With a new coach, Oregon-Nebraska could pull it, gives them ability to go either coast the following week w easier travel. they always look for opportunity to go to a
school w history but recent hard times. hasn't been in Lincoln since '07
PETRINO HAS LOUISVILLE RANKED # 13 IN AP POLL !
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school w history but recent hard times. hasn't been in Lincoln since '07
Don't know about all the atmospherics you claim, but I would think the OU/OSU game will get Game Day. It has implications in Big Ten, Big 12 and for Houston.
Eh, that's a pretty lackluster game imo. Deener was saying that Gameday is always looking to go new places. They've never been to Louisville. It would be a great atmosphere if it were here. Plus like I said, it really is the game of the week. This is the only game of the week that has implications on the NC game for both teams.
uavel is mid major
uavel is mid major football cannot sell out the stadium all the Goobers go for the beer.and never go in the Pizza Pit..ESPN wants no part of that..There are Big Time football schools they can visit..Sorry Little Brother..[roll][eyeroll][eyeroll][eyeroll][roll]
We beat Charlotte 56-10 last season and we sucked. They might be good this season, but Charlotte isn't the measuring stick for that.
Louisville has no shot a NC. There are no implications for them. Maybe for FSU if they **** the bed and lose to an inferior opponent.
I am amazed at the amount of UK fans that overrate Petrino. If Petrino was UKs coach and hadn't beaten one ranked team in nearly four years, everyone posting in this thread would be wanting him fired. And thats the truth. He can't beat ranked teams in the ACC, what the hell makes you think he would beat ranked SEC teams at UK?
2011: 11-2
2013: 8-4
2014: 9-4
2015: 8-5
Pretty dang good win-loss ratio, I don't think any of us would complain with any of those records. He started out at 5-7 at Arkansas but he had a record of 10-3, 11-2 his last two seasons there. He has proven he can win in the SEC already.
I still wouldn't mind even what he has done at Louisville personally. They play in bowl games. Beat Notre dame on their field and beat Texas a and m in a bowl game. Ranked in the top 25 this year. A lot better shape then our program.
Strong gave BP a very good team. The bar has been pushed lower and lower for BP each year since. The first year, many UL fans thought having BP and Strong's team meant best team ever. Each year fans have pushed back their expectations of the Bobby factor. If he has a similar record this year to the last 2 years, what does that say?
Granted, I realize there are a couple of top caliber teams in the ACC, but has BP been better than just a good coach at UL on this second term?
Granted, I realize there are a couple of top caliber teams in the ACC, but has BP been better than just a good coach at UL on this second term?
This year will be a big indicator for him. They have a chance to have a really good season. Lamar Jackson is a good athlete. IMO, just because of what he has done in the past during his coaching stints I think he will always field a good team. He's not the best person outside of football according to what we have all seen and heard but he's a good football coach.
He had a couple of very excellent seasons at Arkansas no doubt. But the year after he was fired they collapsed. Whether that was because he wasn't the coach anymore or his mediocre recruiting finally had an effect is up for debate. And you can't say his record at UofL so far is impressive because it's been pointed out on here he has beaten NOBODY so far since he came back. This year they play 3 ranked teams and nobody else that'll be in the top 50 probably. If he can't win at least one of those 3 games he deserves to be on the hot seat Imo.
Yeah, I would hate having that baggage of being the #13 team in the country. Wayyy too much baggage for me. It would kill our program's pristine reputation to hire a winner who isn't a nice guy. They would laugh at us and question our morals while we win games and hammer our in state rival year after year
..I'd much rather do things the right way.I would rather get made fun of for losing than get praised for winning with a meanie for a coach. I couldn't stand watching Commonwealth Stadium packed week after week with excited fans watching two top-25 SEC teams playing each other.
I mean come on guys, what if he does really well and then he leaves? We'd be in terrible shape
. We need stability. Who could we get that's better? Stoops out recruits that meanie Petrino every single year. Just give it a few more years. It takes time. Recruiting rankings win games.
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no matter what the scenario..Honest Bob will never I repeat Never coach at UK..His lack of morals and previous scummy behavior guarantee that..And despite a poster on here that insist I embellish the facts...Honest Bob will never get a sniff in the SEC after his motorcycle ride and lying to cover it up at Arkansas.
Congrats to the Cards. Petrino can certainly coach. He also can create chaos at every previous stop.
Ya get what ya pay for.
I think they are a fine match myself.
Ya get what ya pay for.
I think they are a fine match myself.
You guys ARE bragging about a guy such noble institutions named AUBURN and TENNESSEE refused to interview, you know.
Whatever he is now, he was unhirable by an SEC school then. Could be back in the league next year....I hear LSU fans are chomping at the bit to can Myles.
Whatever he is now, he was unhirable by an SEC school then. Could be back in the league next year....I hear LSU fans are chomping at the bit to can Myles.
once again confusing fact with prognostication. no one on here has predicted either, so who are you talking to??
Can you get your message across without calling basketball fans retards? I don't care who Louisville beats or what their ranking is because Petrino is a POS.
Expectation is loss to Houston, loss to FSU, loss to Clemson, could be one more of those as heck games
I'm not happy about where out football team is right now, but there's no way in hell I would want BP leading our program. Let him stay where he's at.
