Final 68 Ventures Bowl: Louisiana 13 Delaware 20

[Duckster]

Important to acknowledge here this makes 3 out of 4 losing seasons for this coaching staff. Not celebrating it, but that's a fact. And ANOTHER FCS move up passing us by. Why do we put up with this mediocrity?

[Turbine]

But hey, at least they called us “Louisiana”.

The eternal optimist in you strikes again.

[zephyr]

Where are you getting this figure from?

It generally costs us money to go to a bowl game, especially when so few tickets are sold.

[Turbine]

1. Wasted opportunities
had UL kicked three field goals on its first three drives, it wouldn’t have needed a touchdown to win the game on the final drive.

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Just 2 field goals in the first half (even with the miss) and CajunsWin in regulation.

Don't underestimate lost momentum.

Lost momentum due to thinking you have to win the game in 30 minutes is a hump I thought Des has left in his rear view mirror.

The lost momentum of getting on the board and the defense realing from the unexpected interception is the difference.

The defense played great overall but the offensive effort to score a TD instead of just score put the defense on its heals unexpectantly with a squander of momentum.

Two field goals and Delaware does go on that drive after the interception

Louisiana wins just by kicking that early field goal.

Its a 60 minute game not 30.

Reminds me of the Tulane game.

[zephyr]

Michael needs to give up play calling. This interception is on him.

The INT was on Lunch. The call was a good one. Jensen was wide open initially. Lunch held on to the ball too long. He did that a number of times last night. He had a throw to sampson he just waited on. Thankfully they bailed us out with the PI.

[zephyr]

1. Big Plays = Both of their TD's came on big plays. Generally the D played well enough to win, especially in the first half but....

2 Turnovers = We had two costly TO's in the first half that killed our momentum, especially when we were defending well outside of the big play run that scored their TD.

The game was going to come down to TO's. The hens were not very good this year when losing the TO battle. I suppose that filters through to most teams when it comes to TO's but they just made fewer errors. They didn't kill themselves. We did.

[CAJUNSby90]

It generally costs us money to go to a bowl game, especially when so few tickets are sold.

But one $1M. We havent lost over 450k on a bowl game the last 3 years.

[CAJUNSby90]

Just for ____s and giggles. Lets say 88 actually catches the ball on last play. We go for two or kick and go to OT?

[Turbine]

OT

[Ragin9221]

This picture says a thousand words!