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Louisiana tabs Quannas White as new coach
Well-respected Houston associate head coach Quannas White was named head coach at Louisiana on Monday.,White, 44, has been preparing to be a head man for the past eight seasons under Houston's Kelvin Sampson, one of the top coaches in the sport.,"This is an opportunity I do not take lightly, and I a...

Josh Hoover passes TCU to rout of Louisiana in New Mexico Bowl
Josh Hoover completed a record-setting season by passing for 252 yards and four touchdowns and TCU defeated Louisiana 34-3 in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday in Albuquerque.,Hoover completed 20 of 32 passes and finished the season with 3,949 passing yards, 48 more than Trevone Boykin's previous sing...

Louisiana hopes to slow TCU's Josh Hoover in New Mexico Bowl
TCU played its best football during the second half of the regular season.,Louisiana played its worst game of the season in its most recent contest.,The Horned Frogs (8-4) will try to keep rolling and the Ragin' Cajuns (10-3) will try to bounce back when they meet in the New Mexico Bowl on Saturday ...

Report: Louisiana coach Michael Desormeaux gets new deal
Louisiana agreed to terms on a new five-year deal with Ragin' Cajuns football coach Michael Desormeaux, ESPN reported Monday.,The contract keeps Desormeaux, 39, in Lafayette through the 2029 season. Financial terms were not reported.,Desormeaux was named the Sun Belt Coach of the Year this season an...

Louisiana fires longtime coach Bob Marlin
Louisiana dismissed Bob Marlin six weeks into his 15th season as the program's head coach on Thursday.,Assistant coach Derrick Zimmerman will be the interim coach for the remainder of this season while Louisiana (3-9, 1-0 Sun Belt) searches for a new permanent hire.,"After an ongoing evaluation of o...

No. 8 Houston uses balanced attack to rout Louisiana
Terrance Arceneaux led a balanced scoring effort with 14 points and No. 8 Houston dominated from early in the game in rolling past visiting Louisiana 91-45 in a nonconference game Wednesday night.,Milos Uzan added 13 points, Mercy Miller scored 12 and J'Wan Roberts and Emanuel Sharp had 11 each as t...

No. 8 Houston, Louisiana both see room for improvement
Houston lost its most recent game, however the Cougars' coach wasn't totally dissatisfied.,Louisiana won its most recent game, however the Ragin' Cajuns coach wasn't totally satisfied.,Both teams are focused on early-season improvement ahead of their game Wednesday night in Houston.,Houston (1-1) dr...

Louisiana edges Wake Forest on Kenneth Almendares' FG
Kenneth Almendares delivered the go-ahead 31-yard field goal with 52 seconds left to lift Louisiana over Wake Forest 41-38 in a non-conference game Saturday in Winston-Salem, N.C.,Ben Wooldridge completed 20 of 29 passes for 257 yards and three touchdowns without an interception for Louisiana. Two o...

Louisiana Overturns Bullshit Rule Barring Undocumented Students From Playing High School Sports
It seems especially difficult to find good news for undocumented immigrants right now, but here is something nice. Thanks to intense community involvement and legal push-back, Louisiana’s undocumented students will now be able to play high school sports in the state, after a deeply unpopular rule—wh...

Joe McKnight's Killer Gets Sentenced To 30 Years In Prison
Ronald Gasser was sentenced to 30 years in prison Thursday by Jefferson Parish Judge Ellen Kovach for shooting and killing former NFL player Joe McKnight in Dec. 2016. Prosecutors brought second-degree murder charges against Gasser, though he was found guilty of manslaughter by a jury in January. “L...

LSU Is Stuck With Ed Orgeron For A While, Unless They Want To Pay Up
LSU football is 3-2 after losing at home to Troy, 24-21. The Tigers snapped their 49-game non-conference home winning streak with the defeat, and now they get to run a gauntlet of SEC opponents. Canning head coach Ed Orgeron might be consolation for this dismal start, but it would be quite expensive...

Louisiana High School Threatens To Punish Athletes Who Don't Stand For National Anthem
This morning, Waylon Bates, the principal of Parkway High School in Bossier Parish, La., sent a letter to the students and parents of his school warning that any athletes who did not “stand in a respectful manner” during the pre-game national anthem would be subject to disciplinary action. He made i...
