Thursday morning Cardinal news and notes
by Mike Rutherford on Jun 9, 2011 7:01 AM EDT
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Almost unbelievably, his dog's name is CardsFan922.
Three-star class of 2012 quarterback Austin Appleby out of Hoover High School in Ohio visited Louisville yesterday and now holds a fresh scholarship offer from Charlie Strong. U of L is the first BCS school to offer Appleby, who was drawn significant interest from Michigan, Michigan State and Pitt, among others.
Here he is in action as a junior:
Great size, big arm, long release, average speed. That'll be 25 bucks.
The new Louisville football blog continues its great start with this post from Will Stein detailing a typical summer workout.
I dream of Pat Moorer. It's unpleasant.
Terrence Jennings worked out for the Boston Celtics earlier this week and is described as a "potential second round pick."
This is about the time last year where Samardo Samuels started popping up in some mock drafts. Even though he ended up not hearing his name called, the heads he turned during this time led to a quick free agent signing and ultimately a successful rookie season in the NBA. Jennings is still receiving very little buzz, and his chances of being selected certainly appear to be slim at best.
This is what Travis Diener looks like now:
Somehow I think I hate him more.
Vic Anderson and Jeremy Wright are among the top duos in the Big East. Snubbed: Titus Teague and Matt Nakatani.
Do you want to hear Tyler Hansbrough read Chicken Little? Yeah, you wanna hear Tyler Hansbrough read Chicken Little.
ESPN's Eamonn Brennan gives his take on Louisville's scholarship situation.
Former Arizona point guard (and Louisville commit) Lamont "MoMo" Jones has landed at Iona. He left Arizona to be closer to his ill grandmother, and many thought he would wind up at St. John's, but a conflict of interest arose when it was revealed one of his former AAU coaches is the Red Storm’s director of basketball operations. This meant Jones' transfer would have violated NCAA rules.
Louisville recruits D'Vauntes Smith-Rivera and Gary Harris led a team of Indiana juniors to a victory over the stacked Indiana senior All-Star team last night.
Finally, there's an AD vacancy at Tennessee, and word on the street is that Tom Jurich will at least get a call.
We've been here before. Keep calm, breathe deep, grab some craisins; it's going to be OK.
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so teague and zeller couldnt lead there team to a victory against some juniors?
by phipps40 on Jun 9, 2011 7:20 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Since we have offered to several guards in the 2012 class
how does that work with higher ranked guys like Gary Harris and Smith-Rivera? Rivals shows that we have offered both of these guys. What happens if a lower ranked kid accepts?
by Carolina Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 7:48 AM EDT reply actions
not all offers are the same
some are “committable offers”, others are not.
some offers are contingent on options A, B, and C not committing. So for example, we might offer XX a scholarship, but let him know that it’s only an offer that we’ll honor after our other options pass. In the meantime, we tell our primary options that their exclusive window is closing soon, and their offer will start being available to others
Coming to the site and seeing a sleep Marra
made me laugh. Well done Mr. Rutherford
by Cards & Tops 4 Life on Jun 9, 2011 8:30 AM EDT reply actions
Some might argue that a sleeping Marra was not an uncommon occurrence during the season
Waking up against Syracuse, or when the climate gets colder in general (say, NEMM or MSGMM).
Workout...
Sounds like it sucks so bad, but it will only make them better later. I wonder the difference between HCCS’s team workouts and Kragthrope’s workouts.
The strength and conditioning sessions are no joke.
At the Women’s Clinic, they made us do the “cool down” portion, which the players complete AFTER their weight-lifting. You have to do a ladder of pushups and sit ups. You start at 21 pushups, immediately flip over and do 21 situps, immediately flip over and do 18 pushups/situps. The reps go down by 3s (21,18, 15, 12, etc.) There are no rest breaks between pushups and situps. The coaches didn’t even crack a smile with us, so I can’t imagine what it is like to actually be a player. I don’t envy them.
The players don't get to go by 3's...they go 2's
so 21, 19, 17, 15, etc.
That’s a 121 to 84 difference (or 37 pushups/situps). I’m glad they work the players so hard, but I’m really glad that I don’t have to do those things as a fan!
by Remote Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
That's nothing:
I used to do a pyramid drill utilizing regular, close-hand, AND wide-arm pushups from 10 down to 1 back up to 10 for 330 total pushups. lazy football players ~ (I took small breaks in between some)
by 4ul4life on Jun 9, 2011 11:58 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I'm sure some Special Forces guy somewhere is laughing his ass off at us thinking ANY of this is "hard"
was what I almost posted…wish I had now. Hats off to you guys!
by Remote Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 12:20 PM EDT up reply actions
My resume and body of work
weren’t good enough for me to join the ranks of the SF…Now I’m just too lazy, out of shape, and briken down.
by 4ul4life on Jun 9, 2011 1:55 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
As a fan,
I would gladly do those once a day, every day of the season for a National Championship in Football or Basketball. No doubt.
ALL HAIL
by Cardinal_Pride on Jun 10, 2011 1:31 AM EDT up reply actions
Slipping the Jurich news in there at the end?
Kind of a bombshell Mike. I don’t think he’ll leave, but still. Wait til I’ve had a chance to eat lunch at least.
by Chris Redman is my hero on Jun 9, 2011 10:42 AM EDT reply actions
some of the comments on the Brennan piece
Are hillarious!
by 4ul4life on Jun 9, 2011 11:15 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Jurich to UT
doesn’t make sense to me. UT isn’t quite the program it was 10 years ago. They are mired in scandal/drama/violations in both football and basketball. Women’s BB is good, but they haven’t made the FF since 2008 after going 7 out of 9 years from 2000-2008.
