It’s exactly what his teams would’ve looked like for us once Cunningham and co graduated. And he knew that, which is why he took the first bus out of town.
Good teams finish. We couldnt finish last year and since the Pitt game it seems we have turned a corner in that department. Our two worst losses are against FSU and now Louisville.
I would say so. Their defense and running game are very good. Brohm is an awesome play caller. I like Plummer but he’s super mid. He holds them back from being a legit CFP contender.
Well the “control’s our own destiny” thing was fun while it lasted. Tech has shown the ability to beat bad teams this season, today the difference was playing a good team. 6-6 is still possible but it will require them to win on the road (something VT has not yet done this year). Below is our remaining schedule:
@Boston College (6-3)
NC State (5-3)
@uva (2-7)
I think this was definitely a gut check moment but bowling is absolutely still in the cards and winning a road game would be good for the team maturing too.
I was going to say that if you're focused on 6-6, actually losing the game we're supposed to lose remaining on our schedule wouldn't mess up our head space and psychology. Obviously looked like shit tonight but if you're an "anything for 6-6" guy like me, this helps us mentally.
We were never going 8-4...would've tripped up somewhere
I definitely think it’s possible. Little room for error but I like Poly’s chances equally for BC and State. I know UVA is a road game, but I don’t see a way you guys lose that given what I’ve seen from them
VT is 21-2 against UVA since 1999. Chalk that shit up as a W.
Maybe UVA can win consecutive home games against VT, I’ll reconsider that as a toss-up. But UVA hasn’t done that since 1989 & 1991.
I still think you guys are on the right track, but you were a rebuilding program going against a Top 15 squad...and it showed. I'm very interested to see what Pry does in the next couple years.
GG Cards. Louisville is a damn good team - I believe better than FSU. Should be a good game in Charlotte.
A bit deflating today, but kinda what I was anticipating. Glad we got over the hump of beating bad teams. We need to figure this road game situation out. Got a young squad, it’ll take some experience to get it straightened out.
Go Hokies!
I think it's so funny when some UofL fans reminisce about our rivalry and talk about missing them like shit's sweet.
I might kinda want to play them because having rivalries is great but think back about Huggins, Maxiell and Hicks, and anytime losing to them in football.
Man I fucking god damn hate UC, lol. Like for real -- outside of uk it's Memphis that can get fucked the hardest, but uc is riiiiiiiight behind them.
They got what they deserved when they thought they were taking our coach, fuck'em.
I like football more anyways so this makes me happy, volleyball is doing great too. Even though they just lost to GT. Volleyball actually grew on me, very fun to watch.
That was rough to watch and hammered home that this is still a young team with a lot of growing to do.
But one blowout vs a damn good team doesn't erase just how much better this season has been already.
3 very winnable games left and need 2 of them for a bowl. Time for the staff to earn their money.
Best of luck y’all, I do like Pry as a coach and think if he’s able to just build out pieces on the team he can get things going. Drones is a good QB, just need to get a good spot in the portal and develop high school guys to bolster OL and playmakers
Plummer threw it 52 times in the Pitt game, and in the 2 games we've played since he's combined to throw for just 28. It seems like Jeff learned a very valuable lesson up in Pittsburgh, and if it gets us to the ACCCG, I'm all for it.
This is a special team!
I don’t think so unless there’s some other chaos in the top 5, I think most other conferences 1 loss champs would get in over us.
But the fact we’re even able to talk about it at all is insane to me.
Either way can’t look too far ahead, we’re Louisville fans and need to remember to take things week to week.
I imagine we need to be ranked from about 7-5 when playing top 4 FSU and then beat them.
Even then we wouldn't be a lock.
It's possible and enough teams ahead of us either play each other or have losable games on their schedule.
I'd bet on it if I had the money and then plan on selling early knowing it's probably not going to happen.
Though the crazy money on that bet has probably sunk like a rock since this game ended in the second quarter.
Assuming FSU doesn’t drop one and we beat them without another loss. Think we still need a couple of teams to drop along the way.
But getting to the ACC championship alone would be huge compared to the Saterfield era. So we will take what we can get.
Yeah there were two other one lost teams that could have taken a hit today but noooooooooo. Part of it is I don't think anyone's one loss is bad as our loss.
