Predictions for how rest of season will play out

[UL Alum93]

Just don't see Troy running the table to go 8-0 in conference, I do see us with 2 loses in conference, one to competitor and one as a slip up, ending up with 4 loses and a great season....let's hope the slip up isn't WKU and/or homecoming!

Geaux Cajuns

[CajunDreDog]

Guess I don't get hung up on the name game as much as others. Seems as though a fair number of current students (to include recent graduates) have little to no problem with UL, etc. Because that is what it's always been to them. I'm an "old" USL grad; but do my best to say UL whenever referring to the cajuns. My neice graduated a couple years ago and always says UL. Doesn't make anyone any less a supporter of our university because they are comfortable with the UL name. JM 2 Cents.

P.S. You can tell when someone is "ULLing" us to death just to get under our skin. This doesn't look like that at all.

Not to turn this into a name thread but this is why I think it will take at least a generation or two to get even all of our own fans to just use "UL". Then you will start to see maybe even other schools near us slowly switching. The name change will take 50+ years for everyone to start calling us whatever we want.

I'm done now, back to rest of the season predictions.


igeaux.mobi

[shof]

_ Not to turn this into a name thread but this is why I think it will take at least a generation or two to get even all of our own fans to just use "UL". Then you will start to see maybe even other schools near us slowly switching. The name change will take 50+ years for everyone to start calling us whatever we want.

I'm done now, back to rest of the season predictions.


igeaux.mobi _

Agree. Heck, I even had to re-edit my post because the use of UL L was edited to UL, so it didn't make sense!
Let's just play some ball!

[MetryCajun]

_ Just don't see Troy running the table to go 8-0 in conference, I do see us with 2 loses in conference, one to competitor and one as a slip up, ending up with 4 loses and a great season....let's hope the slip up isn't WKU and/or homecoming!

Geaux Cajuns _

I'm with you. The conference seems very balanced (Weak). I would not be surprised if 2 losses still gets you the SBC title.

[CajunDreDog]

Let's just play some ball!

We agree on two things.


igeaux.mobi

[RCAJUN90]

_ This is what i think will be the final standings for the Sun belt and bowl eligible teams.

Troy 9-3 (8-0) Bowl Game
ULL 8-4 (6-2) Bowl Game
Arkansas ST 6-6 (5-3) Eligible
MTSU 7-5 (5-3) Eligible
ULM 5-7 (4-4)
FAU 4-8 (3-5)
UNT 4-8 (3-5)
FIU 1-11 (1-7)
WKU 0-12 (0-8)

Or so i hope it plays out like this. _

My prediction is we win against WKU. Other than that I don't know. Let's take one game at a time. We are not good enough to be thinking down the road.

[HOUCajun]

My best guess, UL will win 2 of the next 3 and sit 5-3 going in to the meat of the schedule.
After that, I hope we can take 2 more.
IF we can win the next 3, it could get really fun.
I can see this team winning anywhere between 6-9 games. Any win total > or = 7, Bustle gets an extension and a huge raise. If we can somehow win 8, I think the local recruiting tide turns and we start getting kids like Ambrose, D. Johnson, etc.

But as RC 90 said 1 game at a time!!

[CajunRebel]

It's good to see so many optimistic predictions.

However if we play like we did against North Texas we won't beat anyone except WKU.

[zephyr]

_ How awesome would it be for THE CAJUNS and Troy to win out the rest of their games and then the Conference Championship is decided in the SWAMP the last game of the regular season!!! How much more awesome would it be for that game to be sold out, I'm talking biggest crowd ever sold out!!! _

This would be the scenario, we as cajun fans, all look forward to because to be in this position would mean we are easily bowl eligible and likely already at 7 wins. However, what is most frustrating to me is that the only things that control whether we have a packed house or only 18-20k in the swamp are the weather and how/where LSU is playing on that given day. That is sad.

[HOUCajun]

_ It's good to see so many optimistic predictions.

However if we play like we did against North Texas we won't beat anyone except WKU. _

I would agree with that. I think that was a bad game for UL and they will play better defensively going forward. How much better is the question.