Louisiana-Lafayette coach Mark Hudspeth gets a Gatorade bath following a win over East Carolina in the New Orleans Bowl. (Derick E. Hingle/USA TODAY Sports)

Maybe it’s an opposing fight song. Sometimes it’s crowd noise.

College football coaches seek a motivational edge anyway possible. Noise and chaos are regular ingredients.

But then there’s Mark Hudspeth, head coach of Louisiana-Lafayette (seen above), who does those aforementioned things, but has also hired a DJ to come to practice every day in the spring and fall to spin tunes like Vanilla Ice and Sir Mix-A-Lot.

Baby Got Back meets football, anyone?

“I’m a young guy (44) and I wanted to play music at practice,” said Hudspeth, whose favorite song to hear on the field is “Yeah” by Usher. “I would never workout without music.”

The Ragin’ Cajuns’ DJ is Louisiana-Lafayette student Chris Hilliard, who goes by the pseudonym DJ Chris. He comes to every practice, travels on the team plane and is in the locker room before and after games.

“After a win it’s just a mosh pit in the middle of the locker room,” Hudspeth said. “I tell DJ Chris to hit it and he cranks it up and it turns into a celebration.”

Could DJs and college football become a trend? The Ragin’ Cajuns aren’t the only ones who spice things up with live music. Oregon State and Texas A&M brought DJs to practice this spring, too.

There were rumors about a surprise at a recent Friday practice, Beavers’ running back Storm Woods said. He assumed a scrimmage, but when he walked into the Merrit Traux Indoor Practice Facility, music was blaring and there was a DJ off in the corner mixing and scratching.

“At first I started dancing, and then I was shocked,” Woods said. “It made practice more fun, more intense. Guys were flying around. It was a different atmosphere. A better one.”

Earlier in the spring, Ryan Gunderson, Oregon State’s assistant director of player personnel suggested the team bring in a DJ he knows named Marcus Gores from Portland, Ore. Coach Mike Riley told him to go for it.

Gores, a former Oregon State student and Beavers fan, starts practice with “Players Club” by Rappin’ 4 Tay while the team stretches. Then as they move into positional drills, he plays high-tempo music, like “Pop That” by French Montana.

Trinidad James, Kendrick Lamar, 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne are also on the playlist.

All music is clean and edited.

“I’m not sure I recognize any of the songs,” said Riley, who would play Bob Schneider at practice if he had his way.

Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin and his staff befriended a DJ out of San Antonio named DJ Double R, who creates mixtapes for them to play during games.

Sumlin said he’s been wanting to bring in live music for a while. He invited DJ Double R to Friday Night Lights, an open scrimmage attended by fans and high-profile recruits, this spring. The DJ set up his lights and turntables inside the Aggies’ 18-wheeler equipment truck, got hooked up to the stadium’s sound system, and blasted music throughout Kyle Field.

“When we started stretching, he gave the welcome to Friday Night Lights and nobody knew where that was coming from,” Sumlin said. “Then the doors opened and he started to do his thing.”

The DJ fad could become a recruiting tool. One prospect in attendance of the first practice Gores spun at was intrigued. The first thing out of his mouth was, “Wow you got a DJ in here!” Riley said.

And with Hudspeth bringing in DJ Chris every day, and Sumlin having DJ Double R at one of Texas A&M’s biggest recruiting nights of the spring, kids could be lured to the cool schools.

“It speaks volumes of the coach,” Woods said. “If I were a recruit, I’d like to come here. It shows we can have a good time while being fierce and playing football.”

Bonus: The 2013 College Football Spring Football Playlist