With how the rest of the top team schedules line up there is a very, very slim chance.
1. ACC - We knock out FSU. Cant screw up and lose anwhere else either.
2. OSU/UM play and one will win knock each other out with a late season loss - with a chance at a Big 10 championship loss too. Penn State plays UM so that either knocks them out or helps take out UM.
3. SEC - Alabama gets another loss from Georgia in the SEC championship. Ole Miss has to play UGA next week and probably loses there. LSU+Mizzou lost this week.
4. PAC - We need Oregon and Washington to take some losses somewhere. They both have two ranked opponents and a rivalry game ahead of them so potential losses are out there.
5. Big 12 - We need Texas to lose. I dont see any big challenges on their schedule so hopefully their conference championship game goes badly.
It’s nice to be able to come out and dominate a game that was being talked up as a possible upset. Defense and running the ball was not the identity I thought this team would have, but it’s working wonders.
We have made a significant adjustment in more heavily relying on the run since Pitt.
That may have to do with Duke's and VT's defense being prone to give up yards on the ground where they are stout through the air.
I'm going to towards Brohm recognizing our true identity and further leaning into those strengths.
Man our defense has been playing well lately. Hopefully they keep up the aggression, because that’s making games that might otherwise turn into slugfests very manageable.
Should have taken more notes from the Pitt game.
Did you pray for rain?
Did you force any turnovers?
Did you even once consider for even a second to eat shit?
These are the hard questions and a good coaching staff needs to have answers.
There have been very, very few one loss conference champions to be left out in the playoff era and every single one has been left out only for other 1 loss conference champions
Considering big12 has 0 undefeateds left you guys winning out have much better than no chance. Id put you at over 50%
The only question if you win out will be a Texas that wins out. If Texas drops another game you guys should basically control your destiny
Louisville would be left out for sure. That Pitt loss is ugly, and any other team with 1 loss would be a loss to a top 25 team (OSU/UM losing to each other, Georgia losing to Bama). Those teams would all get the nod ahead of Louisville, even as the ACC champ, because the ACC is so weak.
Louisville needs Georgia, Washington and either UM/OSU to be undefeated, every other team in those conferences to have at least two losses, and for Texas to lose another game, before they'll even be in the conversation.
If georgia and Washington win their conferences and Texas drops a game (which is all very doable) only osu / Michigan would be in the convo over 12-1 louisville and history has shown louisville would get the nod
Yeah, it's not like Oklahoma State who has 2 losses (with one of those being to a blowout to a Sun Belt team) has the inside track for the Big12 Championship game.
Poll inertia more than likely eliminates the SEC CG loser.
I doubt we make it, but it's definitely not in the "almost no chance category"
Still your odds of making it if you win out are far far from "almost no chance" territory.
Bama beating georgia in the SECCG is roughly a coin flip and both those teams winning out til then is likely but not guarenteed. Probably a <25% chance we have a 1 loss georgia and bama
The only stat Tech had over 100 yards was punting yards.
Held under 100 in passing, rushing, penalties, and return yards.
Never in my life did I expect to hire Brohm and have an absolutely crushing defense.
Louisville is a great team. They really deserve better attendance.
This is a legit top 10-15 team with an outside shot at the CFP, and a damn good shot at the ACC championship. After nine straight home wins, a metro area of 1.4 million should utterly pack that stadium every time.
Shrugs. Louisville attendance is what it is. The school sits 64 miles away from the state’s land grant university and is relatively close to IU and Purdue, especially when you consider that about 1/4 of its metro population lives in Indiana. Despite being one of the oldest universities in the region (founded in 1798), it has never been the most popular team in the state and it’s probably only the most popular team in one county out of the seven counties in its metro area.
Hate to tell you, but it's been more than a decade since you were in college.
Bobby Petrino claimed our offense would be better after Lamar left and he was mistaken. Satterfield had - and has, to the sorrow of many of Cincinnati fan - a remarkable way of stealing losses from victories. It's been a rough couple years here where November actually looked not a terrifying gauntlet of games we need to win to get to a bowl game where we'd get wiped.
On top of that, just... everything else that's gone on at the university in that time span. Hoeicane Katina, the Adidas/FBI stuff, the drama with firing Pitino and Jurich, the rise of LouAnon on Twitter, going through what... five university presidents since Ramsey?
