Ragin' Cajuns refuse to give up

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Others may have given up on the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns, but their refusal to surrender to a rocky start helped them to scratch their way to a 13-10 victory at Middle Tennessee last Saturday. And after a gut-wrenching road loss at Arkansas State the week before, the players took the MT game personally. "The key was everybody not giving up," said fullback Booker Jenkins, who blasted into the end zone from 6 yards away for the game-winning touchdown. "We were going to keep fighting. "Normally before the game the coaches come in and talk to us, but this week we asked it to be a team thing. A couple of guys stood up and said some things they needed to say." An inspired Cajun defense sacked Middle Tennessee quarterback Clint Marks a school-record 9 times and slammed the door on the Blue Raiders after their first two possessions, while Jenkins and the UL offense staged a crucial late drive to survive. "We had to break the ice," defensive end Tony Hills said. "This win takes some of the pressure off our backs. The defense shut them down and the offense came through when they needed to. "On the last Middle Tennessee drive, we said we have to hold up our end of the deal. We knew they were going to air it out, so we had to get coverage by the defensive backs and get pressure. We finally got the win we were looking for." "I've said all year how much I like the character of this team, and it showed," coach Rickey Bustle said. "The players really responded last week in practice. "They hear that people have given up on them, even some of the students, but this time they found a way to win." The rest of the story Bruce Brown bbrown@theadvertiser.com

[victory4lsu]

When a team has to fight hard to beat Middle Tennessee 13-10 then I think they should take a long rope and hang themselves. At least they should not show up at a football game.

[texasboy40]

When a team has to fight hard to beat Middle Tennessee 13-10 then I think they should take a long rope and hang themselves. At least they should not show up at a football game.

who are u to say something that i be u love the cajuns now

[Crawfish]

When a team has to fight hard to beat Middle Tennessee 13-10 then I think they should take a long rope and hang themselves. At least they should not show up at a football game.

If you have nothing better to do except to come here and slam the Cajuns, maybe you should take a long look at your own life. At least shut down you mower long enough to call a help line. What a loser you are...

[BabbForHeisman]

When a team has to fight hard to beat Middle Tennessee 13-10 then I think they should take a long rope and hang themselves. At least they should not show up at a football game.

Louisiana beats Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee beats Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt beats Tennessee
Tennessee beats LSU

Follow that logic and see where it takes you.

[Cajunpride101]

Those poor purple n' gold fanatics are lost yet again. Poor misguided fools.

Don't the tigers have a site for their fans. LOL

You know, somewhere they can make excuses for the Georgia game.

Oh well....its put up or shut up this December on the B-Ball court.

[Crawfish]

Geaux Cajuns!

[victory4lsu]

Louisiana beats Middle Tennessee
Middle Tennessee beats Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt beats Tennessee
Tennessee beats LSU

Follow that logic and see where it takes you.

You guys are the only jokers who are:

Bowl Eligible, Won your conference and still can not go to a bowl game played in your own stadium. How pathetic is that. Man I feel sorry for you guys.
You know what will be the score when we play you next year. We will beat the record of 98-0 that we hold against you.
So
Geaux to Hell Cajuns! Geaux to Hell!

We are LSU! 2003 National Champions, 2001,2003 SEC Champions, 2002 SEC Western Division Co-champions, 2005 SEC Western Division Champions

[BabbForHeisman]

You guys are the only jokers who are:

Bowl Eligible, Won your conference and still can not go to a bowl game played in your own stadium. How pathetic is that. Man I feel sorry for you guys.
You know what will be the score when we play you next year. We will beat the record of 98-0 that we hold against you.
So
Geaux to Hell Cajuns! Geaux to Hell!

We are LSU! 2003 National Champions, 2001,2003 SEC Champions, 2002 SEC Western Division Co-champions, 2005 SEC Western Division Champions

I see that you quoted my post, but you didn't respond at all. Nice.

By the way, did you mean "2003 National CO-Champions"?

Oh, and you forgot "2005 SEC Championship Game Choke-Artists".

But enough of this pointless bickering. I am as aware as anyone else that your team has had more success than the Ragin' Cajuns in the football department. But that's not why I'm a fan. Even if the Tigers win every game for the next ten years and the Cajuns lose every game for the next ten years, I'll still be a Cajun fan.

That's it. End of story. Go home. And pick up a nice big bottle of "self-esteem" on your way. Bye-bye.

[Cajunpride101]

The only "BIG" thing about LSU are their heads. Cajun fans are like Saints fans...You have to be on the bandwagon during the bad times just as much as the good, that is what it means to be a fan. Not these morons that love LSU even though they have never set foot in a LSU classroom.

Just my two pennies.

[victory4lsu]

Not these morons that love LSU even though they have never set foot in a LSU classroom.

Just my two pennies.

Actually Cajunpride101, I have seen the inside of an LSU classroom. Seen one for four years, two advanced/graduate degrees and 78 credits of course/research work. I can not give you more because that might give up my identity and knowing how nasty you guys at ULL can be.
I hear a lot about moaning on ULL campus about how LSU gets the lions share of the state funds and how little ULL gets and this is not right. After seeing the way things are around ULL I think the problem is not how little money ULL gets but how much. There is rampant cronyism (as a LSU graduate I can't spell that word), nepotism, bureaucracy, red tapism that could put a third world country to shame.
The soundest decision that the government of Louisiana can make is to downgrade the University of Louisiana institutions to make them exclusively undergraduate degree granting institutions ( sort of like McNeese ) and move all the money for research, graduate and advanced professional work to LSU. Also to downgrade the athletic departments to division 2 status.
The money can be moved into LSU sports. That way the state of Louisiana will have one great university LSU in both athletics and academics. But most importantly the collosal wasteage of money, rampant misuse and abuse of state and federal tax dollars on ULL and other schools will stop.