12:20 kickoff today.

Going to VERY interesting to see who gets the majority of the carries today and who starts today at QB. It would not shock me a bit if we see a bunch of Colin Wilson and Hassan Hall and Malik Cunningham.

Rather or not Brohm comes home the guys isnt staying at Purdue for long. I get that he turned things around and that program is showing a pulse but Purdue just isn't there yet to lock down a guy like him. They need to bump up how much they pay, build onto that stadium and prove that recruiting is consistently viable and Brohm's classes aren't a fluke. There's so many of their fans on our board viscerally arguing that he's staying there and I think after the way Louisville was done with Strong and even Bobby 1.0 they need to know being a stepping stone is all part of the process.

Except for the annual trip to start the season in Florida Louisville opens the season with 14 home games.

Brohm says that the report that he has made a deal with Louisville is completely false at this time.

Is a disciplined football team. I don’t care how unathletic they are. I don’t care if we are undersized. I just want a coach that will instill discipline. Sure tackling, fewer than 5 penalties per game, knowing the play that is called and working together as a unit. That is it. I am so tired of the crap we’ve been watching these last 4 years. It’s like we don’t have a guy on the team with an IQ above 40.

He just scrambles every play. I don’t think I’ve seen him throw the ball in the air further than 5 yards. And terrible clock management at the end there.

My brother went to the CAL - DeSales game tonight. He said Milton Wright was phenomenal tonight.

Estimated stats ...

8 catches, 200+ yards 2 TD's
100+ yards rushing 2 TD's.

CAL broke open a tight game in the 3rd quarter, to win 34-7.

LaRue County racked up 449 of total offense with 417 coming on the ground. Adkins, the Louisville commit, rushed for 214 yards and three touchdowns on 27 carries.

http://www.thenewsenterprise.com/sp...cle_8acd7414-a763-5141-9701-65a452936a5d.html

Line opens at NC State -14.5.

It will be interesting to see if the Cards come out with a renewed focus/energy this week or if it is what it is.

Were all in agreement that JB will end up in Louisville. Thought that pretty interesting.

** Louisville vs. Vermont Game Thread **

My wife and I are coming up from Louisiana for Saturday’s game against NC State. Our oldest Daughter and Husband are driving down from Ohio, the Middle Daughter and Fiancé are flying up from Florida and the youngest is a Grad student at Bellarmine after graduating from U of L will be at Cardinal Stadium.

We will be there tommorow...... what about you?

Show the players that you haven’t quit on them.

I expect big things!

Get your @$$ to the stadium... this isn’t the 1970’s.

Go Cards
L1C4

Mack’s first class is signed, sealed, delivered

For those who want to check out whose is bigger, here is the most recent published data on Athletics Revenue at Louisville and Purdue.

One note of caution, Louisville Revenue has increased significantly over the last many years, but is now likely to reduce a bit for a year or two.

But, anyway:

Here is the 2016-2017 Revenue (note, this is the last year for which USA Today provides data):

Louisville #22 $120,445,303

Purdue #46 $84,841,133

Big game tonight at the Yum Center versus Vermont. Cheap tickets so come on out!

love the play of Chris Mack’s Cards Tonight. Hope the crowd turns out tomorrow and fuels the momentum from tonight’s effort. Feeling positive!!

Watching this Vermont vs Kansas game has me concerned about our game with Vermont on Friday. They are a very solid team. Wouldn’t surprise me at all if we lose to them.

It was reported by Dave on Monday that TE commit Sam Snyder was worried having not checked out other schools and had given the impression that he was on the fence with his commitment to Louisville (this was his report HERE). Snyder is an extremely important piece to the recruiting class as he is not only at a position of need but also appears to possess a high ceiling. After speaking with someone with direct knowledge of Sam Snyder's recruitment things appeared to have settled down substantially.

