This season is a complete "bust", so I'm thinking about 2019 already.
Here's next season's schedule. Anyone wanna take a crack at guessing the team's final W/L record? With Petrino, Brohm or Mr X as Head Coach? Note there are 3 games already scheduled in September and it would not be surprising if 2 more September games were added, making for 5 total in September.
The 5 true AWAY games are all in Florida (Tallahassee & Miami Gardens) and North Carolina (Raleigh & Winston-Salem) and Kentucky (Lexington).
The WKU game on Sept 14 is effectively a Neutral game in Tennessee (Nashville).
So 8 games are easy to get to.
Louisville will play 10 P5 games plus one G5 game and one FCS game.
This will be the second-ever contest with Notre Dame and the first-ever played in Louisville.
Louisville will play in zero Northern-venue games.
9/2 vs Notre Dame (Monday)
9/7 vs Eastern Kentucky
vs Boston College
vs Clemson
vs Syracuse
vs Virginia
9/14 Western Kentucky (@ Nashville)
@ Florida State
@ NC State
@ Wake Forest
@ Miami (Fla)
11/30 @ Kentucky
The games which should produce a reasonable fan "draw" are Notre Dame, EKU and Clemson. There should be considerable single-game or 3-game-package interest in the Notre Dame game. Their fans alone will probably buy up to 15,000 or more tickets. EKU fans will buy a decent number of tickets as well. I imagine the ticket pricing will be innovative.
A lot of Louisville fans will travel to Nashville for the WKU game. Some might even be interested in the game.
The early and late signing dates as well as impact of further player defections will dominate the interest early-on of any staff that stays or takes over.
Here's next season's schedule. Anyone wanna take a crack at guessing the team's final W/L record? With Petrino, Brohm or Mr X as Head Coach? Note there are 3 games already scheduled in September and it would not be surprising if 2 more September games were added, making for 5 total in September.
The 5 true AWAY games are all in Florida (Tallahassee & Miami Gardens) and North Carolina (Raleigh & Winston-Salem) and Kentucky (Lexington).
The WKU game on Sept 14 is effectively a Neutral game in Tennessee (Nashville).
So 8 games are easy to get to.
Louisville will play 10 P5 games plus one G5 game and one FCS game.
This will be the second-ever contest with Notre Dame and the first-ever played in Louisville.
Louisville will play in zero Northern-venue games.
9/2 vs Notre Dame (Monday)
9/7 vs Eastern Kentucky
vs Boston College
vs Clemson
vs Syracuse
vs Virginia
9/14 Western Kentucky (@ Nashville)
@ Florida State
@ NC State
@ Wake Forest
@ Miami (Fla)
11/30 @ Kentucky
The games which should produce a reasonable fan "draw" are Notre Dame, EKU and Clemson. There should be considerable single-game or 3-game-package interest in the Notre Dame game. Their fans alone will probably buy up to 15,000 or more tickets. EKU fans will buy a decent number of tickets as well. I imagine the ticket pricing will be innovative.
A lot of Louisville fans will travel to Nashville for the WKU game. Some might even be interested in the game.
The early and late signing dates as well as impact of further player defections will dominate the interest early-on of any staff that stays or takes over.
