For me it was Cal who made the difference. As soon as Cal came here, nearly every (not totally every, I don't like lumping good people in with bad people) NEARLY every Louisville fan forgot about considering anybody innocent until proven guilty. They were all willing to accept every single cockamamie rumor on the planet to be the gospel truth as long as it was about Cal and it was bad. They totally inversed their entire moral system FOR THE SAKE OF A GAME.
Once I learned that, I said F em.
To be fair (I know, not popular here at times) There were many folks here who did the same thing concerning Cal back in the day.