Louisville football: 5 seniors who will be crucial to success in 2019-2020
By Jacob Lane
Scott Satterfield will have his hands full turning around the Louisville football program, and these five seniors will be relied upon heavily to help.
It may seem like it’s forever away, but it’s not. As of today, there are just 94 days until the Scott Satterfield era gets underway for Louisville football against Notre Dame.
With so much on the line for the future of the program, Scott Satterfield knows that changing the culture of a team that went 2-10 is the first priority. Next comes the coaching and teaching of a new system, then finding the players who can play at the highest level in the roles that the staff is looking for. Then comes making big-time decisions about lineups, depth charts, and who will play what role. But what about leadership?
For things to get turned around, there’s going to need to be buying in from the players. Not just when the doors are closed and the only portions of practices and scrimmages that are getting out to the fanbase are via controlled 30 or 45-second social media clips. Not just when a microphone is at their lips and singing the praise of the coaching staff and the turnaround is easy.
But when the players are in the trenches, fighting for each other, and things get difficult against the likes of Notre Dame or Clemson, who is going to provide leadership on the field? Who’s going to keep things from going back to the way they were?
That’s where the senior class for Scott Satterfield is going to be of the utmost importance.
These are the guys who have been through the good and the bad. They’ve experienced winning at the highest level. They’ve experienced playing with a group of guys who care about each other, even when it seems that the coaches didn’t. They’ve been there with Lamar Jackson and Jaire Alexander and seen excellence at its finest. So to them, 2-10 ain’t going to cut it.
In the midst of a program upheaval, there are five guys that we believe are going to be crucial to the culture change and the product change on the field. All of whom are seniors, who will be charged with a task bigger than football.
Let’s take a look.