UL Athletics needs a house cleaning

[ULGrad@HOU]

The whole Athletics program has taken a dive, Dr. Kolluru needs to put his stamp on this program and clean house. Many will point to money, but that's not the only factor in the decline of our once proud Athletics.

[jaxmc1023]

Money is pretty much the only factor..

Firing coaches in the big four sports would put us deeper in the hole, and thats before you pay any of their replacements.

UL athletics hasn't taken a dive... the game just left them behind.

[MarlinMan3]

Looks like at least 2 of the 4 the final four teams seem ok without more money or fancy NIL players....short white guys the new moneyball perhaps?

[Turbine]

Money is pretty much the only factor..

Firing coaches in the big four sports would put us deeper in the hole, and thats before you pay any of their replacements.

UL athletics hasn't taken a dive... the game just left them behind.

Shorten future contracts

[Cajun Bullet]

The New Era of College Athletics is a Big Money Game now! Either put up or get left behind!

[VObserver]

Our athletic department has not been as good as it should have been since that fateful day in 1973 when Ray Authemont became President. Most coaching hires since then have been made partly for one or another political reason that has nothing at all to do with the coaches actual ability to coach. On a few occasions [Nelson Stokley, Charles Lancon, Tommy Badon, Yvette Girouard, Tony Robichaux and maybe one or two others] it has worked out fine. Usually it hasn't. Until the only criterium we use is a proven ability to coach well at the D1 level, our success rate in hires is going to be very low. At best, hiring head coaches is a crap shoot. Inserting politics into the process loads the dice against us.

[MarlinMan3]

Shorten future contracts

Cant change old contracts for the most part.could have shortened post by just saying shorten contracts or shorten new contracts

[sportsfanatic21]

The whole Athletics program has taken a dive, Dr. Kolluru needs to put his stamp on this program and clean house. Many will point to money, but that's not the only factor in the decline of our once proud Athletics.

A little perspective, that doesn’t even take the current landscape of college athletics into account…

Prior to a decade run in football under Hudspeth and Napier, the current football program would be as good as it ever has been, excepting a couple of outlier seasons.

Baseball has been status quo, outside of a couple of outlier seasons.

Softball has fallen, no doubt, but this was a great program prior to the SEC deciding to dump money into the sport. They held on for a stretch, but the days of greatness are over. Comparing now to then is apples to oranges.

Men’s basketball “cleaned house” less than a year ago. We will see how that works out, but it’s now basically a one bid league situation…different from the “good old days”.

Women’s basketball is a dumpster fire, but how many people want to spend money on it?

I don’t keep up enough with volleyball, tennis, golf, etc. to know the current state of these sports. I do know that we have a good track program under coach in Tommy Badon, so who is gonna replace him in a house cleaning?

[MarlinMan3]

The New Era of College Athletics is a Big Money Game now! Either put up or get left behind!

That must be why Maggard wanted RCAF to be a cash grab perhaps, ahead of his time possible? Although many on here complained

[ZoomZoom]

That must be why Maggard wanted RCAF to be a cash grab perhaps, ahead of his time possible? Although many on here complained

If there ever was a time for RCAF to be an independent entity, it was the past year.

Wish Little Enos would support UL as much as he does about State. All that money State is spending on dead salaries didn’t just fall out the sky.

Just another alum that doesn’t care at all.