Instead of blaming Bustle....

[TheRaginCajun06]

Defense missed a ton of tackes and this is all I heard about on the local news going into the season. Bustle bragged that this was his "best defense" he has seen in all the years he has been coaching here.

What I saw last night was horrible tackling. Lance Kelley.... wow.
We can blame Masson, but the whole team played horrible. We even kicked the ball out of bounds on a kickoff! We seemed to start on our own 20 while MTSU was near the 40 - midfield.

The team played bad. I don't think you can blame Masson.

Poor coaching??? Yes!

4th and 1 let's do the same exact play we did last time. Put in Gauthier and run up the middle. MIX IT UP! You can't run the same exact play!

3rd and 7 Masson takes off up the middle with nowhere to go.

Sadly I wasn't upset like I've been in the past over this loss. I was actually in Troy when they beat the crap out of us two year ago. Still had fun tailgaiting and being with friends at the game. It's become a social event!

[RaginWaldo]

CajunHawk you're one of the biggest Dummies on this forum. The QB is a position. The coach is supposed to coach that position, correct that position, and if that position is not performing well pull him and replace him with another player. The COACHING staff is incharge of that.

To say the defense did all they could makes me think you are mentally challenged as they performed HORRIBLE and looked like they couldnt tackle your 9 year old neice the way they were afraid to just put a body on someone, simply rap up and take the person with the ball down.

For someone who barely understands the fundamentals of football, you sure do talk a hell of a lot about it.

[playincajun]

I agree the head recruiter Wingerter is killing you. I know 3 players that wanted to come two years ago and he just brushed them off saying they were not good enough. Two are playing D1 somewhere else and one is playing D1 basketball. All of them would of played till the last second and never gave up. Recruiting is the key so yes COACH lose and PLAYERS win. That is the way I take my wins and loses.
igeaux.mobi

[RaginWaldo]

_ This thread boils down to two things:

1. We are not recruiting good enough players. Especially on the lines. Even our O Line last year that was so good. Two of the players Bustle and Fisher were orginally walkons. We have also not had a DE or DT be anywhere close to the top of the league since Bustle arrived.

2. We have no offensive identity.

We started the triple zone read with Babb. It was deadly with Mike and Fenroy. Then, we simply did not pick personell to fill the holes. If we want to run the zone read, we might as well let Gauthier or McGuire run it 90% of the time.

I've been a Cajun football fan my whole life. Until we put something close to a decent product on the field. Tailgating will increasingly become an LSU viewing party. We might as well project the game on the side of Cajun field


igeaux.mobi _

1. I disagree, I believe we recruit great talent, just don't coach them correctly to improve their skills. Don't work with them enough to correct their weak points.

2. The fact that you have to adjust your playbook to the talent that you recruit is key. If you plan on starting a QB that is more susceptible to the Pass then Teach the O-Line to pass block. If you have a mobile QB then adjust to that etc.

The lack of creativity from Bustle and playcalling is what hurts us the most as almost every play is obviously predictable and if you just study a game or 2 of film, the opposing team will see that and eat us alive. That is why we will never be able to out perform any major teams and conference rivals like FAU, MTSU, Troy.

What I'm worried about is WKU and FIU's offense have definitely improved this year and North Texas Beat FAU last night. It could be a scary road from here on out if it happens to be the same as last night.

[RedBug58]

What I saw last night was an O-Line that was unable to block, putting pressure on a quarterback... giving him very little time to throw to receivers that could not get separation.
On defense, even though we rush 5 or 6 at times, we couldn't get in. They mixed up plays enough to make us look silly.
Are our guys just not as athletic as theirs? I don't think so.
We were out coached again.

This has happened too many times. It starts at the top. I don't care what happens for the rest of the season..........a change must be made.

