I don’t think I could put a number of wins on next years schedule at this point in time. Like UK we don’t know who our starting QB will be. Plus we would need to see who leaves outside of those due to graduation. Plus who they bring in from the transfer portal. Rumor has it 502 Circle (NIL) is hoarding cash for a big transfer portal season.
Louisville’s Record to Date: About Where it Should be According to Recruiting Rankings.
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And this is the weird weird WEIRD year where Michigan is the only team that has looked Dominant, EVERY game... because their schedule does not pass the eye test. But now they have PSU and OSU coming up... OSU has looked beatable... so has Bama (South FLorida).. and so has UGA...
Glad to have all the UL fans here, then go run off to their forum and say shit like this:
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I had to put on my mental "online raincoat" and then turn my IQ down a few notches... so that I could prepare myself...
Now I need to sanitize my brain.... So much blue over there, gives me a headache..
Get lost loser.
-meh, they're having a nice year and their fans are feeling good... they have had the dog shit beaten out of them by UK for 4 years straight, and they think "this is the year" so they're getting squirrely.
^what I do know is that UK is playing with house money this year as they have the recent dominance to fall back on and uavel will be ranked pretty high... surely a top 10ish team will have no problem handling little old uk.
-I'm looking forward to finding out who's better this year.
^what I do know is that UK is playing with house money this year as they have the recent dominance to fall back on and uavel will be ranked pretty high... surely a top 10ish team will have no problem handling little old uk.
-I'm looking forward to finding out who's better this year.
louisville has beat everyone they are suppose to except Pitt but upset one team rated higher Notre Dame at home - Notre Dame is UK with Gold helmets and tradition
louisville may not be a good match up for UK because of our struggles with pass defense but UK balanced offense should give louisville some issues
Should be a competitive game
louisville may not be a good match up for UK because of our struggles with pass defense but UK balanced offense should give louisville some issues
Should be a competitive game
Louisville had a weak schedule prior to the season. It was universally identified as so. There were posts here predicting a 8-9 win season at a minimum (I think I posted one of those).
Having said that, the way they’ve gone about winning is genuinely impressive. Their defense is playing well, and Brohm can scheme for his offense as good as anyone. The Notre Dame win looks less impressive given their big loss to Clemson, but still a good season.
I think they finally beat UK this year, but I’ve been saying that since 2019 to be fair. I’ll blind bet the Under.
Having said that, the way they’ve gone about winning is genuinely impressive. Their defense is playing well, and Brohm can scheme for his offense as good as anyone. The Notre Dame win looks less impressive given their big loss to Clemson, but still a good season.
I think they finally beat UK this year, but I’ve been saying that since 2019 to be fair. I’ll blind bet the Under.
That is interesting to say, because if we're rating relative strengths or weaknesses for Louisville--running offense, passing offense, run defense and passing defense--I don't think you'll find many Louisville fans that would rank passing offense as anything less than the clearest weakness in Louisville's program. Protection has been decent but we were a little deluded into thinking it would be like what we saw against BC which was spectacular with multiple long passes and only three incompletions. I would personally rate the whole of the receiving corps as a little disappointing because there appears to be talent there. Run defense is outstanding and Louisville is statistically really high in Red Zone and 3rd down defense. The corners Riley and Brownlee are a very good tandem at the corners and the safety position has overcome the loss of who might have been the best player in the Back Seven in MJ Griffin.
But Louisville is even worse statistically on 3rd down offensively than you at around 35%; a part of that is a month's worth of shortening the game in the 4th quarter milking leads, but it has been common the entire season regardless of opponent or caliber of defense.
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Just a quick check why your thoughts on the SEC are so STUPID...15 of the last 20 and 6/10 NCS were won by multiple SEC schools and the SEC schools dominate the NFL draft each season.
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If you haven't put blowhard whipend00 on ignore you are using this message board incorrectly
(Think Rodney Dangerfield's laugh in Caddy Shack when reading) Oh, hoo hoo hoo Geez!
Do a loss comparison. We schedule some easy sure wins because we have 3 sure losses on our schedule. That chart was stupid. Georgia, Alabama and Tennessee all recruit yearly in the top ten. We will usually lose those games as we recruit in the high 20s at best. You CANT schedule 3 sure wins because ND is your only possible solid win and it turns out they stink and already have 3 loses. You have beaten one team that recruits in the top 40. We have beaten all teams we have played that recruit that low as well. You have not beaten a team that as of now does not have 3 losses. Then you put together a chart that says your schedule is harder. You Can’t believe that or you are either blinded by fandom or just dumb.
U6 will eventually beat us, but I'll have to see it first. They were all touting their defense last year. 2nd in sacks I think - they got 1 against the worst o-line we've had since Stoops first couple of years so color me unimpressed at this point.
