Steve Kragthorpe: The George Bush of College Football
by Jonathan Lintner (Scribe)
November 09, 2008
Stat of the week: Louisville returned 19 players from its Orange Bowl-winning team in 2007, making it difficult to define Steve Kragthorpe's tenure as a time to rebuild.
Stat of the week (part two): Louisville's loss at Pittsburgh last Saturday snapped a seven-game winning streak over the Panthers. Hearing "streak snapped" is a broken record at this point for Louisville.
With the election recently wrapping up, it's hard not to compare Kragthorpe to America's future ex-president, George Bush. Both have single-handedly brought down successful regimes; one a football team, and the other a country.
Bush underperformed and lowered expectations, just like the current coach of the Cardinals. Although Bush wreaked havoc on a national scale, Kragthorpe might be the only man in Louisville with a lower approval rating than Bush.
Maybe that comparison sounds like a stretch, but look deeper into the situation and more parallels can be found.
Bill Clinton brought about a time of economic prosperity to the United States, but his personal issues released to the public ultimately ended his time as president. Former coach Bobby Petrino fills that role well with one exception.
Petrino’s Monica was named Atlanta, and he stayed with his oversized intern over the less-lucrative Louisville.
Some loved Petrino’s methods of winning at all costs, but some loathed him for the very same thing. In the end, everyone recognized that Petrino found success regardless of how he went about that. Clinton can be looked at in the same light.
Now, Louisville needs to look for an Obama—an agent of change for a program that’s fallen to irrelevancy. But how irrelevant are the 5-3 Cardinals?
At the beginning of the season, Louisville was picked to finish seventh in the Big East in front of Syracuse, and fall in behind everyone else. If their current losing trend continues, the Cardinals will find themselves at rock bottom after losing to the aforementioned Orange.
Who will finish ahead of Louisville in the Big East? That’s choice number eight, all of the above.
Two years ago, the current scenario would have been laughed at, gawked at and looked down upon...like some war I hear is still going on.
Bush...I mean Kragthorpe has really drilled the program into the ground.
The fall is only going to last longer if the Senate (athletic director Tom Jurich) has anything to say about impeachment. Jurich and Kragthorpe go way back to when their political careers were young, and it’s doing the coach at Louisville a constant favor.
It’s time for Louisville to finally do what’s right for the people and the players, even if Kragthorpe's term has some time left in it. Impeach Kragthorpe and find some new blood for the house Papa John built.
This article appeared on the Bleacher Report website on Sunday, November 9, 2008.
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Kragthorpe worst Football coach in Big East!
the guy sucks! 