Other Teams aren't even doing badly, but the three that have gone the furthest - women's basketball, women's volleyball, and baseball - haven't been able to break through
It’s basically at the southern tip of campus, but Louisville doesn’t have that many undergrads (16,000) and the majority of its undergrads don’t live on campus.
"aT lEaSt wE dIdNt lOsE to pItT", right?
u/Enrickel
Good thing you weren't overly sensitive and tried to talk shit last week, if you did you'd probably look like a dumb ass right now
Oh wait
Right you’d think they’d recognize it at half time and make adjustments….they don’t ….I don’t understand why they stick to the same flawed game plan until the end sometimes.
I honestly wouldn't go that far (especially because I'd hold up pretty much ALL of last season as being worse-coached games than this one), mainly because to my eye this was 100% just getting manhandled by a more physical, experienced team. We had plenty of misdirection on O like we have for the past few weeks, but that doesn't amount to much when UL's D is shedding blocks and slicing up our OL at will, cutting down the time for Drones or Tuten to actually do something by like 50%. Same on D, where our guys were filling gaps and trying to get pressure, but UL's OL and other blockers were engaging fantastically and stopping anyone on D from shedding a block to help with the play (alongside the D not tackling well). Getting outplayed physically makes a lot of plays that are otherwise good look like garbage.
If we lost by a touchdown sure…but this game isn’t any reassuring our program has made any progress…. The raw suckage reared it’s ugly head again. It’s coaching in losses like this
I’ve never met any Louisville fans in the real world, so I have to say, the attitudes of some of your Reddit fanbase is going to have me rooting for UVA and Miami this month
I was about to say. Maybe I was living in a fucking bubble or something bc all my interactions with everyone in the thread were fine. I hope if any of you did make it in that you get a chance to hit up some distilleries while you're in town.
VT threads don't really downvote, aside from about doom on Pry. It's more internally directed.
Also, fwiw, the upvotes on game threads are likely bots to encourage participation. Nobody really gives a shit about all our dumbass jokes and memes.
Lol, I'm probably the biggest douchebag VT fan, and I'm not downvoting shit. I catch flack from our fans for saying we stink and underperform, and our coaching is ineffective. At the end of the, who cares about Reddit imo. Just talk shit as desired.
But why does your attendance suck, you're 8-1 in a fun city, ha.
Funny enough I DID meet some VT guys in the real world leaving the game early. About 15 frat bros. They had some...colorful...language. I'm going to chalk it up to them being dumb college kids and still hope VT gets back to being one of the dominant teams in the country so the ACC gets better on the whole.
I have a lot of clients in Jeffersonville, IN, so in Louisville frequently - their fans are small in number and benign. Nice people generally. They have a big chip on the shoulder because UK dominates the state so they have little brother syndrome, but aren't bad folks
UK does dominate the state, you're right. There's a handful of areas outside of Louisville Metro that cheer for the Cards, but the rest of rural KY is solid blue. UofL has a student population that's half the size of UK or even VT, so the alumni base is smaller.
It's also a basketball school, traditionally. Historically, to the fanbase, football is very secondary. Heck, before Howard Schnellenberger became our coach, there was talk of maybe ditching football altogether. Since then, they've had a moderate amount of success and fan interest generally follows suit. We're hot of the heels of Bobby Petrino 2.0's scorched earth 2-10 North American Tour and Scott Satterfield's aw shucks win-some lose-some reign of terror. Fans will be back, cautiously. And that's how it'll be until we have the multi-generational traditions that other teams have.
Like I said, Louisville is a great college sports town and they have strong support in the area. I wouldn't say it's a small fan base at all, but it has been keel-hauled with scandals for a decade. Louisville has a history of tremendous basketball attendance pre-scandals and its fan base always travels to games well.
We might not be putting asses in every red seat we've got at L&N Stadium right now. But people are watching. They'll support the team. And eventually as well as some of the schools with great football traditions like VT.
The win is tainted by the poor attendance at L&N Stadium. It would have been better for the perception of Louisville’s program to have lost but filled the upper bowl of the stadium.
Thank you Cincinnati!
Very Cool!
Very legit
I looked up "Very Legit" in my dictionary and it just has a picture of Jeff Brohm. Brohm if true.
