The Book 2008 Football

[RaginFan2]

_ F that...I'll take that tune any day.

Would be great 10 sec tune after a sack _

I'm not disagreeing. I think it would be a great one. Just saying I'm not sure that it would constitute a "new" chart. I guess new in the sense that it hasn't been used by our band before. Just that the song is, well I was playing it when I was in college. And that was a few decades ago! BTW, my son is a Zep freak. I just brought him (on Sat.) a new book on the beginnings of the band which he had ordered. He is a freshman at UL.

[NewsCopy]

  Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns football team picked up win No. 1 of the 2008 season last Saturday defeating Kent State 44-27 in the 8th Annual Herbert Heymann Football Classic at Cajun Field.

The Ragin’ Cajuns (1-2) now turn their sights toward a three-game road trip which begins Saturday, Sept. 27 in Manhattan, Kan., at Bill Synder Family Stadium against Kansas State (2-1). Kickoff is scheduled for 2:35 p.m.

Louisiana visits KSU for the second time under head coach Rickey Bustle. In the 2004 season, the Wildcats topped Bustle’s Cajuns 40-20.

UL enters Saturday’s game coming off the best offensive showing in school history. The Ragin’ Cajuns piled up a school record 667 yards of total offense on Kent State. Leading the way were seniors Michael Desormeaux and Tyrell Fenroy. Desormeaux threw for a career-high 253 yards and rushed for 150 on 17 carries. Fenroy rushed for a career-high 194 yards on 23 carries and added a career-high 68 receiving yards.

The UL offensive line controlled the line of scrimmage helping the rushing attack grind out 414 yards. For the second time this season the offensive line did not allow a sack.

The defense posted 10 tackles-for-loss and three sacks. On special teams Orkeys Auriene turned in a 64-yard punt return – the longest by a Cajuns player since Nick Dugas in 2002.

The Cajuns coaching staff announced their weekly awards on Monday. The Offensive Player of the Game award went to the entire offense.

Defensive Player of the Week honors went to Dwight Bentley, Gerren Blount, Orkeys Auriene and Derik Keyes. Blount led the team with six tackles (5 solo), Auriene had two tackles for loss, Keyes posted two pass breakups and Bentley posted three tackles.

Special Forces Player of the Game honors went to the kickoff coverage unit.

RaginCajuns.com

[NewsCopy]

  At last week's media luncheon for UL's football team, senior tight end Erik Jones insisted that the Ragin' Cajuns were at their best when they milked the clock with their power running game.

His teammates proved him wrong in record-setting fashion with Saturday's 44-27 win over Kent State at Cajun Field.

The Cajuns shattered a school record with 667 yards, including 414 on the ground, behind a flurry of big gains. They logged 12 offensive plays covering at least 15 yards - two more than the team had this season in its previous two games.

The rest of the story

Joshua Parrott • jparrott@theadvertiser.com • September 23, 2008

[Cover2]

Love the Zep, but that is hardly "new charts".

Does the PoA already play this chart? "New" merely refers to a chart not currently played by the band, not the chart's age.

Plus there's nothing but crap on the radio nowadays....

[rhineaux]

_ This game was impressive for several reasons.

Offensive Play

Passing downfield off of run fakes proved to be very deadly. Wonderful play calling.

Green and Hill are going to be better than we hoped.

Desmo showed great poise passing the football for the second straight week.

As long as Desmo and Fenroy remain healthy, the rushing attack will again be one of the best in the country.

Only problem may be the lack of a capable sub to give Fenroy a break.


Defensive Play

Aside from the 80 yard bomb late in the game, the defense performed at the level needed to win this conference, for the second straight week.

3 SACKS, swarming to the ball, bone-jarring hits. I can't tell you how nice it is to see a Cajun defense play with an attitude.

Dean is going to be a good one.


Atmosphere

Things are coming together. From game management, to the new field, to the clean stadium, to the fired-up fans, this was one of the most enjoyable gametime experiences I've had in Cajun Field in a long time.

If we in fact do turn the corner this season with the program, people will point to this game as the turning point. _

I guess I'll offer my opinions.