According to the source, late Monday evening Sam Snyder received a call from Pete Nochta, Richard Owens, and Vince Tyra. They told Snyder that with the new coach coming in Sam's offer is secure and they really need him at tight end. The source said that Sam and his family felt reassured and comfortable by this conversation. Therefore at this time, it sounds like his commitment to Louisville is solid.

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as we are a depleted train wreck with funding issue and that he should wait for a better time. well, my simple question is when it is a better time than now? when someone else has brought us back to glory and there's no job opening? or does he wait until he's 70 and we suck and we give him a sympathy job in hopes of inspiring a future fan base? does he come after building purdue into a big 10 power and decides winning there isn't worth it anymore?

quite simply, the job is open now and even though purdue would be pissed they'll know it's his hometown. additionally, in terms of having the upper hand in negotiations, pretty sure he can ask for most reasonable things plus a bag of chips. if he has ever dreamed of being the head coach at louisville, his alma mater, his hometown where his parents still live, then this may be the only opportunity he ever gets and for pundits to say don't take it then not a single one of them has ever had the opportunity to coach at their alma mater. the only reason brohm doesn't come here in my honest opinion is he doesn't want that local pressure in case he fails. otherwise, on average, it's 20 degrees warmer here than in west lafayette and a lot closer trip to recruit in florida.

"Ive heard the noise like everyone else, I think unfortunately its important not to comment right now,we have work to do"

He gone!

The NCAA Men's Soccer Championship Bracket is loaded with ACC teams.

https://www.ncaa.com/brackets/soccer-men/d1/2018

9 of the 12 ACC teams made the field of 48.

HALF of the top 16 seeds that receive a first round bye are ACC teams. And how about Syracuse? They finished 1-4-3 in league play and the committee still gave them the 16th seed overall.

#1 Wake Forest
#4 Louisville
#5 North Carolina
#6 Duke
#7 Notre Dame
#10 Virginia
#12 Virginia Tech
#16 Syracuse
NC State


Pretty good stuff.

PFF a ratings service for Fanrasy Football rates corners in 6 categories of coverage on different patterns..Post Hitch, crossing etc...Jaire was #1 on crossing patterns....great job by a rookie

This is what it takes for schools to buy out their coach's contracts right now.

This is from the USA Today data base:

1. $68,125,000 Texas A&M SEC Jimbo Fisher
2. $38,058,402 Ohio State Big Ten Urban Meyer
3. $35,000,000 Clemson ACC Dabo Swinney
4. $33,600,000 Alabama SEC Nick Saban
5. $32,143,750 Auburn SEC Gus Malzahn
6. $27,197,500 Georgia SEC Kirby Smart
7. $26,354,166 Washington Pac 12 Chris Peterson
8. $25,416,667 Nebraska Big Ten Scott Frost
9. $22,396,250 Iowa Big Ten Kirk Ferentz
10. $21,958,333 Florida State ACC Willie Taggart
11. $21,516,667 Purdue Big Ten Jeff Brohm
12. $20,833,333 Oklahoma Big 12 Lincoln Riley
13. $19,291,667 Iowa State Big 12 Matt Campbell
14. $18,650,000 South Carolina SEC Will Muschamp
15. $18,375,000 Penn State Big Ten James Franklin
16. $18,193,750 Virginia ACC Bronco Mendenhall
17. $17,111,110 Michigan Big Ten Jim Harbaugh
18. $16,250,000 Oklahoma State Big 12 Mike Grundy
19. $15,625,000 Kentucky SEC Mark Stoops
20. $15,416,667 Texas Big 12 Tom Herman
21. $15,000,000 Virginia Tech ACC Justin Fuente
22. $14,056,250 Louisville ACC Bobby Petrino

i believe in most buyout cases, the person being bought out usually has some restrictions on future employment, almost like alimony if the a spouse gets remarried the alimony stops. les miles just condensed his buyout from LSU so he could coach next year meaning under his buyout, he wasn't able to coach. So even if we buy petrino out, is there a chance the full amount is not reached? anyone know about his contract or things liek this?