2002 - Bustle Is Promised Scheduling Duties

[CajunNation]

I don't see the answer my question "Was he given what he was promised?"

YES

From Saragin:

2005---#114 SOS---4th in the SBC

2006---#125 SOS---8th in the SBC

2007---#88 SOS---4th in the SBC



Last 3 years, # of BCS games played:

13---Florida Atlantic
11---FIU
10---Middle Tennessee
9----Troy
9----ULM
6----Arkansas State
5----North Texas
5----Louisiana

[Turbine]

_ YES

Knowing how close UL was to 8-3 in 2005 one game scheduled differently and UL easily might have been 9-2

9-2 and never looked back.

Instead back to back 6-5 records got the coaches fired the next year with a 12th game.

Scheduling matters when building a program.

Still, this is the year!

jmo

[Just1More]

_ Knowing how close UL was to 8-3 in 2005 one game scheduled differently and UL easily might have been 9-2

9-2 and never looked back.

Instead back to back 6-5 records got the coaches fired the next year with a 12th game.

Scheduling matters when building a program.

Still, this is the year!

jmo _

To me, this is the year... because this is the year we are in... but I do hope we have a pinnacle year for dozens of reasons.

But... I don't like any form of whining about the schedule... and especially from the coaches... and that is not to say that Bustle has whined much. There is as much to rebuilding, or launching, a D1A football program, by taking on a tough schedule, as there is having winning records against a real or perceived soft schedule.

The only shift that I see is that the Sunbelt has improved ties to a couple more bowls. That, now, has a big impact on getting to a winning season... so schedule issues take on a different meaning. The reality was that SBC teams, other than the champion, had little to look forward to even with a winning season. What happened to Troy proved that.

With the bowl tie-ins, there are more reasons to work on a balance of BCS pay games and more winnable match-ups. Scheduling is a beeyotch when you have to hunt for pay games... and we do... so that makes this "Monday morning" schedule critiqueing very whiny.

Bustle, his staff, and the team should absolutely without question set their jaw like a rock and announce they'll kick anyone's butt that even attempts to pose as a football program against them! They can always get some relief later from the panty-wasted fans that feel like we had a weally weally tuff skedjewel.

[Abashow]

Show me a head coach that isn't trusted to make his own schedules and i'll show you a coach about to get fired. Show me a head coach that isn't qualified to make his own schedules and i'll show you a coach that needs to be fired.

[CajunNation]

With the bowl tie-ins, there are more reasons to work on a balance of BCS pay games and more winnable match-ups. Scheduling is a beeyotch when you have to hunt for pay games... and we do... so that makes this "Monday morning" schedule critiqueing very whiny.

I agree, to an extent.

Bowl games are nice. No doubt. However, I just don't think we should be so fixated on "body bag" games. As I've shown before, we play the fewest BCS games of anybody in the SBC.

ULM has gotten more play off of their victory over Alabama than any podunk bowl game could have gotten them. In effect, every time you play a BCS game, you are playing for all of the accolades that come from a bowl game. You just have to win it.

If all we schedule for our money games are defending national champs or schools many people are picking to win the national championship that year, we are doing ourselves a disservice.

I think we are on more of the right track now with games against Illinois and Kansas State. I don't need to see Texas, Tennessee, or the BR school for a while.

That is until we decide to play defense.

[4LSU]

_"Was he given what he was promised?"

I don't know if he was or not, but since he signed a contract extension fairly recently he must have been happy with whatever he was given. If he wasn't, that would have been the time to speak up.

"...you have to remember he is using the Beamer model and this is the year."

I hope you are right. It's way past time for you guys to go bowling again.

[Zeebart21]

_ I don't know if he was or not, but since he signed a contract extension fairly recently he must have been happy with whatever he was given. If he wasn't, that would have been the time to speak up.

"...you have to remember he is using the Beamer model and this is the year."

I hope you are right. It's way past time for you guys to go bowling again. _

We've been bowling before?

Z

[RCAJUN90]

_ We've been bowling before?

Z

_

Of course we have been bowling!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grantland_Rice_Bowl.~.

[Turbine]

In case there is no press conference associated with the extension. Here is a reminder.

[BonCajun]

Initial Rickey Bustle Press Conference


We all know that the Ragin Cajuns schedule is unrealistically tough. For a program having been as down as it was the 24th ranked schedule will just keep them there.

Having to deal with the 24th toughest schedule in the country is not fair to coach Bustle or his staff or the players. No BCS school so far has had it as tough as Louisiana has.

Fortunately for fans of Louisiana, Dr. Authement promised coach Bustle he could make his own schedule in the future, after this string of guaranteed loss games was over.

Here is a snippet from Coach Bustle?s initial press conference after he was hired. He was asked the question "How much will you have to do with scheduling?" Dr. Authement is the "you" in coach Bustles reply.

The voice that chimes in is that of former play by play announcer for the Cajuns; Todd Hamilton.

The second voice is that of Nelson, answering how long coach Bustles contract is.