On Saturday January 18, 2014, the 89th East-West Shrine Game will take place in St. Petersburg, Florida at Tropicana Field. That is fitting because two former Louisville Cardinals who played their first bowl game on that very field will take part in this game for the East: Hakeem Smith and Preston Brown. Hakeem Smith finished…
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According to Ryan Bartow (247 sports) and Mike Hughes (InsideTheVille), Louisville has offered 2015 safety Khalid McGee of Miami Northwestern High School. New wide receivers coach Lamar Thomas made the offer. Scout.com is the only service that I saw a rating for him, which was a 3-star. McGee is about 5’10 and 180 lbs and…
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…
With the schedule that Ballard High School plays, it is hard to go watch them in person because of all the traveling they do and playing games out of town. So for those that want to see future Louisville point guard Quentin Snider, the opportunity has been there this week at Valley High School in…
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:
Tonight marks a coming home party of a different kind. A long road home with several different twists. It looked like all was lost when he committed to Houston, then conference realignment struck and the basketball gods decided….it will be. Tonight people will cry out Chicken, Chicken, Chicken and not mean it as an answer to what they…
One of the most important things when a new coach is brought in is who he will bring with him. The coaching staff he hires is a huge part of what kind of success that will hopefully follow. Bobby Petrino seems to have put together a great staff here at the University of Louisville. While…
18/14 Louisville Cardinals (14-3, 3-1) vs Houston Cougars (10-6, 2-1) Game Info Date: Thursday January 16, 2014 Time: 7:00 p.m. ET Site: KFC Yum! Center TV: CBS Sports Network (Dave Ryan, Pete Gillen, Evan Washburn) Radio: WHAS 840 AM (Paul Rogers and Bob Valvano) Series Record: UofL leads 13-5 Last Meeting: Houston…
Photo courtesy of college-basketball.si.com According to this article from coloradoan.com, dismissed Louisville forward Chane Behanan will visit Colorado State this weekend as he may be looking to transfer there. He will be at the Colorado State-Air Force game on Saturday. Tom Jurich has a good relationship with the people at Colorado State, and even…
AP Top 25 RK TEAM RECORD PTS 1 Arizona (61) 17-0 1,621 2 Syracuse (4) 16-0 1,560 3 Wisconsin 16-0 1,482 4 Michigan State 15-1 1,442 5 Wichita State 17-0 1,300 6 Villanova 15-1 1,289 7 Florida 13-2 1,205 8 Iowa State 14-1 1,048 9 Oklahoma State 14-2 1,046 10 San Diego State 14-1 1,020 11 Ohio…
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…
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…
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…
This morning, 4* defensive tackle Poona Ford decommitted from the Louisville Cardinals. He is from Hilton Head, South Carolina and had been kind of wavering on his committment anyway. So when Charlie Strong took the Texas job, we knew it would be tough to keep Ford here. He will take official visits to Texas, Missouri,…
I have been trying to write this post in my head for a few days now, because even before it was official, it looked pretty good that Bobby Petrino was going to be named our next head coach. I am glad that I waited until today to write it because I was able to attend…