Bobby Petrino officially added Lamar Thomas and Terrell Buckley to his staff today. Thomas will coach the wide receivers and Buckley will coach the cornerbacks. Here is the official press release from UofL with more information on both of these coaches. LOUISVILLE, Ky. – University of Louisville head coach Bobby Petrino completed his coaching staff by hiring Lamar…
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Coach Bobby Petrino and the staff have hit the recruiting trail hard and have a crucial 3 weeks ahead of them. Over these next 3 weekends before signing day the Cards will try to get as many commits and targets on campus as possible and it starts with the group this weekend:
PRESS RELEASE: Tony Grantham, Todd’s brother, was named the inside linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at Louisville also on Thursday after spending the last six seasons at the Naval Academy. Tony Grantham, in addition to serving the past six seasons as Navy’s outside linebackers coach, has been with the Naval Academy for 10 years overall….
PRESS RELEASE LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Widely regarded as one of the best defensive coordinators in the country, Todd Grantham was tabbed by University of Louisville head football coach Bobby Petrino to become the school’s defensive coordinator and safeties coach on Thursday. Todd comes to Louisville after four seasons as Georgia’s defensive coordinator, including two seasons…
Today coach Bobby Petrino welcomed two guys home. Kolby Smith will return to coach Running backs and LD Scott will coach the OLB’s. Kolby Smith started his coaching career in 2012 as a GA for Arkansas. In 2013 he went to WKU to coach RB for Bobby Petrino. Kolby spent 3 seasons in…
PRESS RELEASE: LOUISVILLE, Ky. – One of the most experienced offensive line coaches, Chris Klenakis, is joining the University of Louisville football staff as the run game coordinator and offensive line coach, head coach Bobby Petrino announced Tuesday. With 24 years of coaching experience under his belt, most recently at Iowa State, Klenakis re-unites with…
PRESS RELEASE Garrick McGee, a key component in Arkansas’ offensive success during head coach Bobby Petrino’s tenure at Arkansas, is joining the University of Louisville’s football staff as the assistant head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Petrino announced Monday. McGee, who served recently as the UAB head coach for the last two seasons, was…
Well Bobby Petrino is the new head coach of the Louisville Cardinals. Now the question is who is he bringing along? We will have the list here and will update it has they are announced. Offense Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks coach: Garrick McGee– UAB head coach. Read more about him here. Running Backs: Kolby Smith– former Louisville…
We know that on Friday, Coach Petrino and his staff reached out to some of the commits for the 2014 class. With some guys decommitting, it is important that the staff try to hang on to as many guys as they can. Desean Blair said that he talked to Petrino, Kolby Smith, and Lamar Thomas…
With the recent decommits of Poona Ford and Chris Nelson, both defensive tackles, Louisville fans are needing to see a defensive tackle on the radar for Bobby Petrino and his staff for this class. Well this weekend they will get a big-time visitor when four-star defensive tackle Daniel Cage visits the Cards. Cage is from…
This week…..on 55….. Once again I figured on having a pretty uneventful week. Name a new coach, get our recruits lined up and on board with the new staff and carry on. Boy was I wrong. In this weeks 55 I have so much info I may not be able to put a lot of pictures in,…
Yeah Charlie, we see you. After a week or so of you taking the reigns at Texas, we see you. Our recruits are being poached yet we weren’t big time enough for you. Our supportive, nice crowds weren’t good enough but those rowdy Texans down there are gonna treat you right (Yeah I seen the…
Everyone seems to have an opinion on the Bobby Petrino hire. You won’t find many people who have nothing to say about it. They either like it or they don’t. Well I reached out to some of his former players from Louisville, mainly some guys that I personally knew from the team who I may…
Photo courtesy of usatodayhss.com With the recent news that 3-star running back Daniel Gresham will not be apart of the 2014 recruiting class for the Cards, it left many fans shocked. Some kids have decommitted on their own, but Gresham made it clear that he still wanted to come here and couldn’t wait to meet…
Keeping up with the current commits for the Cards and finding out if they will stay committed has been a busy process. Some guys have just decommitted on their own, but it looks like this one is different. Three-star running back Daniel Gresham seemed excited about meeting Bobby Petrino and still remaining apart of this…
Here are the Twitter handles for the Football staff at the University of Louisville: * All links will take you to their pages HC- Bobby Petrino: @CoachPetrinoUL OC- Garrick McGee: @GarrickMcGee WR- Lamar Thomas: @LamarCoachT OL- Chris Klenakis: @FBCoachK DB- Terrell Buckley @27TBuck DC- Todd Grantham: @CoachTGUGA As we find more we will add them…
After a long search it is being reported by Joe Schad that the University of Louisville names UGA Defensive Coordinator Todd Grantham to the same position at Louisville. Grantham reportedly signed a 5 year deal for 1 million dollars per year. Go Cards!
Are you serious, Tom Jurich? I imagine his response goes somewhat along the lines of…. “As a motorcycle wreck, Daryl”. Of course I was reluctant to the idea of bringing back a former coach of ours. I thought it was just a far fetched joking desire from a broken-hearted Cardnation. I figured we were ready…
Photo courtesy of sportsillustrated.cnn.com By Lloyd Spence: As Head Coach Charlie Strong walked out the door last weekend to The University of Texas, the search for the next coach began in one of the strangest possible places. 2003. University of Louisville Athletic Director aka “The Card-Father”, Tom Jurich, decided to start his search (despite…
Just got off the phone with a source. He informed me that if James Franklin is named the new HC at Penn State, 4* DE Lloyd Tubman may be back on the market. The current Vandy commit is a huge James Franklin guy so it would not surprise me to see him follow his coach…