{"id":3657,"date":"2010-09-07T22:17:43","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=3657"},"modified":"2010-09-07T22:48:16","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T03:48:16","slug":"lamar-university-cardinals-fields-their-first-football-team-since-1989-but-mcneese-prevails-in-a-great-gulf-coast-war-30-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/?p=3657","title":{"rendered":"COLLEGE FOOTBALL UPDATE: LAMAR UNIVERSITY CARDINALS FIELDS THEIR FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM SINCE 1989, BUT MCNEESE PREVAILS IN A GREAT GULF COAST WAR, 30-27."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAMAR UNIVERSITY CARDINALS TOOK THE FIELD IN\u00a0 LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA\u00a0AGAINST THE NATIONALLY RANKED MCNEESE STATE FOOTBALL TEAM, AND ALMOST SECURED WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL IN 2010. THE\u00a0 CARDINALS THREW FOR OVER 426 YARDS, AND PERFORMED AS IF THEY NEVER CLOSED THEIR FOOTBALL PROGRAM IN 1989. RAY WOODARD, THE HEAD COACH OF THIS UNIVERSITY, PROVED THAT LAMAR MADE THE RIGHT DECISION IN THEIR HIRE OF THE FOOTBALL COACH. BASED ON THIS RESULT, IT APPEARS THAT THEIR NEXT CONTEST, WHICH WILL BE HELD AT THE HOME FIELD IN BEAUMONT TEXAS, SHOULD PROVE TO BE A GREAT ENTERTAINING BALL GAME, AND ALSO\u00a0THEIR FIRST FOOTBALL WIN SINCE THEIR RESURGENCE INTO THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL ARENA. THE CARDINALS ARE STACKED WITH JUNIOR COLLEGE TRANSFERS, WHICH SHOULD RESULT IN A GREAT CAMPAIGN FOR THE UNIVERSITY. THESE YOUNG MEN HAVE PLAYED THE COLLEGE GAME, AND THEY&#8217;RE HUNGRY FOR INSTANT SUCCESS. BEAUMONT TEXAS HAS ALWAY BEEN KNOWN FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE GAME OF FOOTBALL WITH SEVERAL OF THEIR\u00a0HOME GROWN PLAYERS HAVING SUCCESSFUL CAREERS IN THE NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, HOWARD COSELL,\u00a0 THE FORMER\u00a0 MONDAY NIGHT BOOTH ANALYST FOR ABC, AND ALSO, FORMER COLLEAGUE OF &#8220;DANDY DON MEREDITH, OF THE DALLAS COWBOYS, IN 1974, ON THE WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS BROADCAST, ANNOUNCED THAT BEAUMONT TEXAS WAS THE FOOTBALL CAPITAL OF THE WORLD, BECAUSE AT THAT TIME, THE SMALL TOWN OF BEAUMONT TEXAS HAD PRODUCED MORE NFL PLAYERS THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN THE WORLD.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE CITY OF BEAUMONT IS EXCITED, THE UNIVERSITY IS OVERWELMED, AND THE PLAYERS ARE HUNGRY.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>GO GET UM CARDINALS, AND MYBOYSAY NATION WISHES YOUR TEAM MUCH SUCCESS THIS YEAR, AND ALSO IN THE YEARS TO COME.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>THE LAMAR UNIVERSITY CARDINALS FOOTBALL TEAM HAS BEEN SELECTED BY THE M.B.S. SPORTS GROUP AS THE COLLEGE TEAM TO BE FEATURED THIS YEAR ON THE MYBOYSAY NATION&#8217;S GLOBAL ATHLETIC COME BACK FOOTBALL \u00a0PROGRAM OF THE YEAR. THEY WILL\u00a0RECIEVE \u00a0FULL COVERAGE DURING THEIR FALL FOOTBALL CAMPAIGN OF 2010.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAMAR UNIVERSITY CARDINALS TOOK THE FIELD IN\u00a0 LAKE CHARLES, LOUISIANA\u00a0AGAINST THE NATIONALLY RANKED MCNEESE STATE FOOTBALL TEAM, AND ALMOST SECURED WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN ONE OF THE BIGGEST UPSETS IN COLLEGE FOOTBALL IN 2010. THE\u00a0 CARDINALS THREW FOR OVER 426 YARDS, AND PERFORMED AS IF THEY NEVER CLOSED THEIR FOOTBALL PROGRAM IN 1989. RAY WOODARD, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,13,14,124,1,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-entertainment","category-health","category-most-commented","category-ncaa-football","category-news","category-sports","category-us","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/myboysay.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}