Got any ideas about recognizing UPS for their generous U of L support for our stadium expansion?  Here are mine:
.  Brown out with brown UPS shirts/UofL logo (opening day)
.  Name the upper deck UPSuites (say UP-Suites)
.  Dress Cardinal mascot in UPS uniform (opening day)
OK, we may have to have him eating a slice of PJ pizza and maybe add a few "pizza stains" down the front of the brown t-shirt to give PJ's equal billing, but we can do that....... 

Beach volleyball???!!! BEACH FREAKIN' VOLLEYBALL???!!!

C'mon people.... isn't there a replay of the  Northeast Dakota State vs Southwest idaho Tech in the 1978 Tuna Bowl on ESPN Classic?  What's on the Othodontics Channel? How about a "Test of the Emergency Broadcast System"? That's always fun. But Beach Volleyball?....so it's come to that, eh?

The IOC took on Ballroom Dancing as an Olympic "sport"...you know what's next, dontcha?...Full Contact Canasta....Oh it's comin', Jerry.  

Is it EVER going to be football season?!!!!! 

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?

 

 

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? 

Alright boys and girls, I’m hearing a lot of whining, complaining, crying and belly aching out there about the 2008 U of L defense. I understand there are some concerns. But what I cannot abide is the sniveling. Sniveling is defined as “whining with sobbing”.  

Such sniveling is coming from sports writers, bloggers, fans AND coaches. I propose a ban on sniveling from this day forward.

Furthermore, I am so absolutely sick of hearing about how bad our defense is going to be that I could rip the eyebrows off the front of my head and shove them in my ears. Get the picture?

Get this. It is quite possible that we are on the verge of having one of the nastiest front fours we’ve EVER had at U of L and no one is even talking about it.  How dare they not! 

Heyman at one DE, Scott, Walker, Grady, Henderson and McKinney rotating through at the Tackles with Mitchell and Burns fighting for the other DE spot.  Brutal.

What’s more I will tolerate no more bawling about the defensive backfield. There’s plenty of talent and experience back there. Latarrius Thomas, Bobby Buchanan, Woodny Turenne, Chaz Thompson, Travis Norton, Johnny Patrick, Sergio Spencer. You know the names. They can all play on any team in the Big East. It is yet to be seen whether Ron E can teach what he knows or if he’s only good when he’s surrounded with 11 All Americans. But he’s smart. My guess is that he won’t disappoint.

So what it really gets down to is this: We are three…coun’t ‘em, THREE players away from stopping everyone on our schedule. Did you get that? I said three… not eighty five.(as in, “we don’t have any good football players, boo hoo, so I’m going to find my binky and go suck my thumb.”)  Not eleven linebackers. THREE.

And yes, we currently have 10 linebackers enrolled in school at the University of Louisville. Of those ten listed on the 2008 roster, we simply have to indentify those three gentlemen. (for those of you hard of spelling it’s JUCO).

I do know that THREE of the ten were “hurt” and unable to play in the Spring scrimmage. Another Boo Hoo. I do know that all three were giggling on the defensive team sidelines. Unfortunately, I was unable to identify them by name. I don’t know if a certain smart defensive coach was hiding them so that our “opening game opponent” might not have a chance to see them in action or not. I only know what I saw. I report, you decide.

Carry on.

The following is a response to comments made by a blogger known as Frankpos concerning a certain football coach often reffered to as "Coach K" 

Frank, Somehow I get the impression that you have once again turned down the still vacant presidency of the Coach K Fan Club, Well, this is the fourth and final time that I’ll nominate you.

But looky here…according to the points you made, one could rightfully asssume that you’re at least hinting that K may possibly be a sneak, a liar, an incompetent, a pansy, a poet, a pirate, a pawn and a king….he’s been up, down, over and out, but I know one thing. (Oooops, forgive me. I got stuck out there in Sinatraville…..won’t happen again.)

In any event, just because a coach wouldn’t know a good offensive coordinator (unless Tom Jurich reminded him that Alamaba has come after him TWICE) or a Defensive Coordinator (unless TJ told him that MIchigan had a dandy one available) if one ran over him with a blocking sled … and just because a coach stands on the sideline looking comatose, clueless, confused and stunned like he just got hit in the back of the head with camel spit…that doesn’t mean that you should want to take him out in the middle of nowhere and leave him with nothing but his play charts tucked in his pants. Shame on you!

