Louisville coach Scott Satterfield wasn’t scheduled to speak with the media on Monday, but the head man had something to say, so the decks were cleared. Satterfield has watched events unfold in college football all weekend. He had seen initial reports that the Big Ten may already have voted to cancel its college football season…
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Good grief, and good luck: Missouri State rolls the dice on Petrino
It’s a heck of a life, being a football coach. At the same time, results are everything, and nothing. Contracts are binding, and non-binding. The curious career of Bobby Petrino will resume in Springfield, Missouri, home of Missouri State University, soon to be the latest case study in institutional hubris in pursuit of football notoriety. Petrino’s…
What Satterfield’s rapid restoration of Louisville football teaches us
On Saturday, the University of Louisville football team beat Virginia 28-21. I wasn’t at the game, didn’t see the celebration, couldn’t feel the excitement in the stadium, wasn’t there for coach Scott Satterfield’s post-game comments. But I’ve been witnessing those things all season. When the Cardinals scored their first touchdown in the game, they surpassed…
Louisville players recount the losses and lessons of a painful season
LOUISVILLE, Ky. As painful as the 2018 University of Louisville football season was to watch from the outside – and it was no picnic – we can only imagine the difficulty of going through it on the inside. But thanks to a few Louisville football players opening up about last season’s experience, we can imagine…
At ACC media day, Satterfield lives a dream, but paints a stark reality
CHARLOTTE, N.C. In the rush of a Power 5 college football coaching negotiation with the University of Louisville, Scott Satterfield didn’t have a lot of time for research. The one thing he knew: Louisville was an Atlantic Coast Conference program that, despite a rough season, had been successful in the league. And coaching in the…
Back to life: Louisville’s Jawon Pass lays last season to rest
LOUISVILLE, Ky. People who go through difficult times together often grow closer. They build a kind of credibility with each other that others may not have. Maybe that’s the case with the University of Louisville football team and those players who endured last season, stayed with the program and will begin work next month on…
Game Over: Louisville’s Lamar Jackson becomes youngest Heisman winner
NEW YORK — The dream was born as dreams sometimes are in these modern times — in front of a video screen, with a controller in his hand. Louisville quarterback Lamar Jackson said the thought of winning the Heisman Trophy first came to him in middle school, when he was playing EA Sports’ NCAA Football…