Got my coach picked out....

keep saying we should get a coach who knows how to win in a BCS conference. If that were to happen, we’d have to hire away a coach from a BCS school. That will absolutely NEVER happen at UofL. We have NEVER hired away a coach from a winning BCS program, and it’s not going to happen now. Even Florida took a chance on a mid-major coach from out west.

The absolute best we will ever get is a coach from a mid-major program or a coach who left another school e.g. Howard Schnellenberger after he left Miami for the USFL, or a coach who has been fired, e.g., Tommy Bowden, or Phil Fulmer. There is absolutely no way we are going to hire away a winning coach from a BCS program. Every time I hear that I think of the UK fans talking about Bill Parcells. Let’s get real, people.

But yes, Ball State does look good this year. And that quarterback sure can throw.

TJ and SK have had no conversations concerning “what if” the season ends up at 5-7. The season isn’t over until it’s over. Jurich is way too professional and SK too positive to have that conversation about a scenario that hasn’t happened yet. Does that mean that SK might leave when it’s all said and done? Stay tuned.

I’ve read this blog since the summer, and I just became a member. I have read all the rants about Krag and I feel most of it is unfair, but some is clearly justified. College coaches must be able to have at least four years to bring in his own players, fine tune his coaching staff, and make the program his. I think it was unfair for a guy like Ty Willingham at Notre Dame to get canned. Do I think Krag is really our long term solution? No way. His offense is bland and predictable and his defense is nowhere without Ron English. However, he should be given at least 4 years. I do believe after 4 or 5 years, all will realize that Krag is not the answer, and we will change coaches. If we were losing Big East games, but still going to bowls it would not be a problem. Then it would be a true rebuilding era. However losses to UK and Syracuse both years shows lack of heart. That is my biggest problem with Krag.

With all that said my wish list includes one person and he is at the UofL:

Ron English

But see, here’s what’s wrong with that statement. He took a Tulsa program that was way down and proved he could go 7-5. He’s never, ever, ever lost fewer than five games. I don’t think that proves anything but mediocrity. He took a program that couldn’t get any worse and made it better. There are dozens of people across the country who’ve done the same thing.

That said, K came to Louisville and took a program that was already damn good and shot it in the head. The “off the field” stuff is bullcrap. Name one thing that happened “off the field” that a coach would have control over? It just so happened that those “off the field” things didn’t happen while Petrino was here. They did happen after he left.

So give K four years and guess what you’ll have — at least 20 losses.

Okay. I was wrong. The coach’s sterling record at Tulsa was 29-22: he went 8-5, 4-8, 9-4 and then 8-5. Woo hoo.

Here’s the thing about the “lack of discipline” issue. If it’s true that the “off-the-field” problems were somehow hidden under Petrino, then we have to assume that the local police were somehow in on the deal. I mean, what did Petrino do to keep guys from getting arrested while eating marijuana? What did he do to keep Trent Guy from getting shot in the back at an 18-an-under night at a downtown club? What did he do to keep Rod Council from going ape-crap crazy on his watch?

When Petrino was leading the program, the only “controversy” off campus involved to players and a paint-ball incident, for Christ’s sakes. Kragthorpe and his horde of preachers arrives on the sidelines and all of a sudden our team is a bunch of thugs and miscreants? Don’t buy it. The same people who are cluck-clucking about the “character” of the U of L football program under Petrino are probably the same guys who said disparaging things about Mike Bush. We had great kids here under Petrino, with a bad apple here and there just like any football program.

The attempts to blame this unraveling on “character issues” of the players is despicable. And it certainly shows a lack of “character” by those making the charges.

We should look at any of the Penn St. Assistants because they do the most coaching of any assistants in the country. JoePa is a great guy but all he does now days is sit in the top of the press box and call in some plays. The assistants run the practices and go out on the road and recruit people. There has got to be someone on that staff that could be the next great coach….