NEWS FLASH.
UofL has lost their appeal with the NCAA and the 2013 men's basketball championship banner will come down. Writer Jared Anderson will have more in his Wednesday article. It may be gone but it'll always remain in our minds and hearts.
LOUISVILLE WBB HEAD COACH JEFF WALZ AND WIFE TO DONATE A $1 FOR EACH FAN IN ATTENDANCE OVER 10,000 THURSDAY NIGHT TO CANCER FUND AND HAS THAT OFFER DOUBLED
Yow had a dream. To unite the players, coaches and fans of women's college basketball on a cause for the greater good that reached far beyond the wins and losses of college basketball. The Kay You Cancer Fund is a 501(c)3 Foundation that was designed to fight against women's cancers.
Jeff Walz, the head women's basketball coach at the University of Louisville, is all-in on helping the foundation. In a Tweet Monday night he announced:
#cardnation, on Thursday night my wife and I will donate $1 dollar for every fan over 10,000 to the @KayYowFund. Come out and let's see how much we can raise to help beat cancer. #onedollaratatime
Six hours later, an anonymous donor informed Walz that they would double every dollar that Walz and Lauren donated. $3 per person for the fund. Thursday night is the Cardinals Play4Kay night and they'll bring Virginia into the KFC YUM! Center for a Thursday night contest against JoAnne Boyle and the Wahoos. The game, itself, is important to both squads...Louisville trying to remain atop the ACC Standings and Virginia ...at 9-5 trying to win and get in the top 4 of the conference and receive the two-round bye.
Beyond the game's positioning implications, though, Thursday is much more important than wins and losses. It is a chance for Cardinal fans to come out and show that they are humanitarians in addition to great basketball fans. We all have known someone that has had cancer. Someone that has died of cancer. The long and debilitating fight. Yow was diagnosed in 1987, seemingly had it beat until it returned in 2004.
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Louisville attendance for night, during the week games has been a bit short of 10,000. It's time to change that. It's time to draw back those 300 levels curtains and "pack the bucket" with bodies. The question eventually arises...what will happen if the attendance doesn't reach 10,000? I'm tossing that question out. Fake news. Not going to be a problem. Cardinal fans will respond, will make the effort and fill that lower bowl.
In return, you'll get Durr, Hines-Allen and the rest of the daring and daunting Cardinals that have been a bright spot in a bleak 2017-18 for Cardinal athletics. You'll also be helping to make a difference in another battle. A life-changing, life ending battle. Shortly before my mother died in 1998, her body emaciated and ravaged by cancer, she told me she wanted to go to the ocean. She did not want to die in a hospital. She wanted the serenity of watching the water come in and out. I discussed it with her oncologist. He told me she'd never survive the journey. I went ahead and booked the trip anyway. Sadly, she did die in the hospital.
Here's your chance to make some waves, Cardinal fans. All fans. All those who would like to punch cancer right in the gut and tell it to go away and not return.
Cancer sucks.
paulie
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Wow. Powerful and emotional article, Paulie. Even though I won't be able to come in for Naples for the game, my check's in the mail to Kay's foundation. We have all been touched by cancer, you got that right. I lost my Dad to prostate cancer.
ReplyDeleteCancer does suck.
-- The Real Joe Hill --
I'll be there and bringing a first-timer.
ReplyDeleteCancer sucks. Got both my parents and grandmother
Blue Lou
I agree cancer sucks big time too many family member lost the battle with CANCER!
ReplyDeleteAlso losing the 2013 NCAA MBB CHAMPIONSHIP BANNER is a bunch of horse manure! Excuse me, but that's how I fill about the subject.
GO CARDS win five more BANNER! CARDS FOREVER!!!!!
Agree Marvin. The NCAA sucks, too, in addition to Cancer.
DeleteThe Deb Factor
From UofL president Post-Hole:
ReplyDeleteDear UofL Family,
Today the NCAA Infractions Appeals Committee upheld earlier penalties imposed on the University of Louisville, including vacation of victories from 2011 to 2015. That includes the 2013 national championship and the 2012 Final Four appearance.
I cannot say this strongly enough: We believe the NCAA is simply wrong.
We disagree with the NCAA ruling for reasons we clearly stated in our appeal. And we made a strong case - based on NCAA precedent - that supported our argument.
From Day One, the university has admitted that the actions of the former operations director and any others involved under previous leadership were offensive and inexcusable. That is why we apologized immediately, cooperated fully with the NCAA, self-imposed penalties that were appropriate to the offenses and made significant changes to ensure incidents like this never happen again. Under the NCAA's own rules, this cooperation should have been a factor in the severity of the punishment. Instead, it was ignored.
Like you, I believe the university needed to appeal the decision as strongly as possible. We brought in some of the best legal minds in the country, including the nation's top litigator, who helped develop and argue our case. This effort was costly both financially and in the time commitment. We felt, and still feel, that the young men who earned those victories and the thousands of fans who supported them deserved our best effort. The pain caused for our fans and the players who were not involved is perhaps the most regretful result of this decision.
This dark cloud has hung over our heads for more than two years, and it has had a negative impact on our athletics program, our fans and the entire university family. While we disagree with the NCAA's decision, it is time for the university to close this chapter and move forward with a stronger commitment to excellence on and off the court.
First and foremost, we are a university. However painful, this situation gives us the opportunity to turn the corner. We will move forward in an open, transparent and collaborative way. We will need your help to do so.
The NCAA's ruling cannot change the accomplishments or the excitement generated by our Cardinals basketball team. It cannot change the feeling many of us shared as we experienced the victories those teams earned. And it cannot change the love so many of us have for this great university.
I hope you will join me in continuing to remember those teams and their contributions. And I hope you will join me as the university looks to brighter days in athletics and as an academic institution.
Greg Postel, M.D.
Interim President
He's full of b.s. just like Papa Crust, Opossum/Grissom and the rest of then B.O.T. There will be "no brighter days" with these monsters in power. Fire the board, bring in a new board, hire a president, AD and MBB coach and do it soon. A vote of no confidence on the BOT is needed.
ReplyDelete$600,000 is a lot but nowhere near the 12-15 million people were discussing. The NCAA is a toothless tiger. It's the FBI that scares the holy beejezus out of me. Those boys don't play around. This is not over yet and I'd tell the NCAA they can hire a laborer, have him bring his own ladder and take the damn thing down themselves.
ReplyDeleteI'll go with putting up a -- 2013 National Champions - Men's basketball -- banner. Mentions nothing about the NCAA.
Paulie