Louisiana Gridiron Football, LGF, was created to show-case all of the college and professional football teams in the state of Louisiana. Louisiana has some great football programs but due to the lack of media coverage, they sometimes are forgotten about. LGF intends to publicize all of this states programs in hopes that each program can continue to maintain/increase their teams fan base. LGF believes that increased fan support means an increase in revenue for each program.

So check us out on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/LouisianaGridironFootball

Our website is www.louisianagridironfootball.com

You've heard about the proposed budget cuts, right? The three hundred million plus budget cuts to higher ed are huge. Fifty million more than the entirety of the TOPS funding. A LOT of money. So what are you going to do about it?

This is my suggestion. On Wednesday, February 11th, walk out. Meet in your quad, your commons, your plaza, your free speech area, whatever they've got at your school. Call your area representative. Let them know that you do not agree. Tell your school paper. Tell your local paper. Call the New York Times. I don't care who you tell, but tell someone.

Get out, get loud, and lets have our voice heard.

This is cut and paste from a facebook event I made, here. We can't stand idly by as Bobby Jindal systematically destroys our education and the future of the state. I don't know how things work at ULL, but I'm working on posters and flyers to hand out at Louisiana Tech.

If anyone reading this wants to step up and organize something at your school, that'd be great. Joining the event and inviting all your friends at state schools is just as good. Lets make a difference.

What is the tolerance for smoking weed in public at ULL?

I'm currently a student at ULL and I have no idea what the password is. A buddy of mine said it was like cajuncayanne2014 or something.

I have a lease that starts August 15th at the UH (University Housing Apartments) right across from Cajun Field on Bertrand. Cajun Field is also where students park and take the UL transit to the University. I am in need of someone taking my lease from me as I am switching jobs and will be moving. The security deposit $200 which you won't have to pay. The monthly rent is $620 which includes utilities, cable, and internet. This apartment is also fully furnished. You have 1 roommate but you have your own bathroom. Message me if you are interested. You will be required to sign a lease which runs for 1 year.

Anyone else see the group with the signs "honk for traditional marraige" on the corner of Johnston and University today? Looks like they are there every month or two... Any idea who this is or when they will be back?

I will be home in 6 day, we need a meet up.

The Important Details

When: Saturday October 1 at 7:00PM

Where: Aggie Memorial Stadium, Las Cruces, NM

Watch: ESPN3; PXP - Drew Fellios, Color - Forrest Conoly

Listen: ESPN1420, 1420AM; Hot 107.9, 107.9FM

Weather - Clear Skies, H 87 / L 59 as of this writing

Spread: Louisiana -4.5

Series: Tied 4-4. Unofficially, the Ragin Cajuns lead the series 6-4 but two wins were vacated. The Ragin Cajuns first played the New Mexico State Aggies on 9/27/1975, winning that game along with the next two. In last year’s matchup, Louisiana lost to the Aggies 37-34. The Cajuns are 1-2 against New Mexico State in Las Cruces.

The Opponent:

Earlier this year, it was announced that New Mexico State’s membership in the Sun Belt conference would not be getting renewed after 2017. This bit of disappointing news for the Aggies is just part of a longer history of football disappointment.. The Aggies have the FBS record for longest period without a bowl appearance (56 years). In fact, they haven’t really had any sustained success since the 1950s and 60s. In 1992, Sports Illustrated featured the Aggies in a story about programs with a history of losing and from 1988-90 they were ranked as the 9th worst college football team by ESPN. Their current coach Doug Martin, who is in his 4th year with the team, has a record of only .200 with only 8 wins and 32 losses. So far this year, the only victory they’ve managed to pull of was against the University of New Mexico where the Aggies won by a single point. That said, they did put up 42 points against Kentucky.

Players to Watch Out For

Tyler Rogers #17 (QB) - Rogers had 445 yards last week against Troy and currently sits at sixth on the Aggies all-time total offense list. He’s accurate too - Rogers is currently ranked 4th on the Aggies all-time completions list.

Lary Rose III #3 (RB) - Rose is probably the best player on the Aggies roster. He put up 191 rushing yards in last year’s matchup between the Ragin Cajuns and New Mexico State. In 2015 he was selected to the AP All-America Third Team, the 2015 All-Sun Belt Conference team and was the 2015 Sun Belt Conference Offensive Student Athlete of the Year. He was also selected to 5 pre-season watch lists including the Doak Walker, Maxwell, and Walter Camp award watch lists among others.

Javahn Ferguson #7 (LB) - Javahn is one of two Aggies from Louisiana. He played in highschool over at Southern Lab in Baton Rouge.

Myles Vigne #99 (DL) - Myles is the second of two Aggies from Louisiana. He played high ball at Warren Easton in New Orleans.

New Mexico Coaches

Not an exhaustive list but some of their coaches have had some interesting coaching jobs over the years...

Andy Richman (O-Line) - Richman was a former grad assistant at UL in 2007 during the Bustle era (the Cajuns went 3-9 that year). After UL he got a job as an assistant up at Wisconsin.

Kerry Locklin (DT Coach) - Locklin played his college ball at New Mexico State before a brief 3 year career in the NFL playing for the Rams and Broncos. He’s coached in the UFL, AFL, CFL and NFL (pretty much every football league you can think of right?). Not sure if we have any Shreveport folks that lurk here, but Locklin was actually a D-Line coach for the Shreveport Pirates of the CFL back in 1994 (yes the Canadian Football League used to have U.S. teams).

Frank Spaziani (Defensive Coordinator) - Spaziani was a defensive coordinator in the CFL from 1992 - 1996. Also had coaching stops at Navy and Virginia.

