Eight Ragin' Cajuns earned 11 individual honors on the 2008 All-Sun Belt team, with the top honor, Sun Belt Player of the Year, going to senior running back Tyrell Fenroy. His selection is the highest honor ever achieved by a Ragin' Cajun player.
Joining Fenroy on the first team are senior quarterback Michael Desormeaux, who was also named the Sun Belt Offensive Player of the Year, and offensive linemen Brad Bustle and Chris Fisher. Senior wide receiver Jason Chery captured two awards, as he was named to the second team as a wide receiver and as an all-purpose specialist. The Cajuns claimed a total of three offensive linemen on the All-Sun Belt Team, as sophomore tackle Jonathan Decoster garnered honorable mention. Defensively, senior safety Derik Keyes placed on the second team and senior linebacker Antwyne Zanders was honorable mention.
Fenroy, a four-time All-SBC performer and the 2005 Sun Belt Freshman of the Year, earned his third straight first team honor. He became only the seventh player in NCAA history with four 1,000-yard rushing seasons and shattered the UL and Sun Belt records for career rushing yards and career rushing touchdowns. Fenroy was one of 10 semifinalists for the prestigious Doak Walker Award and the only player outside the BCS on that list. He was also a semifinalist for the Underdog Award by NationalChamps.net, which recognizes the best FBS Mid-Major player in the nation. He was named National Player of the Week after recording 297 rushing yards and three TDs in a rivalry game at ULM and was the SBC Offensive Player of the Week three times this season. Fenroy led the Sun Belt in rushing and scoring, both overall and per game, while placing 11th in the nation in rushing and 8th overall in scoring.
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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