Bustle says Cajuns won’t go quietly

[zephyr]

_ Can we expect them to play at a 90%, 80% 70% of level play?

What about fresh over tired? Is a tired starter playng at 100% _

That's just it. I don't know if you can put a value on losing a team leader or more importantly, a playmaker and filling in with a guy who has less experience or less practice time etc.. At times, I'm sure it is logical to assume that a guy can come in and fill in for a starter such as Masson and McGuire per this year. However, I don't think it was fair to assume we would get the same production out of Fenroy's replacement..Do you?

[zephyr]

_ Our higher-than-normal injuries may be compound issues... as opposed to a single issue. It could be the strength and conditioning program to some extent, warming up and stretching, practice regiments, blocking and tackling technique, style of play, dietary, nutritional, rest... and others. We may simply be weak in every or the majority of these areas... not just a single area.

Every school suffers from losing key starters. UL and the lower third of the FBS suffer worse due to depth issues. I have no doubt about that. I believe that our injury bug is masking its ugly twin sister... the wrong play strategy for a below 80 ranked FBS program.

We all know that we have historically left our defense on the field way too long. That has to contribute to some defensive injuries. We continuously leave them on the field with short fields to defend. It leads to exhaustion both physical and mental... and that certainly can lead to injury.

On offense, I feel we play a little too much power football and not nearly enough fast, edge and space football. In the south, we can get a good supply of skill people. I do not believe we are ever in the running for depth at interior lineman. Our coaching staffs never seem to adjust to this fact. They play every weekend like they are playing a scrimmage against "our" team. We need to assume the underdog... David versus Goliath... role... and get OL that can move... even at the expense of some height and weight. If you play uptempo... snap and fire football... you do not require lineman to dominate the line. They buy you a little time and that's all you need.

We won't know whether a better coaching staff can take the same personnel and eliminate both the injury plague and the lack of success... but it is time to find out. _

That's just it. I don't think you can put your finger on one aspect of this program and assume its the reason for injuries. I think its likely multiple factors that compound one another and feed the beast so to speak.

[HoustonCajun]

_ That's just it. I don't know if you can put a value on losing a team leader or more importantly, a playmaker and filling in with a guy who has less experience or less practice time etc.. At times, I'm sure it is logical to assume that a guy can come in and fill in for a starter such as Masson and McGuire per this year. However, I don't think it was fair to assume we would get the same production out of Fenroy's replacement..Do you? _

I sure hope they let Gauthier play his kind of game. He is not a drop back passer like Masson and will get killed if he tries that. We can't afford to lose yet another QB. Gauthier has now had 2 years in the system. It is time for him to take advantage of this opportunity. Who knows, he just might have a break-out game.

[Mitch]

_ I sure hope they let Gauthier play his kind of game. He is not a drop back passer like Masson and will get killed if he tries that. We can't afford to lose yet another QB. Gauthier has now had 2 years in the system. It is time for him to take advantage of this opportunity. Who knows, he just might have a break-out game. _

Finally, someone with some positve comments! It's been a tough year. Everyone knows it. Is everyone actually throwing the S&C coach under the bus? Look, injuries happen. It's the nature of the beast. I hope i don't hurt anyone's feelings but we don't have the recruits to step in as freshman and sophmores and be productive. Thats just the way it is. Oh, maybe if we didn't schedule 2 SEC schools and 1 big 12 school our injuries might be minimal!

[CajunZ1]

Oh, maybe if we didn't schedule 2 SEC schools and 1 big 12 school our injuries might be minimal! _

A common misconception.

[Just1More]

_ I sure hope they let Gauthier play his kind of game. He is not a drop back passer like Masson and will get killed if he tries that. We can't afford to lose yet another QB. Gauthier has now had 2 years in the system. It is time for him to take advantage of this opportunity. Who knows, he just might have a break-out game. _

Every Cajun fan wants Blaine to have a great day. It is a little tough to have him get his debut without a healthier starting group around him. Regardless, the whole unit may play like we should have played all year... dangerously... and you never know what can happen. Why in the world we would play anything but dangerous from here on out is a mystery to me.

When Bustle says "Cajuns won't go quietly"... it makes me want to go back in time and tell Bustle "Never ever let the Cajuns play any way but noisy". I don't feel heavily backed up in my way of viewing the future Cajun football program. A lot of people want to believe you can go get a "solid football coach" and outcoach the Bustle program. They think the Cajuns "only" need that solid football coach and staff. They are DEAD DAMN wrong.

The Cajuns need a coach and staff that play outside the boundaries of straight up football in order to overcome the headlock 75 other FBS programs have on us. If we remain in the FBS and do not TOTALLY ENJOY .500 and less football... the next coach has to have as the number one bullet on his resume... "DANGEROUS!".

Cajun football that just takes coaches that just kind of know football like every other coach and try to execute on that knowledge... are doomed to fail here. It is time for the Cajuns to become aquainted with high risk football. Extreme execution speed, bordering on error. Speed at every position... independent of perfect dimensions... NO powering it up the middle under any circumstance whatsoever... unless to the opponent it is viewed as a "Cajun trick play". Or... of course... we can try to mimick other programs and just keep on losing.

[Rebel02]

It would have been nice if they had made some noise with some wins a few of the first 9 games this season


igeaux.mobi

[Just1More]

_ It would have been nice if they had made some noise with some wins a few of the first 9 games this season


igeaux.mobi _

UL will never make noise with wins until it plays noisy.

[CajunProud]

To quote a famous poet/song writer, "Come Monday it'll be alright ...."
igeaux.mobi

[HoustonCajun]

_ UL will never make noise with wins until it plays noisy. _

Question. In your opinion, IF Bustle wins the last 3 games and finishes 5-7, given the extraordinary number of key injuries this year, given that he has one year left on his contract, given that we may decide to hire an AD before we hire anther football coach, and given the serious time crunch involved with the recruiting deadline just 3 months away and not wanting to seriously hamper the recruiting efforts of a new coach with a late hire, is there ANY POSSIBILITY that UL will allow Bustle (under those conditions) to remain another year? Just looking for some confidence that UL will not continue operating under a silencer with yet another year of failing to make the noise of which you speak.