My last days as a Louisville Cardinal

[83UofLCards83]

So this year has been a difficult year for me. My family (and even me personally) have suffered medical issues, my dog that I've had since I still lived in Louisville passed away and UofL has continued to cause me heartache.

With all that said, I could still continue to be a fan of Louisville, but it is with mixed emotions that I have decided to use 2018 as a fresh start. As some of you know my family is from Louisville and all of them live in Louisville. With that said, I was born in Florida and spent the first 15 years of my life in Florida. My dad worked down there and we moved back to Louisville to take care of my sick grandparents on my mother's side (both died within 5 years of returning). I finished my last 3 years of high school at St. X and then went on to attend and graduate from UofL. While the rest of my family was glad to finally be back in Louisville I decided to move back to Florida after graduating from UofL 7 years ago. While growing up I did cheer for UofL but I also cheered for UF as well, since all my friends were UF fans.

You could say that I was probably the least happy UofL fan in 2012 when UofL beat UF in the Sugar Bowl. I was ecstatic for UofL to win but also sad to see UF lose. As I attended UofL and my family attended UofL has always been my primary team with UF being my secondary team.

As we have started the basketball season though my heart just isn't in it anymore for UofL. Too tired of having to defend UofL, too tired of the unknown in terms of the scandals. Really tired of knowing the sad truth, that the state of Kentucky is going to bring UofL down just because they can't stand UofL upstaging UK. This corrupt interim president and the board of directors isn't going to allow UofL to succeed. One by one they will let all of our good coaches get poached by other schools and UofL will go back to the way we were before Tom Jurich. It wouldn't shock me if they don't try to use this to let UK take over UofL like they tried to back when UofL first became a public state university. It will be sad to see.

In a way I'm glad I got to travel though Kentucky back in July while visiting family. I flew into Nashville, spent 2 days there and then while driving up to Louisville spent two days and stopped at the Corvette Museum, Mammouth Cave and the Bourbon Trail. At this point I will never visit the state of Kentucky again outside of visiting family in Louisville. As far as I'm concerned the entire state of Kentucky outside of Louisville can burn. Bunch of in bred, racist, bigots afraid of anything or anyone that isn't exactly like them. I'm sorry that those of you in Louisville have to share a state with them.

Come January 1st I will primarily be a Florida Gator. I will be done with the University of Louisville. I have already called UofL to have them take me off any e-mail or mail communication. Sure I will follow them occasionally and hope they do well, but Florida will be my primary school now. I probably wouldn't do this if I hadn't partially grown up as a Florida fan. Trust me when I say it's not easy and it will not be easy telling my family.Have any of you all had that hard discussion as well? Have any of you all started to seriously question whether you will follow UofL sports long term?

I plan on attending the TaxSlayer bowl in Jacksonville as my last game as a UofL fan. Ironic that Lamar Jackson's last game will be my last game.

I want you all to know that is has truly been a pleasure. I'm just sad that it is now ending.

 

[Louisvillian]

Hey, to each his own. Your statement of how conflicted you were during the Sugar Bowl tells me this move was not a big leap for you. Strange that you are abandoning our football program which has had little controversy over the years, or our splendid programs in Baseball and Women’s basketball.

You also might want to check out the Gainesville police blotter regularly. There tends to be Gator football players appearing there a lot.

Sorry to hear about your familly’s Medical issues.

 

[Smithereen]

sorry to hear you are taking the scorched earth policy. We need fans now more than ever to stand up and be heard and support the good things going on at U of L and fight to keep those things going and prevent from sliding backwards in basketball. There are a lot of great things happening at UofL, WBB just spanked UK as did the football team and we had a soccer team in the final 8. Facilities are in place for coaches to succeed and they will stay as long as they can be successful.

I am not a fan of Postel & Grissom but they can't and won't dismantle the athletic program if WE don't let them. I am a PROUD U of L alum and will not ever lay down but will bow my back and fight harder. Come on man, you'll get back on the train after the Gator Bowl victory! UK and the rest of KY have always disliked Louisville & UofL, nothing has changed and we overcame that in the past we will in the future. Go Cards & keep the faith!

