Joe DeForest Is Coming Home

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Joe DeForest, OSU’s associate head coach, special teams coordinator and safeties coach, is an alum of Louisiana. The school was known as Southwestern Louisiana when DeForest played football and baseball for the Ragin Cajuns. He graduated from the school with a degree in marketing in 1987.

When DeForest Faced OSU

As a player at Southwestern Louisiana, DeForest was credited with a tackle against the Oklahoma State Cowboys on Sept. 6, 1986. OSU won the game, 21-20, when quarterback Ronnie Williams hit Hart Lee Dykes with a 11-yard TD pass with just eight seconds remaining. That game, played in Lafayette, was the first ever between the Cowboys and Ragin Cajuns.

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[ManAboutTown]

This is the man we should be 'unnofficially' courting for the HC here

igeaux.mobi

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a rally sparked by a 97-yard kickoff return for a touchdown by Bobby Riley with 3:09 to play after the Ragin’ Cajuns had scored on a fumble recovery in the end zone to go up 20-9. The game also marked a chance encounter between Joe DeForest, then a .

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  Joe DeForest knows what it can be like at Cajun Field, especially when a highly-regarded opponent hits town.

DeForest was a senior defensive end when Louisiana's Ragin' Cajuns played Oklahoma State off its feet in the 1986 season opener in Nelson Stokley's first game as Cajun head coach.

Like others on the squad, DeForest had high hopes when UL led 20-9 in the fourth quarter.

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_ This is the man we should be 'unnofficially' courting for the HC here

igeaux.mobi _

This is the man I have heard bad things about in the way of being a head coach.

[tdncz]

"Bad things??"
Can you be specfiic?
I have only heard good things and agree with a previous poster that this is one of 2 or 3 we should be discussing our soon-to-open HC job .

[CajunNation]

Joe DeForest = Todd Berry

Would be epic fail.

[ULGrad@HOU]

No offense to Joe D. but I think we can get a more qualified individual for our Head Coach. Just because he was here before does not mean he's a great coach.

On the other hand, anyone from Cajun Land can't be all that bad. I wish him well and much success (execpt for this Friday).