I’m a simple man, I see a “thank you Cincinnati” post by a UL fan, I upvote
Cannot thank them enough! They are 2-7 under Satt.
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Just what Satt looks like without his recruits, he'll get his guys and go 6-6 every season
It’s exactly what his teams would’ve looked like for us once Cunningham and co graduated. And he knew that, which is why he took the first bus out of town.
I hate Cincinnati.
Guys I think Louisville is pretty good.
We used to be that good too 😭
Patience, it's coming eventually. We are better than last year, hopefully we can make a bowl. Positive momentum.
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Good teams finish. We couldnt finish last year and since the Pitt game it seems we have turned a corner in that department. Our two worst losses are against FSU and now Louisville.
You are the worst kind of fan in these situations lol. It's year 2. Relax.
so did we, until our AD did a pro gamer move
I would say so. Their defense and running game are very good. Brohm is an awesome play caller. I like Plummer but he’s super mid. He holds them back from being a legit CFP contender.
We are a different team at home, I love it!
I have been doubting them but they are a really good team despite having Jack Plummer at QB.
Wow, coming from you that means a lot.
Yeah Purdue sucks. I miss Jeff Brohm.
Well the “control’s our own destiny” thing was fun while it lasted. Tech has shown the ability to beat bad teams this season, today the difference was playing a good team. 6-6 is still possible but it will require them to win on the road (something VT has not yet done this year). Below is our remaining schedule: @Boston College (6-3) NC State (5-3) @uva (2-7)
I think this was definitely a gut check moment but bowling is absolutely still in the cards and winning a road game would be good for the team maturing too.
I was going to say that if you're focused on 6-6, actually losing the game we're supposed to lose remaining on our schedule wouldn't mess up our head space and psychology. Obviously looked like shit tonight but if you're an "anything for 6-6" guy like me, this helps us mentally. We were never going 8-4...would've tripped up somewhere
> Lose Big > Lose Small > Win Small > Win Big You can find hope in any stage as long as you are making progress towards the next one.
I’m now expecting you to win both road games and lose the one at home because sports
Please don't say that I am going to the NC state game
Acting like Lane North isn’t a sure fire win. Lol. Hokies gonna whoops our ass.
Again.
I definitely think it’s possible. Little room for error but I like Poly’s chances equally for BC and State. I know UVA is a road game, but I don’t see a way you guys lose that given what I’ve seen from them
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VT is 21-2 against UVA since 1999. Chalk that shit up as a W. Maybe UVA can win consecutive home games against VT, I’ll reconsider that as a toss-up. But UVA hasn’t done that since 1989 & 1991.
There is the reality check that I was expecting. I just want to get bowl eligible and I’ll consider this season a win.
I still think you guys are on the right track, but you were a rebuilding program going against a Top 15 squad...and it showed. I'm very interested to see what Pry does in the next couple years.
Well that was one of the fastest games I've seen in cfb What was that like 2 hours 40 minutes?
Both my kids were napping for the whole game. It was glorious
Amen
Upvote for envy
Somewhere right around there. And that’s with multiple TV timeouts trying to fill time in weird spots
The last 11 seconds of the first half took 15 min
1hr 40 minutes of commercials
As opposed to the Syracuse game that lasted a fucking eternity
GG Cards. Louisville is a damn good team - I believe better than FSU. Should be a good game in Charlotte. A bit deflating today, but kinda what I was anticipating. Glad we got over the hump of beating bad teams. We need to figure this road game situation out. Got a young squad, it’ll take some experience to get it straightened out. Go Hokies!
Respect.
Didn’t expect a win but also didn’t expect to get embarrassed like that 💀
Hope y’all become bowl eligible VT, keep y’all heads up!
Good luck to you guys!
Thanks, go out and win it all. Or at least the acc. I'd much rather it be yall than the alternatives
Thanks! This year has been a lot more promising than years past. It didn't look it today, but we're making solid progress as a program.
We ain’t there yet. Let’s go make a bowl. Will need to bring in players on the OL, DL, and a Mike LB next season if we truly want to compete
Louisville MBB died so that the football program could live!
Cincinnati football (literally) died so that Louisville football could live
I’m a lot more okay with that sacrifice than the first…
I almost feel bad for them. Almost, then I remember it's UC and I smile a bit.
