Cajuns even series

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  MONROE - With Saturday's 23-22 win over ULM, UL has now won three straight games in the head-to-head series.

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Funny how the score almost matches the series record. If there were no overtime, a 23-23 score would have been freaky.

I looked back at the entie series, ULM has never held more than a 3 game edge, and UL has never been up by more than 2 games.

Raymond Didier was the UL coach when this series started in 1951, he went 2-3 vs ULM.

Robert Bell inherited the 2-3 record and raised it to 3-3 with a win in his only year as head coach for UL.

Jim "Red" Hoggatt inherited 3-3 and went 1-2 vs ULM, leaving the record at 4-5

In 1961 Russ Faulkinberry inherited the 4-5 record, and evened the series by going 5-4 vs ULM between 1961 and 1973.

Augie Tammariello inherited 10-10 and went undefeated vs ULM, raising the all-time record to 12-10 for UL vs ULM.

Sam Robertson inherited 12-10 but could only must 1 win in 5 tries.

Nelson Stokley inherited a 13-14 record and after starting 3-0, went 4-3 vs ULM.

The all-time series was knotted at 17 when Jerry Baldwin took over at UL in 1999. Jerry Baldwin went 2-1 vs ULM.

Rickey Bustle’s final record vs ULM would be under .500 at 4-5, but that is pretty good considering he started 0-3. While he inherited a winning record at 19-18 in the series vs ULM, the all-time series record dropped to 19-21 in just 3 years. Then he went 1-2 in the next 3 years and the 3 game under .500 record was the worst since the middle of the Russ Faulkinberry era. Then (like Faulkinberry) he righted the ship between 2005 and 2010 and went 4-2 to even the series at 23-23.