Louisville athletics is essentially the housing market in 2008. They borrowed all kinds of money and power they didn't have, cheated the system to fast track success, all to build an unsustainable product that wasn't propped up by enough actual credit worthiness (the fans, the school, the program).
A bunch of guys got rich and bailed (Pitino, Jurich, Petrino, Ramsey) and the average taxpayers (and Louisville fans, boosters, even staff and students) are out here bailing them out. Now Louisville and their fans are expecting a decent coach to bet on them again because the way it was before the crash is supposed to pass for a "tradition," when it's really just a symptom of what was a severe illness. The whole modern program was built on a bubble.
And Brohm will go, because that family is so deeply entrenched in Louisville athletics, they probably think it's destiny, but Louisville is never gonna be what it was. And the world of college athletics, this state, and the rivalry will all be better for it. The world needs cautionary tales.