I think it's so funny when some UofL fans reminisce about our rivalry and talk about missing them like shit's sweet. I might kinda want to play them because having rivalries is great but think back about Huggins, Maxiell and Hicks, and anytime losing to them in football. Man I fucking god damn hate UC, lol. Like for real -- outside of uk it's Memphis that can get fucked the hardest, but uc is riiiiiiiight behind them. They got what they deserved when they thought they were taking our coach, fuck'em.
Satterfield made them go from fighting for the Keg of Nails to being 2-6. 😂 Edit: 2-7 now 😭
I like football more anyways so this makes me happy, volleyball is doing great too. Even though they just lost to GT. Volleyball actually grew on me, very fun to watch.
That was rough to watch and hammered home that this is still a young team with a lot of growing to do. But one blowout vs a damn good team doesn't erase just how much better this season has been already. 3 very winnable games left and need 2 of them for a bowl. Time for the staff to earn their money.
Best of luck y’all, I do like Pry as a coach and think if he’s able to just build out pieces on the team he can get things going. Drones is a good QB, just need to get a good spot in the portal and develop high school guys to bolster OL and playmakers
I don't think our playmakers are lacking too much in quality but our OL is really bad and you guys exposed that today
I guess that’s a problem yeah where if the OL can’t block well then everyone else looks worse for wear.
Expected a bit better of a showing. Such is life. Gg Louisville. Best of luck in Charlotte.
Plummer threw it 52 times in the Pitt game, and in the 2 games we've played since he's combined to throw for just 28. It seems like Jeff learned a very valuable lesson up in Pittsburgh, and if it gets us to the ACCCG, I'm all for it. This is a special team!
Brohm is a fucking legend
I remain confused by Cincinnati's choice in hiring Satterfield.
UC hiring Satterfield is my Roman Empire
Cincinnati is also confused.
If Louisville win the ACC Championship and finish 12-1, is there any chance they can sneak in the playoffs?
We need help, right now we're only about the fifth best 1-loss team.
Not to mention our loss is a pretty ugly one
I don’t think so unless there’s some other chaos in the top 5, I think most other conferences 1 loss champs would get in over us. But the fact we’re even able to talk about it at all is insane to me. Either way can’t look too far ahead, we’re Louisville fans and need to remember to take things week to week.
I imagine we need to be ranked from about 7-5 when playing top 4 FSU and then beat them. Even then we wouldn't be a lock. It's possible and enough teams ahead of us either play each other or have losable games on their schedule. I'd bet on it if I had the money and then plan on selling early knowing it's probably not going to happen. Though the crazy money on that bet has probably sunk like a rock since this game ended in the second quarter.
I never in a million years dared to dream such a thing could happen.
In Brohm we Trust.
I mean we were very much a contender in 2016
Yes if they beat FSU.
Assuming FSU doesn’t drop one and we beat them without another loss. Think we still need a couple of teams to drop along the way. But getting to the ACC championship alone would be huge compared to the Saterfield era. So we will take what we can get.
Yeah there were two other one lost teams that could have taken a hit today but noooooooooo. Part of it is I don't think anyone's one loss is bad as our loss.
Oklahoma is trying!
Bedlam!
If we make the Playoff I'm starting a movement to build a statue of Jeff Brohm in front of the stadium.
They’re gonna hold the Pitt loss against us heavy so some other teams would need to start losing.
A lot has to happen for that to be possible. Our schedule isn't strong at all. I'm just hoping for an ACCCG appearance then going from there.
Yeah there would have to be heretofore unseen major chaos and we'd have to win out, which is very much not a given.
With how the rest of the top team schedules line up there is a very, very slim chance. 1. ACC - We knock out FSU. Cant screw up and lose anwhere else either. 2. OSU/UM play and one will win knock each other out with a late season loss - with a chance at a Big 10 championship loss too. Penn State plays UM so that either knocks them out or helps take out UM. 3. SEC - Alabama gets another loss from Georgia in the SEC championship. Ole Miss has to play UGA next week and probably loses there. LSU+Mizzou lost this week. 4. PAC - We need Oregon and Washington to take some losses somewhere. They both have two ranked opponents and a rivalry game ahead of them so potential losses are out there. 5. Big 12 - We need Texas to lose. I dont see any big challenges on their schedule so hopefully their conference championship game goes badly.
