We just heard that Farve may be coming back to GB as their backup....could that be true?  I can't believe he would do that and that they would allow him to do that.  Yeah, I agree he was one fantastic QB but he's had his day.  Poor Brian and poor Rogers.....what a terrible thing to do to them.  Has anyone out there heard anything about this?   I know that we get erroneous info on the telly sometime.  Let me know if you've heard anything.    Man, I hope it ain't so.

"There have been some great games over the years, but none so big. So much was at stake, and the winner went to the Final Four. The weight of the State was on the shoulders of the players and coaches."

"There was only one--the original--Dream Game."

Charles Jones, U of L center in The Game

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Thanks,

Frank

Kansas State, Maryland and Toledo football teams all have one thing in common...Jumbo head coaches. These men somehow get away with the "do as I say, not as I do"  approach to coaching/teaching.

 If they can get kids to dedicate themselves to the rigorous conditioning that it takes to play college sports these days, when they themselves do the direct opposite, some would say, "more power to them."

Personally, I like the Rick Pitino approach much better. Coach P stays in shape. So, let's look, for example, at the amazing transformation in a player, Ellis Myles, and a coach, Scottie Davenport.

Most football coaches would not employ a fat, out of shape guy on the coaching staff. Last time I looked (Spring game) our football team had two.

If the head coach complains that players who "someone else recruited" do not have discipline but, at the same time, he doesn't insist that his assistant coaches exemplify discipline, he has no credibility.  I'll bet it's really hard to coach when you don't have credibility.

I'd be interested to know what you think?

 

 

  http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/SPORTS02/80626012/1002/SPORTS

Deosnt help the already depleting defense. Im just wondering what the coach is feeding these players. Im not ready to jump on the bandwagon of Koach haters, but when will the day come when i hear about players wanting to play for UL and not quit, or get kicked off? Your playing D-1 football in a BCS conference on full scholarship and you quit? come on...

Anyone heard anything about him being on campus or what he is doing in the offseason???  I read Ricks Blog and he touched on almost every player besides Jared.  We need some shooters to open the lane up for our big guys.....the way i see it any pressure we can take off them will greatly increase their production....Jared is supposed to be a good shoot along with the ones we already have.  I hope Jerry Smith is ready to come out and have a big year

That's right boys and girls...that's how many more days till we get big time, winning football back here in the 'Ville. TJ told us that it would take a couple of more years. I believe him because he's a man of his word. He promised.

Frankly, I can hardly wait. But since that's rather a long time, I thought I'd provide some fun activities for all of us while we wait.... you know, to kinda take our mind off things. We can hardly just twiddle our thumbs while we're getting our collective butts hammered into the ground for 2 years by every team in the Big East and a few who aren't.  Except for Duke. They just announced that they are almost sure that they might want to actually HAVE a football team this year but they don't want to play anybody. That way they can cut way back on injuries. So that should be nice.

Incidentally, I saw an old lady fall in the parking  at Kroger this morning and as I was helping her up I asked if she was okay. She said, " Yeah but couldn't we trade Kragthorpe for Charlie Weis and a minor league outfielder to be named later?" 

I said, " nobody wants Charlie Weis. His wife even locked him out of the house."

Really, there is plenty to get done over the next 799 days. Have you seen my garage? Plus one of you could get busy and investigate why U of L has eight kids going to the Olympic Trials and yUK has one. But their kid is on the front page of the Clamourous-Jumble .That ought to keep you busy for a while.

Meanwhile, another one of you could get busy and find out why all the football players in the SEC (plus Ohio  State) drive brand new cars. Are you sure all these guys come from wealthy families? Poor kids need to go to school, too, ya know.  

Oh and the 799 days include 24 total regular season games without any of those irritating bowl games with all that travel, sleeping in strange hotels, in strange places like Memphis and Altoona. We can be sure that we won't have to go to that stupid, new Altoona Bowl and play the 10th place team from the Sun Belt Conference in February.  Altoona's really not so bad if you have snow tires.

There are worse things, ya know. You could be locked in a closet and forced to watch freecreditreport.com TV commercials.that would be worse than 799 days of water boarding. Or how'd you like to be the governor's wife and half to listen to that sucker talk for one day, much less 799?  Sets my teeth on edge.

But I'm telling you, boys and girls, that time is just going to fly by. Your kids will probably be out of high school by then and maybe they discover football on Mars. heck, Charlie Weis may be coaching up there by then. rumor has it that the Bengals want to move there but they are insisting on an 100,000 seat domed stadium paid for by the taxpayers or they won't even discuss it..

So get your heads up, Card fans!! Better days are coming! things are looking up.

What's Parcells doing two years from now? 

Its a slow summer, so I'm reading every Big East blog on the internet...

Anyhow, I came across this pretty funny 'Cuse blog about Louisville football:

http://nunesmagician.blogspot.com/2008/06/we-sure-do-schedule-lot-of-big-east.html

Not sure if  he is talking about the CJ or not... but for the record, I'm going with option #3.

PS - Duke sucks more and more every time I think about them. 

did you see the article in the CJ yesterday reporting that Bill Curry has taken another coaching job at Georgia State?  Let me ask you a question....is there something about Curry that reminds you of Kragthorpe?  Scary isn't it?  Other than Curry, what other college football coach would use words like "stunning" and "serendipity".  Let's hope #1) Kragthorpe doesn't mirror Curry's record while at yUK at U of L and  #2) a Georgia State comes calling for Kragthorpe.  Wouldn't that be a bit of sweet serendipity?

I’m ready for football. I really am.

Nothing could be worse than the total debacle that was Card football last year. My expectations have now been lowered to Cooperish levels.

Football last year? I’ve already bitched and cried and drank enough bourbon about it. It’s time to laugh.

I wrote this post last year soon after the 4th game of the year–the Syracuse debacle.Coach K-speak had reached cliche' heights unimagined.  It was roughly at that point also that Card linebacker Willie Williams was pulled over with a mouth full of marijuana evidence he was trying his best to to chew and swallow.

Also, a few months earlier, Dirk Minnifield had suddenly emerged after 20 yrs to let us know that it was a joint he smoked the day THE DAY BEFORE that original Dream Game that caused him to miss that key layup late in the game and THAT cost UK the victor. Darn! (Naww, it couldn’t have been the Card shot blocking machine of a center, Charles Jones! )

BTW, please note that only a major second half rally by the Cards in the Rutgers game kept me from correctly predicting the final W-L for the season….

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Oh, BTW,  our fearless leader,  Mike,  makes a special guest appearance.    And....Mr. Blunt.....this one's  for you   ; - )

We are currently developing a rebranding of the student section for this coming year, with a focus on unity and intensified spirit. The name will be used to signify students at all U of L sporting events.

I seek your suggestions on a name for the new section. We have developed a list already, but I would like to get more ideas. While students will ultimately vote on the name come August, I think alumni and die hards are full of great idea and love the idea of living vicariously through the drunken 20 year olds.

Any other ideas on how to incite student spirit would be greatly appreciated as well.