Second half offense not enough for a good showing

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It came too late to prevent an 0-2 start Saturday night, but Louisiana's Ragin' Cajun football squad may have found the spark they lacked offensively through the season's first five quarters. The Cajuns managed only 85 offensive yards in their first six possessions Saturday during the 31-10 loss at Eastern Michigan. Over the final six possessions, UL totaled 326 yards and had marches of 92, 85, 82 and 66 yards. "We got behind 21-3 and had to kind of open things up and spread it out," said offensive coordinator Rob Christophel. "That opened up some things in the passing game and we were able to get some plays there, and that in turn opened up the running game." The Cajuns ended up with 182 rushing yards and quarterback Jerry Babb threw for 228 yards on 21-of-29 completions, and most of those numbers came in the game's final 35 minutes. As of the five-minute mark of the first half, UL had 49 total yards. "We proved we could move the ball," said Babb, who engineered a 92-yard drive late in the half that resulted in a field goal. "We had some long drives ... we just have to get something out of those every time." The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

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"We got behind 21-3 and had to kind of open things up and spread it out," said offensive coordinator Rob Christophel. "That opened up some things in the passing game and we were able to get some plays there, and that in turn opened up the running game."

Here's an idea. How about starting off the game open and spread the offense out. I can understand being a little hesitant to do that with our inexperience at receiver, but I think they have proved that they are capable. They will only get better if you keep throwing to them. With the running backs that we have we need to spread the field and give them room to run. Our offense is much batter than what's been shown, but I think formation and play calling is the problem, not ability.

Oh, and please stop someone defense. We need a bigger DL plain and simple. You don't have to have superstar linebackers if the DL gets penetration or at least keeps the lineman off the backers. JC DL next year!