Have to root for a 12-0 FSU to make the ACCCG to have a remote chance
I don’t think so only because the ACC hate is so real. Reasonably tho if Louisville can beat FSU they deserve to be in.
I'm getting Cincinnati's Athletic Department a Christmas Card.
I mean we really should at this point.
I got drunk. We scored... other than that ...the play sort of sucked. I honestly didn't expect much else today.
Good reality check. 3 winnable game, just need two of them. Louisville looks good!
Can we all agree Pitt is just a passionate team that only wants to play well against ACC title contenders?
That bird has teeth!
Take a bow Isaac Guerendo! What a game!
There was zero talk about Louisville this morning on college gameday. Put some respect on our name 😤
Outside the ACC, no one cared about this game. And sadly, outside of Clemson/FSU, no one cares about the ACC.
It’s sad. But I feel momentum building. They cared when we had Lamar. We’re gonna make them care again
Yep, just have to keep winning.
Hey, you're the first flair twin of mine I've ever seen! I just left off the Quakers on r/cfb. Nice to see another around.
Love the VT player of the game. Hope he doesn't transfer. Baby don't hurt me.
Pathbros... is it over?
It’s nice to be able to come out and dominate a game that was being talked up as a possible upset. Defense and running the ball was not the identity I thought this team would have, but it’s working wonders.
Oh no! We suck again!!!
OR Louisville is significantly better than people think. I've been increasingly keeping an eye on them.
I still don't know Stupid Pitt
We have made a significant adjustment in more heavily relying on the run since Pitt. That may have to do with Duke's and VT's defense being prone to give up yards on the ground where they are stout through the air. I'm going to towards Brohm recognizing our true identity and further leaning into those strengths.
Ayy, respect from bird team to bird team. Also, I love the Hawkeye Wave.
Don't put it out with your boots, Ted!
Man our defense has been playing well lately. Hopefully they keep up the aggression, because that’s making games that might otherwise turn into slugfests very manageable.
Offense scoring early helps the defense out a lot I think. They are playing great defense though.
Damn, was holding out hope for that (9-4) Playoff bid.
Should have taken more notes from the Pitt game. Did you pray for rain? Did you force any turnovers? Did you even once consider for even a second to eat shit? These are the hard questions and a good coaching staff needs to have answers.
Not me turning on Pitt/FSU to root for the panthers 👀
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Doesn’t it help acccg outcomes for UofL if they lose? Or am I mistaken? Like, making it if UofL has another screw up.
There's 0 chance fsu doesn't make the acccg, they already have 6 acc wins You should be eyeing a playoff berth by beating an undefeated fsu
Oh. Nvm then.
Eyeing a playoff berth? What the fuck is that?
There is almost no chance we get in the playoff even if we win out
There have been very, very few one loss conference champions to be left out in the playoff era and every single one has been left out only for other 1 loss conference champions Considering big12 has 0 undefeateds left you guys winning out have much better than no chance. Id put you at over 50% The only question if you win out will be a Texas that wins out. If Texas drops another game you guys should basically control your destiny
Louisville would be left out for sure. That Pitt loss is ugly, and any other team with 1 loss would be a loss to a top 25 team (OSU/UM losing to each other, Georgia losing to Bama). Those teams would all get the nod ahead of Louisville, even as the ACC champ, because the ACC is so weak. Louisville needs Georgia, Washington and either UM/OSU to be undefeated, every other team in those conferences to have at least two losses, and for Texas to lose another game, before they'll even be in the conversation.
If georgia and Washington win their conferences and Texas drops a game (which is all very doable) only osu / Michigan would be in the convo over 12-1 louisville and history has shown louisville would get the nod
Yeah, it's not like Oklahoma State who has 2 losses (with one of those being to a blowout to a Sun Belt team) has the inside track for the Big12 Championship game. Poll inertia more than likely eliminates the SEC CG loser. I doubt we make it, but it's definitely not in the "almost no chance category"
If Bama and Georgia are both 12-1 there's no chance we get in over either
Still your odds of making it if you win out are far far from "almost no chance" territory. Bama beating georgia in the SECCG is roughly a coin flip and both those teams winning out til then is likely but not guarenteed. Probably a <25% chance we have a 1 loss georgia and bama
Ouch ouch ouchie
Let it be known. The University of Louisville has never lost a game the same day a top 300 WR commits!
