What is the next step for Louisiana?

[ULGrad@HOU]

I think it’s a little unfair to suggest Des can’t win the big one. He’s 0-1 in big ones, and that was the conf championship game no-show.

Bowl games are completely irrelevant in the current landscape. It’s a game of attrition since many guys are either sitting out (draft) or moving out (portal).

They are a financial drain on schools (ask the Sun Belt how far in the red these bowl games put them). Wish the playoff could get rid of them.

I would say the Tulane game was a big one and include Wake Forest, just being in the P4 for a 1-3 record in "big games". Definitely needs improvement.

[ULGrad@HOU]

Winning and losing those bowl games is one thing. Getting dominated and destroyed on national TV is another.

It was an embarrassing look to get blown out no doubt.

[CajunSID]

Bowl games are your last recruiting sales pitch.

You will miss out on great talent if the mesage is disorientation.

Desormeaux is continuing to learn as we speak.

Bowl wins a comin.

Bowl games used to be a recruiting sales pitch. Sales pitch now is:

1. You will start (or get significant time).

2. We are paying you ___ (NIL wink wink)

[Clutch0364]

Winning and losing those bowl games is one thing. Getting dominated and destroyed on national TV is another.

Not sure how many teams could do much better with 3 starting OL out and 2 of your top receivers. I felt going in that it would be a complete ass whipping.

[ZoomZoom]

Not sure how many teams could do much better with 3 starting OL out and 2 of your top receivers. I felt going in that it would be a complete ass whipping.

UL fans know this. Non UL fans see a beat down.

[Esqueleto]

UL fans know this. Non UL fans see a beat down.

Nobody remembers or cares about the results of bowl games these days. They're meaningless.

[Turbine]

Nobody remembers or cares about the results of bowl games these days. They're meaningless.

They are not meaningless if you are in your senior year of high school and don't yet see the big picture and not if you are contemplating making one of the participants yoir destination

[cajun4life]

Bowl games 1-3.

Correct, I forgot about Marshall.

[CRAWFISH61]

Agreed that bowl games are irrelevant big picture BUT it worries me that we looked totally unprepared to play TCU and Marshall in the CCG.

We had 3 new starters in the offensive line, no tight ends, lost best receivers is probably why we looked unprepared.

[Big Buds]

We had 3 new starters in the offensive line, no tight ends, lost best receivers is probably why we looked unprepared.

Especially with the 12 personnel we run. We had a RB in at TE.