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Chad..

They’re all down in the dumps. Good for them.

Like you, I have a ton of respect for UL Basketball and their old school fans. Denny Crum is maybe the most underrated college basketball coach ever. He was also a pioneer of sorts with taking Wooden’s high post offense and 3/4 court press and modernizing it.

UL Football though? Touch that whole deal. Just a giant mirage. CM Newton should’ve never forced their hand to build a new stadium and should’ve agreed to play them at Old Cardinal Stadium. They’d be UAB if he didn’t.
 

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I rarely listen to local sports talk radio anymore, mostly because every host has the verbal acumen of a 7th grader and the reasoning of a gnat. But I caved today because I wanted to hear how my river city brethren are holding up after whiffing on a 6-6 Messiah. So I flip on ESPN 680 to hear Bob Valvano spinning yarn…


….and holy hell, that guy is awful. How the touch is he still on the air? 17 straight minutes of lecturing the audience before I had to punch my eardrums hard enough for the ringing to drown him out. I don’t care if he has above average X’s & O’s roundball knowledge, can site his time at Bellarmine or reminisce about his brother storming the court, he’s an awful listen.

Tip for a program director to put on a good show - find someone interesting first and foremost and if they can talk sports, all the better.
 
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Purdue has committed $100m to Football since Brohm arrived. Their football only practice and workout facility is among the best in the country. Louisville never really had a chance. At best Brohm would win 4 games next year at Louisville. He'll win 7-8 at Purdue. No brainer really.
 

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My radio broke in my truck so I've just been streaming podcasts and music for the past 2 months. Wonderful experience tbh and broadened my sports horizons. It's like cutting the cord with cable/dish which has also been a great experience. I highly recommend both.

Besides UK pregame (which I go through I Heart Radio), haven’t listened to the radio in more than a year.
 
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The concept that UL wouldn't be a rebuild job if only they could've hired Jeff Brohm is mystifying to me. You could hire Bear Bryant and it would still be a rebuilding job. That team was a trainwreck.
Oh you think kicking your only tight end off the team then having to go retrieve him once you realize there was nobody else to fill the void qualifies as a trainwreck?
 
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Anderson is fair.

I’m guilty of listening to Lach and Sweeney. It’s somewhat off the cuff. It’s amazing how much more objective they are and willing to crush UofL when they deserve it now that Jurich is gone.
 

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Lach/Sweeney are genuinely good, and so is Deener for the most part. Valvano is a little more of an acquired taste. However, I can barely stomach Anderson. His voice is nails on a chalkboard and he's the longest-winded individual I think I have ever heard, which is a bad combo.
 
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Well they are currently comparing Satterfield to a young Urban Meyer, citing Utah's win over Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl, which was played 4 years after Meyer actually coached at Utah, but whatever.

Also Zipp
Maybe Brohm didn't wanna step in this...

 
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Purdue has committed $100m to Football since Brohm arrived. Their football only practice and workout facility is among the best in the country. Louisville never really had a chance. At best Brohm would win 4 games next year at Louisville. He'll win 7-8 at Purdue. No brainer really.

Counterpoint: it’s West Lafayette
 

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Well they are currently comparing Satterfield to a young Urban Meyer, citing Utah's win over Alabama in the 2009 Sugar Bowl, which was played 4 years after Meyer actually coached at Utah, but whatever.

Also Zipp

Hard to believe just two months ago, they were still on a Clemson-like path as a program.
 
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Valvano gets all red assed and starts going off on the doltery reactions from UL fans. He also curses lightly at free will on the air.

His on air frankness about Jurich the day Jurich was let go was awesome. Something along the lines of ... The man was an asahole and treated me like ****. What do you want to me say?
 
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"I wanted a compelling feeling in the meeting that this is a job that somebody really wants. ... I just didn't get that feeling that he was ready or wanted to take on the enormity of what we have going on here." -Vince Tyra

No one is really talking about that quote, and to me it's shocking. First, it's obviously just sour grapes. If you didn't think he was your guy, then why did you offer him the job? He says this as if he turned down Brohm, and everybody knows that's not true.

Tyra saying this actively turns the fan base against Brohm as well. He didn't want to coach us. He's not a "Louisville Man." A good PR guy says "well, what can you do, the guy is building something special, we respect that, and we know he was really torn about this." Instead you go out of your way to say the guy didn't want to be here and imply somehow that you didn't want him anyway. I can't imagine being a member of the Brohm family and hearing that. I'd be furious.

And let's be honest here... Say what you want about Jurich, but if he was the AD at Louisville, Brohm would be the coach. He never missed on the guy they wanted like this. Tyra seems to me like a guy who's shooting from the hip and in over his head.
 
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