I connected with our colleague Johnathan Ford, Publisher of BleedTechBlue.com - the Louisiana Tech Rivals site. He has covered Coach Juluke for several years, both as an assistant coach at La Tech and as the head coach of Edna Carr high school in New Orleans.
"Coach Juluke has a great personality, very likeable guy, and he's the type of coach you want talking with everybody during a weekend visit," Ford said. "The recruiting results were kind of a mixed bag here at Louisiana Tech. His past as a high school head coach in New Orleans had people expecting immediate results for the Bulldogs, but I have always said if he were somewhere else, then it would be different.
"I feel like he just needed more time to get his message of 'staying home' across in my opinion. Coach Juluke is very good at landing transfer players who left the state and decided to come back closer to home. He started landing transfers from Arizona State and other programs, kids originally from New Orleans."
"Lubbock is still pretty far away from New Orleans though," Ford laughed. "All of that being said, he knows everyone in the city. It really is the story line of a high school coach leaving for the college level and having in-roads at several programs in the area."
"Coach Juluke has a great personality, very likeable guy, and he's the type of coach you want talking with everybody during a weekend visit," Ford said. "The recruiting results were kind of a mixed bag here at Louisiana Tech. His past as a high school head coach in New Orleans had people expecting immediate results for the Bulldogs, but I have always said if he were somewhere else, then it would be different.
"I feel like he just needed more time to get his message of 'staying home' across in my opinion. Coach Juluke is very good at landing transfer players who left the state and decided to come back closer to home. He started landing transfers from Arizona State and other programs, kids originally from New Orleans."
"Lubbock is still pretty far away from New Orleans though," Ford laughed. "All of that being said, he knows everyone in the city. It really is the story line of a high school coach leaving for the college level and having in-roads at several programs in the area."
