Well, at least it’s over. The dumpster fire of a season for Louisville football has finally concluded and we take a quick look back for the final time.
As the great philosopher 50 Cent once said, “Get rich or tryin’.”
Louisville football concluded its 2018 football season Saturday night in an unfamiliar fashion. A horrendous 56-10 loss to rival Kentucky, in a game that was never in question, put Louisville at 2-10 for the year. Having lost their last 8 games, Louisville will not participate in the post season for the first time in almost a decade.
Louisville wasn’t lauded at the ACC’s preseason media day to begin with, projected to finish 5th in the ACC’s Atlantic Division and 9th out of 14 overall, but I don’t think most could have forecasted the kind of twisted fate that this Cardinal team would meet.
The 2018 Cardinals allowed 43 points per game, the 3rd worst for any FBS team. The offense was not able to do very much in the way of making the games competitive on paper either, ranking an FBS, 11th worst, scoring only 20.6 points per game.
As if the on-the-field issues hadn’t already defined the raging storm of ineptitude and futility that was Louisville Football this year, the university decision makers decided being Bobby Petrino-less was worth the $14 million price tag. He was fired after 10 games. Part of that decision was surely made as an emergency reaction to a player and recruit mutiny that was reportedly in full effect over the last month and a half of the season.
And that’s the official line. The general numbers and happenings, minus some of the more gory details to save us all from the night terrors.
This (hopefully) forgettable season was sadly, generally more defined by individual, daily, issues, problems and concerns than wins, losses, production and competitiveness. Lots of teams lose but rarely do the logistics of even having a football team overwhelm the process of its actual function as a sport. Hot…HOT Garbage.
Follow me as we break down this season’s:
1:The Things We Learned
2:The LowLights
3:The Highlights