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You simply cannot squander opportunities this great when you're a program in flux. Louisville was one quarter and-a-half of average play away from being the first team in the Big East to notch a conference win, doing so at the expense of a squad that defeated them in heartbreaking fashion a year ago, and poised to be 5-1 when South Florida rolls into town on Oct. 25. As it is the Cards are again starting league play a game in the hole, 2-2 overall against a soft schedule consisting of nothing but home games, and just under a month away from being able to walk on the field in something other than a no-win situation.

Basically, we're exactly where we were three weeks ago.

I think the fact that all of us were so eager to be excited about Cardinal football in mid-autumn again made tonight that much harder to stomach. It would certainly explain why the Kragthorpe bashing on the way out of the stadium was more intense than it was after last year's Syracuse game or this year's Kentucky game. We're talking serious, serious hate being tossed about from all sides.We're talking calls for the return of John L. It was the closest I've ever been to a pitchforks and lighted torches situation.

Just a disastrous night on so many levels.

More tomorrow.

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by Blocky on Sep 27, 2008 2:06 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The malaise of mediocrity

We smashmouthed that team and had almost 300 more yards of production, but lost. Strange.

Koach did not throw that interception for the winning score, Hunter did. Plain and simple.

by BR7 on Sep 27, 2008 7:47 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

But Krag...

…made that play-call. You do not throw the ball at that stage of the game with the lead. You run the ball, eat some clock, punt and make the other team beat you.

I love the smell of commerce in the morning

by Red Reign on Sep 27, 2008 12:31 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

It wasn't quite a Syracuse-sick-to-my-stomach-WTF-in -the -world feeling

I don’t believe i’ve ever—or ever will again — be that caught off guard.

BUT

There is no way you lose that game

No f-ing way

but we did.

And there are ALWAYS most excellent excuses (often the same ones),

and ALWAYS a totally unemotional Koach afterwards, “taking defeat well.”

Yes, K takes defeat very well. I think I hate him.

by frankpos on Sep 27, 2008 9:20 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

The Little Things...

seem to matter more and more…

:-(

That was our game to lose… and we did just that…

Clifford

by JimmyClifford on Sep 27, 2008 10:19 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

This sucks

I wasn’t happy about the game, but since I just heard that Paul Newman died, I am truly heartbroken. I absolutely adored him. I mean what’s not to love about the man?

As for our game, Ellie advised me that she refuses to be held responsible for any losses while CSK is here. She told me it is simply out of her control.

I fear the fact we were so close to victory but ultimately missed will set the tone for the rest of the season.

by louisville lisa on Sep 27, 2008 10:24 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Did not know Newman died until I read this

Talk about kicking a man when he’s down.

Butch Cassidy, Cool Hand Luke, Slap Shot and Nobody’s Fool all probably make my top 100. Plus, the man was one of the great philanthropists of our time.

The last 15 hours have sucked.

by Mike Rutherford on Sep 27, 2008 1:04 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Nobody's Fool

Is definitly a classic that few people seem to mention. For me I really loved the Hudsucker Proxy and The Color of Money in addition to those you mentioned. I hear The Sting was decent too

by dlpfis79 on Sep 28, 2008 6:52 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I watched Nobody's Fool last night

I plan on watching Butch Cassidy and The Sting again soon. (I own these DVDs.) I’m a frequent watcher of Turner Classic Movies, and I’ll try to remember to post when they have the day devoted to Paul Newman’s films. TCM typically does this within a week or so of a big Hollywood star’s death. This would be a simple way to DVR a bunch more of his films.

by louisville lisa on Sep 28, 2008 2:49 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I blame our sh*tty kicking game, not krag....

Sorry for my french but our kicking game has got to become better. We left at least 6 points off the board because the coaching staff doesn’t have any confidence in the kicking game. That is simply unacceptable. Maybe Krag is to blame for not recruiting a better kicker in the offseason, but I blame last nights loss to that.

