Eric Crawford

[TeoJ]

Did he say anything?

 

[yoshukai]

Louisville Football was build like a house of cards (no pun intended), and like all houses of cards it eventually caves in on itself. Their successful years were a combination of playing outside the lines and being incredibly lucky at recruiting the quarterback position with Bridgewater and then Jackson following him, they seem to have even hit gold again with Cunningham. Think where Card football would be right now without those three?

They managed to scrap out 6 win this year in what is probably the weakest P5 conference this season, but the ACC will get better with Miami, FSU and Clemson moving upwards, what will happen to UofL then? If they start missing the post season they will eventually have to consider moving back down to a lower conference like the Sunbelt. In the meantime they will continue to be dominated annually by Kentucky and may at some point throw up their hands and decide to opt out of the series.

I dont think I consider hiring “show cause “ bagman Clint Hurt to bring in Teddy Bridgewater as luck but , otherwise I agree with all of this .

 

[The-Hack]

Still waiting to hear what he said...

I did not hear it.

but he said something about Brohm beating a team that had beaten U.K.

 

[BigTyrone]

I did not hear it.

but he said something about Brohm beating a team that had beaten U.K.

Oh. That sounds like he's trolling U of L fans more than anything.

 

[On-On-UK]

Nobody on this whole freaking thread knows what he said.

 

[CHAMPCAT11]

I heard what he said and from my viewpoint I thought he was actually complimenting UK. He simply said that we’ve been knocking on the door of being a legit SEC threat but haven’t gotten over the hump yet. Have to say I agree. He said we should take that next step in 2022 and he hinted that the prize was there for the taking. The OP twisted what was said. Not saying he (Crawford) didn’t insinuate that now was the time for that next step but I agree …. next year we should be competitive with everyone and that’s all Eric Crawford said. Just time to man up.

 

[STL_Cat]

I heard what he said and from my viewpoint I thought he was actually complimenting UK. He simply said that we’ve been knocking on the door of being a legit SEC threat but haven’t gotten over the hump yet. Have to say I agree. He said we should take that next step in 2022 and he hinted that the prize was there for the taking. The OP twisted what was said. Not saying he (Crawford) didn’t insinuate that now was the time for that next step but I agree …. next year we should be competitive with everyone and that’s all Eric Crawford said. Just time to man up.

Sounds awful, we should ruin that man’s life.

 

[yoshukai]

Sounds awful, we should ruin that man’s life.

Hell Yeah ! Let’s whip some “cancel culture “ on his ass , lol.

 

[Saven]

What did he say?

He didn't say. OP went "DAM!" as soon as Eric kept his comments about UK to himself.

 

[NamelessOne]

I hope someone checks on this guy tonight, he sounds close to ending it.

 

[STL_Cat]

^The final stage … acceptance.

 

[LordEggForgotHisPassword]

I believe we are seeing the beginning of the realization of some simple truths, even by hard-core Card fans:

(1) Card fans were accustomed to double-digit winning seasons in their“Mid-Major/G-5” days;

(2) For two decades, they convinced themselves that a transition to P5 would lead to further success, because they could beat a moribund U.K., and an occasional P5 “name” team in a bowl, such as a lifeless UF team in the Sugar Bowl.

(3) With Lamar, they won a Heisman Trophy, and it was a deserved award, as he did all but don Superman’s cape in covering the real weaknesses of their program, and allowing modest success in the beginning of their ACC participation.

(4) With the collapse of the Ramsey/Jurich regime(s), the character’s “who knew where all the bodies were buried,” were exposed, as were all of the buried bodies, in a ten year(+), “drip, drip, drip” water torture that has yet to go dry.

(5) Eight years into their ACC membership, even with a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Lamar Jackson, there has been nary a ten win season.

(6) The moribund football program down the road has awakened, and after 70 years has decided to fully join the SEC, with ten-win seasons now an annual possibility, and historic beat-downs of U of L an annual likelihood.

(7) And no one (outside of a small circle) cries for U of L: two (+) decades of “LPT,” and “slapdick,” talk and tens of millions of dollars of questionable internal waste has immunized U.K. from the creation of even the slightest sympathy for the Cards when Kentucky piles it on.

