University of Louisville News & Perspectives
Congratulations America. You’re about to experience another prolonged and agonizing realignment of college athletic conferences. UCLA and Southern California have recently lunged to the Big Ten, effective in 2024. The…
A sorry situation with the universities of Texas and Oklahoma abandoning the Big 12 to play football and other sports in the Southeastern Conference. Just one more example of higher…
Things aren’t going well for the mighty University of Texas and boosters may be on the verge of cleaning house. Some reports indicate that the jobs of the athletic director…
Moving at record speed for a group of academic institutions, seven Catholic basketball schools have agreed to leave the Big East, according to a report from ESPN. They first discussed…
A real shame what’s happening to the Big East Conference. Mike Aresco, the new commissioner, has inherited an impossible situation. The schools with football programs should have walked away from…
Tom Jurich looked very much like an individual who still had some things to accomplish, and couldn’t wait to get through the press conference Wednesday on the University of Louisville’s…
Settle down. This is going to take a while longer. The one sure thing about conference realignment is nothing is certain until announced. What appears inevitable one minute can be…
And wait some more. Constantly checking the news wires, the message boards, the tweets, even Facebook now and then, for any hint of which way the Atlantic Coast Conference may…
Already much on the line with the University of Louisville-UConn football game. Let’s raise the stakes. UofL badly needs a win to stay in the running for a BCS berth.…
Whoops. One more obstacle for Tom Jurich, of the University of Louisville, and Mike Areso, the new Big East Commissioner. The powers that be in the new football playoff system…
A chip on the shoulder will help Saturday. The University of Louisville football program will be in the national spotlight when it collides with North Carolina with much on the…
After an initial flurry following the Notre Dame announcement that it was headed to the Atlantic Coast Conference, the shock appears to have worn off. Rather quickly. Old news already.…
If the conference realignment mess has taught us anything over the last three or four years, it is that one big move begets another. Conference commissioners just can’t resist moving…
Louisville was on the verge of football frenzy when Bobby Petrino left for Atlanta in January 2007. The Cardinals had just won their first BCS game in the Orange Bowl,…
With all the misleading statements and contradictions over the past two years, it has taken a few days for the full impact to sink in for some of us. The…
Ironic that Rick Pitino’s suggestion of hiring Jay Bilas as the next Big East Commissioner would come from Brett McMurphy. McMurphy has consistently the most reliable source of information about…
The bickering gets ugly at times and doesn’t reflect well on University of Louisville fans who frequent message boards. Without conference realignment to kick around, some of the people on…
If any University of Louisville football fan needed a lift with all the negative fallout from the never-ending conference realignment quagmire, he or she got it Tuesday from Clint Hurtt.…
The University of Louisville’s front line just got much stronger. Montrezl Harrell, a 6-foot-8, 225-pound power forward, is a Cardinal today, over the weekend committing to play his college basketball…
A sure sign that sportswriters are tired of writing about conference realignment. Making pre-season college basketball top 10 predictions as summer nears. The Sporting News has picked the University of…