Also on the topic of Krag, I was listening to 790 last night on the way home. I caller got on and said she had heard a couple drunks taunting their own cardinal team. Saying terrible things to the players. She said the team ignored all the comments towards the players, but when the drunk brought up coach K, she said there were some players that were about to rip is head off.

I don’t give a shit who you are, there is absolutely no excuse for any of our ‘fans’ to be taunting our team during a game. Any of them who are caught doing this need to be asked to leave and to never return to any UofL sporting event, ever. Yet our fan base shows its backside. All the fans want to have a class A program, well maybe the fan base needs to start acting like a class A program (not showing up late, not leaving early, not taunting players on your own team, etc.)

Overall…
I’m really getting tired of getting so excited for game day and then feeling like I got punched in the nuts post game.

-Dustin

by Civicman86 on Sep 27, 2008 2:01 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

We Need Scott Long

Why do we have to blame the koach for this loss. Now i was on the fire koach bandwagon all last year and after the uk game this year, and more than that i was and still am in the front seat of the RON ENGLISH FOR HEAD COACH bandwagon, but koach is not to blame for that loss… The only thing that i do not agree with is that we abandoned the passing game completely in the second half until we were losing again. You can’t take your foot off the pedal in a conference game.

But other than that, this loss can be credited to not having a go-to reciever… Beaumont is great until the redzone, Chi is still developing but looks alot like urrutia last year with all of his drops, and noone else is stepping up (Watch mr. andrew robinson, #88, in pre-game and tell me he doesnt have the best hands out there… let him get involved)

Let us not blame Hunter either… The man showed so much courage for coming back and finishing that game when everyone could tell he was not 100%

Bottom line… WE NEED SCOTT LONG!!!!

by Chicago's Cardinal 3 on Sep 27, 2008 2:17 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Someone Please Explain the Home Side Seats to Me

This is my third year here at UofL. I’ve had season tickets for the last two years. Someone’s got to explain the home side seats to me. It’s like a science that I’ll look across the field (section 205 is where I’m at) and those seats will be 50% empty come the third quarter, winning or losing. Has it always been this way? Or is this just because of how the last two years have gone? It makes me sick. I yelled at the fans in my section that tried to leave early, but the other side of the field had at least 12 mins on them. Unless you can tell me that the new addition would make it more possible for students to get tickets, the only thing adding new seats to PJS would do is expose our fanbase.

by jbrobe04 on Sep 27, 2008 2:38 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

It has been like that since at least last year....

but it usually is stadium wide. Everyone just gives up and walks out. Just like last night. I mean it was a very slim chance that on their last punt with ~30sec left, that we were going to win. Buy hey stranger things have happened in college football.

I’m sitting here watching the Michigan game and their stadium is still packed. This is after having like 20 total offensive yards in the first half and being shut out up until about 2 minutes ago (about 2 minutes left in the 3rd).

Its pretty sad, I agree there is no need for an expansion if we can’t even keep people in what we have now.

-Dustin

by Civicman86 on Sep 27, 2008 5:59 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I really hate that Louisville...

Lost last night because I listened on the radio and felt they had the game.

But the 4th quarter did it. I did not see the TV game and heard nothing from the ESPN people about the empty seats, just a little here and there about the so called "fans’.

That is sad, I agree. Don’t you guys know what this new expansion is all about?

It is Pitino! He tried to do it when he was at UK….he just wants something to be all Pitino and nothing else. He is an excellent coach but he has other selfish reasons and when he gets what he wants, he will be gone, most likely retired, as his wife hates our southern Bluegrass open fields.

by kykat51 on Sep 27, 2008 11:24 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

WTF

Go away

by BR7 on Sep 28, 2008 6:51 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

He loves coaching...

And I can see him getting an NCAA championship this season honestly, because he is excellent motivator. But I think his best days are about to end.

by kykat51 on Sep 27, 2008 11:32 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Hey Mike,

Do you think you are going to win the Job Blogger Award this year?

by Blocky on Sep 28, 2008 12:05 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

So i guess we can all turn right back aroung that corner.

Way To Go Rookie!

by AllinWithMyCards on Sep 28, 2008 3:56 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Scott Long.....

