When did Louisville and Purdue switch places?
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Papa Johns money helps. Shady coaches helps, an AD who joined the arms race and didn't penny pinch helps. Number of reasons.
Started when JT retired on the job and let Lv get the top guys we used to get out of Lv. They also have had some interesting but good coaches like Petrino who is back and seemingly being successful again. Maybe we should jump on the back of his motorcycle!!!
In what ways are they in the same boat as us? Just curious to your thinking on that.
Huh? Did you guys miss when John l smith was there or when Petrino was there the first time? They have been good for a decade and a half.
This is a dated article from the New York Times, but ESPN played a large role in providing Louisville football with a lot of exposure going back to about 2000.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/s...m-made-for-and-by-tv.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/s...m-made-for-and-by-tv.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
They have definitely not penny pinched in the facilities area. Our facilities don't match theirs.
15 years ago people thought teams like Louisville and Cincinnati were bush league for playing on Thursday nights. Turns out they just had innovative AD's.
I mean they are in ky Purdue is in Indiana. I would think a great recruit from this area will choice more of a power house school then one of them. What do you think?
Outside of geographical location, there are few similarities between athletic departments and programs.
Louisville turned there program around with great coaching hires. They were in CUSA for a while and hit the jackpot with John L Smith when he took over for on Cooper. Not a flashy hire just a solid fundamentals who was a VG x's and O's guy. He built programs in the past and did it again at Louisville. From there on out it was Petrino and Strong leading there program. Its about having success and capitalizing on it. There stadium holds only 55K so I don't think coaches came there for the stadium amenities. These coaches came there because a smart AD gave a couple guys a chance who have had success in building programs and it worked out. We can get it back again too!! We did it with Jim Young and Joe Tiller. It is definitely the guy who runs the ship, or rows the boat as they they at Western Michigan!!! Lets get Fleck on the list and move him to the top of it immediately. He is our guy.
As previously mentioned. Their facilities are top 10% in the entire country. If you haven't been to the Yum Center Id highly recommend checking it out, have never been to the football stadium but from what I've seen on TV it looks very nice as well. In state they are competing with Kentucky a perennial bottom feeder in the SEC, while we in Indiana have to compete with ND a blue blood program and IU who is essentially the same as Kentucky. Louisville is a nice City with lots to do and campus is close to downtown, Indy is what an hour or so away from campus. I mean sure we have some similarities with KY and IN being poor high school football states. Kentucky has zero professional sports teams. You are either all in for Louisville or Kentucky, and you really aren't competing for season ticket sales. It's literally all they have, outside of whiskey and horse racing. So essentially they are competing with one university being Kentucky, and zero pro teams. We are competing with ND, IU, the Colts. I lived in Kentucky for 4 years and the support for both Uk (only hoops) and Lville is unlike anything I've ever seen at Purdue outside of the Brees, and maybe Orton teams.
Howard Schnellenberger should be given credit for revitalizing the UofL program! He took over a pretty dreadful program and by the early 90s had them in the Fiesta Bowl victory over Alabama! The program had a few down seasons in between, but their administration is solidly behind the athletic program! By the way, Lamar Jackson is like a live-action video game!
What's really "funny" about the Yum center is that if it were built a few years earlier, the Charlotte Hornets would have moved to Louisville. I think it is fair to say that U of L blocked that move.
Thing is, Louisville is an academic skank, the campus is a ghetto and the HC of both football and hoops at U of L are human slime. The university president was fired last month. Multiple investigations into theft of grant funds by deans and faculty. Their former dean of education is in jail right now. Their donation foundation is now crying "thieves!". It's the lowest school in the nation.
May I highlight that Bobby Petrino is the most despicable football coach in my lifetime. He shafted his family, the players he recruited and the teams where he coached. If you are a winner, people forget. If we want integrity keep our coach, if you want to win hire the ex Baylor coach and give him a bigger budget. It is that simple.
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