The House of Blue

Chris, it just comes off as sounding insulting to me. I have respect for Charlie Strong and Joker Phillips and call them by their given names. That's all.

FootballFan1st said...

Chris, it just comes off as UK fans kidding around in a perfectly, non-offensive manner about our coach to me. I have respect for Charlie Strong and call him by his given name. That's all.

There, I edited that comment for you

Oh really? Right now UK needs UofL more for ticket sales alone. Check out your attendance for all games last year. You also get a bump up in season ticket sales on the years that Louisville plays at CWS. Meanwhile, UofL averaged around 95% or more of capacity last year.

When UofL loses Bcs status after 2014 so do you guys and everyone else. I dont see your point there?

Keep dreaming.

Please don't start on fudging numbers. Jurich and UL are the masters of that. And you can think UK in 2010 when there was a sea of blue at PJS

Thanks for stopping by alan, you bring up some interesting points.....

The UL game was the highest attended game, edging out FLA by 2,500. The Jax St. game was 54,028 (the low game total, 80%), I assume that is the game you are referring to, but all these numbers are directly from the NCAA website. I was only pointing out that we still had better attendance in a down year, and that you were inaccurate in claiming UL had 95%.

I have no idea what we would average if we played the weak schedule you are asking about, but I know we would never expect a horrible year with that schedule lol.

I agree both programs benefit, but I am not sold we benefit more. Given the fact that we could replace UL with a less pressure packed game, I think the rivalry just strengthens our already brutal schedule, and in no way benefits us as far as that is concerned. If we played another bunny squad, who knows, maybe overall attendance would improve due to starting 3-0 or 4-0 each year, and having bowl hopes longer each year, just putting it out there?? BTW, I am in no way saying we should not play!! I will refrain from discussing attendance until the season is over and the numbers are in, too early to say with 100% certainty.

Only thing that I can think of is that CBS knows what kind of talent that Clint Hurt has stolen from Miami and that Louisville has the horses to beat people down with their studs. Everything else makes them look like a mediocre team, but they will win a lot of games with the piss poor schedule that they play.

That mid-tier acc team whipped the acc champions 37-13. They could only beat a freshman dominated Louisville squad in their home state by 7. How many freshman dominated football squads can claim a bowl victory?

Yet you guys don't understand why Louisville is getting the rankings they are???

I think #25-30 is about right. Its still an incredibly young team that is trying to backfill with some depth. I like where we are and the direction of the program.

Dude, you need to get out more, plus it would be nice to keep that race card inside your head on a sports website. It really sounds like sour grapes to me.

We can play that game all night. Last year UK beat UT, who beat Cincinnati 45-23, who beat U of L 25-16. Does any of that mean anything? Probably not. And the ACC was awful last year, worse than the Big East. Did you see the Orange Bowl game?? Wow.

No reason for you all not to be excited about your young team, we just think it's funny how big a disparity most UL fans think is between the 2 teams. We have young talent too...it's our Senior class that hurt us a bit. We are loaded at Fr and Soph and the class coming in next year is looking great.
I think we'll see a very entertaining game on Sept 2nd.

Here is what I keep coming back to when I see the predictions from UL fans. Their team is ranked this year and are being touted as two TD favorites against UK on the strength of their record last year and an off-season of improvement of their young players.

I have no doubt their young players improved from last season but what would have been UL's record last season if they had played UK's schedule? Along with the game at UK their schedule would have been:

N WKU
H C.Mich
A UK
H Florida
A LSU
A SCar
BYE
H Jacksonville St.
H MS. St.
H Ole Miss
A Vandy
A Georgia
H Tennessee

I see best-case of 6-6 with losses to UF, LSU, SC,UGA, MSU, and a 1-1 split with UT and VU but that is best-case. Being realistic 5-7 is most likely and that is assuming they avoid an upset by WKU or CMU during the Cards early season woes.

The "experts" would not even consider ranking a 5-7 Card team that suffered the loss of production on offense that UL has after last season. That in a nutshell is how a weak schedule can be beneficial. Would UL be favored pre-season in every game this year if they played UK's schedule? Absolutely not. And again nobody would even consider ranking UL while only.being favored in 5 or 6 games.

Absolutely correct. If they don't go 10-2 or 9-3, then CHOLLY Strong did a horrible coaching job. They are the best team in the worst BCS conference. So after they win the Big Least all December the ESPN bowl preview shows when their game is brought up the analysts will say with much disgust, "why do we have to talk about this team and this bowl again?" before getting on to matchups involving REAL teams from REAL conferences.

Hopefully all the media love makes their young team feel entitled and have not been working hard enough, and the poor reviews our team has for the season has made them fired up to prove all the doubters in the media and fanbase wrong.

Btw, not saying we would beat Alabama, but we heard the EXACT same comments in the 91 Fiesta Bowl. It took you guys 80 years to beat Alabama once. Took us 4 tries and we destroyed them. I will be extremely surprised if you guys stay within 17 points of us. Newton ran for his life last season against an experienced O line that Uk fans built up to be the Packers front. Our freshmen walked right through it. Now you have freshmen on the line? lol I will pray for your QB. Now I see why Joker isnt naming a starter....they are probably fighting over who DOESNT want to start.