 

[PRPclass76]

By your post, you've always been UF first but you gave UL a good try. Jurich brought the football and all other sports a long way from before Tom BUT the basketball program was a powerhouse LONG before Tom came. I fact, we had already won twice as many championships as we did after he arrived and neither of those have ever been in danger of being taken away. If that's your reasoning, scandal fatigue, I get it but none of those happened on Denny's watch of the preceding AD's. Tom built an unbelievable overall program then pissed it away because of his inexplicable infatuation with one coach. Go figure.

 

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

WOW this dude really likes himself - he's rolling this garbage on the basketball AND football message board.

OP we get it. Hurry up 2018.

 

[CardsFirst]

So this year has been a difficult year for me. My family (and even me personally) have suffered medical issues, my dog that I've had since I still lived in Louisville passed away and UofL has continued to cause me heartache.

With all that said, I could still continue to be a fan of Louisville, but it is with mixed emotions that I have decided to use 2018 as a fresh start. As some of you know my family is from Louisville and all of them live in Louisville. With that said, I was born in Florida and spent the first 15 years of my life in Florida. My dad worked down there and we moved back to Louisville to take care of my sick grandparents on my mother's side (both died within 5 years of returning). I finished my last 3 years of high school at St. X and then went on to attend and graduate from UofL. While the rest of my family was glad to finally be back in Louisville I decided to move back to Florida after graduating from UofL 7 years ago. While growing up I did cheer for UofL but I also cheered for UF as well, since all my friends were UF fans.

You could say that I was probably the least happy UofL fan in 2012 when UofL beat UF in the Sugar Bowl. I was ecstatic for UofL to win but also sad to see UF lose. As I attended UofL and my family attended UofL has always been my primary team with UF being my secondary team.

As we have started the basketball season though my heart just isn't in it anymore for UofL. Too tired of having to defend UofL, too tired of the unknown in terms of the scandals. Really tired of knowing the sad truth, that the state of Kentucky is going to bring UofL down just because they can't stand UofL upstaging UK. This corrupt interim president and the board of directors isn't going to allow UofL to succeed. One by one they will let all of our good coaches get poached by other schools and UofL will go back to the way we were before Tom Jurich. It wouldn't shock me if they don't try to use this to let UK take over UofL like they tried to back when UofL first became a public state university. It will be sad to see.

In a way I'm glad I got to travel though Kentucky back in July while visiting family. I flew into Nashville, spent 2 days there and then while driving up to Louisville spent two days and stopped at the Corvette Museum, Mammouth Cave and the Bourbon Trail. At this point I will never visit the state of Kentucky again outside of visiting family in Louisville. As far as I'm concerned the entire state of Kentucky outside of Louisville can burn. Bunch of in bred, racist, bigots afraid of anything or anyone that isn't exactly like them. I'm sorry that those of you in Louisville have to share a state with them.

Come January 1st I will primarily be a Florida Gator. I will be done with the University of Louisville. I have already called UofL to have them take me off any e-mail or mail communication. Sure I will follow them occasionally and hope they do well, but Florida will be my primary school now. I probably wouldn't do this if I hadn't partially grown up as a Florida fan. Trust me when I say it's not easy and it will not be easy telling my family.Have any of you all had that hard discussion as well? Have any of you all started to seriously question whether you will follow UofL sports long term?

I plan on attending the TaxSlayer bowl in Jacksonville as my last game as a UofL fan. Ironic that Lamar Jackson's last game will be my last game.

I want you all to know that is has truly been a pleasure. I'm just sad that it is now ending.

All I can say is I hope UF doesn’t get dragged into anything. Then what are you going to do? And I’m glad most of are fans aren’t so thin skinned. But to each their own we still live in a free country.

 

[CardsFirst]

Here’s the real deal he’s now cheering for UF which is basically the UK of Florida. Of course they won’t have the same struggles their creating them. It’s a rivalry it’s the way it is.

 

[83UofLCards83]

Here’s the real deal he’s now cheering for UF which is basically the UK of Florida. Of course they won’t have the same struggles their creating them. It’s a rivalry it’s the way it is.