Would have really helped last night. Beaumont was DT’ed more of the game, and Chichester still has an allergic reaction to ball catching.

But honestly last night was more on individual plays than anything Krags did wrong. Clipping ends a drive. 3 and 1, false start, kills drive. Had them stopped. roughing the passer continues the drive, they score a TD.

On Hunter’s INT i would have thrown the ball too. One Completion and the games over. It’s not the staffs fault Hunter decided to go into triple coverage to try and hit beaumont. He did it once earlier in the game too and managed to complete the pass, but the INT was obviously not a good throw. I would have preferred play action there becasue I think in that situation the D would have bit hard time but I don’t have a problem with being agressive there. Get the completion and the game is over. If you run the ball and don’t get it, yeah you get the clock down to about 2 minutes, but you still have to punt and their O was running all over our D in the 4th (fatigue due to lack of depth maybe?)

It reminds me of two years ago in bball, when we should have been good and weren’t. There were so many games that year where I just couldn’t beleieve we were losing or lost to most of those teams. I don’t think that year was pitino’s fault (though many fans did) so much as we had a very young team that year. Same with this team, these knocks on the head now are going to pay dividends with our young players for years to come. I hope.

by dlpfis79 on Sep 28, 2008 7:06 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

it was obvious (to me and friends at least) that Hunter was getting UK-antsy

with his last few series. His throws became 10 yd bullets again, and he began trying to force the ball.

He again stared down receivers. He again tried to force it to one receiver (Chichester.) He was injured which also made him shaky.

He should have at least been calmed down IMO with a timeout or two—we had plenty of ’em.

Instead he got wilder and flung the game away, without even forcing them to score on us.

That’s just one instance of Koaching that would have helped…there were others.

Yes, some positives…but this is a UConn team that we would have beaten by at least 20+ in previous yrs.

by frankpos on Sep 28, 2008 8:42 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

bench bolen

he’s holding us back from busting open the big run. He didnt do it last year until the Rutgers game at the end of the season. Bring him on late when the defense forgets how to tackle. Switch Vic and Bolen is all I’m saying.

by bradlm on Sep 28, 2008 12:12 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

the plan with RBs

is good the way it is…

keeps the defense off guard as to what back is in there and what they are capable of… besides that… it keeps all backs fresh…

I would like to see them (Koaches) call the game the same way in ALL four quarters…

if they are running the ball then going PA Pass… in 1st… keep doin it in 2nd… 3rd… and 4th…

Hell with tendencies… if they cant stop it they c ant win…

Don’t hold back… if we can win by 40… win by 40… because if a team can beat us by 40… trust me… they WILL beat us by 40…

its not the Koaches that other teams remember when they get beat by 40 points… its the team… So just remember when we were destroying team with BP… teams are thinking revenge…

so all I’m saying is coach to win… don’t coach to MANAGE…

don’t worry about the clock until the 4th quarter… especially if you are ahead!

if you can score in 3 plays… SCORE IN THREE PLAYS!

Clifford

by JimmyClifford on Sep 28, 2008 12:48 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Blame goes to Kragthorpe

I have never seen a worse display of time mismanagement than what this guy continues to do. In 4Q, he calls a timeout after a DEADBALL?!?!!?! That is ridiculous.

This is on the heels of last year’s TO call after the UConn non-fair catch to let the refs “stew” on it. Gotta know the rules, koach. And with a senior QB, a deadball timeout is inexcusable.

I have been an anti-supporter of the stadium expansion since the exploratory plans were announced. PJCS is a late-arriving, early-leaving crowd that goes to any lengths to avoid of the doomsday scenario of hitting the nightmarish traffic on the Watterson. It’s 4 lanes of well paved road that never, ever has bad traffic. Ha!

by Quinn1979 on Sep 28, 2008 1:50 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

agreed..

The fact that he called a timeout and then came back to action with a 10 yard comeback route to Chichester was so predictable.

by bradlm on Sep 28, 2008 10:12 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

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