Great story on ESPN. after reading I think the same thing; Its Shocking that Louisville is in the ACC. That's the Louisville I know: a commuter school anyone can take a class at, that cheats to have successful athletics thinking they can levaerage sports to become a decent academic college. It actually worked (ACC invite) until the house of cards Tom Jurich helped build fell.
This is the Louisville I know from CUSA.

Haha ...

No bias in that reporting, and also absolutely nothing new in it either, except for maybe the nation finally getting to see a pro-UK legislator, distorting the YUM Center deal, as those types are prone to do. But we're used to that here.

By the way ... that commuter school?? Now has more students on campus than UK does. The average ACT test scores of incoming students has risen dramatically, without compromising the mission of the University.

So the label of mid-level commuter school, is just a desperate attempt to paint the university today, by what they looked like 30 years ago.

(12-10-2017 11:28 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Great story on ESPN. after reading I think the same thing; Its Shocking that Louisville is in the ACC. That's the Louisville I know: a commuter school anyone can take a class at, that cheats to have successful athletics thinking they can levaerage sports to become a decent academic college. It actually worked (ACC invite) until the house of cards Tom Jurich helped build fell.
This is the Louisville I know from CUSA.

Well...continue to enjoy G5 status....

Using athletics to rise above circumstance and improve condition. Rewriting ones future. We have come a long way in 30 years. What a horrible story. No wonder for the beat down we are taking and the flagellation.

Looks like from me that they are doing everything to correct the image...that is all we can do going forward

(12-10-2017 11:28 AM)billybobby777 Wrote:  Great story on ESPN. after reading I think the same thing; Its Shocking that Louisville is in the ACC. That's the Louisville I know: a commuter school anyone can take a class at, that cheats to have successful athletics thinking they can levaerage sports to become a decent academic college. It actually worked (ACC invite) until the house of cards Tom Jurich helped build fell.
This is the Louisville I know from CUSA.

I would say you are not alone. I believe most of academia and the country agree with you 120%.
Took a shoe deal to shine a light.

Which one of you made that comment about UConn ESPN Bias in the comments section of that ESPN article? LOL outside of setting the university on fire I am not sure ESPN could "help us with there bias" much more.........

I mean, it is what it is. Louisville managed to cover up their cheating just long enough to get forced on the ACC by FSU and Clemson, and there no stomach for voting a member out once they're in. There's not much more to say, it worked out for them in the end.

(12-10-2017 01:18 PM)Bogg Wrote:  I mean, it is what it is. Louisville managed to cover up their cheating just long enough to get forced on the ACC by FSU and Clemson, and there no stomach for voting a member out once they're in. There's not much more to say, it worked out for them in the end.

Besides, if you want to start evaluating ACC members, you have to talk about University of No Classes at Chapel Hill's fake African-American Studies department, which is not an athletic scandal because any student at UNC can take those fake classes and get fake credits.

Best to keep those cans of worms sealed.

It would be very interesting if the ACC voted to expel the Cards - I guess they would go to the American?

(12-10-2017 02:19 PM)Section 200 Wrote:  It would be very interesting if the ACC voted to expel the Cards - I guess they would go to the American?

Not going to happen...everything in the ESPN Article had already been reported on..

(12-10-2017 02:19 PM)Section 200 Wrote:  It would be very interesting if the ACC voted to expel the Cards - I guess they would go to the American?

Louisville’s troubles with the NCAA actually cost the American Louisville’s remaining NCAA credits. If they go the American it would be because the ACC tapped another American school to replace them, probably Cincinnati or Connecticut. Even them it would be a bitter pill to swallow for the American.

Even if all other sports were exiled to the Atlantic Sun or Summit, I’d think they still wind up in the American or C-USA For football, due to the difficulty of trying to schedule football with 11 or 13 teams. The only exception might be UMass, if Louisville agrees to absorb their most of if not their entire schedule in football.

I guess if certain events don’t deliver what they promised the Network will compensate by delivering elsewhere.

If the ACC got rid of Louisville, the Big 12 would pick them up in an nano second.

The UofL posters will never stop spinning everything negative to be both a conspiracy from pro-UK writers/legislators as well as it's either not true or not as bad as reported. C'mon, give us all a break here. You think ESPN of all places is out to get you? They are the ones who helped elevate you from CUSA commuter school to ACC member.

their athletic department did vastly improve once they left CUSA, at least if you use the Learfield/Sears cup as a measure

(12-10-2017 03:00 PM)RutgersGuy Wrote:  The UofL posters will never stop spinning everything negative to be both a conspiracy from pro-UK writers/legislators as well as it's either not true or not as bad as reported. C'mon, give us all a break here. You think ESPN of all places is out to get you? They are the ones who helped elevate you from CUSA commuter school to ACC member.

F.A.M.I.L.Y

At the end of the day, you are still ECU and we are still Louisville. So we always win

Give Louisville credit, they were far better at it than UNC. Anyone that thinks academics is the primary function of college athletics is sadly living in the past.

(12-10-2017 06:07 PM)msm96wolf Wrote:  Give Louisville credit, they were far better at it than UNC. Anyone that thinks academics is the primary function of college athletics is sadly living in the past.

FTFY