Wonder why?
It’s amazing how perfectly the opinions in the thread came essentially from September 22 until early October, 2016, damn near the exact tipping point in time where Louisville first fell from Grace, to earth, and then into hell, itself.
Some gems: a Cat fan alluded to the rumor of a Stoops moral failure that briefly made the rounds, here, juuuust before the S. Carolina win.
WildCard references the stadium expansion, that then fell short of exceeding Commonwealth’s capacity, as fans and donors had been promised.
Folks repeatedly saying that without Lamar Jackson, Louisville would at best only win 9, which is the most they won with him.
Look back upon this thread objectively: it is remarkable to see the degree of both the rapidity and the depths to which the Jurich and Petrino/Petino and U of L mantras have fallen.
Visit their boards and they bemoan being taken over by what they describe as a UK board and AD.
In the 26 months since this thread, they’ve had an operating loss of over half-a-billion dollars, suspension of academic credentials, loss of a banner, exposure of a basketball scandal that might be larger than the Katrina Powell scandal, dropping enrollments, dropping donations, the loss of affiliation with the medical establishment which threatens the loss of 10’s of millions more in revenue, the loss of millions of sports advertising revenue with the Papa John’s scandal, and the broad exposure of a systemic scheme of vast overpayment of University insiders, leading to an IRS audit that could lead to millions in further losses.
And that list is not exhaustive.
If I were a fan of that University, I would stop bemoaning the loss of “games,” and begin questioning the social, political and cultural flaws that led to the most stunning and broad-based collapse of an American University system ever witnessed.