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UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - Anhil8tor - 07-12-2007

The numbers are in again, and they still look pretty good for the home team.

And that’s the point UL fan Glen Raggio has been trying to make for three years, ever since he began formulating the “Pentathlem.”

“I got tired of hearing people talking about how they’d go to Cajun games if they’d win,” Raggio said. “I heard people taking shots at the program, and I kept thinking that just didn’t add up.”

So Raggio started adding, enlisting the help of fellow Cajun fan and Internet guru Jon Robertson, and what he’s come up with every year throws those perceptions out the window.

Raggio’s “Pentathlem,” a ranking of all the nation’s Division I athletic programs in five major sports, shows the Cajuns seventh nationally among 322 programs in winning percentage over the past three years.

“The perception was that if you would just start winning we’d support you,” said Robertson, who coined the phrase “Pentathlem” to describe the five-sport combination. “If you look at this, overall we win like crazy. The average fan in the street has no idea how much this school wins.

“They’re winning right under everybody’s noses.”

UL ranked 17th nationally in the 2006-07 season with a win-loss record of 131-71 (64.85 winning percentage) in football, men’s and women’s basketball, baseball and softball. Tennessee led nationally with a 76.89 win percentage last season, while LSU finished in the top 10 with a ninth-place slot and a combined 68.81 winning mark.

Tennessee also holds the nation’s best mark in the three-year combined tally (74.42 percent), with LSU fourth on that list at 70.89 and the Cajuns seventh at 67.91.

The most impressive part of the compilation, in the view of UL supporters, is that no other school in the state or the Sun Belt Conference is remotely close.

No other state school hit in the top 75 for the 2006-07 year, and the next-highest Sun Belt team was Middle Tennessee at No. 47. In the three-year compilation, the next-highest state school was Southern at No. 48, and only Western Kentucky at No. 49 made the top 50 from the Sun Belt.

Raggio was quick to point out that the rankings are not to be construed as a comparison of programs and how they would do against each other. The “Pentathlem” lists programs only on how often each team’s fans saw them win in what he called the five most fan-friendly sports.

“The biggest question you always ask in athletics is did we win,” Raggio said. “It’s obvious from this that the answer here is yes.”

“It’s equal for all schools,” Robertson said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re in a BCS conference, in the Sun Belt, anywhere. It’s about going to a game and seeing your team win, and that happens here more often than at all but six schools in the country.”

UL ranked second nationally in combined winning percentage in the five sports at 73.13 in the 2004-05 athletic year, trailing only Texas (76.56). The Cajuns ranked 14th last year at 66.67 and were sixth in the first of Raggio’s multi-year compilation behind only Texas, North Carolina, Tennessee, LSU and Ohio State.

The three-year leaders underwent some changes, with Oklahoma and Louisville moving in front of UL and North Carolina slipping back.

Obviously, the Cajun program is in some impressive company in the top tier of these lists, and Raggio doesn’t hide the fact that he created the lists just for that reason. But he said he had no idea that his favorite program would rank so high until the numbers began falling together.

“I don’t hide the fact that I did this to help boost our program,” he said. “I’m passionate about this. I wanted to show people that they are a part of a winning community, and their support will help all the sports get over the hump.”

Raggio was also quick to defer credit for the high numbers.

“All I’ve done is put them together,” he said. “This is about the character of the coaches and the staff, and the student-athletes and their parents who have made the decision to come to this university. What they have done, when you add it up, is pretty unbelievable.”



http://www.pentathlam.org/

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - leucetios - 07-17-2007

reading that was like listening to Charlie Brown's parent talk

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - WoolyGoat - 07-17-2007

you read it?

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - leucetios - 07-17-2007

WoolyGoat Wrote:you read it?

I read as far as "The numbers are in again, and they still look waah wah waaah wah wah."

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - Anhil8tor - 07-17-2007

basically it says ULL is in the top ten if you put together the top 4 college sports...

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - leucetios - 07-17-2007

Anhil8tor Wrote:basically it says ULL is in the top ten if you put together the top 4 college sports...


Uh huh. Ok. Sure.

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - BIRD33 - 07-17-2007

I guess playing in a shit conference doesnt factor into this guys rankings of programs.

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - Anhil8tor - 07-17-2007

BIRD33 Wrote:I guess playing in a shit conference doesnt factor into this guys rankings of programs.

Nope..


and having a good baseball team helps since baseball plays alot more games than football.

UL supporter proves the numbers don’t lie for Cajuns - Tribal Dragon - 07-18-2007

Fuck UL.