Cards were predicted to finish #8 in the conference. Many fans, like myself, would have been happy to finish 7-5 during the regular season... and this was based off me thinking our QB was elite (he aint) and our defense being suspect (it aint) and our WR struggling they did last year, after suffering from the same WR attrition we have suffered from, for the past 3 seasons (Losing the top 2 WR's to transfers, graduation, or draft).... (they not)... or our OL being patchy (its not) or our DB's taking a step back because we lost a good one who is starting for the NFL cardinals (they didn't) or our DL going straight to crap because we lost 7 of our top 10 players to draft, transfers etc (it isn't)....
SO, as you can see... our defense is at its highest ranking since 2013 & 2014 (Strong and Grantham) has shut kept 5 straight opponents under 300 total yards (including Notre Dame and Duke)... and our offense has shown that they can score against anyone in a variety of different ways, even without our top receiver and running back in the game...
Our schedule looked weak, seems to be weak, maybe weak... but as I have labored to prove, over and over again, a lot of dudes went to the NFL...and teams like UGA and Alabama, with the advent of NIL, and relaxed Transfer Portal rules, are really starting to bleed talent really bad... The Victor no longer goes to a school with a roster full of 3 and 4 year players... Those rosters are getting rarer and rarer. The new style will be whatever coach can pull in a bunch of transfers and shape em for 1 year...in to something of legends..
UGA, Bama, LSU, Auburn and Florida. Nobody has to be afraid of the other 9 teams...
Mannn the defense was sort of (and I do stress "Sort of") smoke and mirrors. They were fast and physical, but not a lot of size up front. Not sound either. They did what they were supposed to do. They created a lot of havok which generated a lot of sacks (#1 in the nation) due to pressure... Defense finished in top 40, maybe top 30... which was HUGE jump from previous years... They did what they were supposed to do which was to make it difficult for UK to score. UK had 1 explosive play and 2 INT's... These were the difference in the game. Cunningham basically playing with almost 1 half of his body shut down... and our back up playing in Satterfield's system, aint happening this year. I won't be dumb and predict a win... because its a rivalry game... But Satterfield always had a deer in the headlights look on his carpetbagging way out of town. Jeff Brohm is a whole lot different. We may not win this year... because I believe UK has better personal on their DL than any team but Miami and Notre Dame... and your Secondary has been elite against Non-conference teams, and ok in Conference. Your blocking on the OL has not been the stuff of legends...and your QB... has been iffy. We not BAMA, but we aint Akron either. Walker and Silver... they got a lot going on up front... so will be interesting how our Offensive staff works against them. But you think for a minute Louisville hasn't faced and won't face Elite Defense or Defensive linemen outside of UK...
False and just stupid showing your lack of knowledge of the SEC.
U of L beat ND because of turnovers. Didn`t ND turn it over 5 times?
-uk's avg margin of victory over uavel over the last 4 years...30.5. Maybe the cards weren't afraid... but they should've been.
Looking at your schedule why would anyone predict you losing 5 games?? You out recruited everyone on your schedule except ND, Miami and us. Recruiting isn’t everything but it’s better to have higher ranked guys than not. Miami recruits at a high clip because it’s such a party town. Their results show guys go there to party not play ball. 7-3 would have been a disappointment if I was a U6 fan. I wish we out recruited 70% of our schedule. Unfortunately 70% of our schedule out recruited us.
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I`m in the opposed opinion of the state of college football. I don't think schools are having a "down year". I think other teams who have been 3–4-win teams are putting more money into football and are catching up with some of the "elite programs", making it seem as though those schools are down. Every conference will still have 2-3 programs that will dominate, but then you`ll have 5-7 teams who can battle it out every year for the remaining spots. Florida, for example, used be a dominate team, but they had Miami and Florida State to compete against for the high school players. Now they have Florida International, South Florida, Central Florida and Florida Atlantic, not to mention the northern states coming in to recruit.
Yes they did but if you want to play they only won because of turnovers. Then UK only beat Louisville last year because Louisville turned it over 3 times to UK’s 0 turnovers. I mean the stats were pretty even last year except for the turnovers.
The media may have voted 8th but lots here knew they’d be better because the schedule was so weak at least on paper. The SEC media got South Carolina (and Mizzou) wildly wrong too. It happens often.
I don't give a flying F what computer rankings like sagarin say about schedules are similar. UK is 6-3, with its three losses too # 2 Georgia, #13 Mizzou and #14 Tenneseee who share a combined record of 24-4 with #8 Alabama coming to town Sat. UL has one loss to a horrific Pitt team who is 2-7.
Not to mention is in know WORLDWIDE how pathetic the ACC conference is as a whole. VA Tech was still alive for a conf title berth last week who got ran off the field at home against Old Dominion.
You Louisville fans will snatch anything up to TRY to make sense of your success this year.
