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Volleyball? No surprise

TheRealVille

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I know this is the basketball forum, but since the men's program is the only national champion in history of the university, I feel it's appropriate for me to vent here.

I told my wife I would be shocked if the Volleyball team beat Penn State today for the title. She rolled her eyes like usual, but I was correct because it's against the rules for UofL to win a national championship in any major sport.

That's what it seems like with Cards sports. The baseball team was dominant for over a decade. No world series title. The women's basketball team gets to the title game twice and has to face the juggernaut Uconn teams. And don't forget the horrible no foul call that kept the ladies from playing ND in the finals.

The football program hasn't really had a chance to play for it all. Some say the Rutgers loss or the UCF loss, but we don't know for sure Louisville would have made the title game had they won both games. But still, it took bullshit to lose both those games to ever know.

Just the men's hoops program has won it all but the last one in 2013 was of course vacated out of spite and ignorance. I wouldn't be shocked if the 1980 and 1986 titles were removed over some BS. That's how unfortunate it is at the University of Louisville.

Now I know there's been champions in the Olympic sports programs and the cheerleading program has been the "UCLA hoops" of that competition. But for the major sports that now includes Volleyball and soccer, the ultimate prize always eludes the Ville. Remember several years ago the men's soccer team lost in the finals.

I guess the men's basketball team has to win another title so the other sports teams can win one? The curse has to be broken eventually.
 
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As fans I am not sure we really appreciate how hard it is to win a title especially at Louisville. What they have done over the years, while not getting a title, has been amazing.

What that volleyball program is doing is incredible. She has had to do it will smaller players. It is the same with Baseball and Women Basketball. Same with of the other sports. They had to do things at a disadvantage.

Ride the wave when special seasons happen and don’t lose your mind when they have down years.
 
I know. Everything just doesn't fall into place for UofL. We're talking 3 titles since 1980. That's 44 years.
Hmmm... and yet only 8 schools have won more than 3 NC's in basketball. It just seems like everyone but U of L is winning championships. While playing in the Big East Conference from 2005 through 2013, the Cardinals captured 17 regular season Big East titles and 33 Big East Tournament titles totaling 50 Big East Championships across all sports. In 2016, Lamar Jackson won the school its first Heisman Trophy.

Since 2000 Louisville is the only NCAA team to win a BCS bowl game; to appear in the NCAA Division I men's basketball Final Four, the College World Series, and the NCAA Division I women's basketball Final Four; and to finish as runner-up in the Men's soccer College Cup. It is one of only six schools that has appeared more than once in each of the following events—a BCS bowl game, the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and the College World Series—and Louisville's span of seven school years (2006–07 to 2012–13) is the shortest among other schools.

Also, it is the first school ever to win a BCS bowl game, appear in the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and appear in the College World Series in the same school year, doing so in 2012–13.

I'm sure other schools would be glad to have the success we have had...
 
Hmmm... and yet only 8 schools have won more than 3 NC's in basketball. It just seems like everyone but U of L is winning championships. While playing in the Big East Conference from 2005 through 2013, the Cardinals captured 17 regular season Big East titles and 33 Big East Tournament titles totaling 50 Big East Championships across all sports. In 2016, Lamar Jackson won the school its first Heisman Trophy.

Since 2000 Louisville is the only NCAA team to win a BCS bowl game; to appear in the NCAA Division I men's basketball Final Four, the College World Series, and the NCAA Division I women's basketball Final Four; and to finish as runner-up in the Men's soccer College Cup. It is one of only six schools that has appeared more than once in each of the following events—a BCS bowl game, the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and the College World Series—and Louisville's span of seven school years (2006–07 to 2012–13) is the shortest among other schools.

Also, it is the first school ever to win a BCS bowl game, appear in the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and appear in the College World Series in the same school year, doing so in 2012–13.

I'm sure other schools would be glad to have the success we have had...
however, no one remembers who finishes 2nd
 
Hmmm... and yet only 8 schools have won more than 3 NC's in basketball. It just seems like everyone but U of L is winning championships. While playing in the Big East Conference from 2005 through 2013, the Cardinals captured 17 regular season Big East titles and 33 Big East Tournament titles totaling 50 Big East Championships across all sports. In 2016, Lamar Jackson won the school its first Heisman Trophy.

Since 2000 Louisville is the only NCAA team to win a BCS bowl game; to appear in the NCAA Division I men's basketball Final Four, the College World Series, and the NCAA Division I women's basketball Final Four; and to finish as runner-up in the Men's soccer College Cup. It is one of only six schools that has appeared more than once in each of the following events—a BCS bowl game, the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and the College World Series—and Louisville's span of seven school years (2006–07 to 2012–13) is the shortest among other schools.

Also, it is the first school ever to win a BCS bowl game, appear in the men's and women's basketball Final Fours, and appear in the College World Series in the same school year, doing so in 2012–13.

I'm sure other schools would be glad to have the success we have had...
I acknowledged the Universities sports success, it's only the lack of the main prize that I'm lamenting. Now if I wanted to start a thread about how successful at sports the University of Louisville has had with several different programs, I would have had a post like yours.

I could say, look how much Louisville has been better than Purdue or Wake Forest or Iowa State or West Virginia or ......

Most people remember who's the champion, not the runner up.
 
That is the ultimate goal. UConn is the crazy how they have at times dominated men’s and women’s basketball.

The question would you sacrifice football to be elite at men, women basketball, baseball and volleyball? Unless Louisville can get in the 15m to 20m range in NIL for football you probably aren’t going to build a good enough roster to win a title.
 
Hate to say it but they were just better than us. We probably would've played them closer with DeBeer but it would've took our best effort of the season to pull out the win..
Yep this is how I felt. It was going to be a tough win with DeBeers, but without her it was like climbing Mt Everest without winter gear. It ain’t going to happen.
It’s the curse of 2013 when we won the SB, MBB NC, WBB to the NC game. 😂
 
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Losing Purdue’s Hudson to UK is a signal as to where we are right now in terms of competing in the Portal for WVB ……. SEC revenue is clearly showing its purchase power; for a while it was primarily football, but now you can see basketball and the non-revenue sports being funded with NIL money.
 
I acknowledged the Universities sports success, it's only the lack of the main prize that I'm lamenting. Now if I wanted to start a thread about how successful at sports the University of Louisville has had with several different programs, I would have had a post like yours.

I could say, look how much Louisville has been better than Purdue or Wake Forest or Iowa State or West Virginia or ......

Most people remember who's the champion, not the runner up.
Not true. Even with all of UK's national championships, they don't even make the top 40 schools in NCAA wins (all sports). So you can imagine where we fall... Just be grateful and proud of what we have done is the only thing I can say.
 
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