ATHENS, Ohio — The actual execution for four quarters may not have been perfect, but the result sure was.
ATHENS, Ohio — It took a little longer than UL coach Billy Napier would have wanted, but the vaunted Ragin’ Cajuns rushing attack delivered once again in a 45-25 road win over Ohio on Saturday at Peden Stadium in Athens, Ohio.
1. Defense revitalized
The Ragin' Cajuns defeated the Ohio Bobcats 45-25 in Athens, Ohio infront of nearly 18,000 fans. The Cajuns now hold a record of 3-1 on the year.
After each of UL’s first two games, coach Billy Napier was quite frustrated by his offense’s lack of ability to seize necessary chances to score.
The Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns offense continued its roll with a 45-25 victory over the Ohio Bobcats in Athens, Ohio.
Lance Key is hoping the rest of the soccer coaches in the Sun Belt Conference are wrong about his UL club.
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Although UL baseball coach Matt Deggs is still recruiting the current crop of senior high school prospects, the first-year coach took the time to diligently pursue Acadiana High junior outfielder Ian Montz, who committed to the Cajuns earlier this week.
UL’s volleyball team hasn’t been finishing what it started, said coach Heather Mazeitis-Fontenot, and she’s hoping her team reverses that trend this weekend in its final tuneup before Sun Belt Conference play.
No matter how much you analyze the Ohio Bobcats, it always seems to get back to senior quarterback Nathan Rourke.
UL senior linebacker Ferrod Gardner has had so many conflicting thoughts running through his mind this past offseason, it’s a wonder his head isn’t still spinning.
There’s a lot of history to overcome.
A year ago, much of UL coach Billy Napier’s offensive strategy centered around protecting his defense … oh yeah, and hoping to score enough points along the way.
INSIDE THE GAME
Two decades ago, Darren Walker was a young, aspiring sports broadcaster for KATC Channel 3.
Anyone who knew Charles Tillman understood that “Peanut” wasn’t one to be defined just as a football player, and that he would have no trouble making his post-football life just as meaningful as his days in the secondary for UL’s Ragin’ Cajuns, th…
It’s not that he’s shying away from the burden that was placed on his shoulders last season, but UL senior defensive end Bennie Higgins unleashed a huge smile when asked how much improved depth has aided his performance this season.
Billy Napier had one of his happiest nights ever as a collegiate football coach Saturday, and it had little to do with his UL team’s record-setting 77-6 thrashing of Texas Southern.
With obvious improvement on defense and the offense rolling along pretty explosively these days, the recent successes in special teams are pretty encouraging for the UL Ragin’ Cajuns.
It was fun while it lasted.
After giving up touchdown drives in the first two games, UL’s defense corrected that in Saturday’s win over Texas Southern.
Saturday’s last home non-conference game of the season against Texas Southern was the final tune-up for UL before heading to Ohio University next Saturday, and the Ragin’ Cajuns departed Cajun Field as a well-oiled machine.
Bacque pitched for the then-SLI Bulldogs in 1956-57 before joining the Detroit Tigers’ organization.
It’s certainly a unique scenario, so it’s no surprise UL coach Billy Napier preferred to sidestep the questions during the week about his Ragin’ Cajuns being a 40-something point favorite in Saturday’s 6:30 p.m. game against Texas Southern at Caju…
INSIDE THE GAME
Seven former UL Ragin' Cajuns student-athletes, a legendary coach in track and field and the first father-daughter tandem to be inducted into the USA Gymnastics Hall of Fame make up the 2019 UL Athletics Hall of Fame class, in an announcement Thur…
Former Catholic High of New Iberia standout Peter LeBlanc has four receptions in two games so far this season and all signs point toward the freshman receiver not redshirting this season.
There’s going to be a postgame embrace on the turf at Cajun Field after UL’s contest with Texas Southern on Saturday that likely will go unnoticed by most in attendance.
This is only UL’s fourth meeting against a Southwestern Athletic Conference opponent and the first one against Texas Southern.
The thought process concerning the UL wide receiving corps heading into the season opener against Mississippi State on Aug. 31 was pretty clear.
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The biggest national sports story of this past weekend — Antonio Brown’s released from the Oakland Raiders and suspiciously quick acquisition by the New England Patriots — even made his way to a UL coach Billy Napier news conference.
If one had asked former Neville High right tackle Max Mitchell prior to last season what his role would have been his first season with the UL Ragin’ Cajuns, he would have said "as a redshirt."
She may have dipped into the coaches’ cliché book Monday, but there was no better way for UL volleyball coach Heather Mazeitis-Fontenot to describe her team’s one-week transformation.
Billy Napier had something between a grin and a grimace on his face Saturday night after his UL football team took a 35-14 home-opener win over Liberty University that was a lot easier than the score suggested.
It’s the beauty … and some would argue the curse … of being a coach.
WHAT WE LEARNED
Sometimes the hype is true.
There were a few moments early on in UL’s 35-14 win over Liberty where some Ragin’ Cajuns fans were likely beginning to worry about their defense.
In the season-opening loss to Mississippi State, it appeared UL quarterback Levi Lewis and the offense might get their first two-minute opportunity to end the first half.
Sometimes the hype is true.
When the week began, Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw wasn’t sure if his head football coach Hugh Freeze would be able to make the trip to Cajun Field for Saturday’s non-conference contest against UL’s Ragin’ Cajuns.
INSIDE THE GAME
Sure, football coaches like talking about their players.
All signs point toward Liberty coach Hugh Freeze making the trip to Lafayette for Saturday’s 6:30 p.m. non-conference football game with the UL Ragin’ Cajuns.
The Ragin' Cajuns football team will play its first true home game of the season when it hosts Liberty University on Saturday at Cajun Field.
The coaching staff was hoping for a better results, but then reality set up.
In many ways, Percy Butler’s freshman season with the UL Ragin’ Cajuns was like a lot of kids who grew up in small towns.