Not to mention is in know WORLDWIDE how pathetic the ACC conference is as a whole. VA Tech was still alive for a conf title berth last week who got ran off the field at home against Old Dominion.
You Louisville fans will snatch anything up to TRY to make sense of your success this year.
Yeah the Stats were even....it was 26-7 with 4 min left...ANOTHER BLOWOUT
People can go back n fourth all day long. Rankings, schedule, stats blah, blah, blah. But the fact is Louisville has a better coach now, and they are going to be a better team than they were under Satterfield. There's nothing wrong with admitting that. Like it or not, it's really that simple. Will they beat UK, now that is yet to be determined.
Louisville only passes the ball on 43% of their plays.(UK 53%) If we have to pass 50 times like we did against Pitt we'll likely lose.
True, but a team will probably average around 10 possessions a game. If they turn the ball over on half of those, then winning would be next to impossible, plus it`s a momentum builder for the other team. Turnovers are part of the game and you did win, so that`s what`s important. But one would have to wonder, how good is ND? They`ve lost to every decent team, except Duke, they`ve played. They did beat USC, but they have NO defense and they too have lost to every decent team they`ve played.
This has been an odd season for a lot of teams.
-this is silly. Turnovers *are* a statistic... caused by defensive scheme/pressure/effort.
Right. It's like, why bother to post here if you're going to act like some kind of martyr on your "home" board. Trash behavior.
The thing that UL people have always failed to understand:
-UK recruits at a top 25-30 level. Yet, UK consistently ranks 11,12, or 13 in the SEC. If you recruit top 25 classes in the ACC, you are a top 5 ACC team.
-the Teams that UK has to play have better players than the schools UL has to play.
-The teams that UK has to play have more resources and thus have better coaches and larger stadiums with more fervent fanbases than those UL has to play (hence, harder to beat them, and harder road environments in which to play).
Does this mean that every UK win is better than every UL win? no. Akron still stinks. Vandy is still a lower level ACC team most years (though it would win more games in the ACC than it does in the SEC). But, if you gave Florida UL's schedule, it would have the same record as UL. Same with UK. Mizzou would be undefeated. Tennessee would be undefeated. Ole Miss would be undefeated.
It's the same false thinking that led UL to think they were a football superpower circa 2010. They were playing bad teams. Today, they're still playing mediocre to bad teams.
-UK recruits at a top 25-30 level. Yet, UK consistently ranks 11,12, or 13 in the SEC. If you recruit top 25 classes in the ACC, you are a top 5 ACC team.
-the Teams that UK has to play have better players than the schools UL has to play.
-The teams that UK has to play have more resources and thus have better coaches and larger stadiums with more fervent fanbases than those UL has to play (hence, harder to beat them, and harder road environments in which to play).
Does this mean that every UK win is better than every UL win? no. Akron still stinks. Vandy is still a lower level ACC team most years (though it would win more games in the ACC than it does in the SEC). But, if you gave Florida UL's schedule, it would have the same record as UL. Same with UK. Mizzou would be undefeated. Tennessee would be undefeated. Ole Miss would be undefeated.
It's the same false thinking that led UL to think they were a football superpower circa 2010. They were playing bad teams. Today, they're still playing mediocre to bad teams.
I think they understand it and are embarrassed to admit it. That's all. They were crushed by Pitt, who now solidly resides at 2-7. Contrast that with ND absolutely crushing Pitt. ND clearly thinking UL was going to be a cakewalk and overlooked them.
It's cute to see UL ranked right below a team that wouldn't sniff them without losing their nose in a head to head matchup. It's for ratings of course. Got to build up whats left of the ACC to milk as much out of it as possible before the exodus.
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At least they admit they "put on mental online raincoats" since we've been saying they're mental for decades. UL fans are of the sort that will beg ESPN to "piss down their leg and tell them it's raining" so we have to expect they mentally turn Imannuel Quickly down a few notches. We know they couldn't mean intellectual quotient, because you can't turn down what you don't possess and can't control.
lol What makes him a better coach?He was 36-34 at Purdue and so far has Louisville 8-1 against a schedule EVERYONE knew was a joke when they missed Florida State North Carolina or Clemson.
I agree but I was responding to the one who said Louisville only beat ND because of the turnovers.
Is CJB a better coach than SS?
FWIW. I have watched every UofL fball game for the last four years. I would bet my bottom dollar that this CJB coached UofL fball team would beat any of the UofL fball teams from the last four years 10 out of 10.
If you are curious how SS is doing at UC. Here is a link to the UC web site discussing SS.
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Anyone watching this Louisville Virginia game? How wasn't that hit that hurt the Virginia player not targeting?
That was one of the most obvious examples of targeting. The refs are trying to give the game to UL.
Louisville got bailed out, that wasn’t PI at all