(8) And all of the above has left the U of L “community” sniping at one-another. Some yearn to return to the days of their illusory power, while some have avoided the Stockholm Syndrome, and see the sins of their past as the cause of their present suffering. And the lack of strength of a “house divided against itself” has been known since biblical times.

Preach brother!

 

[NamelessOne]

UL fan says it used to be them and Ohio St as the dominate powers of the region lmao

 

[NamelessOne]

 

[Dead Cat Bounce]

I believe we are seeing the beginning of the realization of some simple truths, even by hard-core Card fans:

(1) Card fans were accustomed to double-digit winning seasons in their“Mid-Major/G-5” days;

(2) For two decades, they convinced themselves that a transition to P5 would lead to further success, because they could beat a moribund U.K., and an occasional P5 “name” team in a bowl, such as a lifeless UF team in the Sugar Bowl.

(3) With Lamar, they won a Heisman Trophy, and it was a deserved award, as he did all but don Superman’s cape in covering the real weaknesses of their program, and allowing modest success in the beginning of their ACC participation.

(4) With the collapse of the Ramsey/Jurich regime(s), the character’s “who knew where all the bodies were buried,” were exposed, as were all of the buried bodies, in a ten year(+), “drip, drip, drip” water torture that has yet to go dry.

(5) Eight years into their ACC membership, even with a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Lamar Jackson, there has been nary a ten win season.

(6) The moribund football program down the road has awakened, and after 70 years has decided to fully join the SEC, with ten-win seasons now an annual possibility, and historic beat-downs of U of L an annual likelihood.

(7) And no one (outside of a small circle) cries for U of L: two (+) decades of “LPT,” and “slapdick,” talk and tens of millions of dollars of questionable internal waste has immunized U.K. from the creation of even the slightest sympathy for the Cards when Kentucky piles it on.

(8) And all of the above has left the U of L “community” sniping at one-another. Some yearn to return to the days of their illusory power, while some have avoided the Stockholm Syndrome, and see the sins of their past as the cause of their present suffering. And the lack of strength of a “house divided against itself” has been known since biblical times.

Can we pin this somewhere? Lair HOF? I’m gonna reread it a dozen times at least.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

Louisville Football was build like a house of cards (no pun intended), and like all houses of cards it eventually caves in on itself. Their successful years were a combination of playing outside the lines and being incredibly lucky at recruiting the quarterback position with Bridgewater and then Jackson following him, they seem to have even hit gold again with Cunningham. Think where Card football would be right now without those three?

They managed to scrap out 6 win this year in what is probably the weakest P5 conference this season, but the ACC will get better with Miami, FSU and Clemson moving upwards, what will happen to UofL then? If they start missing the post season they will eventually have to consider moving back down to a lower conference like the Sunbelt. In the meantime they will continue to be dominated annually by Kentucky and may at some point throw up their hands and decide to opt out of the series.

UL fans (1) thought they achieved something they had not - thought they had become a traditional power; (2) were not satisfied and thought they deserved more, leading to overly harsh criticism of a coach they should have appreciated; (3) did not respect the process and the tenuous nature of success for most college football teams; and, (4) now think that it just requires turning a switch.

We see that with some of our fans, as well.

 

[Caveman Catfan]

I did not hear it.

but he said something about Brohm beating a team that had beaten U.K.

I wonder what conclusions he thinks he can draw from that?

Without a doubt, this was Brohm’s best Purdue team. They beat UT in a shootout. We lost to UT in a game with almost the identical score. Was he tempting UL fans or commenting on UK, a team that smoked UL at UL?

 

[NamelessOne]

UL fans (1) thought they achieved something they had not - thought they had become a traditional power; (2) were not satisfied and thought they deserved more, leading to overly harsh criticism of a coach they should have appreciated; (3) did not respect the process and the tenuous nature of success for most college football teams; and, (4) now think that it just requires turning a switch.

We see that with some of our fans, as well.

