Louisville's football success is due to several things:
#1, playing in shitty conferences for several years where they could rack up wins with impunity;
#2, having a brilliant, skilled and ruthless AD who will stop at nothing to build an elite program;
#3, boasting the most corrupt (yet shrewd) athletic department in the country;
#4, a pipeline of talented players from the Deep South who couldn't get into (or were kicked out of) SEC schools;
#5, hiring one of the most brilliant offensive minds in he country over a decade ago;
#6, pumping in millions of dollars to the program by dubious means:
#7, hiring one of the most brilliant defensive minds in he country 6 years ago;
#8, rehiring the aforementioned brilliant offensive mind 3 years ago when nobody else in America would;
#9, TEDDY, DEVANTE, LAMAR, etc.
Whatever. Call me an optimist, but I'm still banking on the guarantee offered up by Mitch Barnhart all those years ago, when he promised "WE WILL OWN THIS STATE!"
#TilTheBattleIsWon