Thank You Coach Bustle!

[Turbine]

Thanks for starting player traditons, like the students side, post game appreciation walk.

[Cajun90]

Thanks coach for making all of us proud of the individuals who carried our schools name on their jerseys. For making sure that when they left this program they would be men that we could all be proud of. Thanks for doing more than you had too. For your contributions to our community and the people in it.

[mdgu1]

I agree. I believe coach has done lots of good things for our program. However, the time has come for a new direction. Good luck to coach and his staff.

[Sharp Square]

I know and agree that it was time to make a change. I would like many others like to pass on thanks to coach Bustle for all that he did for our program. Thanks for all the time and effort and progress you made over the last several years and i believe you leave the program in much better shape then when you took it over and that to me merits a successful run.

[TuffGuy84]

I'd also like to add a thank you to coach bustle. I very much advocated a change and wanted you out, but I will say that you were one of the reasons I started following cajun football because my first year at the University was your first year there and I just remember all the buzz that came with the new hire. If the next guy that comes in can generate half the buzz that you did when you landed here, then there will be a whole heck of a lot of excitement at UL. You did a great job getting us back to respectability, and I even with everything I've said negative, I truly do hope you land somewhere and are successful there because you truly are a classy guy. Thanks for all the good times.

[USL99Alum]

I have been a season ticket holder for a number of years, and will be for a very long time no matter what. There were some magical times and some not so magical times over the years, and I am thankful for having been there to experience some of the better ones. Good Coach and a Good Person, I have faith in the Cajun community to support this program. That is why I am proud to support the RCAF and University Academics ( After attending USL for so many years they felt a financial hit after I graduated, so I just have to give to make it less hard on them lol). I may see this University through rose colored glasses, but when you bleed vermilion it just comes naturally. I know we are on our way forward, the hiring of coach Marlin is a good sign.

Next year I know my family and friends will more than be excited to attend all the games with a great new hire..and with the support I know all of us will give Him!

[Ewhite]

I just want to say thank you to Ricky Bustle for the years he gave of himself and this program. I really wish as i am sure he is that the results could have been better, I will say he brought real excitement back to this program and until this year never had me negative about the program. Hopefully we made enough infrastructure improvements that the next coach that we get is able to continue what has been started.

To the coaching staff I really am sad to see the change because I truly believe that this staff has a few future D-1 Head coaches on it. I know it is an unpopular opinion but a note to the new coach to really take a hard look at the current staff there are some diamonds in the rough there if not yourself.

My dream would have been for Coach Bustle to have had more success here and be able to pass the reins on to one those diamonds.

To Coach Bustle one final note and one final assignment, please change history and continue coaching I am sick of Louisiana being a coaches graveyard. I realize Acadiana is a wonderful place to be but you are a great Football coach.

Just my 2 pennies

[DrumRoll]

I agree, and it is not just Coach Bustle that deserves props IMO, his assistants and their families do as well...

No idea what's going to happen with these guys in the future, but I would like to add my personal thanks to Coach Rebowe for being the incredibly genuine and honorable person he is, Coach Bustle, his wife, and their son; for all of their efforts both on and off the field to build this program into something better than it was when they arrived at UL, Coach Wingerter for being Captain Responsibility as he seemed to take on anything and everything that would have fallen through the cracks if left up to the understaffed athletic department to accomplish, and Coach Hudson for being a larger than life, politically incorrect, in your face coach; that pushed the envelope with his guys...great people!

_ I just want to say thank you to Ricky Bustle for the years he gave of himself and this program. I really wish as i am sure he is that the results could have been better, I will say he brought real excitement back to this program and until this year never had me negative about the program. Hopefully we made enough infrastructure improvements that the next coach that we get is able to continue what has been started.

To the coaching staff I really am sad to see the change because I truly believe that this staff has a few future D-1 Head coaches on it. I know it is an unpopular opinion but a note to the new coach to really take a hard look at the current staff there are some diamonds in the rough there if not yourself.

My dream would have been for Coach Bustle to have had more success here and be able to pass the reins on to one those diamonds.

To Coach Bustle one final note and one final assignment, please change history and continue coaching I am sick of Louisiana being a coaches graveyard. I realize Acadiana is a wonderful place to be but you are a great Football coach.

Just my 2 pennies _

[gridironalumni]

Thanks for the hard work Coach.

[Damon]

_ Thanks for starting player traditons, like the students side, post game appreciation walk. _

That was the UAB shutout game in 2002. I was there, drunk off my sss, dodging lightning bolts.