CRAWFORD | A long time coming: Tom Jurich talks U of L years, final months, and NCAA vindication
There are hard feelings.
Link to Crawford's Interview with Tom Jurich
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They should honor him somehow. Just a sad situation.
Postel, Grissom, Schnatter, et al escalated our downfall dramatically by letting Jurich go. There’s no doubt in my mind that we’d be discussing our first round game right now had we retained Tom.
I still don’t understand why Katina Powell wasn’t thrown in prison for making her underage daughters escorts. I think the whole thing was set up by powerful UK and IU boosters. Louisville had grown too big. Too many things weren’t explained. UK boosters finally got a Governor (Bevin) that would pull the trigger. I don’t believe in conspiracy theories but this has always reeked as one.
I think Jurich is a first class A-hole, however........
Louisville's athletics budget grew from $16.5 million to $104.5 million. Its athletics graduation success rate went from 66% to 83%. The value of its apparel deal went from $18,000 to $16 million. Cardinal Athletic Fund seat donations rose from $3.8 million to $16.9 million. TV revenue went from $1.4 million to $10.9 million. Sponsorships and merchandise sales grew from $328,000 to $9.14 million. Scholarships and financial aid provided by athletics went from $767,000 to $5.5 million. And in that two decades, $278.8 million were invested in facilities.
Not all the gains were financial. Louisville's Learfield Directors Cup ranking rose from No. 100 to No. 26. The program went from Conference USA to the Big East to the American Athletic Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The number of female athletes grew from 147 to 391. Academic services went from six full-time staffers to 15. Sports performance staff (trainers, nutritionists, strength and conditioning coaches) increased from seven to 29. The number of female head coaches tripled. The number of coaches working with female athletes went from 20 to 39.
Whatever they were paying him, he earned it.
Louisville's athletics budget grew from $16.5 million to $104.5 million. Its athletics graduation success rate went from 66% to 83%. The value of its apparel deal went from $18,000 to $16 million. Cardinal Athletic Fund seat donations rose from $3.8 million to $16.9 million. TV revenue went from $1.4 million to $10.9 million. Sponsorships and merchandise sales grew from $328,000 to $9.14 million. Scholarships and financial aid provided by athletics went from $767,000 to $5.5 million. And in that two decades, $278.8 million were invested in facilities.
Not all the gains were financial. Louisville's Learfield Directors Cup ranking rose from No. 100 to No. 26. The program went from Conference USA to the Big East to the American Athletic Conference to the Atlantic Coast Conference. The number of female athletes grew from 147 to 391. Academic services went from six full-time staffers to 15. Sports performance staff (trainers, nutritionists, strength and conditioning coaches) increased from seven to 29. The number of female head coaches tripled. The number of coaches working with female athletes went from 20 to 39.
Whatever they were paying him, he earned it.
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