The Book: 2007 Football

[srevere51]

_ Great article, its gut check time for fans and players, I know where I'm going to be on Saturday, how about yall? _

Ill be there as always....

[CrazyCajun]

convince him to stay? If he wants to quit on his teammates let him go! Is that really who you want leading your guys. It would derek dyer all over again. I wonder if he took his ball before he went home. If more players want to quit, let them go. We will put guys out there who came to UL to play football and get aneducation. It's not bustles job to convince a backup QB to stay b/c he did not get the playing time he wanted. You know what if he wanted to play why didn't he go out and prove to the coaches in practice that he could give us a shot of winning. MD is the starter for a reason. This is such crap i don't even know what to say. MD is very capable of leading this team to victory. Did he have a bad game yeah but why are you going to turn on him for a bad game. He had a great game last week and we lost so is that any better. Football is not a 1 man team, nobody showed up to play saturday. Quite frankly i'm glad he quit now before we needed him b/c he would probably quit on us the first time a 300lb DT put his helmet in the middle of his back. I'm just as upset as anybody with the loss but if you think those guys who put in all the work dont want to win more than we do your crazy. As for bustle i say we see how the season pans out. I for one am not for firing anyone in the middle of a season. Unless you appoint an unproven assistant your only choice is to hire a coach who does not already have a job.
if the season continues on this route the we see where we are at the end of the year and go from there.

[srevere51]

_ convince him to stay? If he wants to quit on his teammates let him go! Is that really who you want leading your guys. It would derek dyer all over again. I wonder if he took his ball before he went home. If more players want to quit, let them go. We will put guys out there who came to UL to play football and get aneducation. It's not bustles job to convince a backup QB to stay b/c he did not get the playing time he wanted. You know what if he wanted to play why didn't he go out and prove to the coaches in practice that he could give us a shot of winning. MD is the starter for a reason. This is such crap i don't even know what to say. MD is very capable of leading this team to victory. Did he have a bad game yeah but why are you going to turn on him for a bad game. He had a great game last week and we lost so is that any better. Football is not a 1 man team, nobody showed up to play saturday. Quite frankly i'm glad he quit now before we needed him b/c he would probably quit on us the first time a 300lb DT put his helmet in the middle of his back. I'm just as upset as anybody with the loss but if you think those guys who put in all the work dont want to win more than we do your crazy. As for bustle i say we see how the season pans out. I for one am not for firing anyone in the middle of a season. Unless you appoint an unproven assistant your only choice is to hire a coach who does not already have a job.
if the season continues on this route the we see where we are at the end of the year and go from there. _

Basically, I was saying that Bustle needed to defuse the situation, having players quit after a embarrasing loss means he has no control of his team. If he does not regain the control of the team, I think he should be let go.

[CrazyCajun]

_ Basically, I was saying that Bustle needed to defuse the situation, having players quit after a embarrasing loss means he has no control of his team. If he does not regain the control of the team, I think he should be let go. _

We don't know if he tried or did not try but if the kid does not want to be here then let him go. i'm sure at this point the last thing bustle needs to worry about is if his back up QB is happy with his situation. i see where you are coming from with the control thing. But the way i see it is that hundley just gave up on his team b/c he was not happy. We don't need those kind of players right now with the position we are in. Heaven forbid something happen to mike but i would much rather have connor take over b/c at least we know he wants to be here.

[srevere51]

_ Heaven forbid something happen to mike but i would much rather have connor take over b/c at least we know he wants to be here. _

Too bad he is a senior.... In pregame warm ups he looked like he had a great touch.
Gosh I sure hope that Mike doesn't get hurt either.

[Turbine]

Was it Folse who quit on Baldwin early in the season after Baldwin started Jon VanCleave?

[CrazyCajun]

_ Was it Folse who quit on Baldwin early in the season after Baldwin started Jon VanCleave? _

i thought it was derek dyer

[TheFan]

I know d. dyer quit.

[IHateLaState]

When does baseball start???????????????????????????????

[Zeebart21]

I too, was disappointed in your loss.

Talked to RaisingCajun from Tennessee on Saturday evening as LSU was administering a butt-whipping on us, and he sounded kind of down.

We had our second largest crowd ever at MT about 5 years ago against lowly Southeast Missouri State, a team that I had bragged on the message boards that we'd beat by 50.

Wrong.......the 1-aa program and former Ohio Valley Conference mate upset us.

All I'm saying is........ what comes around goes around. I am predicting a Cajun victory over Troy this weekend. They are very beatable and are coming off of a big upset, and your guys' backs are up against the wall.

Your players need/deserve the support, and you folks know as much as I, a season cannot be judged by one game. And PLEASE do not commence to calling other Cajun folks names and start "hating" other fans, like some at MT have done through the Andy McCollum firing, etc. We are still a divided fanbase. It is not healthy. Your are ALL in this together.

Keep your heads up and things will get better when you least suspect it.

Hell, we at MT have now lost 6 straight dating back to last season.

Have fun, but most importantly, stick with your team through thick and through thin. I know you will.

Best of Luck, and beat the snot out of Condom State !!

Thanks, K Raider!

[Kal]

Did anybody experience deja vu saturday night? Trouble scoring in second half, twice we gave them excellent field position after going 3 and out. They scored on their 2nd opportunity. Man that sounds really familiar to what happened against Ohio.

[Turbine]

Thanks guys.

I was getting the stories in my head combined.

In 1999 (I think) Folse was a senior and was named opening day starter and at the last minute Baldwin picked folse over Derek Dyer who had supposedly won the starting job in the spring.

I guess when Baldwin benched Derek Dyer for VanCleave in 2001 Dyer wanted no part of this serious case of déjà vu.