If you’ve missed any LSL podcast from the month of May, click HERE to to get caught up. Please remember our men and women in the armed forces and enjoy your Memorial Day. As always, thank you for listening.
Guests from this month include:
-247sports.com’s national football recruiting analyst JC Shurburtt
-CBSSports.com’s national college football insider Jeremy Fowler
-Scout.com’s national basketball recruiting analyst Evan Daniels
The woman hired to clean up Rutgers’ scandal-scarred athletic program quit as Tennessee’s women’s volleyball coach 16 years ago after her players submitted a letter complaining she ruled through humiliation, fear and emotional abuse, The Star-Ledger reported Saturday night on its website. “The mental cruelty that we as a team have suffered is unbearable,” the players wrote about Julie Hermann, hired May 15 as Rutgers’ athletic director after serving as the No. 2 athletic administrator at Louisville.
“I just want to show teams I’m a capable leader and that I can continue to run teams and find open people and get them open shots,” Siva said. “A lot of people always say, ‘Why didn’t you score a lot in college and why didn’t you up those big numbers?’ For me, it wasn’t my job to do that. I’m all about winning.”
Williams later added, “Before anything, I’m a father. Before anything, my job is to protect my kid. And to be there. It’s so easy as me, just dropping my son off, and something turns bad. It doesn’t affect me, because I’m a father at the end of the day, no basketball, no NBA, no nothing. I’m a father. I’m fortunate to be here, to be able to workout, to be able to come to this facility. Still be on the team now. I can’t let it affect me because the people that are saying the negative things, they don’t really control my life or my future.”
LSL comes at you today at 6 on ESPN 680 and ESPNLouisville.com week as the guys talk all things UofL. We will be joined by 5-star hardwood phenom JaQuan Lyle at 6:30 to get the latest on his recruitment. Insidetheville.com publisher Mike Hughes will come on at 7:15 to talk about the Cards’ chances of repeating, Teddy’s Heisman talk, and recruiting.
Other topics include:
-will UofL land Oklahoma State QB transfer Wes Lunt?
-the ACC’s new bowl lineup
-an update on basketball and football recruiting
-TWill’s troubles
As always, we want you to be apart of the program, hit us up at 267-9680 and on twitter @LvilleSprtsLive.
With the baseball team’s series sweep over Pitt this weekend, they became the latest UofL team to win a championship, giving the school 8 Big East titles this season. Below are teams who have won Big East championships:
FOOTBALL: 11-2 (co-champs; VOLLEYBALL: 30-4; 14-1 in league (regular season and tournament); MEN’S SOCCER: 14-6-1 (regular season); WOMEN’S SWIMMING
BASKETBALL: 35-5 (regular season co-champs and tournament); BASEBALL: 46-10 (regular season; tournament TBD)
BCS/National/Regional titles:
FOOTBALL: Sugar Bowl Champions
MEN’S BASKETBALL: National Champions
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Oklahoma City Regional Champions
It’s safe to say that our fellow Big East/American Athletic Conference foes are glad the Cards will be moving to the ACC soon….
We are through three of four days in Ameila Island, Florida as UofL’s future league wraps up tomorrow. With Jurich and Coach Strong in attendance, Louisville’s leadership is quickly getting acquainted with their new surroundings.
*ACC looking more in-depth at hosting their basketball tournament in New York at Madison Square Garden
“There is real momentum to play the tournament at Madison Square Garden,” a source said. “Why shouldn’t the premier basketball conference play in the world’s premier arena?”
Sources attending the meetings said the ACC should always look at ways to improve its product.
“No matter what business model you’re in, if you’re the best — and our league is the best — you should take it to New York,” a source said.
The ACC scaled back from a nine-game league slate to an eight-game league slate last October after Notre Dame entered into a football scheduling partnership with the schools as part of their membership in all other sports. Notre Dame essentially takes up one nonconference spot every three years. For those teams with long-standing rivalry games like Florida State, Clemson and Georgia Tech, playing nine league games, plus Notre Dame, plus a rivalry game is untenable.
*ACC Coaches want input in selection committee for the Playoff
“For the most part, we wanted to see conference representation and institutional representation rotated to some degree but the biggest item for us is the criteria of selecting those four teams. We want our coaches’ poll to matter,” Cutcliffe said. “In another sense, all the coaches have a vote on the committee, and we think that’s good for the game, for the coaches to be good stewards of who’s in that national championship picture.
LSL comes at you on a Monday this week as the guys talk all things UofL at 6:00 on ESPN 680 and ESPNLouisville.com. We will discuss the recent WR verbal commitments as well as the scuttlebutt about 4-star QB Alin Edouard possibly changing his commitment from Miami to Louisville. We’re going to be joined on air by one of those new commitments, two-sport Jacksonville star Isiah Ford at 6:30 as well as 5-star hardwood phenom JaQuan Lyle at 6:45. We’re also trying to get Peyton Siva to join us sometime in the second hour, so stay tuned for that.