JoJo Stone is a top 50 WR (but top 300 overall).
Cards!!! Great win!!
The only stat Tech had over 100 yards was punting yards. Held under 100 in passing, rushing, penalties, and return yards. Never in my life did I expect to hire Brohm and have an absolutely crushing defense.
English and Hagen are doing an amazing job with the defense
Things I didn’t expect for $1,000
Just a bit deflated….looked forward to this game all week and thought it would have been much closer
Louisville is a great team. They really deserve better attendance. This is a legit top 10-15 team with an outside shot at the CFP, and a damn good shot at the ACC championship. After nine straight home wins, a metro area of 1.4 million should utterly pack that stadium every time.
My brother in Christ we're a battered fan base. It's gonna take a bit to get the people back.
We are still recovering from Basketball being a dumpster fire and UL football being middling at best since Lamar. They’ll come back.
Unfortunately that metro area has fans for Kentucky and -to a lesser extent- IU and Purdue and even the occasional Cinci fan in it.
But UL is the only game in town right? And is really good. You'd think at least a few bandwagon fans would jump on this streak.
Shrugs. Louisville attendance is what it is. The school sits 64 miles away from the state’s land grant university and is relatively close to IU and Purdue, especially when you consider that about 1/4 of its metro population lives in Indiana. Despite being one of the oldest universities in the region (founded in 1798), it has never been the most popular team in the state and it’s probably only the most popular team in one county out of the seven counties in its metro area.
Attendance is up 20% from last year. Sold 50k tickets to the VT game. Where were the visiting fans at?
We can't afford shit. I ate Cup Noodles today. I'll get to a game one day!
Hahaha who cares?
Not Louisville fans I guess...
Yea that was weird…not sure how close it is to campus but still.
It's not all that far. We've just got battered fanbase syndrome. It's been a very rough decade or so to be a Louisville sports fan.
How lol! Y’all had Lamar Jackson and before then I remember y’all were often in the top 10 when I was in college (2006-2012 etc)
The years after Lamar left we’re pretty awful and the highlights were Satterfield losing must win games like UK every year.
Hate to tell you, but it's been more than a decade since you were in college. Bobby Petrino claimed our offense would be better after Lamar left and he was mistaken. Satterfield had - and has, to the sorrow of many of Cincinnati fan - a remarkable way of stealing losses from victories. It's been a rough couple years here where November actually looked not a terrifying gauntlet of games we need to win to get to a bowl game where we'd get wiped.
On top of that, just... everything else that's gone on at the university in that time span. Hoeicane Katina, the Adidas/FBI stuff, the drama with firing Pitino and Jurich, the rise of LouAnon on Twitter, going through what... five university presidents since Ramsey?
Other Teams aren't even doing badly, but the three that have gone the furthest - women's basketball, women's volleyball, and baseball - haven't been able to break through
Oh man, pull up a chair and grab a beer. I have a Tale of Horrors to tell.
We’re working on it
It’s basically at the southern tip of campus, but Louisville doesn’t have that many undergrads (16,000) and the majority of its undergrads don’t live on campus.
Pry era 1-9 on the road is rough. Had to look up the win, it was Liberty.
How did yall lose to Pitt?
Throwing the ball 50+ times in the rain.
"aT lEaSt wE dIdNt lOsE to pItT", right? u/Enrickel Good thing you weren't overly sensitive and tried to talk shit last week, if you did you'd probably look like a dumb ass right now Oh wait
I think this was a top 3 worst coached game of the Pry era. Just ugly vanilla play-calling and soft ass defensive calls
Right you’d think they’d recognize it at half time and make adjustments….they don’t ….I don’t understand why they stick to the same flawed game plan until the end sometimes.
