The Book: 2007 Football

[cajunmaniac]

It was very hard, I'm eager to see how these next couple weeks go. We can only go up from here.

[cajunmaniac]

Hard to watch Dan, hard to watch

[geo_cajun]

I am a student, and they waved me and my friend in without really counting or scaning us.

[bmcollect]

This game is an embarrassment to the program.
I have been a Bustle supporter since his hire, was the best pick up I had ever seen.
But at this point the Wins should be coming, at least to McNeese. I didn’t fret about South Carolina, Ohio – thought was a tough loss, THIS GAME WAS AN EMBARRASSMENT!
I did not want to discuss a coaching change due to performance of the first two games but after THIS I think it is a valid topic. Yes, Bustle has IMPROVED the program a lot (and was the right person for the job) but has it hit a plateau and can’t get over the hump?

[NewsCopy]

Where do you go from here? UL's football team, its coaches, and the entire Cajun athletic family is asking itself that question this morning after being publicly humbled in front of nearly 34,000 fans Saturday night. Saturday's 38-21 loss to McNeese State is the type of defeat that can put a hole in any hopes of a successful season, especially when Sun Belt Conference play is coming up in six days and winning that league title is the only way to salvage something out of the final nine games. Anyone who thinks that's going to be easy didn't watch Saturday's game. They also didn't watch Troy's manhandling of Oklahoma State on national television Friday night ... and Troy played a lot better bunch of Cowboys than the ones that ran UL into the Cajun Field turf on Saturday. The rest of the story

[NewsCopy]

Predictions of a big attendance at Saturday's UL-McNeese renewal turned out to be correct. Announced attendance was 33,828, the third-largest in the history of Cajun Field behind only the 38,783 for the 1996 Texas A&M game and the 36,133 for the 1990 Alabama game. It was the largest in the history of the series, easily surpassing the 25,710 for the 1975 contest in Cajun Field. The crowd was also the largest home-stadium crowd in Sun Belt Conference history. Cajun coach Rickey Bustle at once thanked the crowd and apologized for the 38-17 loss. "Anytime you can get 33,000 in the stadium, that's good," he said. "I know we disappointed a lot of fans and that's important, but we also disappointed ourselves." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[Boudin&Cracklin]

I am absolutely disgusted!!!! Went to bed last night upset, still upset this morning. How in the world does a team ranked 13th in the country in rushing, who played well against USC and should have beaten Ohio come out in front of the home crowd against Mcneese a 1-AA team and lay an egg? I know a lot of people are not all about firing the coach when things get bad, but isn't this his sixth season? I can coach a team to 0-3 and THE WORST LOSS in the history of the program.

I would like to know how Bustle is going to spin this one. He and his staff obviously have no idea how to prepare a team to play. I saw a cajuns team that had very little fire, couldn't move the football on offense and couldn't stop Mcneese on third and long.

To top it off, 6 turnovers. Nice, very nice Bustle!!

I love this university and am very proud to have a degree from USL, but I will not be returning to cajun field the rest of this season. My season tickets will stay in the folder in the file cabinet.

I have never, never, never been so disgusted and ashamed to be a Ragin Cajuns fan!!

This university, this community and us fans deserve a team that will go out and put it on the line each and every week, and Coach its your job to get the team there!!!

How in the world do we defend ourselves as Ragin Cajun fans? The smack that is going to be talked by Mcneese fans and LSU fans for that matter, just too much to handle.

Oh and then the talk about moving down to 1-AA, no way too much money for this university and program. Besides, we as fans would still be as disgusted because it doesn't even look like we can play at that level.

Go Cajuns!!!

[ljr3721]

_ I'm a student. I saw clickers as they waved me in. _

Maybe they assumed all students would enter from the student side gates. I looked all over for clickers on the baseball field entrance and there were none.

[NewsCopy]

UL's football team would just as soon wait another 21 years before running into this hornet's nest. McNeese State took out two decades of frustration at not being able to go up against its nearest geographical rival Saturday night, putting on a second-half clinic in rolling to a 38-17 victory over the Ragin' Cajuns in front of a mostly-disappointed 33,828 fans at Cajun Field. The Cowboys (2-0) broke loose from a 17-all tie with a late score just before halftime, and held the struggling Cajun offense in check throughout the second half. Meanwhile, McNeese ran for 195 yards in the second half alone against a UL defense that became porous after halftime for the second straight week. "It's tough to explain why we can't move the ball in the second half," said Cajun coach Rickey Bustle after his team was shut out after halftime for the third straight week. "We had a chance to get things going in the second half and didn't execute." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[Crowley Cajun]

_ Man, this loss truly hurts inside my stomach. I have been backing the UL program for my whole sports loving life. This kind of a loss just makes all my arguments and defense in our behalf sound like crap. I just hope UL does not take a major turn for the worse and win only two or three games this year. At this rate will we win a game at all?.....don't think so. I will never stop loving UL and supporting them I just want to cry out loud. THIS HURTS!!!!!!!!! _

If it keeps going the way it's going, after looking at the remaining schedule, we're looking at 3-4 wins. And that's based on conditions remaining the same for our opponents. I see us 1-5 in the first half and going 2-4 or 3-3 in the second half. Boy, do I hope I'm wrong.

[RCAJUN90]

How about some crow for zeebart the baffoon.

You are blaming Zeebart for the loss? Cajun fans do not need to start turning on each other.

[RCAJUN90]

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.................you're gonna get "hammered" for saying that statment. Wonder where these people that were saying we should NEVER play McNeese St. because we're soooooooooooo much better, and sooooooooooo much more talented, and have a sooooooooooo much better program are right now?

Not trying to rub anything in anybody's face but I've said it and I'll say it again. This season is OVER. Maybe 5-8K in attendance next week vs. Troy St. After that, maybe 5K. Hopefully the program at least made a big chunk of change with all the McNeese people coming in because it's not going to make crap the rest of the season.
That's another thing some smarty pants people were posting ("they have not sold all of their allotment of tickets").............looks like ol' McNeese St. proved all these "gurus" wrong again.
"oh boy, call in the re-eforcments..........start the contraflow from lake chuck.............traffic will be at a standstill on I-10 east bound..................blah, blah, blah, blah, BLAAAAAAHHHHHH".

This is embarassing to say the least!

Hats off to the McNeese St. coaches, players, and fans! The better team definitely won tonight and it became more evident as the game wore on. Maybe some of these supposed "gurus" have the right idea about not playing "Mickey Neese" again before another 20 years. Heck, why should McNeese be on the schedule? I mean........there is absolutely nothing to gain but probably another a.$.$. whipping (if anybody cannot see the $$$$$$$$$$$ benefit of playing McNeese then they are just plain stupid!!!!).

Afterall, it's just another game and the only thing to be worrying about is Troy St.

Geeeeez...........some people.

That McNeese team would have beat half the teams in the Belt. The year isn't over. We need to collect ourselves and do a gut check and take it to the Belt. Remember Appie state etc... there is not much difference between a good 1-AA team and a 1-A team. Don't give up!