Crazy how fast time flies

Louisville has offered TJ Holl, a grad transfer of Colgate University. Holl said he was contacted by several coaches at Louisville including Pete Nochta and is very interested and working on setting up a visit. In 2018, Holl tallied 121 total tackles, 17 tackles for loss, 3.5 sacks, 2 forced fumbles, and 1 interception.

https://gocolgateraiders.com/roster.aspx?rp_id=9223

That's rather impressive. Hard to believe the season starts in just over a month.

https://gocards.com/news/2019/1/3/b...ght-semester-with-3-0-team-gpa-or-better.aspx

I think its time that the ACC takes note of the University of Cincinnati. We just took down one of the TOP ACC programs in Virginia Tech. This is a huge win. UC ends up finishing 11-2.....one more time....11-2. Wow!

I'm sorry the move to the ACC for Louisville has been a disaster. I remember when you guys had a proud and strong football program, but you all haven't been yourself since you left the AAC. Maybe you wish you had not left?

Louisville led by 19 early in the 3rd quarter, but they allowed UNC to keep hanging around and hanging around.

UNC cut the Louisville lead to 59-57 with just over 6 minutes left.

Former USC Basketball Coach Pleads Guilty in NCAA Corruption Case
Assistant coach Anthony ‘Tony’ Bland faced four counts, including soliciting bribes for himself from an aspiring sports agent and arranging payments to the families of two players


Tony Bland was fired in 2017 by the University of Southern California after he was arrested in a college-basketball corruption probe. PHOTO:MARY ALTAFFER/ASSOCIATED PRESS
By
Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Jan. 2, 2019 4:19 p.m. ET



A former assistant basketball coach at the University of Southern California pleaded guilty Wednesday to conspiring to take bribes in exchange for steering top players to financial advisers and sports business managers.

Anthony “Tony” Bland was among four college assistant coaches arrested in September 2017 as a result of an investigation into alleged corruption in college basketball. His case was set to go to trial this spring.


Mr. Bland pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. He faces a prison sentence of up to 12 months.

A lawyer for Mr. Bland, Jeffrey Lichtman, said the guilty plea “acknowledges an aberrant act in an otherwise law-abiding life.” Mr. Bland hadn’t intended to harm any players, Mr. Lichtman said, adding: “While the NCAA’s system of how it treats college basketball players is antiquated and broken, Tony’s actions still violated the law and he accepts that responsibility.”

Mr. Bland, who played at Syracuse and San Diego State, was fired by USC last year.

He faced four counts, including soliciting bribes for himself from aspiring sports agent Christian Dawkins, arranging payments to the families of two players and conspiring to defraud USC by causing the school to provide scholarships to athletes who were ineligible under NCAA rules because their families had received bribes.



Prosecutors alleged in charging documents that in July 2017, Mr. Bland met in a Las Vegas hotel room with several men, including Mr. Dawkins, a financial adviser and a purported investor (who was in fact an undercover agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation). At the meeting, which was secretly recorded by the FBI, Mr. Dawkins said he would give Mr. Bland $13,000 in cash from the man posing as the investor.

In exchange for the bribe, prosecutors said, Mr. Bland agreed to make sure that two USC players would retain Mr. Dawkins’s company. In subsequent phone conversations captured on wiretaps, Mr. Bland helped arrange for players’ families to receive $9,000 in additional payments. “I definitely can get the players,” Mr. Bland said in a call excerpted in the criminal complaint. “And I can definitely mold the players and put them in the lap of you guys.”

The probe by the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office and the FBI yielded charges in 2017 in three separate schemes, one of which has already led to a guilty verdict.

In October, a Manhattan federal jury convicted an Adidas AG executive and two others on charges related to payments they made to the families of top-ranked players.

Two of the defendants in the Adidas case—former consultant Merl Code and Mr. Dawkins—were also charged in the alleged scheme involving Mr. Bland. They are still set to face trial in that case, along with former University of Arizona assistant coach Emanuel “Book” Richardson and former Oklahoma State University assistant coach Lamont Evans.

One-time NBA star Chuck Person, a former coach for the Auburn men’s team, was charged in a separate alleged scheme. He has pleaded not guilty to accepting bribes from a financial adviser and is set to go to trial in February.

The investigation itself was marked by scandal. One of the undercover FBI agents who offered bribes to Mr. Bland and others is under investigation by the Justice Department after he was accused of misappropriating government money and spending it on gambling, food and drinks during the probe.

