Lafayette is where coaching careers go to die.
Has a USL head coach ever gone on to anything else?
Augie Tammariello used his .467 winning percentage as a coach to land a gig as a State Farm Agent.
Nelson Stokley took his Clemson OC credentials and a .443 winning percentage as the Couyon's coach to land a retirement gig.
Ricky Bustle won 38 percent of his games as a USL head coach after a solid career as an assistant in other places that won consistently. He's still coaching, but as the OC at a religious school in Georgia. It's easy see why a guy might find Jesus after coaching at USL.
Jerry Baldwin won just 18 percent of his games, but appears to be the ONLY USL coach to ever go on to be a head coach afterwards, even though he's coaching at a HS. He too found Jesus and is involved in the ministry. I'm sensing a trend. I'd probably find Jesus, too, if I were a USL coach.
Mark Hudspeth rode his .449 Ragin Cajun winning percentage all the way from being Associate Head coach at Mississippi State to irrelevance, obscurity and disgrace. He had a few stops at academic fraud, improper payments and NCAA rules violations along the way. Hell, apparently USL is only good when they cheat. Unfortuantely, the couyons can't even do that correctly.
I fear for the coaching careers of Tim Leger and Rob Sale. They're both good guys. I'm not sure they thought this all thte way through. USL may be more coaching Purgatory than coaching Hell, but there appears to be only one road to escape from that place and it involves salvation and coming to Jesus.
If you're going to coach at USL, make sure your insurance license is up to date, and that you're on a first name basis with your pastor. The divine intervention certainly can't hurt.