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What is the biggest surprise in the SBC this year?
How competitive Georgia Southern has been

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How big of an egg ULL has laid?

(09-21-2014 07:20 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the biggest surprise in the SBC this year?
How competitive Georgia Southern has done

OR

How big of an egg ULL has laid?

The Cajuns for sure. I know a lot of Belt members expected a lot out of Louisiana and we have played very poorly in all but 2 quarters of football. The preseason conference POY couldn't start for any team in the Sun Belt except ours. He is living on credit right now. He has been atrocious.

As fas as GaSo is concerned, Frits was an incredible hire and they already had the frontline talent to compete in the Sun Belt. Depth will still get them in games this season but if they build a two TD lead against anyone it will be hard to catch them.

Tough question. I think we are all pleasantly surprised how smooth the transition from the flexbone to the spread option has been. Also nobody wants to hear this, but there are solid teams in the SoCon, so we were prepared to compete.

The ULL GaSt game last year was a red flag as bad as GaSt was.

(09-21-2014 07:25 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:20 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the biggest surprise in the SBC this year?
How competitive Georgia Southern has done

OR

How big of an egg ULL has laid?

The Cajuns for sure. I know a lot of Belt members expected a lot out of Louisiana and we have played very poorly in all but 2 quarters of football. The preseason conference POY couldn't start for any team in the Sun Belt except ours. He is living on credit right now. He has been atrocious.

As fas as GaSo is concerned, Frits was an incredible hire and they already had the frontline talent to compete in the Sun Belt. Depth will still get them in games this season but if they build a two TD lead against anyone it will be hard to catch them.

My biggest worry is that the attention will put Fritz on the hiring radar.

UL hands down, I know they have lost a couple of key players but this is looking bad.

(09-21-2014 07:31 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:25 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:20 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the biggest surprise in the SBC this year?
How competitive Georgia Southern has done

OR

How big of an egg ULL has laid?

The Cajuns for sure. I know a lot of Belt members expected a lot out of Louisiana and we have played very poorly in all but 2 quarters of football. The preseason conference POY couldn't start for any team in the Sun Belt except ours. He is living on credit right now. He has been atrocious.

As fas as GaSo is concerned, Frits was an incredible hire and they already had the frontline talent to compete in the Sun Belt. Depth will still get them in games this season but if they build a two TD lead against anyone it will be hard to catch them.

My biggest worry is that the attention will put Fritz on the hiring radar.

I'm worried about this as well.

(09-21-2014 07:33 AM)TheEagleWay Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:31 AM)GSU Eagles Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:25 AM)geauxcajuns Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 07:20 AM)Saint3333 Wrote: [ -> ]What is the biggest surprise in the SBC this year?
How competitive Georgia Southern has done

OR

How big of an egg ULL has laid?

The Cajuns for sure. I know a lot of Belt members expected a lot out of Louisiana and we have played very poorly in all but 2 quarters of football. The preseason conference POY couldn't start for any team in the Sun Belt except ours. He is living on credit right now. He has been atrocious.

As fas as GaSo is concerned, Frits was an incredible hire and they already had the frontline talent to compete in the Sun Belt. Depth will still get them in games this season but if they build a two TD lead against anyone it will be hard to catch them.

My biggest worry is that the attention will put Fritz on the hiring radar.

I'm worried about this as well.

Y'all are worried about the wrong thing. Embrace it. Take it from someone who supports a school who didn't have a coach hired away because of success for 4 decades. You want your coach to be on hot lists at this level. Otherwise you end up like Troy!

As poorly as the Cajuns have played, I think when all the smoke clears we will still have had a decent season.

GaSouthern, I believe, will continue to roll. For me, they're no surprise at all.

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If I remember correctly, he has a pretty expensive buy out. Not that it would deter a big program but other than that I don't think he goes anywhere after one season.

Bigger worry on this coach stealing:

If Fritz gets a bowl/victory next season. PJ continues to be mediocre at Tech and he's got two years left on the ol' contract. After next season, Fritz would be a good transitional coach for Tech to move away from traditional option football with. He's already proven that.