Write to Rebecca Davis O’Brien at Rebecca.OBrien@wsj.com

Appeared in the January 3, 2019, print edition as 'Coach Pleads Guilty to Bribery.'

TIDBITS per Miami Herald

▪ We’re told former UM offensive coordinator James Coley, now quarterbacks coach at Georgia, would love to return to Miami as offensive coordinator, but Diaz hadn’t called him as of Tuesday.

Same with Lamar Thomas, who would love to return as receivers coach.

So would new Louisville quarterback coach Frank Ponce, whom Diaz had interest in interviewing when he was set to be Temple’s coach. Ponce is former co-offensive coordinator at Applachian State and former receivers coach at FIU.


Read full article here:

https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/spt-columns-blogs/barry-jackson/article223794845.html

FootballScoop.com is reporting that Louisville will bring back both former Cardinal assistant coaches, Cort Dennison and Stephen Field.

This is HUGE news for Louisville and what I'd been hearing mentioned for some time now. I'll have more updates as they become available.

** Quick Hits - January 3, 2019 **

- The addition of Cort Dennison to this staff makes a big difference for the staff and future recruiting. Cort is smart as a tack, quick with new concepts, very easy to work with and the type of assistant coach that recruits seem to gravitate towards.

- Here's a quick link on his return: https://louisville.rivals.com/news/report-satterfield-lands-dennison-from-oregon

- More Good News (that will be confirmed by the school tomorrow) - Stephen Field is coming back to run the recruiting department. That's a big win for Satterfield and Tyra.

- Oregon threw everything they could at him, but new coach Scott Satterfield and AD Vince Tyra reached a deal to bring sought-after recruiting coordinator Stephen Field back to UofL.

- Here is Field's profile from Oregon: https://goducks.com/coaches.aspx?rc=2827&path=football

- The Recruiting Dead Period ends on the 10th and I expect Louisville will have its full staff officially hired, on campus and ready to go before that date.

- QB, TE, DE, LB are the key needs and they'll have roughly 10 spots to get things done.

- Check out Chris Person's update on 3-star OL Ty Murray... https://louisville.forums.rivals.com/threads/update-on-3-star-ol-commit-ty-murray.43371/

- Check out Lamar Jackson getting NFL Rookie of the Month...
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- Did you see UofL Baseball's new uniforms from Adidas? They are SHARP...

When will Mark Ivey and Dale Jones be announced? Is Tee Martin still a likely scenario? Any names to watch out for at RB coach?

Just wanted to let everyone know that Wilkie suffered a stroke last evening, underwent surgery and is currently on a ventilator. Doesn't look good. Keep him and his family in your prayers.

One aspect of our team that looks bright could be our special teams. Kickers, long snappers, returnees look strong. Teaching kickoff rules will make this group better.

On my newsfeed today I had a suggested group I might like to join....Big Blue Nation! WTF? When I declined it asked me for feedback for my concerns about the group. Two of the choices were Offensive and Pornographic so I picked them both.

The fans need you,The basketball program needs you.

VJ King played 12 minutes...... 0 Pts 0 Reb 0 Ast 0 Stl 0 Blk 0/1FG
In big games like today.... the Junior, 5-star player, has to contribute more then that.
We have all seen the skills that he has. He needs to be more consistently good.

I do not remember ever saying that before.

he or Brown will be in charge of play calling ect. Will ego's come to play??

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3-star Georgia OL Ty Murray was the only commit that didn't sign with Louisville during the early period so I touched base with him to see what is going on.

Murray stated that he is visiting North Carolina next week but stated "I feel like I'm going to sign with Louisville in February". We'll be keeping an eye on him but with offensive line such a position of important for the class of 2019, Murray is a key piece to the puzzle.

McSoreley is turrible.

He'll be co-DC. Will coach LB's.

https://www.cardchronicle.com/2019/...t=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

since no opponent is going to have any clue on what we are about, and with app state's history. i guarantee our new coaching staff will deliver at least one win that will shock the country and make sportcenter. i think we'll have another 5-6 wins but i guarantee there is going to be one game where the country craps it's pants because we won. hopefully two or three

https://670thescore.radio.com/brian-kelly-emerges-coach-interest-tampa-bay-buccaneers-search

That would shake things up.

This is what we had all heard for weeks, but were waiting on - If Satterfield can bring back Cort and Field, it would be a BIG boost to UofL Football recruiting.

Sounds like we may be hearing of at least one more addition to the staff announced before the week ends. I think ideally the staff would be filled out by the end of this week or early next but regardless, we are getting closer to finding out the remainder of the staff.

Stay tuned

The kid was an inspiration.