake Forest's Matthew Dennis trying a final-play 42-yard field goal for the tie, only to see the ball plunk off the left upright and bounce back into the field for a miss. That started the celebration for the Ragin' Cajuns (3-1), including coach Michael Desormeaux leaning over with his hands on his knees to process those stressful final moments.

Desormeaux was emotional afterward, his voice trembling, when talking to reporters about the win.

“For two years it just seemed like nothing would go our way,” he said, adding; "I just know that hard work pays off and to see it happen for them just felt good.”

[ZoomZoom]

I can promise uh has buyers remorse. Rumor is he has a bad shoulder that was undisclosed during recruitment process. Basically he can’t throw. If he was even a mediocre passer he would be the starter. The starter is putrid, Zeon can’t pass and the third stringer tore his acl. Fans are begging for the fourth string walk on. The Chriss transfer was addition by subtraction for the Cajuns. He has been awful in Houston.

I don’t wish bad on anyone, but at the same time, no longer our problem.

[RaginScotsman]

The Wake coach post game interview. Can’t post it, but $? You tube it. Am I hearing that wrong?

[raginbeef]

Shout out to special teams. KO’s in the endzone mostly and great coverage on the returns. The return by Perry late set us up to take the lead. And we won the fg battle. Nice comeback by that unit.

Totally agree. It is not worth kicking the ball out of bounds or possibly giving up a big return to try and tackle them inside the 20. If you have a guy that can blast it into the endzone, then do that every time and let them start at the 25. Those extra 5 yards aren’t worth it

[Turbine]

WF coach: "We're breaking in a whole new secondary and most of those guys just got here in the summer."

That is why NIL is not the game changer it is purported to be.

Experienced teams will beat supposedly better players who are not on the same page, more often than not.

[Turbine]

Wake Forest coach overheard thinking: 'You can tell the value of your investments by the Win/Loss column.'

'We got no value out of our NIL Collective and we got no value out of our Officiating Collective.'

[ZoomZoom]

Wow, that was brutal. He didn’t throw the team totally under the bus, but he didn’t let them off the hook.

He’s honest about NIL, WF got who they could afford. And the recruiting cycle of the team caught up with them. He’s probably dead man walking now.

[cajun55]

WF coach: "We're breaking in a whole new secondary and most of those guys just got here in the summer."

That is why NIL is not the game changer it is purported to be.

Experienced teams will beat supposedly better players who are not on the same page, more often than not.

The quality of the play on the field overall really suffers with NIL, solution would be to limit transfers, but seems like the NCAA ____ed that away.

[RaginScotsman]

I watched a lot of the ACC network yesterday. The pre game and postgame shows. The glossing over of our game was funny. So much analysis on several ACC games. 1 minute of Wake. Moving on.