Fan support is similar to UofL across all sports with the exception of football, which they support in droves more than UofL. Jurich is a football guy and I could see him leaving for a big football school in the SEC or Big 10 eventually; but not one that is taking their lumps and is rebuilding in a tough conference to rebuild in.
Finally, and most obvious reason that Jurich won’t go to UT. Can you imagine him in an “international orange” turtleneck? I thought not.
by Remote Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 11:16 AM EDT reply actions
If Jurich ever leaves
I could see it being for a situation exactly like UT is in now: big time program needing systemic overhaul for a return to the upper ranks. But, I don’t think he’ll leave until we’ve got a new basketball HC and the football team is back to being consistently in the top 20. He’s invested too much in our program to leave when we’re in a transition period in either of the two major sports.
IDK what UT finances are like,
but to return to where they once were (and surpass it with someone like Jurich @ the helm), I could see UT forking over HUGE sums of money – if possible. Could be a key factor too.
by 4ul4life on Jun 9, 2011 12:02 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
I don't think getting UofL a new basketball head coach is on Jurich's bucket list.
"...and the present, for us, is something that we really look forward to."
- Rick Pitino
No, not what I meant at all
The writing’s on the wall that Pitino will retire sometime in the next 5 years. I think Jurich (again, if he leaves at all) will stay in Louisville at least long enough to spearhead the search for RP’s replacement when RP does retire. Not that he’s actively trying to replace Pitino.
even so...
I think he’s deservedly satisfied with the job he’s done here. If he were ever going to leave, I think now would be as good a time as any from his point of view. He’s built one of the most successful athletic departments in the country, gotten Rick Pitino and Charlie Strong, built and expanded PJCS, built the Yum, built the baseball stadium whose name escapes me at the moment… I hope he stays forever, but if he wants to go, I don’t think there’s any unfinished business keeping him here.
"...and the present, for us, is something that we really look forward to."
- Rick Pitino
Quite the contrary
It’s generally considered poor form to hire a coach and THEN bolt, as you hire your coach under the principle that your will back him and support him as the AD. Jurich would do his reputation harm by hiring a guy and then leaving.
Moreover, Athletic Directors prefer to work with coaches they have hired, and it would put Louisville in an awkward position attracting Jurich’s successor if, for example, we’d just locked in a young coach like Brad Stephens for the next 10 years.
I don’t foresee Jurich leaving us for another AD job — his name has been occasionally mentioned for positions in the Big East leadership, perhaps associate commissioner to be groomed as John Marrinato’s replacement — but if he does bolt, you can bet he wouldn’t hamstring Louisville or his own legacy by controlling who the next basketball coach is.
Jurich is not going anywhere.
Jurich is locked in until 2023. In 98 he signed a 13 year extension after being on the job 15 months, and just recently signed another extension. I beleive he likes it here.
by ville 606 on Jun 9, 2011 12:19 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
Doesn't matter what the contract term is...
…it matters what the buyout clause is, and I’m not familiar with Jurich’s buyout number is. If the “poaching” insititution were only charged, say, an additional $1-2 million, Tennessee would have no trouble drumming up the extra cash.
Appleby
That video is of him as a Junior? Jesus, that kid has a gun and he’s big. He’ll probably grow more, too. But what amazed me most was his poise and mechanics. He’s been well coached, you can tell. Based just on that video, he’d be a great get.
lol @ Deiner
Looks like a Mark Wahlberg wannabe with weird hair.
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by johnnyjoejohnson on Jun 9, 2011 12:40 PM EDT reply actions
Louisville motion or NFL motion for Cantwell.
Because his NFL motion is FAR superior.
by Remote Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 5:21 PM EDT up reply actions
Interesting comment. What do you attribute that to?
Better coaching/instruction in the NFL? More effort by Hunter? Other?
by Carolina Cardinal on Jun 9, 2011 7:33 PM EDT up reply actions
I think Cantwell had TONS of raw ability at UofL and that his motion in college was limiting him.
As he was heading into to the NFL, he took the plunge and opened the books on his motion. He went from a pretty long motion, where he would drop the ball really low, to a nice short and tight motion and he’s keeping the ball really high. He threw quite a few picks in his senior season at UofL, 16 I think. I attribute that mostly to DBs getting the jump on him because of his long motion.
Cantwell talks about changing his motion in this interview.
by Remote Cardinal on Jun 10, 2011 11:07 AM EDT up reply actions
I get what you're saying but
did our coaching staff see that and work with him to tighten up his motion or did they not see that? Did they work on it but he resisted? How is it happening now but didn’t happen at UL? Clearly he has the ability to do it. That’s my question.
The way I see, since nobody’s perfect, we all can improve. And for athletes it’s the coaches job to identify and teach them the specifics of that improvement. It’s the athletes job to take that instruction and work to implement it. So, if he’s doing it now and was not doing it at UL, where was the breakdown?
by Carolina Cardinal on Jun 10, 2011 11:17 AM EDT up reply actions
All this talk about exercise reminds me that I've adopted Mark Twain's approach.
Twain said every time he felt the need to exercise he would lie down and the feeling would go away.
theoldman
App;eby looks good
I noticed he doesn’t always plant his feet on his throw and could do more to use his core to help him throw.
Might want to offer to "Housis(?)" too...
to get Appleby in here. It was essentially a highlight reel for him too.
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