The Book: 2007 Football

[anhil8tor]

I was smart Saturday. Packed my son a bag with a towel and some toys. I saw it was raining so I put on his ULL flip flops. Apparently kids like to stomp in puddles.

Of course I got to watch about 5 minutes before he went had to goto the bathroom. When we walked in there was a solid inch of water on the floor. I'm sure most of it was water.

Also he wanted some cotton candy. The first one I bought him was obviously from last week because it was hard and about 1/4 of the size of the bag. When I looked at it there were ants all over inside the bag. I brought it bag and they tried to sell me the line of bull____ that ... he put those outside before the others. Gimmie a break...

[anhil8tor]

TD annoys me.

"Let 'em hear you Cowboy fans!"????

What a clown.

He has always done this...even back during the ice gator games. Maybe if the cajun fans would get off their hands or do something creative like turn their backs, read the newspaper etc etc... then it would mean something.

[ulforlife]

WHY ARE WE NOT GIVING HIM THE BALL MORE? He is the center of our offense and he only got 7 carries on Saturday, HE STILL GOT 123 YARDS. What could he have done with 15-20 carries???? This is no good.

[AstroCajun]

_ WHY ARE WE NOT GIVING HIM THE BALL MORE? He is the center of our offense and he only got 7 carries on Saturday, HE STILL GOT 123 YARDS. What could he have done with 15-20 carries???? This is no good. _

Because he's still not 100%.

Saw him gimping off the field in the 4th Qtr BEFORE he made the big gain to set up the clinching field goal.

[IHateLaState]

The guy is in obvious pain.. Playing all on heart........... along with a bunch of others....

[USLJim]

_ does it take only 10 years for usf to have a top 25 team big east team and bcs centender. and UL been around for decades and decades and the cajuns cant even play a bowl game and are still stuck in the crappy sunbelt conf. ???wtf _

Don't you get it. Money talks BS walks.

Florida does not restrict on how much money can be taken from their student tuitions. We are just now getting from our illustrious legislature the right to raise more funs from our Student fees. As a father of a UL student, I don't mind paying a bit more for Athletic fees.

Secondly,
Here is something to think about! What if we had had the University of Louisiana name since 1984 instead of 2000. There would be no University of Louisiana-Lafayette tagged to us.

You people must realize, it ain't all this administrations fault. We have been working on a small academic and athletic budget for years. We are just now getting some well deserved academic buildings and much needed repairs on old buildings. Look at Burke Hall, That is sad to see the window frames rotting away.

Also, USF is in a Metropolitan area, Tampa Bay/St. Petersburg FL. area. How many people do you think live within that University. Makes it a more attractive market than Lafayette for support and media coverage.

I suggest you listen to talk radio ( KPEL - Jay Walker) sometimes and ask questions. Jay is pretty knowledgable about the conference affiliations in the area. One thing I learned from him last month, was the fact that when we were being looked at as a CUSA member, We were USL, well, according to him our Bi-directional name did not sit well with some of the Presidents of the CUSA members. So we did not get invited to join. SO, going back to 1984 when our illustrious legislature decided to play GOD and reversed our name, that HURT us athletically and academically.

It doesn't help when you are not a winner and right now our football program is not respected but when YOU don't support it and the other college programs no it, they use it against us. So, think about this, Say we get looked at again by CUSA, you don't think they are going to look at our home attendance record. I bet it is going to be a factor. They see our students are even supporting our team. That ain't gonna help. To be winners, we have to support our Ragin Cajun Athletic Programs WIN OR LOSE. We don't WIN anything if we don't support them.

In closing, SUPPORT OUR UNIVERSITY , WIN Or LOSE. and we will be WINNERS.

[ULtimateCajun]

_ your still not getting my point, anwser my question, why usf can do it and we can't. like i said tampa has 3 times more the popul. as baton rouge does. usf athl. 20+ million, lsu 100+ million. so don't give me that cop out ____ and say b/c it population, Louisiana Là ____ed up somewhere and that comes back to my original questions. WHY CAN USF DO IT AND WE CAN'T. can someone elaberate please _

I don't think anyone has a definitive answer to that question. It could be from having an athletic director that didn't know how to support/push/stear a football program and pretty much ran it into the ground as a result. I'm buying the population theory as well, when you have a hot bed of athletes such as the state of Florida does, whether they are good at football or not, they are athletic. And it all comes back to Money, when you have a big time football budget, you get a big time football team. And when you have all of these things (Money, Athletes, a Good AD) it can be done. I also think USF is just an awesome story to have that kind of rise. Hope this helps.

[ulforlife]

I guess y'all are right, hopefully he'll be ready and prime for ark state, maybe we can turn this thing around and go 6-6!

[Clutch0364]

_ WHY ARE WE NOT GIVING HIM THE BALL MORE? He is the center of our offense and he only got 7 carries on Saturday, HE STILL GOT 123 YARDS. What could he have done with 15-20 carries???? This is no good. _

Ive been real critical of the coaching staff but this is soemthing I cant be critical of. I think they are handling Fenroy right in not rushing him back to quick. He seemed a little gimpy at times and he was in at times when we really needed him.

[ulforlife]

_ Ive been real critical of the coaching staff but this is soemthing I cant be critical of. I think they are handling Fenroy right in not rushing him back to quick. He seemed a little gimpy at times and he was in at times when we really needed him. _

I trust you clutch!