Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns

Maybe if JMU is interested in getting out early, if the other teams want to keep them around, if maybe it's going to cost an extra couple million dollars.

I don't think it'll be anywhere near as contentious as Louisiana Tech trying to get out of Conference USA.

But I don't know yet if it'll happen that fast.

It wouldn't surprise me, but way into 2028, You end up with kind of a lame duck situation.

Maybe until you see how things shake out.

But, like, I think Gil had to have some idea that, like, there'd at least be some interest between JMU and other conferences, you know? And I still don't think JMU's the only one.

I mean, you hear about Louisiana in the Pac-12 every once in a while.

Like, I think App State and some other schools probably have some level of interest in looking at what's available.

In my mind, it felt like, Fans were not prideful of Lafayette.

Why wouldn't you want to call it Louisiana Lafayette? That's showing hometown pride.

So I didn't get it.

All right.

So the name of the school is absolutely University of Louisiana Lafayette.

And actually they needed ULM to come into the system so they could have a system.

And that's what it was, UL Lafayette and UL Monroe.

That's what it was.

No surprise that it went down to the wire between these two teams.

Unfortunately, the Cajuns come out on top.

They hit a game-winning field goal as time expires to win it 23-20.

Second straight season that this game has come down.

Another one, you had the short field and you had to settle for a field goal and you get a touchdown on the other drive.

But it turned into a half where you ran a total of 15 plays and you had the ball less than nine minutes.

So the Cajuns had the football over 21 minutes in that second half.

And eventually that wore down the Red Wolves defense and you end up losing the game by three.

We're just looking for broad strokes and maybe some specifics.

What was your reaction to the news when you heard that Wilbert Pryor decided that due to budgetary deficits with those three schools and the Cajuns did have a deficit.

I'm not sure about the other ones, but the Cajuns' deficit was very publicly well-known.

What was your reaction to the news about him suggesting, because of those deficits, that the Louisiana schools dropped down from FPS to FCS?

Yeah, I can't say it came as a surprise.

All right, Dave Schultz, Locked on Sunbelt, your teams every day.

Let's go back and wrap up our conversation with a former AD, John Hartwell.

We talk about FCS budgets and what would be some of those unintended consequences should La Tech, ULM, and the Cajuns all move down to FCS.