The funny part is they don't realize how good of a job Satterfield has done. In 2018, Bobby Petrino's UL team went 2-10 with 2 victories over Indiana St and Western Ky...just barely beating Western Ky. This was his 5th year meaning all of Strongs (a guy who got in trouble at USF with the NCAA) and Clint Hurtt's (another guy who had recruiting violations and had to have a show clause) were gone. His 5th year was a disaster and was only going to get worse. Because Bobby had heavily relied on Strongs lines and depth building. Petrino only recruited and developed skill players because he thought he could coast off 3 seasons and get another job in the SEC or at another real school. When no one was as desperate or stupid enough to hire him again (except for UL) cracks began to show and lead to the disaster of what was the fifth season. It wouldnt have mattered who took that job. Bobby left them in such dire straits in the trenches and true depth; that it was going to be a total rebuilding job worthy of at least 4 to 5 years.

As far as becoming a power, they never were. They were playing in a Big East that had lost all credibility. They never accomplished anything of value when the conference was in it's glory days. It was only after the conference became full of Directional U's did they start winning. This was later confirmed as the NCAA took Big Easts BCS bid away from them...something that should have happened at least 5 years sooner.

Without that, they would have never gotten a bid.

 

[LiveBlueK14]

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What level of cope is this?

Why did it make me laugh so hard when I read the guy's response about the "transparent property" 🤣

 

[CHAMPCAT11]

This is just another example of how totally ignorant UL fans are. I hate name calling and even using terms like stupid, ignorant, etc but if the shoes fits …. they are beyond words.

 

[backinky2018]

I believe we are seeing the beginning of the realization of some simple truths, even by hard-core Card fans:

(1) Card fans were accustomed to double-digit winning seasons in their“Mid-Major/G-5” days;

(2) For two decades, they convinced themselves that a transition to P5 would lead to further success, because they could beat a moribund U.K., and an occasional P5 “name” team in a bowl, such as a lifeless UF team in the Sugar Bowl.

(3) With Lamar, they won a Heisman Trophy, and it was a deserved award, as he did all but don Superman’s cape in covering the real weaknesses of their program, and allowing modest success in the beginning of their ACC participation.

(4) With the collapse of the Ramsey/Jurich regime(s), the character’s “who knew where all the bodies were buried,” were exposed, as were all of the buried bodies, in a ten year(+), “drip, drip, drip” water torture that has yet to go dry.

(5) Eight years into their ACC membership, even with a once-in-a-lifetime talent in Lamar Jackson, there has been nary a ten win season.

(6) The moribund football program down the road has awakened, and after 70 years has decided to fully join the SEC, with ten-win seasons now an annual possibility, and historic beat-downs of U of L an annual likelihood.

(7) And no one (outside of a small circle) cries for U of L: two (+) decades of “LPT,” and “slapdick,” talk and tens of millions of dollars of questionable internal waste has immunized U.K. from the creation of even the slightest sympathy for the Cards when Kentucky piles it on.

(8) And all of the above has left the U of L “community” sniping at one-another. Some yearn to return to the days of their illusory power, while some have avoided the Stockholm Syndrome, and see the sins of their past as the cause of their present suffering. And the lack of strength of a “house divided against itself” has been known since biblical times.

All of this. Every single bit of it.

I have maintained from the beginning that their golden years were a myth built on the back of bad schedules. Even when they had a once in a lifetime player, they didn't get very many good wins and usually lost when they were matched up against a team with actual talent (Clemson, LSU, etc).

 

[seccats04]

It wasn't hard for UL to have good records playing Army, UConn and Temple every week and then get up for a P5 team that never wanted to play UL in a bowl game. Even though the ACC sucks it's still P5 competition and you have to bring it every week. They still haven't figured that out.

 

[Emarc]

^The final stage … acceptance.

First. 11 more. Wait till they have to make amends to all they have offended. 😎

 

[hmt5000]

It wasn't hard for UL to have good records playing Army, UConn and Temple every week and then get up for a P5 team that never wanted to play UL in a bowl game. Even though the ACC sucks it's still P5 competition and you have to bring it every week. They still haven't figured that out.

The perception of them being a good program is eroding as well. They were freaking favored over us this year. Data is piling up and once the perception meets reality its going to be even harder for them to recruit. They were a landing spot for troubled players and the portal makes that less of a thing even if they didn't seem to clean that up a bit. 6-5 records for long enough will have people quit predicting 10 win seasons.