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Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Hoop Fan » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:47 am

lose at home to Marshall. Makes TCU's whipping look good.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby ponyscott » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:15 am

A good win for Marshall and for CUSA.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby leopold » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:37 am

I don't know what Stong's deal is. Louisville is considered to by many to be the best coaching job in the Big East right now and his team was supposed to be better this year. Maybe he just ran into two other rising programs - Cristabal has FIU going in the right direction and so does Doc Holiday (GREAT name) - but the shine from the UK win is fading fast.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby redpony » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:39 am

If the b12-x adds these trash programs they keep talking about then CUSA will just look that much better.

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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Hoop Fan » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:45 am

how much shine can really come from beating Kentucky in football? I'd say far more than offset by home losses to FIU and Marshall. Put it this way, what if we lost home games to FIU and Marshall? Everybody would be sniping and kicking us.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby leopold » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:48 am

Yeah, like I said, that shine has come off.

But they still beat what they consider to be their biggest rival.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Bandwagonesque » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:50 am

Louisville aren't a trash program. They've been down the past couple of years, but it wasn't too long ago that some people had them as national title contenders with Brian Brohm, Michael Bush and company. They also have a great basketball program, and they bring a new market into the Big 12. I think we all need to face it that we're not getting into the Big 12 and the reasons why are pretty logical.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby CalallenStang » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:57 am

Bandwagonesque wrote:Louisville aren't a trash program. They've been down the past couple of years, but it wasn't too long ago that some people had them as national title contenders with Brian Brohm, Michael Bush and company.


Petrino isn't there anymore and they have fallen back to their natural level.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Hoop Fan » Sun Oct 02, 2011 10:59 am

Bandwagonesque wrote:Louisville aren't a trash program. They've been down the past couple of years, but it wasn't too long ago that some people had them as national title contenders with Brian Brohm, Michael Bush and company. They also have a great basketball program, and they bring a new market into the Big 12. I think we all need to face it that we're not getting into the Big 12 and the reasons why are pretty logical.


Louisville is ok, but they don't deserve to play a significantly higher level of football than an SMU, or TCU for that matter if it ends up that way.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Bandwagonesque » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:14 am

It's just about getting on more TV's. They take in Cinci and Louisville and they get onto TV's in SEC and Big 10 country. They already have Baylor, Tech, and Austin to assure Texas. Right now our program is better than Louisville's, but let's not kid ourselves. They're the more valuable chip. Let's wait until we beat Army before we proclaim ourselves worthy of playing Texas, Mizzou, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State, etc. every year.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby PonyPlayer4 » Sun Oct 02, 2011 11:48 am

Funny two of the teams the Big12 is looking to add both lose at home to CUSA schools.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby GRGB » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:32 pm

Bandwagonesque wrote:Louisville aren't a trash program. They've been down the past couple of years, but it wasn't too long ago that some people had them as national title contenders with Brian Brohm, Michael Bush and company. They also have a great basketball program, and they bring a new market into the Big 12. I think we all need to face it that we're not getting into the Big 12 and the reasons why are pretty logical.


They were good only when petrino was there. Right now if big east expands with say UCF they will have 3 teams that started playing div1a fb only in the last 10 years, plus nonAQs cincy and uL, and tcu. And that league is bcs worthy?
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Pony ^ » Sun Oct 02, 2011 1:44 pm

hahaha Louisville sucks every year
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby SMU 86 » Sun Oct 02, 2011 2:45 pm

It's going to take some time for Coach Strong to recruit the talent back up to a solid level. When he got their last year it was really lacking. Got to give him a couple years of recruiting to start to make waves.
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Re: Louisville is Big 12 worthy huh?

Postby Water Pony » Sun Oct 02, 2011 3:59 pm

In a parallel universe, the Catholic BB only Big East schools are getting restless. If their fumbling FB members continue to demonstrate they can not keep members and expand smartly, the BB schools may go off with their own conference.

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