Horrible analogy in every way. UF thrives on competition and finally achieved their potential in football during a time when FSU was almost unbeatable. UF was really FSU's only real competition for a time there. Whereas UF thrives on competition UK is afraid of competition, which is why they are trying to destroy UofL from the inside.

UF fans realize we have to compete, recruit hard and play harder to stay on top. UK fans feel like just because they have Kentucky in their name that should automatically be at the top and that they should have no in state competition. UK fans feel like it's their birthright to be good.

UF fans have a life outside of sports, UK fans do not have any sort of life outside of UK.

Newsflash, UofL fans have more in common with UK fans than UF fans do. If I were to compare UK fans to another SEC school though it would have to be Alabama. Their fanbases are so similar it's scary.

 

[CardsFirst]

Here’s the real deal he’s now cheering for UF which is basically the UK of Florida. Of course they won’t have the same struggles their creating them. It’s a rivalry it’s the way it is.

Horrible analogy in every way. UF thrives on competition and finally achieved their potential in football during a time when FSU was almost unbeatable. UF was really FSU's only real competition for a time there. Whereas UF thrives on competition UK is afraid of competition, which is why they are trying to destroy UofL from the inside.

UF fans realize we have to compete, recruit hard and play harder to stay on top. UK fans feel like just because they have Kentucky in their name that should automatically be at the top and that they should have no in state competition. UK fans feel like it's their birthright to be good.

UF fans have a life outside of sports, UK fans do not have any sort of life outside of UK.

Newsflash, UofL fans have more in common with UK fans than UF fans do. If I were to compare UK fans to another SEC school though it would have to be Alabama. Their fanbases are so similar it's scary.

Well since I have niece and nephew who graduated from UF and FSU. And my wife’s entire family is either Bama or Auburn fans I’m calling BS on all of that.

 

[CardsFirst]

Here’s the real deal he’s now cheering for UF which is basically the UK of Florida. Of course they won’t have the same struggles their creating them. It’s a rivalry it’s the way it is.

Horrible analogy in every way. UF thrives on competition and finally achieved their potential in football during a time when FSU was almost unbeatable. UF was really FSU's only real competition for a time there. Whereas UF thrives on competition UK is afraid of competition, which is why they are trying to destroy UofL from the inside.

UF fans realize we have to compete, recruit hard and play harder to stay on top. UK fans feel like just because they have Kentucky in their name that should automatically be at the top and that they should have no in state competition. UK fans feel like it's their birthright to be good.

UF fans have a life outside of sports, UK fans do not have any sort of life outside of UK.

Newsflash, UofL fans have more in common with UK fans than UF fans do. If I were to compare UK fans to another SEC school though it would have to be Alabama. Their fanbases are so similar it's scary.

Don’t want to be compared to UF and most certainly not like UK. Different missions. More like Pittsburgh or GT. And I know Pittsburgh rather well since I’m from Pittsburgh and my dad is a Pitt graduate. Now go become a UF fan it’s your right. Go jump on their boards and put us in the past.

 

[83UofLCards83]

Well since I have niece and nephew who graduated from UF and FSU. And my wife’s entire family is either Bama or Auburn fans I’m calling BS on all of that.

Calling BS on what? Every pretty much knows that Alabama football fans are pretty much identical to Kentucky basketball fans. Some people are even so pathetic that they cheer for Alabama in football and Kentucky in basketball. Auburn fans are weird in general, they are kind of their own breed.

 

[83UofLCards83]

Don’t want to be compared to UF and most certainly not like UK. Different missions. More like Pittsburgh or GT. And I know Pittsburgh rather well since I’m from Pittsburgh and my dad is a Pitt graduate. Now go become a UF fan it’s your right. Go jump on their boards and put us in the past.

I would agree that if I had to compare UofL to certain schools I would definitely use schools like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Memphis and even schools like Boston College or GT. City schools that have a primary mission of research and have rivalries with land grant so called "state flagship" schools.

