You may have spotted his name on the Louisville/Florida St. visitor list, but if you didn't, former Arizona State linebacker Loren Mondy is looking to transfer and holds Louisville in high regards following the visit.

I recently spoke with his dad who explained that Arizona State's situation didn't work out for Mondy after the coaching change (Herm Edwards taking over). According to Mondy, 18 scholarship players have left since the coaching change and the overall situation is a "mess".

Loren Mondy is still enrolled at Arizona State but is not playing football so he will have 3 years remaining to play 4 at his new school and is able to play immediately in 2019.

As of right now Mondy is hoping the Cardinals will be able to extend a scholarship offer to Loren, although up to this point that hasn't officially been done. Likely this is a situation we will have to let play out to find out if Louisville will have an available scholarship at the position but is worth keeping an eye on.

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Here are some of his high school highlights.

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This is so funny. Love it.

Uh oh! L’s Up!

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#Luuuuuuukkkkkkkeeeee! #MOP #CardinalGreat

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You know the first thing im purchasing.

Thats rite, im fully financing Petrino's buyout along with Brohms buyout.

2nd im buying naming rights to the Stadium. It would be Howard-Lenny Cardinal Stadium.

3rd buying the 9 statues that would ring the Stadium.

he's going to be selling fruit filled bread like cookies and will be called Favre Fig Newtons

NBA endorses G-League teams pursuit of 18 year olds

The G-League is going to start offering $125,000 contracts to 18 year olds who don't want to pay in college - or who would rather go make $125,000 in the G League.

https://www.nba.com/article/2018/10/18/g-league-professional-path-official-release

The ceremony is starting right now.

All signs point to Louisville, but we'll see...

ah-GAY-hon is the way I have heard it pronounced most often.

Our recruiting guy, Eric Bossi, said he asked Aidan if his name was pronounced ah-JHAY-hon and he said yes.

I am writing a column about basketball expectations and would like to solicit your feedback.

What are your expectations for this basketball season?

(Heads up: Responses to this thread may be used in a front page story).

J.P Ward got him out of jail but moved on. Averett now has Williams as his lawyer. Williams lost his state job because he had state worker doing his frat. bus. Jerry Neal fired Williams for unknown reasons; his win lost record looks like Hamilton Burger on Perry Mason.

We will have Coach Chris Mack LIVE at 2 p.m. on 790 KRD.

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You can't make this up. Picture , and article on Page # 3 lead page of the Metro section today's edition of the CJ. Who can't make this stuff up!! LOL!! Those that Postel was a UL guy, now being made to explain what they were thinking!! LOL!!

Texts revealed that Self and Gassnola talked about Kansas wanting to stay on the same level playing field as North Carolina, Duke, and… Kentucky.

On Aug. 19, 2017, three days before Kansas announced that it had agreed to a 12-year, $191 million contract extension with Adidas, Gassnola texted Self and thanked him for helping the sponsorship deal get done.

Self responded: “I’m happy with Adidas. Just got to get a couple real guys.”

Gassnola replied: “In my mind, it’s KU, bill self. Everyone else fall into line. Too (expletive) bad. That’s what’s right for Adidas basketball. And I know I am RIGHT. The more you win, have lottery pics [sic] and you happy. That’s how it should work in my mind.”

Self responded: “That’s how ur works. At UNC and Duke.” Gassnola replied at Kentucky as well.

“I promise you I got this,” Gassnola wrote. “I have never let you down. Except Dyondre lol. We will get it right.”

The last poll is a few weeks old now and things haven't gotten any better. So I'm curious to see what % of the fanbase is still behind Petrino as I think we can logically assume his support hasn't grown over the last few weeks.

Point of clarification - in answering this question DO NOT take into account whether or not you think Louisville will be able to afford to pay the buyout, only vote for what you think they SHOULD do.

They should call it “Andy Sweeney Yapping Over Everyone Else Roundtable”. He is absolutely giddy with the situation UofL football is in right now. I’d like to slap him in the face with a Groupper. Let other people talk. Geeze....