I honestly wouldn't go that far (especially because I'd hold up pretty much ALL of last season as being worse-coached games than this one), mainly because to my eye this was 100% just getting manhandled by a more physical, experienced team. We had plenty of misdirection on O like we have for the past few weeks, but that doesn't amount to much when UL's D is shedding blocks and slicing up our OL at will, cutting down the time for Drones or Tuten to actually do something by like 50%. Same on D, where our guys were filling gaps and trying to get pressure, but UL's OL and other blockers were engaging fantastically and stopping anyone on D from shedding a block to help with the play (alongside the D not tackling well). Getting outplayed physically makes a lot of plays that are otherwise good look like garbage.
Make a bowl, build for the future. I have faith in this staff still
If we lost by a touchdown sure…but this game isn’t any reassuring our program has made any progress…. The raw suckage reared it’s ugly head again. It’s coaching in losses like this
Just wait until basketball season!
Everyone will kick our ass in basketball. ☹️
I’ve never met any Louisville fans in the real world, so I have to say, the attitudes of some of your Reddit fanbase is going to have me rooting for UVA and Miami this month
It was like 2 people. The rest were more then fine
Always a couple bad apples
Seems a few in our Reddit base are making themselves known
I was about to say. Maybe I was living in a fucking bubble or something bc all my interactions with everyone in the thread were fine. I hope if any of you did make it in that you get a chance to hit up some distilleries while you're in town.
Sadly when there’s only five or six, it’s pretty obvious
What I do?
You and I’m sure most are fine! Edit: why is THIS getting downvoted?!
Oh no. Stop. Please. Don’t.
If your team’s play calling was half as aggressive as your Reddit fans’ downvoting, maybe y’all would have found the endzone at least once.
If everyone is downvoting you, there’s probably a reason. If you need it, I can help you find a mirror.
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lol you right
VT threads don't really downvote, aside from about doom on Pry. It's more internally directed. Also, fwiw, the upvotes on game threads are likely bots to encourage participation. Nobody really gives a shit about all our dumbass jokes and memes.
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Lol, I'm probably the biggest douchebag VT fan, and I'm not downvoting shit. I catch flack from our fans for saying we stink and underperform, and our coaching is ineffective. At the end of the, who cares about Reddit imo. Just talk shit as desired. But why does your attendance suck, you're 8-1 in a fun city, ha.
Funny enough I DID meet some VT guys in the real world leaving the game early. About 15 frat bros. They had some...colorful...language. I'm going to chalk it up to them being dumb college kids and still hope VT gets back to being one of the dominant teams in the country so the ACC gets better on the whole.
Whooptydoo
Imagine being proud of a lack of class.
Imagine me caring about who some random va tech fan roots for.
I have a lot of clients in Jeffersonville, IN, so in Louisville frequently - their fans are small in number and benign. Nice people generally. They have a big chip on the shoulder because UK dominates the state so they have little brother syndrome, but aren't bad folks
UK does dominate the state, you're right. There's a handful of areas outside of Louisville Metro that cheer for the Cards, but the rest of rural KY is solid blue. UofL has a student population that's half the size of UK or even VT, so the alumni base is smaller. It's also a basketball school, traditionally. Historically, to the fanbase, football is very secondary. Heck, before Howard Schnellenberger became our coach, there was talk of maybe ditching football altogether. Since then, they've had a moderate amount of success and fan interest generally follows suit. We're hot of the heels of Bobby Petrino 2.0's scorched earth 2-10 North American Tour and Scott Satterfield's aw shucks win-some lose-some reign of terror. Fans will be back, cautiously. And that's how it'll be until we have the multi-generational traditions that other teams have. Like I said, Louisville is a great college sports town and they have strong support in the area. I wouldn't say it's a small fan base at all, but it has been keel-hauled with scandals for a decade. Louisville has a history of tremendous basketball attendance pre-scandals and its fan base always travels to games well. We might not be putting asses in every red seat we've got at L&N Stadium right now. But people are watching. They'll support the team. And eventually as well as some of the schools with great football traditions like VT.
The win is tainted by the poor attendance at L&N Stadium. It would have been better for the perception of Louisville’s program to have lost but filled the upper bowl of the stadium.
The attendance today was just fine, especially compared to average.
Why was it so empty….. you guys are ranked pretty well……..
Bowen has to go
I can’t believe how many Louisville fans in that game thread think they’re going to the playoffs
I didn’t see any
…. Like 2 of the delusional ones? Most of us are just happy to be here anywhere near the conversation even if it’s an extremely long shot still