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61 Bustle’s Coaching Experience 2002-06 UL Lafayette Head Coach 1995-01 Virginia Tech Quarterbacks / Offensive Coordinator BUSTLE 1994 S. Carolina Quarterbacks / Offensive Coordinator 1993 Virginia Tech Quarterbacks Head Coach / Offensive Coordinator 1987-92 Virginia Tech Quarterbacks Fifth Season / Wide Recievers 1986 UL Monroe Quarterbacks / Offensive Coordinator 1984-85 UL Monroe Running Backs 1983 Arizona (USFL) Running Backs 1982 E. Carolina Wide Recievers 1980-81 E. Carolina Defensive Backs 1979 Gardner-Webb Defensive Louisiana-Lafayette head coach Rickey Bustle enters Coordinator his fifth season in Cajun Country in 2006. Bustle has seen his 1977-78 Clemson Graduate Assistant winning percentage increase each season since taking the job for the 2002 season. The Cajuns went 6-5 (.546) last season to mark UL’s first The Bustle File winning record since 1995. Bustle’s squad went 4-7 (.364) in Responsibility: Head Coach 2004, 4-8 (.333) in 2003 and 3-9 (.250) in 2002. Coaching Record: 17-29 (13-14 SBC) Along with a winning season in 2005 came a share of the Sun Belt Conference championship. After starting 1-5 (0-2), Year at UL: Fifth Louisiana roared back into the SBC race with a come-from- Hometown: Summerville, South Carolina behind road win at Middle Tennessee. From there came a Born: August 23, 1953 homecoming win over Troy in overtime and a second comeback Alma Mater: Clemson, ‘76 road win, this time at North Texas. Then a Senior Day victory Family: Wife Lynn, son Brad over Florida International set-up the season finale at Louisiana- Playing Career: Wide Receiver, Clemson (1973-76) Monroe. The Cajuns rocked the Indians 54-21, claiming the Noteworthy: Captured the 2005 Sun Belt Conference first school title since the 1994 Big West crown. Championship with a season-ending five-game winning Bustle was rewarded with a two-year contract extension, streak...First career win came on September 21, 2002 with which lengthens his contract through 2010. a 34-0 win over UAB at Cajun Field...The Cajuns finished second in the Sun Belt in 2003...UL won six straight home games between the 2003-04 seasons...The four-year average attendance at Cajun Field under Bustle is 16,867 - the previous four-year average was 13,230. Louisiana went 3-2 at home in 2005, marking the fourth straight season that the Cajuns have been .500 or better at home. Bustle boasts a 12-9 (.571) record at Cajun Field. Attendance has also been on the rise, as the Cajuns began 2003 with an attendance of 24,211 vs. Louisiana Tech, one of the twenty best in the history of Cajun Field, and largest crowd in seven seasons. Then, in 2004, UL saw a crowd of 25,083 for the Sun Belt opener vs. Middle Tennessee and a five-game total of 107,006, the most since 1996 and the eighth best average (21,401) in Cajun Field history. Last season, UL played before a homecoming crowd of 21,204 en route to a solid two-season average of 19,496 – the best two year average at Cajun Field since 1992-93. During his tenure at UL, nine players have either been drafted or signed NFL contracts. The Summerville, S.C., native, became the 24th head coach in Louisiana’s Ragin’ Cajuns football history on December 13, 2001. Bustle earned his first collegiate victory as a head coach on Sept. 21, 2002 with a 34-0 victory over UAB. UL Lafayette held the Blazers to just eight first downs and only 94 yards passing. With five straight wins, Bustle’s Cajuns shared the In 2002, Bustle helped the Cajuns to their first winning 2005 Sun Belt title and were a field goal away from record at Cajun Field in six seasons with impressive back-to- 62 playing in the New Orleans Bowl. back victories over Sun Belt foes Idaho and Arkansas State. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette In 2003, the From 1987-92, he Cajuns won four Discipline was the quarterbacks of their last five Total Penalties by the Sun Belt Conference and receivers coach at games en route School 02/03/04/05 Total (avg./gm) Tech before moving to to a second Louisiana 70/83/61/72 286 (6.22) offensive coordinator place finish in Troy 65/81/76/71 293 (6.23) and QB’s coach in ‘93. the Sun Belt Fla. Int’l 89/101/53/85 328 (7.46) His ties to Conference. Middle Tenn. 84/89/86/89 348 (7.57) Louisiana include M o r e North Texas 105/114/92/90 401 (8.18) a three-year stint at imp or t ant ly, Fla. Atlantic 91/113/115/77 396 (8.25) Louisiana-Monroe B u s t l e ’ s ULM 116/96/95/94 401 (8.72) from 1984-86, where p o p u l a r i t y Arkansas St. 99/107/95/121 422 (8.98) he started as the across Acadiana running backs