University of Louisiana at Lafayette Athletics
Bustle Agrees to Two-Year Contract Extension
12/21/2005 12:00:00 AM | Football
Bustle
Agrees to Two-Year Contract Extension
Led
Louisiana-Lafayette to its first winning season since
1995 and a share of the Sun Belt Conference championship
during the 2005 season
Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2005
LAFAYETTE
- University of Louisiana at Lafayette head football
coach Rickey Bustle has agreed to a two-year contract
extension, keeping him on the sideline through the 2010
season, the university's athletics department announced
on Wednesday.
As per university policy, financial terms of the contract will not be disclosed.
Since taking over the Ragin' Cajuns football program in 2002, Bustle has seen his winning percentage increase each season culminating with a 6-5 record during the 2005 season for the program's first winning season since 1995.
He also guided the Cajuns to a share of the Sun Belt Conference championship this past season directing a unit that ended the campaign with five straight wins. The team's current win streak is the seventh (7th) longest active win streak in the nation amongst the 119 Division I-A football programs.
Bustle, a former offensive coordinator at Virginia Tech, was hired by UL in December 2001 to revive a program that had won only nine games in the previous five seasons. The Summerville, S.C., native has provided results for the Cajuns faithful as UL has already compiled 17 victories through his first four seasons.
During his tenure Bustle has seen three of his student-athletes drafted by NFL teams and a six others sign free agent deals. Charles Tillman (Chicago Bears), Ike Talyor (Pittsburg Steelers) and C.C. Brown (Houston Texas) were all Bustle-coached players drafted with Tillman being selected with the 35th pick in the 2003 draft making him the highest draft pick in school history.
Bustle's
system has produced 20 All-Sun Belt Conference
selections, the most recent being eight selections
during the 2005 season. It marked the most
all-conference selections for Louisiana-Lafayette since
11 Cajuns were named to the 1995 All-Big West team.
The Ragin' Cajuns will enter year five under Bustle in 2006. The season begins on Saturday, Sept. 2, 2006, against Louisiana State University at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge.
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