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Martinelli is having an absurd CL run this year. 8 G/A in 9 games!

He had 6 G/A in 19 the past 2 years in the CL.
That pass past Ben White was arguably the best I have seen all year. Great save by Raya.

We are playing solid I think. Getting into the groove offensively more. 1-0 Win or Draw is good with me.

You can tell the difference between today and Saturday. Having Rice and Calafiori on the field makes us so much stronger defensively it is crazy.
PL is first focus, CL is next if you have a chance.

Get healthy and keep going. Block out the noise cause after today it’ll be LOUD
MLS in midfield this Saturday please.
Softball is straight lack of NIL funds. Cajuns have the history because no other programs in the south cared about softball. Not to diminish our program and historically great teams because those CWS teams were legit. But when you have Bama, Oklahoma, Texas, etc. start really trying and commiting to NIL for softball it was over nationally for the Cajuns softball team.

For Baseball under Deggs we have been solid the past 6 years. Last year sucked, but in 2024 we made it to the regional championship and was ranked most of the year.

This year when we started 16-5 and were ranked in 3/4 major polls our pitching was on fire and we won a ton of close games even though our hitting was still bad. Now our pitching has been average as of lately and we are 18-11 now.

2-6 in our last 8 is no bueno. Can turn it around this weekend, but starting 3-6 in conference play is not the best.
Really happy these international medical teams have common sense.

Our players are about to grind for two straight months trying to win a Treble and then go straight to World Cup. The less friendlies they play the better.
Pain today gents. That’s all I can say. Pain as usual.

Only good news is we will be 12 points clear if we win at home next before city go to Chelsea. But Chelsea sucks so I have no faith
Sunday is going to be fun. Hope we go for it. Kepa should start also. He got us this far. Let him win us the trophy since Raya will hopefully win us the PL and CL.
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Once upon a time cusa was a vastly superior conference to the sun belt. When did that change?


It took 10 years (2011 - 2021) for the Sun Belt to get back above C-USA in terms of conference strength.

Judy MacLeod, C-USA president since 2015, is the reason for their decline. The C-USA case study on how to kill a conference will be easy to track. They poached Sun Belt members in 2012 so they were clearly above them at the time. In 2014 is when it starts going down hill when Houston, UCF, and SMU left. In 2021 you had Marshall, USM, and ODU leave for the Sun Belt to make them stronger. They also went from 14 members to 5 in a span of 11 days. Inept leadership to allow all these schools to leave in a 8 year window and there is even more schools I did not mention I can't recall.

Compare that to the Sun Belt. After losing members to C-USA in 2012 they added Georgia State, Texas State, and South Alabama. In 2014 they took newly brought up FCS schools like App State, Georgia Souther, Idaho, and New Mexico State. In 2016 they added Coastal and in 2017 they dropped NM State and Idaho which was a great move.

In 2021 during the peak of this renewed conference alignment Sun Belt president Keith Gill had an unreal move and added James Madison, Marshall, Old Dominion, and Southern Miss. LA Tech joining this upcoming year makes it 14.

Full circle moment of the rant is that good leadership and bad leadership can clearly ruin your conference.
Everton is a solid team and they played great today. Had 3 chances they could've scored. Thank God for Calafiori + Raya. What they did today was crazy.

Viktor being in those spots around goals is why we bought him. Max Dowman is crazy good. I mean at one point all the senior players just kept feeding him the ball and rightly so. 16 years of age and doing that? Just insane.
Everton and Leverkusen at home. City at Wembley.

No travel. 3 different competitions. The next 11 days will be absurd for all of us. God speed everyone.
The ref was terrible today. The yellows on Zubi and Kai were horrific.

City getting worked right now
End of 3 away games still unbeaten!

End the month with 3 straight wins!
Martinelli better not get a second yellow in this game.
If you look at the score it was close. But if we could finish chances it should have been 5-1.

Quadruple still on!
Martinelli and Jesus I love dearly, but man we need to upgrade on them this summer.

Jesus doesn’t have the legs anymore due to injuries so not really his fault, but Martinelli has regressed.

Thank God for Madueke and Eze coming in this year.

Jaden Dixon looks good also at RB. Happy we signed him out of nowhere on deadline day in January.
Brighton manager is such a pussy for losing and sulking. Don't care at all how we win. Get 3 points. 8 games left. Keep going.

Murillo gets invited to the parade at the end of the year.