The Acadiana Mudbugs are now the Lafayette Wildcatters. Fresh off the inaugural season of the Southern Indoor Football League, team ownership decided to tie the team’s identity to the oil industry in part to snag some sponsorship in the energy biz. The move is so far working: Dynamic Industries, C & G Boats and Linear Control have signed on for next season. “The new name will represent Lafayette very well since a large portion of their population works in the oil and gas industries,” says team President Thom Hager. The club also changed its colors to red, gold and black to be more closely associated with UL Lafayette. The Wildcatters play in Blackham Coliseum, which is owned by UL, and many players on the 2009 roster were former Ragin’ Cajuns.
Management also announced that last year’s head coach, former New Orleans Saints quarterback John Fourcade, will stay on as 2010 head coach and general manager. Last season’s Mudbugs finished the 2009 campaign in third place in the SIFL with a 6-6 record, fading down the stretch and losing in the first round of the playoffs. Fourcade says he’s looking for big things next year. “I cannot wait to start the season and to bring a championship to Lafayette,” he says. “The new ownership is dedicated and wants to bring a winning team to this town. I’m looking forward to getting involved with local high schools, elementary schools and charitable groups throughout Lafayette and Acadiana. We are not just an indoor football team; we are Lafayette’s indoor football team.” The 2010 season kicks off April 18.
For more on the Lafayette Wildcatters and the Southern Indoor Football League, visit the Wildcatters’ Web site.
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.
The Acadiana Mudbugs are now the Lafayette Wildcatters. Fresh off the inaugural season of the Southern Indoor Football League, team ownership decided to tie the team’s identity to the oil industry in part to snag some sponsorship in the energy biz. The move is so far working: Dynamic Industries, C & G Boats and Linear Control have signed on for next season. “The new name will represent Lafayette very well since a large portion of their population works in the oil and gas industries,” says team President Thom Hager. The club also changed its colors to red, gold and black to be more closely associated with UL Lafayette. The Wildcatters play in Blackham Coliseum, which is owned by UL, and many players on the 2009 roster were former Ragin’ Cajuns.
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