coach had a significant for two seasons before impact in the stands. becoming the offensive coordinator and QB’s coach. As a result, the Cajuns’ He has also had coaching stints with East Carolina as a season ticket base wide receivers and secondary coach (1980-82) and the USFL’s rose by substantial Arizona Wranglers as a running backs coach (1983). He broke amounts. into the full-time coaching ranks as the defensive coordinator Bustle has also at Gardner-Webb in 1979. been instrumental Bustle is a 1976 graduate of Clemson, where he received in developing his a bachelor’s degree in parks and recreation administration. He women’s clinic held was a four-year letterwinner as a wide receiver for the Tigers. annually in the spring, As a graduate assistant coach, Bustle earned 27 hours attracting hundreds of toward a master’s degree in Special Education. enthusiastic females Bustle’s wife, eager for knowledge of Lynn, of Charleston, Bowl Game Experience: the game of football. South Carolina, with Clemson For seven received her PhD. 1977 Gator Bowl (vs. Pittsburgh) seasons prior to his in curriculum and 1978 Gator Bowl (vs. Ohio State) appointment as head instruction from with South Carolina coach of the Cajuns, Virginia Tech in 1994 Carquest Bowl (vs. West Virginia) Bustle served as December 1997. with Virginia Tech UL was flagged for only 61 penalties offensive coordinator She currently is a 1993 Independence Bowl (vs. Indiana) under Bustle in 2004 - the lowest total and quarterbacks tenured professor by the Cajuns dating back to 1990. coach at Va. Tech. at UL Lafayette 1995 Sugar Bowl (vs. Texas) With the Hokies, in the Visual Arts 1996 Orange Bowl (vs. Nebraska) Bustle developed some of the finest quarterbacks the college Department in the 1997 Gator Bowl (vs. North Carolina) football world has seen in recent years. College of the Arts. 1998 Music City Bowl (vs. Alabama) The list includes former 49ers quarterback Jim They have a son, 1999 *Sugar Bowl (vs. Florida State) Druckenmiller and current Atlanta Falcons quarterback Brad, who is an 2000 Gator Bowl (vs. Clemson) Michael Vick. Vick was the first pick in the 2001 NFL Draft. offensive lineman 2001 Gator Bowl (vs. Florida State) In fact, Bustle coached the top three quarterbacks on at UL. *National Championship Game Tech’s career list for touchdown passes and guided players who have accounted for eight of the Hokies’ Top 10 all-time single-season offensive totals and seven of Tech’s Top 10 all-time single season passing totals. The 1999 Hokies averaged a national-best 41.4 points per game, as Tech played in the national championship game. In Bustle’s first seven seasons as offensive coordinator, the Hokies fielded seven of the eight highest-scoring teams in school history. The team posted a 67-17 record and won three Big East Conference championships. VT went to a bowl game every year he served as offensive coordinator, winning the 1993 Independence Bowl, 1995 Sugar Bowl, 1998 Music City Bowl and 2001 Gator Bowl. Bustle spent all but one season at Va. Tech from 1987-2001, leaving the Hokies in 1994 for a one-year stint as the offensive coordinator and QB’s coach at South Carolina. While at SC, Bustle helped the Gamecocks go from a 4-7 record in 1993 to a 7-5 record and a Carquest Bowl Championship. The Bustle Family 63 2006 Ragin’ Cajuns Football MEDIA GUIDE Crist’s Coaching Experience 2005-06 UL Lafayette Wide Receivers / Passing Game CRIST Coordinator 2002-04 UL Lafayette Wide Wide Receivers Receivers Coach 2001 Massachusetts Wide Receivers / Quarterbacks Fifth Season 1998-00 Massachusetts Tight Ends 1996-97 Massachusetts Wide PASSING GAME Receivers / Tight Ends COORDINATOR 1994-95 Virginia Tech Graduate Assistant Brian Crist enters his fifth season as In 1999, Crist helped lead UMass wide receivers coach at Louisiana-Lafayette. The Crist File to the Atlantic 10 Conference title During his short tenure at UL, Crist has Responsibility: Wide Receivers/Passing en route to the NCAA Division I- coached three of the top seven wide receivers Game Coordinator AA quarterfinals. in school history (Fred Stamps-2,789, Bill Year at UL: Fifth Prior to his time at UMass, Crist Sampy-1,988, Andre George-1,425). Hometown: Blacksburg, Virginia served as a graduate assistant at Crist has seen three All-Sun Belt Born: January 13, 1972 Virginia Tech for two seasons, one performances, as Stamps earned SBC honors Alma Mater: Hampden-Sydney, ‘94 under Rickey Bustle. Crist spent in 2002 and 2003 and Sampy garnered All- Family: Wife Amy, son Jackson and most of his time with the Hokies daughter Ali SBC praise in 2004.