C’mon, Frank…so what if the guy is a little wimpy, so what if he kicked 31 players, 16 band members, 2 cheerleaders, a student manager, a janitor, 2 chaplains and the guy who operated the whirlpool off the team? (actually the whirlpool guy may be coming back to play free safety) You don't know, maybe all their deodorant expired at the same time.

Just because a coach FINALLY gets out of Conference USA (also known as the “Junior College” league for experimental coaching) and just because that same coach entertains an offer from the absolute BOTTOM DOG of that conference as a place to run away and hide from big time college football, is that any reason to regard him as a wimp?

After all, I thought it was the way he talks that was bothering you. Okay, so he sounds like he’s never actually witnessed a football game in person or on TV. And who cares if he thinks a jock strap is something a short man who rides horses hangs onto when he’s on a bus. This stuff is not important, Frank! You need to begin ingnoring some things…like the fact that the coach has tendencies that make us wonder if someone has yet told him that tackling the archrival’s ball carrier BEFORE he actually runs into the end zone will go a long way toward fan approval and contract renewal.

Look…You say you don’t like a coach whose general sideline expression reminds us of exactly how hard a mule could actually kick a man in the head? You say you don’t like a coach whose idea of a genius sideline call is a fourth and forty punt? You say you don’t like your team getting the snot kicked out of them at home by the worst team in the league only to hear that your coach'e response was, “we really got the snot kicked out of us by the worst team in the league.” ?  Now, is that what’s troubling you, Bunky???

Well wake up and smell the Grande Latte Caramel Decaf, Bunky! It’s a new day! The sun is shinning! The flowers are blooming! The birds are singing! There’s a super glorious day up ahead. Good news!  just got off an internet blog site and GUESS WHAT I HEARD?

Ron Cooper is available!

Can we cut to the chase here? What you guys really don't like about Coach K....what really sets your teeth on edge....what really gets your Jockey boxers all twisted up in a knot.....is his demeanor ....and the WAY HE TALKS!

Yeah, some of you don't like the goatee...and I'm fully aware that he committed the unpardonable sin of letting yUK beat us. (Tuberville beat  'Bama like a drum and still they were going to get rid of him to get Petrino, remember??)

But what really ticks you guys off is that K doesn't talk like a tough guy. He sounds more like an accountant or a or a science professor or  Mr. Rodgers....but not at all like a football coach, right?

Wrong.

University of Georgia's Mark Richt, Florida's Urban Meyer, the aforementioned Tommy Tuberville of Auburn.....three coaches from the bad-to-the-bone Southeastern Conference who don't exactly sound like tough guy football coaches. The first time I heard Urban Meyer talk I thought the audio track was dubbed in. Ever heard Pete Carroll talk? Doesn't exactly sound like a Mafia hit man. Let's see, how many National Championships games has he been in? and won?

Now let's get down and dirty. Have any of you ever heard (please don't tell my OSU friends I said this) Woody Hayes? if you were one of the kids he went to school with who teased him for talking with a lisp you'd have the scars to prove he beat the crap out of you.  Woody sounded like a wimp on his coach's show.

As a kid, I once sneaked into one of his smoldering August practices and saw a 6'7" Jim Tyrer, who played many years for the Kansas City Chiefs, literally trembling in his shoes during a Woody Hayes butt chewing.   

In the old days NASCAR drivers talked like illiterate hillbillies. Today they talk like Wall Street brokers. Today's new football coaches are simply a different breed, too. And they are winning with a completely different kind of athlete.

Over the years at U of L we've had some "crusty" football coaches...Howard,  John L, Bobby P...all very good football minds. But Coach K has a style that is very much in line with the new breed of college as well as NFL coaches. Tony Dungy comes to mind. 

Indianapolis Colts fans have already forgotten that they used to rip their hair out in huge clumps because Dungy wouldn't go ballistic when the Colts did stupid things week after week. That Super Bowl win 2 years ago changed all that.

So hang on. We all may hav to eat a lot of crow when Coach K succeeds.