Apples and Oranges dude. Louisville has a nice team this year, great quarterback but they do not play the schedule that subjects them to games against ranked opponents more than 2 to 3 times a year. It's a simple fact. Yea he has won just about every place he's been but add up all the baggage and they can have him. And, as soon as they think he's a Card for life? He will jump ship and be on his merry way again. Count on it.
That is really a good post.
Hell, it's a great post.
I think that you gave this post a lot of thought.
So, I don't want to defer you from your post.
Gosh, I mean it's everything a lot of people are thinking.
Unless they're not thinking it, but they are thinking it.
You have so many good points.
Instead of calling bball fans retards though, you should say they just don't agree with you. So, rethink that line.
Also, do you really think Petrino would perform magic here?
Thoughts have been all over the place on that subject.
Really well thought out post, though.
Ordinarily I think people would just discount this conjecture, but you really did well.
Louisville is going to be in great hands this year.
Like really great hands, even grabby hands.
No team in the ACC plays a ranked opponent more than 2-4 times a year. Yet an ACC team has been in the last couple playoffs. Schedule is not an issue.
The majority of this entire thread....all 4 pages so far is so daggum laughable I don't know where to begin so I will keep it to two of the most common mentions here:
1. Bobby Petrinos character/morals
2. Bobby Petrinos not winning against any top 25 teams since his return.
Regarding #1, last I checked the man was hired to coach football. Not hired to be a role model for how to marry and live happily ever after. The man has to answer only to his god and his wife/family. Last I checked all has been forgiven and his family are all together.
Regarding #2, Strong as good as he was for Louisville, left the cupboard really bare......especially the O-line and depth overall. It has taken Petrino his first couple of seasons to shore that up. Even with those handicaps he has beaten Notre Dame in South Bend, beaten Texas A&M in last years bowl game and came close to upsetting Clemson and FSU each season since his return with the exception of last year at FSU. Notre Dame was in the top 25 the week before they played the Irish and the Irish did end up playing in a bowl game that year and beat LSU in their 2nd game after losing to Louisville. Any new coach needs at least 3 seasons to build his team with his players.
1. Bobby Petrinos character/morals
2. Bobby Petrinos not winning against any top 25 teams since his return.
Regarding #1, last I checked the man was hired to coach football. Not hired to be a role model for how to marry and live happily ever after. The man has to answer only to his god and his wife/family. Last I checked all has been forgiven and his family are all together.
Regarding #2, Strong as good as he was for Louisville, left the cupboard really bare......especially the O-line and depth overall. It has taken Petrino his first couple of seasons to shore that up. Even with those handicaps he has beaten Notre Dame in South Bend, beaten Texas A&M in last years bowl game and came close to upsetting Clemson and FSU each season since his return with the exception of last year at FSU. Notre Dame was in the top 25 the week before they played the Irish and the Irish did end up playing in a bowl game that year and beat LSU in their 2nd game after losing to Louisville. Any new coach needs at least 3 seasons to build his team with his players.
How can you say that a coach isn't a role model? Is it because the football and basketball coach at louisville has cheated on their wives and cardinals fans think this is the norm.
Damn that Charlie Strong!! He only left poor Bobby a team that had went 12-1 the previous season. This is what I'm talking about when I say most UofL fans aren't very bright lol.
Louisville made its choice and the fan base is happy. As far as morality not being a concern for a college team.....the recent situations at such diverse places as Baylor, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, not many years ago at Penn State and I imagine over a dozen other schools might want to make us all reconsider that.
Or not.
Petrino has done fine at Louisville.
Maybe he will continue to.
He would not be my choice at Kentucky due to his previous acts at other schools including his first stint at Louisville.
He wins big
Usually has had a big cost.
#2 is about as ridiculous as anything I have ever read on a message board. Recreated history. Wow! What a fabrication. The OLine was fine. But, Bobby ran them off because they did not fit his model. But, they had talent that Strong and his staff would have won with.
The fact that UL fans keep touting A&M is evidence that they are about spin and not reality. A&M was not a great team with their top two QBs, but without them they would have never qualified for a bowl game.
And when I hear UL fans talk about "coming close to upsetting FSU and Clemson," my drink comes out my nose. That is the very thing they make fun of UK fans saying about close loses in the SEC and close losses to UL. Hypocrites.
Notre Dame was a good win at South Bend, but most college football fans, not UL fans, know they were spiraling ( see Northwestern). They got healthy over the period for the bowl game. No doubt. Still, the biggest win of BP's return engagement. Not much.
kragthorpe is rolling over in his UL grave. UL fans never acknowledge the thin OLine that he was left with and pretend he was left with a Rolls Royce. Lol
I don't care if they win the national championship, I'm glad Petrino is not our coach!
There are "they" and "them" in some posts here that I believe should be "we" and "us" if people were not cowards.
I don't think he is what UL people make him out to be, but he's a good coach. And one reason why he hasn't beaten ranked teams at UL is because they don't play many. He'd have many more chances to do so here and I believe he would have done better than Stoops by now. Plus, I believe that he'd also have us beating mediocre UT and UF teams now and then when given the chance.