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Message: [QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3601, member: 289"] Saturday October 29th Time TBA (to be announced) at Louisville No TV or TBA Maybe the worst coach of all time was Louisville’s Steve Kragthorpe, who took a school that had gone 41-9 under Bobby Petrino and went 15-21 including 0-2 vs. Greg Robinson! While West Virginia and Pittsburgh have brought in guys famous for wide-open offenses, Louisville replaced Kragthorpe with the well-named Charlie Strong, who loves his teams to muscle up and dominate the line of scrimmage. They sure did that to us in the Dome last year. Unfortunately they had serious graduation losses on both sides of the ball, including their quarterback, leading rusher, four of those big strong offensive lineman, their two top linebackers and his two starting quarterbacks. So the Cardinals may be taking a step back this year. But everybody thinks Strong will keep Louisville strong as long as he’s there. He seems like the real deal and also knows how to recruit Florida, (he came from Florida State). Of 22 recruits in his last class, which ranked among the top 30 in the nation, 13 were from the sunshine state. The class included 6 defensive backs, some of whom may wind up at linebacker, so he wants to get faster, (just like everyone else). He’s already got a strong pair of safeties in Hakeem Smith and Shenard Holton. In 2008 Victor Anderson was a 1000 yard rusher for Louisville. He’s been hobbled by injuries since but could return to form. Strong recruited one of the country’s top quarterback-receiver combinations in Teddy Bridgewater and Eli Rogers. So Louisville won’t be bad this year. In fact, they won’t be bad as long as they can hold on to Charlie Strong, who will get plenty of offers from other schools. One of the advantages of having Doug Marrone, an alumni who said being the coach at Syracuse is his “dream job” is that he’s likely to be here for a long time while other coaching positions in the Big East tend to be stepping stones for their occupants Their stats from last year: Offense- rushing 175.0 (34th) passing 194.0 (79th), total 369.0 (71st) scoring 26.4 (63rd) Defense- rushing 144.3 (52nd) passing 167.4 (9th) total 311.7 (14th) scoring 19.4 (18th) Turnover margin: +3 (44th) [/QUOTE]

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