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UNC Bears at McNeese - September 12

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Greetings Bears fans!

The Southland Conference held its media day Wednesday, July 22. (See the link at the end of this post.)
You can get some information from the McNeese and Southland Conference Twitter feeds:
https://twitter.com/McNeeseSports
https://twitter.com/McNeeseFootball
https://twitter.com/SouthlandSports
And the hashtag #GeauxPokes

The Southland Conference plans to play a full football schedule, following state guidelines in Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas. The SLC will not make any mandates to override what the states or universities determine.
McNeese President Daryl Burckel has said that in Cowboy Stadium ("The Hole"), there may be one side for those who wish to observe social distancing and the other side for those who don't choose to do so.

At this point in time, none of the Cowboys football games have been rescheduled or cancelled, unlike some of our conference mates who had games scheduled with Power Five conferences or SWAC schools. However, some of the other sports such as soccer and volleyball have been impacted. I am praying that your Bears will travel safely to and from Lake Charles and the Southwest Louisiana area in September.

Like the Bears, McNeese has a new football coach, Frank Wilson, who most recently was head coach at UTSA, but has also been an assistant with LSU's Ed Orgeron. (Sidenote: Ed Orgeron's son, Cody Orgeron, is a senior and McNeese's starting quarterback.) Coach Wilson will be McNeese's third head coach in three years! This is an unusual situation for McNeese. Head Coach Guidry was released at the end of the 2018 season. Sterlin Gilbert was hired and coached for one season (2019) before deciding to rejoin Coach Babers at Syracuse. McNeese is on probation this year and is not eligible for the FCS playoffs (thanks to the practices of Coach Guidry.)

Most Cowboy fans are thrilled to have Coach Wilson. He is well thought of and is an excellent recruiter. He hired Ronnie Letson (most recently an assistant at Colorado State) as his offensive coordinator.

This is McNeese's part of SLC media day with some technical and volume issues: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iaDb6pV-6g&feature=emb_logo
 
Looking forward to the game. I believe when we played you two years ago, you did come out with the win, but we sort of made a game of it with a pick six in the 4th QT.

The bad thing about all of this Covid stuff and sports is that it's a huge factor with new coaching staffs coming in trying to implement new systems. In this case it's really bad in the way that the Bears are transitioning a new starting QB.
 

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