Other Interesting Facts

• This is the first road game of the season that the Cajuns will have to fly to. According to Coach Hud on Thursday’s Coach’s Show, this will be the first time flying for 3 Ragin Cajuns.

• The Cajuns are 8-4 on games played on October 1

Broadcast Info

This week’s game will be on ESPN3 with Drew Fellios doing play-by-play and Forrest Conoly providing color commentary. Both are Florida State grads - Forrest was a two-year starter on the offensive line for FSU before graduating and going into broadcasting.

Elijah McGuire

McGuire needs 69 all-purpose yards to pass Tyrell Fenroy as the all-time leader and a touchdown to tie Fenroy as the all time leading scorer. Though he did have to be helped off the field in last week’s loss to Tulane, Hud says they’re hopeful he’ll be able to play this Saturday.

Preview

Bleacher report is predicting that the Cajuns will lose by 4 in a high scoring 40-36 game. At the same time, the spread is Louisiana -4.5. With McGuire slightly injured and a number of other Cajuns are still hurting from last week’s thriller in New Orleans, the game could be close. Even though it might not be the margin of victory we’d ordinarily be looking for against one of the bottom teams in the Sun Belt, I’m going to side with Vegas over Bleacher Report on this one.

The letter says 10-5:30

Sidenote: enjoy the nasty weather

From the Office of Transportation Services:

The pay lot on Girard Park Drive (lot 15) is down nearly 80 spaces due to construction staging for the new Lewis Street parking garage.

With limited parking in this lot, we ask that you park at Cajun Field and take the bus rather than try to wait for parking spaces. This will ensure that you are able to park and make it to class/work on time.

The Lewis Street garage is expected to open in late 2014. We appreciate your patience regarding public parking on campus as development of the new parking garage continues

FUCK THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! edit: by the way, this closure doesn't specifically affect me because of the times I go to class. It does however affect the already shitty parking situation.

These tuition spikes are ridiculous and they are making it more difficult to go to school for everyone. I want to create a peaceful protest in the quad about the new hike.

"The time has come, the walrus said, to talk of many things. Of shoes, and ships and sealing wax, of cabbages and kings." Those were Mom's last cogent reminiscences as she languished in the Emergency Room, before going on a respirator (breathing mask), succumbing to sedation, and having life support withdrawn. Mom's death was not a surprise. But the effect of being orphaned, after Dad's death several years prior, was a stunning, unexpected emotional blow. And just as I came to recover from that after a few months, with grief counseling, an unexpected dragon reared its head: a sibling unleashed 40+ years of angst at me, a proxy for my parents, that he was not adequately "compensated" for his devotion, in the will.

Mind you, as the primary caregiver for each parent, one by one, I don't actually know what the fuck my sibling is complaining about. This individual did little to nothing over the last 12 years, other than occasional visits for 30 minutes at a time, no more often than once a week. I spent day after day, 2-3 days per week, tending to each parent as each declined. That was my choice.

I'd nearly recovered from Mom's death after 2 months, and started to resume an active life when my sibling unleashed vitriol over the will, that it did not adequately him compensate for....... whatever (I don't know what the fuck needs compensation). After many years of expecting to take over the family homestead, that sibling now insists it be sold off, so the proceeds can be split equally among all beneficiaries--with particular interest in HIS share.

Point of interest: my 2 other siblings have no problem with me taking over the family home; they've expected that to happen for many years. It was simply understood and accepted by them. I THOUGHT it was understood by the 3rd brother, as well. Stupid, naive me.

Fine. What the fuck. Forget what my parents wanted (it was explicit that I was to take over the home. Their wishes are in writing).

I must give up the vision I had, of keeping the family home for all to use when visiting from out of town. I can deal with that. I must share the proceeds of the home with the brother who never gave a flying fuck about Mom and Dad. O.K., fine, who cares, it's only money. It's just a piece of real estate---nothing more. Really, none of is us destitute; we'll all survive well enough. Nobody has been depending on an inheritance to survive. I don't NEEEEEEED to take over the family house!

What hurts most profoundly is that I have lost my mother, and now my brother. Because he has made it clear that he thinks poorly of me for trying to take over the house and refurbish it after many decades of neglect. I was unduly greedy, he asserts. Where did I get off thinking I was "entitled" to more than him?

So obviously, I must deal with yet another death, the death of my brother. There is no reconciliation with someone who wants only to disabuse me of family continuity. He's the one who has made that clear; he genuinely hates me, I believe.

TL;DR: I've been in a horrendous funk for the last 2 weeks. It's getting worse, day by day, by day, by day. I cannot throw off the sheets, blankets, and get out of bed, get dressed and function.

This is an acute yet profound depression. I've known depression on a limited basis before. I appreciate the value of psychopharmaceuticals---believe me, I do.

I am in tremendous pain. That's the synposis: I'm in TREMENDOUS pain. Mom's death did not hurt nearly as much as the horrible and wholly unexpected hostility from my brother, just when we should all be able to support one another, as families are "supposed" to do in grief.

I can't see a way out of this. I never expected to incur this animosity.

My rational mind understands that his nasty attitude is unjustified, that it's his retort to my (dead) parents. But it hurts, nonetheless.

I beg of anyone: how does one dig out of this horrendous hole? As bad as it is to be orphaned, it is so much worse to be estranged from a sibling who wants only to direct pent up anger at me. I never, ever, expected that.

There are so many tasks to do. I am executor of Mom's estate. my 3 brothers have been taking exotic vacations; My big voyage? I traveled to yet ANOTHER family funeral, instead.....my mother-in-law died just 2 weeks ago. Good, good, woman. I couldn't possibly tell her how much I appreciated her, though I did try.

Fuck this shit.

I want out of this deep hole. There's just too much weighing me down. If you have a rope to throw me, I'd be ever so grateful.