LAFAYETTE — Louisiana-Lafayette football coach Mark Hudspeth is well aware of hindsight’s perfect acuity.
Looking back on it now, he acknowledged that his quarterback situation could’ve been handled better than it was in August and September, when the team could not decide between Brooks Haack and Jalen Nixon — although some of that was based on an injury Nixon suffered after rallying the team from a big deficit in the season opener.
“The way it worked wasn’t always the way it was planned,” Hudspeth said. “After Jalen played the second half against Kentucky, he would’ve started the next week against Northwestern (State), but then he was injured and he couldn’t.