Sorry, Texas A&M, and any other name droppers.
First, came the tweets from C. L. Brown, the U of L beat writer for the C-J, quoting Charlie Strong:
“I have not talked to anyone about a job. No one. No one.”
“I just get to where…every time something happens I’ve got to make a statement?”
“At some point, just trust me. I’m not looking for a job. I have a job. I’m the head coach at the University of Louisville.”
Brown later quoted Strong more extensively at a news conference in Charlotte:
“I work for an unbelievable athletic director, I work for a guy who has given me everything I have asked for. You have so much support from the university, from the city of Louisville. Now all of a sudden, a guy who couldn’t get a job has a job and has some success — why would we ever think now that he’s just going to chop it and leave?”
Strong said he’s trying to work to change the mentality at U of L to where, “we have a good school here, you just don’t up and leave.”
“The University of Louisville is not going to become training ground for college coaches,” he said.
Pretty emphatic.
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