 

[CardsFirst]

Don’t want to be compared to UF and most certainly not like UK. Different missions. More like Pittsburgh or GT. And I know Pittsburgh rather well since I’m from Pittsburgh and my dad is a Pitt graduate. Now go become a UF fan it’s your right. Go jump on their boards and put us in the past.

I would agree that if I had to compare UofL to certain schools I would definitely use schools like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Memphis and even schools like Boston College or GT. City schools that have a primary mission of research and have rivalries with land grant so called "state flagship" schools.

Here’s the deal the players, fans, faculty didn’t ask for any of this. And I personally couldn’t turn my back on the University I’ve attended and cheered for nearly 40 years. So we’ve encountered a set back. It happens. You SuCk it up and move forward.

 

[83UofLCards83]

Here’s the deal the players, fans, faculty didn’t ask for any of this. And I personally couldn’t turn my back on the University I’ve attended and cheered for nearly 40 years. So we’ve encountered a set back. It happens. You SuCk it up and move forward.

I just can't support this university while Postel and Grissom are anywhere near UofL athletics. Just like UofL fans didn't just sit around and take it when coaches like Cooper and Kragthorpe were destroying the football program.

 

[CardsFirst]

Don’t want to be compared to UF and most certainly not like UK. Different missions. More like Pittsburgh or GT. And I know Pittsburgh rather well since I’m from Pittsburgh and my dad is a Pitt graduate. Now go become a UF fan it’s your right. Go jump on their boards and put us in the past.

I would agree that if I had to compare UofL to certain schools I would definitely use schools like Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Memphis and even schools like Boston College or GT. City schools that have a primary mission of research and have rivalries with land grant so called "state flagship" schools.

I made the UF comments tongue and cheek. In no way is UF anything like SuCk.

 

[83UofLCards83]

I made the UF comments tongue and cheek. In no way is UF anything like SuCk.

Haha good to know, sorry sometimes it's hard to tell on message boards. I was like "what UF has this guy seen" if you were comparing UF to UK. UF has more in common with schools like Cal-Berkeley, Ohio State, Michigan, Virginia and North Carolina than they do with any SEC school. UF is probably most similar to UGA and Vandy when it comes to the SEC.

 

[Rollem Cards]

Well, bye.

I am sorry about the dog...

 

[83UofLCards83]

Well I won't lie, I probably will tear up a little bit at the TaxSlayer bowl. I just hope my last UofL game is a win.

 

[Knucklehank1]

Well I won't lie, I probably will tear up a little bit at the TaxSlayer bowl. I just hope my last UofL game is a win.

Lol. This is some funny $hit. This dude goes on and on about renouncing his fandom but will not actually officially renounce until after the bowl game. Thanks for the laugh.

 

[83UofLCards83]

Lol. This is some funny $hit. This dude goes on and on about renouncing his fandom but will not actually officially renounce until after the bowl game. Thanks for the laugh.

Well mainly because I already have tickets to the bowl game and I want to see Lamar Jackson play one more time.

 

[Knucklehank1]

Well mainly because I already have tickets to the bowl game and I want to see Lamar Jackson play one more time.

You are cracking me up. The funny thing is that everyone seems to be believing your story. Keep up the good work....you might land a gig with The Onion.

 

[83UofLCards83]

You are cracking me up. The funny thing is that everyone seems to be believing your story. Keep up the good work....you might land a gig with The Onion.

What about my thread leads you to believe I'm not telling the truth? It's a good opportunity, I live in Florida anyway so it'll be a good final game to go to. I'm being truthful, graduated from the UofL College of Business in 2009, heck I'll even tell you who were professors were for specific classes.

 

[Knucklehank1]

What about my thread leads you to believe I'm not telling the truth? It's a good opportunity, I live in Florida anyway so it'll be a good final game to go to. I'm being truthful, graduated from the UofL College of Business in 2009, heck I'll even tell you who were professors were for specific classes.

Your message board renunciation of UofL athletics is hilarious. The length and level of detail you offered makes it seem somewhat believable. Well done!

 

[Louisvillian]

Cardfan1130. Jay Riemenschneider. Wkycard. .......dis guy same people.