Other topics include:
-wanting the UofL – UK football series to continue if both leagues go to 9 conference games
-what the football team needs to improve upon during the offseason
- basketball recruiting
As always, we want you to be apart of the program, hit us up at 267-9680 and on twitter @LvilleSprtsLive.
The latest view from the newturf being installed courtesy of @Rocco_GasparroULFB
*UofL announced today that the Ohio game will be played on Sunday, September 1st at 3:30 on ESPN.
The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 31, but was moved to accommodate ESPN’s opening-week football schedule.
Louisville’s appearance on ESPN will be the fifth nationally televised game slated this season. The Cardinals have a pair of Thursday night contests versus Rutgers and Cincinnati on the slate and two Friday night appearances versus Central Florida and Connecticut.
*Louisville’s 2014 class is up to #10 according 247sports.com
Jan. 1, 8:30 p.m. Glendale, Ariz. Big 12 vs. at-large ESPN
Comment: Texas is the projected Big 12 champion and lands in the Fiesta Bowl. With the last pick of at-large selections, the champion of the new American Athletic Conference (Louisville) lands here.
After a Derby week hiatus, the boys are back with a jam-packed show dedicated to talking only UofL athletics today at 6:00 on ESPN 680 and ESPNLouisville.com. Our first guest will be CBSSports.com’s college football insider Jeremy Fowler as we will get the latest on all things ACC and the new College Football Playoff. Scout.com’s national college basketball recruiting analyst Evan Daniels will join us to discuss the remaining 2014 targets for Pitino and Co. We’ll also be joined be DE Deiontrez Mount to get his take on the upcoming season as well as get an update on his health. As always, we want you to be apart of the program, so hit us up at 267-9680 and on twitter @LvilleSprtsLive.
Show topics include:
-How much more the money the ACC could get from the recetn GOR
-Could Louisville make it to the BCS Title game if they go 12-0
-Hoop prospects in the 2014 class that Pitino and staff are targeting
Kevin chillin’ with Jeezy. Somewhere Jay Bilas is crazy jealous.
We are stuck in it UofL fans. Right in the middle of it. The offseason is now upon us and the boredom is on the verge of overtaking us. Anywho, here are some links to keep you up to snuff in the world of sports as it concerns our Louisville Cardinals.
*The ACC Network and the additional millions of dollars that would come with it are gaining steam.
Now, ACC officials are turning their attention to launching their own league-branded network, joining the ranks of the Big Ten, Pac-12 and, now, SEC as conferences that own channels.
“We’ve got the strongest collegiate TV market in the country,” ACC Commissioner John Swofford said. “We’re now in a position to accelerate talks with ESPN, which were already ongoing, about a network.”
The conference’s recent additions — Notre Dame, Louisville, Pittsburgh and Syracuse — plus the grant of rights “enhance those discussions,” Swofford added. Those moves caused ESPN to sweeten its rights offer for an all-in media deal that will average $260 million a year through 2026-27. There are other contractual elements, sources said, that could push the value higher, especially if the conference starts its own network.
*Another story on the ACC Grant of Rights being signed. One glance at our football schedule for 2013 and you see why reading about ACC stability will NEVER get old.
“Then when Maryland left (last November), the presidents were very much caught off guard, we all were, and they came out, our council of presidents, with a statement about the solidarity of the league, their commitment to the league. Yet there continued to be rumors out there … and I think we all got tired of that. As unfounded as they were, it certainly was not helpful and kept sort of chipping away at the perceived stability of the league.
“In talking with a number of our presidents after that statement of very strong words, I finally just told them, ‘The verbiage is terrific, and I know you mean it, and you know you mean it, but the one thing that is an action that can put it to rest is the grant of rights. And that’s when we became more serious about taking that next step.”
In just a little over 10 years we have seen a 200 percent increase in on-campus living. Our six-year graduation rate has increased from 30 percent to 52 percent. Our average freshman ACT score has gone up four points. We are competing with the Ivy League schools when comparing the number of Fulbright awards. I and others have represented U of L across the world (from China to Belize). Our students have obtained nationally prominent awards like the Rhodes and Truman scholarships. The Speed School of Engineering and College of Business are making key partnerships with local companies, and their students are competing and placing in national competitions.
We’ll being seeing this a few times next year….From NCAA ’14 Trailer (pic from @ElleRaiser)
*Watch the Louisville-Michigan game with the call from Vitale and Nessler
Twitter is arguably the hottest social media tool in the world currently, and while the younger generation is usually first to get familiar with new technology and websites, college coaches have gotten into the mix and are now on Twitter. In this blurb from the Tulsa World, blogger Kelly Hines compiled a list of the 86 Division 1 coaches who have an account. Coach Strong is at 20 with 28, 152 when this story was published. (He’s now up to 28, 290)
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