THAT is what will start keeping me up at night as we improve and gain momentum!

The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

(09-21-2014 09:00 AM)CAJUNCOUNTRY Wrote: [ -> ]The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

Cajuns, no doubt. Beginning to question just how good coach H is again. He has trouble outside the conference.

(09-21-2014 09:08 AM)Florida Red Wolf Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:00 AM)CAJUNCOUNTRY Wrote: [ -> ]The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

Cajuns, no doubt. Beginning to question just how good coach H is again. He has trouble outside the conference.

$1M a year? Hmmm, definitely not earning that paycheck this year.

(09-21-2014 11:03 AM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:08 AM)Florida Red Wolf Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:00 AM)CAJUNCOUNTRY Wrote: [ -> ]The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

Cajuns, no doubt. Beginning to question just how good coach H is again. He has trouble outside the conference.

$1M a year? Hmmm, definitely not earning that paycheck this year.

Three straight solid years and three straight bowl victories after decades of miserable failure. I'm not ready to go postal on the man just yet.

UL by far. They were expected to contend for the G5 at large and look like a shadow of last year even though they returned a bunch of players.


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It's not even close.

GaSo playing NCState close was no surprise. GT maybe surprising since their D is more used to the concepts. USA game mildly surprising, not the part about USA struggling to score but no huge shock.

I'm not surprised that the Cajuns lost to Ole Miss or Boise but I shocked that UL hasn't been competitive in three FBS games and no closer than 10 at the half in any of them.

(09-21-2014 11:29 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 11:03 AM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:08 AM)Florida Red Wolf Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:00 AM)CAJUNCOUNTRY Wrote: [ -> ]The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

Cajuns, no doubt. Beginning to question just how good coach H is again. He has trouble outside the conference.

$1M a year? Hmmm, definitely not earning that paycheck this year.

Three straight solid years and three straight bowl victories after decades of miserable failure. I'm not ready to go postal on the man just yet.

Just saying for this year. Those solid years have got him here, but I'm sure if he doesn't pick it up soon and have his team looking halfway prepared, there may be some grumbling about his pay raise.

The Cajuns, no doubt.

Hell, I'd almost say USA struggling is most surprising. They were supposed to be the world beaters this year (coming out in 2nd or 3rd in most rankings) and thus far, they haven't played that way.

ULM is playing a lot better than I expected, but not so much better than I think ULM fans were expecting.

But I was really hoping the Cajuns would be sitting at like at worst 2-2 (with a good shot at 3-1) at this point this season. Instead, they have looked downright bad at times this season.

(09-21-2014 12:43 PM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 11:29 AM)CajunFanatico Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 11:03 AM)Ole Sleepy Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:08 AM)Florida Red Wolf Wrote: [ -> ]

(09-21-2014 09:00 AM)CAJUNCOUNTRY Wrote: [ -> ]The Cajuns for sure the positive thing is there is no one on our schedule with the talent of the last two teams we have played. We will be ok. But we needed to win one of the last three and we didn't

Cajuns, no doubt. Beginning to question just how good coach H is again. He has trouble outside the conference.

$1M a year? Hmmm, definitely not earning that paycheck this year.

Three straight solid years and three straight bowl victories after decades of miserable failure. I'm not ready to go postal on the man just yet.

Just saying for this year. Those solid years have got him here, but I'm sure if he doesn't pick it up soon and have his team looking halfway prepared, there may be some grumbling about his pay raise.

Grumbling comes with the territory. They're grumbling today about Les Miles, I'm sure.

Hud's the best thing to happen to Cajun football since I've been following the team and I was seated at Cajun field for the first game played there back in the 70's. I think $1MM is a very reasonable salary at our current level to not only attract top talent, but perhaps keep them for more than a year or two.

After he's lost a pile of games we should have won, and seems to have no solution to the problem, I'll start to question his abilities. But I'm no where near there yet.

Despite the bad season, the Cajuns can take solace in knowing that no other coach in the country can out bench press Huds.