[ulforlife]

while you're at it blame Lance Kelly, that guy sucks

I know I can't play D1 ball but my goodness he is responsible for so many big plays. and then on that one play where they blitzed him and it forced the QB to throw a bad pass he started jumping around and hollering like he had just sacked michael vick. give me a break act like you've been there it was an average play. I didn't see him jumping around and hollering when he gave up back to back plays where he whiffed a tackle at the line and they picked up a big gain, then the very next play he got burned for a long TD

[CajunFan89]

_ while you're at it blame Lance Kelly, that guy SUCKS _

so far this year has 3 TD's at least.... against his own team. missed a straight up tackle and dropped an easy INT against UGA and got burnt by Beyah from MT for a 60+ yard TD. am i missing anything???

[RaginWaldo]

_ while you're at it blame Lance Kelly, that guy SUCKS

I know I can't play D1 ball but my goodness he is responsible for so many big plays. and then on that one play where they blitzed him and it forced the QB to throw a bad pass he started jumping around and hollering like he had just sacked michael vick. give me a break act like you've been there it was an average play _

I totally agree and dont understand why its so hard to realize how much better and how much more heart Cooper Gerami has than Lance Kelley. I would start Gerami over Kelley anyday but i think it has something to do with ignorantly starting the seniors over the underclassmen like this his HS. Kinda like making Shankle the starter at the beginning of the year when he is clearly not the best RB on the team. Just goes back to horrible coaching decisions.

[Cajunfever]

Our offensive lineman are all "VERY SLOW". They can not move.

Why was our defensive line standing up prior to the snap, why weren't they in the normal stance?

What happened to all the great defensive lineman were have recruited--McCray was supposed to be a beast, he isn't even playing, Pryor's not playing.

We did not touch their quarterback all night. It starts with our defensive coordinator and our defensive line coach. They are terrible!

I see players making bad plays coming to the sideline and the coach's are patting them on the azz---The coaching staff does not demand excellence from our players.

We did not play very physical last night, we played soft. Is this coaching or talent?

The last coach that I saw that had the fire was Jenkins (now at Rutgers)

[JBO70538]

_ Our offensive lineman are all "VERY SLOW". They can not move.

Why was our defensive line standing up prior to the snap, why weren't they in the normal stance?

What happened to all the great defensive lineman were have recruited--McCray was supposed to be a beast, he isn't even playing, Pryor's not playing.

We did not touch their quarterback all night. It starts with our defensive coordinator and our defensive line coach. They are terrible!

I see players making bad plays coming to the sideline and the coach's are patting them on the azz---The coaching staff does not demand excellence from our players.

We did not play very physical last night, we played soft. Is this coaching or talent?

The last coach that I saw that had the fire was Jenkins (now at Rutgers) _

Well, now he is the head coach for Bethune-Cookman, an HBCU, in Daytona,FL. He was an awsome recruiter, evaluator of talent and he also got the most of his talent. He would also tell it like it was and not how you wanted to hear it. He recruited some of our better receivers....Chery,Smith,Green.

[Etowncajun]

Do we have any sacks this year? Wasnt the defensive coordinator's claim to fame his defenses ability to sack the QB?

[JBO70538]

_ This thread boils down to two things:

1. We are not recruiting good enough players. Especially on the lines. Even our O Line last year that was so good. Two of the players Bustle and Fisher were orginally walkons. We have also not had a DE or DT be anywhere close to the top of the league since Bustle arrived.

2. We have no offensive identity.

We started the triple zone read with Babb. It was deadly with Mike and Fenroy. Then, we simply did not pick personell to fill the holes. If we want to run the zone read, we might as well let Gauthier or McGuire run it 90% of the time.

I've been a Cajun football fan my whole life. Until we put something close to a decent product on the field. Tailgating will increasingly become an LSU viewing party. We might as well project the game on the side of Cajun field


igeaux.mobi _

Your right, our recruiting sucks. We have had more walk-on players become 2-3 year starters than we need. From Bill Sampy, to Derek "Sip" Keys, to Antwain Zanders.Nothing aganist those guys, but that says a lot about your recruiting. No, we can not compete with the SEC for talent, but everything else should be fair game. Our facilities are second only to LSU in the state. We should have a gate around Louisiana, East Texas and West Mississippi. Good post Slappy