After finally having to swallow the fact that this team will have a losing record, I’ve had time to reflect. Remember the days of Marcus Smith and Calvin Pryor? Physicality on offense but even more on defense? We relied on 3 and outs to win games and it was very effective. As a guy who was 100% behind bringing Bobby back, I can’t believe how poor the teams we have fielded are at simple things (I.e tackling, blocking, creating holes for RB, disguising blitzes/coverages, the list goes on.) I don’t know what the future holds, but this disciplined brand of football has been gone since Bobby walked back through that door, and it allows teams to make us look silly (see GT game.) The style of football this team plays is totally inept and has no business playing P5 football.

-lilbobby’s son

The defense wanted to play the tapes to show how often these coaches were involved in th transactions.

They had dirt on Will Wade at LSU and Zion Williamson’s recruitment at Kansas and likely several others....

The judge wouldn’t allow it.

That decision may have saved several coaches their jobs for this season.

And that may mean we never get to hear it.

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Basketball: Is this the toughest schedule Louisville has ever faced?

It would be my contention it is...

Crum scheduled incredibly tough in the out of conference because - in many years - the conference wasn't that deep.

Pitino scheduled lighter in the out of conference because - in many years - the conference schedule was brutal.

This is both brutal in the out of conference and brutal in conference.

What was the toughest schedule you can remember?

New update after the Boston College game. This provides Louisville's W-L record under Bobby Petrino since the Houston game in Nov 2016. And compares it with previous periods:

The 23 Games since and including the Houston game in 2016 were:

0-3 2016 (with Lamar)
8-5 2017 (with Lamar)
2-5 2018 (with "Puma"/Malik/Travis)
8-8 with Lamar (6-7 vs P5 Competition)
2-5 with "Puma"/Malik/Travis (0-5 vs P5 Competition)

10-13 altogether

In the current 23 game span,

4-8 vs the ACC
1-4 vs the SEC
1-0 vs the B1G (neutral vs Purdue)
1-0 vs the MAC (Kent State)
1-0 vs the C-USA (Western Kentucky)
0-1 vs the AAC (@ Houston)
2-0 vs "The Little Sisters" (Murray State, Indiana State)

Bobby Petrino's two Tenures at Louisville, compared:

BP 1.0 was 41-9 (0.820)
BP 2.1 was 26-9 (0.743) before Houston game
BP 2.2 is now 10-13 (0.435) from the Houston game through the Boston College game.

Beginning with the Houston game Nov 17 2016 , Louisville under Bobby Petrino has been:

6-12 vs Power Five (P5) conference competition
2-1 vs G5 competition
2-0 vs FCS competition

The last time Petrino's Cards won a game against a P5 opponent was @ Kentucky Nov 25 2017.

Since that game, all six Cards' P5 games have been losses:

(N) Mississippi State 27-31
(N) Alabama 14-51
@ Virginia 3-27
vs Florida State 24-28
vs Georgia Tech 31-66
@ Boston College 20-38

The Cards have won just two HOME games against Power 5 opponents in their last 23 games:

Nov 11 2017 Virginia W 38-21
Nov 18 2017 Syracuse W 56-10

The Full 23 Game Summary:

P5 Wins are in Bold Green
P5 Losses are in Bold Red
All Other Games are in Light Black

2016
@ Houston L 10-36
vs Kentucky L 38-41
vs LSU (neutral) L 9-29

2017
vs Purdue (neutral) W 35-28
@ North Carolina W 47-35
vs #3 Clemson L 21-47
vs Kent State W 42-3
vs Murray State W 55-10
@ #24 NC State L 25-39
vs Boston College L 42-45
@ Florida State W 31-28
@ Wake Forest L 32-42
vs Virginia W 38-21
vs Syracuse W 56-10
@ Kentucky W 44-17
vs #24 Mississippi State (neutral) L 27-31

2018
vs #1 Alabama (neutral) L 14-51
vs Indiana State W 31-7
vs Western Kentucky W 21-17
@ Virginia L 3-27
vs Florida State L 24-28
vs Georgia Tech L 31-66
@ Boston College L 20-38

CCM was on with ESPN 1530's Mo Egger yesterday afternoon about 5:30 PM. He spoke of the transition to new team, moving to a new community and changes to NCAA rules regarding summer practice time. Interesting listen.

I can't get the exact link (I am not worth a darn at cut n paste!), but this will get you close. Just go to Mo Egger podcasts.

www.espn1530.com