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FB RECRUITING: Four-star commit 'happy with his decision'

Cook spent the weekend at Louisville for his official visit and things couldn’t have gone better. The longtime Cardinals pledge was focused on peer recruiting during his visit and spent a lot of time with wide receiver
Carl Jenkins and offensive tackle Chastan Brown.

We’ll see if more programs enter the picture but Cook is very happy with his decision.

ACC FOOTBALL: Cards 5-3 in Conference Play?

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8. LOUISVILLE 7-5 (5-3)​

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Wins: Austin Peay, Jacksonville State, SMU, at Virginia, at Boston College, at Stanford, Pittsburgh
Losses: Georgia Tech, at Notre Dame, Miami, at Clemson, at Kentucky


The Cardinals won 10 games against a much harder schedule last season but lost quarterback Jack Plummer and three of their top offensive weapons from a season ago: running backs Jawhar Jordan, Isaac Guerendo and wide receiver Jamari Thrash. Louisville still has enough to get to a bowl game, but it's poised for a minor rebuild.

10 Years Ago: We were entering the ACC

It's crazy to think about the last decade of Cardinal Football, but we've been a Power 5 program from a decade. Thinking about the topics we were thinking about at the time.

But we just had an amazing run with Charlie Strong, but he was heading to Texas. He left a solid roster, but going into the ACC we needed a sure thing as head coach to keep it moving. We also were going to be replacing Teddy Bridgewater. Enter Bobby freaking Petrino. We were bringing back a man, who was hated, but we never doubted his coaching ability. Will Gardner was our guy at QB and Bobby 2.0 would unlock a more aggressive passing attack than we had with Charlie. And he was bringing in a legit SEC DC in Todd Grantham. 10 players on that team were drafted, so it probably was the most talented group we ever had at Louisville.

The schedule featured homes games starting a Labor Day primetime matchup with the Miami Hurricanes, Thursday Primetime matchup with Jameis Winston and the defending champion Florida State Seminoles, and we ended with our first Thanksgiving matchup against the Cats at home. Road trips to Notre Dame and Clemson.

Take out the early injury to Devante and that team would've beaten UVA and would've been 6-0 going to Clemson & likely 7-1 when we faced FSU for our showdown. That would've been a 10-2 year. It's probably the best overall team we had in the modern era along with probably the toughest schedule.

A decade has passed since then, it's crazy to think of the ups and down. A Heisman trophy winner, 2 years later at the bottom of college football, and ending the decade in the ACC title game.

What do you remember about our time that summer as we were entering the ACC?
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Culture

So you hear the term culture thrown around a lot by coaches across the sports spectrum,professional and college alike. I've heard both of our newest coaches use the term. So what about this baseball program?

Have we gotten off the tracks a bit over here, forgotten that the team benefits when everyone is about the team goals?

Curious about what anybody thought about a perceived lack of leaders or did we just miss our turn in the circus that was 2020.

Remember, our current Sophomore class #3

Thoughts...
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