I thought the 1st Quarter sucked. I was pretty ____ed after that Desmo fumble...I think I was like a lot of people who said "Oh Crap, here we go again." It set them up for that first TD, which can't be blamed on the Defense. I also wasn't very happy after the following drive (I think it was the second one) when we had 1st and 10 from the fifteen, and ran the ball 7 straight times, and had to kick the FG. We ended up getting a 1st down and had 1st and Goal from the 5 yd line or so. I turned to a buddy and said "We're going to run three times, get stopped and have to settle for the FG." I was right, and if my drunk ass knows exactly what you're going to do, then you know that the opposing coaches, who have been breaking down your film all week, knows what you're going to do. I talked to a former player at Halftime and he was none to pleased about that play calling either. In my opinion, we had moved the ball down the field quickly and could have easily run Green into the endzone and let him jump for it. That being said, I was much more pleased with the play calling the rest of the game, and I thought that they really diversified.

I was yelling for them to throw it to Green the whole first half, and didn't like that the first time they threw it to him was on a 1-yd route to the sideline. They need to get that guy downfield on every play. I don't think he's the kind of guy that can catch the ball on little out routes or screens or whatever, and then make people miss. He's the type of guy that will give team's problems before the ball is thrown, not after, and was really excited that Des hooked up with him on that long pass play. Even if the coverage hadn't been blown, he still would have likely made that play because of his size advantage. He might not have scored if he was covered, but I'm still confident he would have caught the ball for the big gain.

Like many others, I was very pleased with Pierre Hill's play. He made some really nice moves. I didn't notice where he dropped any passes, and he seems like he can be a go-to guy for this offense. It's great that he and Green are Freshmen. And if you add Kelley to that mix next year, along with our other guys (Lee, Falgout, etc), our next QB will definitely have some experienced, athletic, play-making options to help him along.

Defense and Special Teams were Bad to the Bone. I loved the intensity that they played with, they flew to the ball all game long, and they were lighting up the Kent St players. That play on a Kickoff where Keys hit that blocker into the runner was amazing. they might have made a few mistakes, but it seems like they have gotten to a point where they have developed a short memory and forget about them. Last year, it seemed like they tried NOT to make mistakes, which resulted in some poor play. In these last two games, they just move on and look for someone else to hit.

Like Hammer eluded to in another thread, I'm not ready to start making plans for a bowl game. I guess that part of being a Cajun fan has you waiting for the other shoe to drop. While I've been critical of Bustle, and while I still don't have a whole lot of confidence in him or the staff (and honestly, after the last season and a half, he hasn't done anything to deserve my vote), the last two games have me feeling a lot better about the situation. But I'm not going to forget that we beat an average team with a one dimensional offense, without their great RB, and with a poor defense. To me, the K-State game on Saturday will be a better barometer of where we are as a team. In the Big Picture, it's not necessarilly a must win, but another moral victory won't exactly get me too excited either. And a blow-out would lead me to believe that we still aren't where we want to be as a program. Some of you might not agree with that, but if we want this program to be what we want it to be, if we want the respect we desire, if we want to be one of the best in the SBC, then we MUST beat these teams. Mid-Major programs play up to their BCS opponents all the time and register Moral victories, but that doesn't mean that they're good programs. And then after K-State, I will be very interested in seeing how we play on the road against two SBC rivals. Again, just like we said last week, beating or getting a moral victory against a BCS opponent doesn't mean anything if you fall on your face the next week. I want to see how they perform against the rest of the SBC when they don't have the excitement of playing at a BCS stadium with a chance to register a big win, or when they don't have the excitement of playing in front of the big crowd for the first home game of the year. If they come back home with a good record in the next three games, then I'll believe that we've got something special here.

[derf]

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Plus there's nothing but crap on the radio nowadays.... _

But, there are some things that would be cool. Like halftime by Ying
Yang Twins. Anything but the time warp...kinda booooo

[CajunFun]

New article up.

[CajunZ1]

Good Read. Thanks

[Gbbaseball7]

_ Wrong Pop McGuire! Your youngster and all the rest of the second and 3rd teamers work extremely hard during the week.

They deserve some glory as well!

If you have a 20 pt lead and you're trying to punch it in with your #1 guys at the end thats one thing.......you got the reserves in, let em share in the glory.

See you in Monroe? Denton?

Z _

See you there

[Zeebart21]

_ New article up.

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Nice job, Doc!

Z