With this moron “sticking around” it will be a long haul indeed. C’mon, TJ. After last nights performance, you are thoroughly justified in firing the guy. Kicking his butt out of town. I know he’s a friend, but he just embarrassed you, your university, its players and all of its fans on national friggin’ TV. Embarrassed them in a way they’ve never been embarrassed before. Sure Cooper was a terrible coach, but he didn’t play on national TV the way this blank-stare, empty-headed, cliche-ridden, mindless maggot of a coach does.

Fire him. Send him back out west. Send him to Division IA or whatever they call it. Do it not or we’ll be decades in recovering from this pompous asshole. Decades.

….that he just said that after the game because he doesn’t have another job lined up. Hopefully his agent is working the crap out of the phones today.

I mean, what’s he going to say? “Ya, I’m probably going to resign but we just can’t announce it yet.” or “I will be making some choices about my future in the next few weeks.”

I mean, both of those would be awesome.

But the team I saw on the field last night looked like a team that knew their coaches were quitting.

“Stay the course” is a phrase always uttered by people who are staring into the face of an unmitigated disaster. War going badly? “Stay the course.” Iceberg up ahead? “Stay the course.” Football program ruined, absolutely ruined, by some self-righteous, stone-faced friend of yours who substitutes a gritty look on his face for alleged determination? “Stay the course.”

When smart people see the disaster ahead, they change the course. And in this case, the disaster isn’t looming, it’s here. It was here last year. It’s been here now for two seasons and anyone, anyone with half a mind, anyone with half a sense of dedication to the U of L program, can see it. Things under Kragthorpe are a disaster.

For the love of the university, Mr. Jurich, change the friggin’ course!

(And sorry for the typo in the first post. Rage got the better of me. It should have said, “do it or we’ll be decades recovering….”)

I never want to see Steve Kragthorpe’s face again. No other AD would accept what Kragthorpe has done to the program. The only reason Kragthorpe survives is due to his friendship with Jurich and the fact Jurich has an ego the size of Texas. I don’t think I’m going overboard by saying Jurich’s butt could be moving onto the hotseat with the fans.

Bottom line is no matter how good of a coach you are or claim to be you can’t coach players you don’t recruit. AssThorpe doesn’t recruit. 8 commited players for next year, nice. I am sure they are going to fill the 1,000 holes we have. Build a program on JuCo’s, sure, great idea, he must be “wide smokin open.”
Go figure one guy can deflate a fanbase so much. Even if we turn it around and post a respectable 7-5 (did I just say that?) record next year and go to a bowl game, he has soured our mouths with the taste of defeat for too long.
Too many good coaches on the market not to get one. And if we are going to “rebuild” we might as well do it under a respectable man like Ron English. At least he has some fire, and coaches during the game. As much as they showed him on TV last night you would have thought English was the coach.

either way. OK, we can all keep a stiff upper lip about that fact, and it is a fact. No matter what, we’re looking at mediocre seasons for at least the next couple years. And that actually makes the case even stronger for replacing this guy now. Keeping him one more year only takes the name “Louisville” farther away from the top up-and-coming prep players’ minds. It’s a truism in college ball: it takes years to build up a program, but it only takes one or two bad years to wreck it completely. Guess where we are. Fire him now or fire both of them. Period.