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“We want to thank Bobby for guiding our football program to some of the better seasons we have had historically at UofL during his two separate tenures here,” Tyra said. “However, at this time we feel the program needs different leadership and we owe it to our student-athletes and fans to get this turned around.”
Tyra had talked throughout the season about his hope for a turnaround under Petrino's leadership. He had said he didn't want to make a change during the season, but events of the last couple of weeks made an immediate decision more necessary.
“I did not have the confidence that it was going to happen next season without a change and it needs to start happening now," Tyra said. "We expect to determine a new head coach soon to restore our football program to national prominence.”
Action Yesterday
Perhaps the least frequently mentioned name is Mariia Astashkina, from Moscow, who is competing primarily in the breast stroke in her sophomore season as a Cardinal swimmer. Five guys are representing the ACC as well, again, mostly names you've heard before if you follow the Swimming and Diving to any significant degree; Marcelo Acosta, Nick Albiero, Andrej Barna, Zach Harting and Evgenii Somov.
After the first day of swimming, the Men are neck and neck with the Big Ten at 85 points, and the ACC at 82. The women's battle is not as close, with the Big Ten in the lead 123-44. The event continues today.
Action Today
Rowing is participating in the latest of the wonderfully named rowing events, the Rivanna Romp, in Earlysville, VA.
Men's Soccer is competing at noon for the ACC Championship. They tangle with North Carolina, in Cary NC. This matchup is a 4 seed, Louisville, vs the 2 seed Tarheels. In national rankings, UNC is #4 in the coach's poll, while UofL sits in 10th. This one gets a bit of a step of from the typical ACC Network Extra and will be on ESPNU.
Also in action today, a bit of an injury depleted UofL Volleyball squad will be taking on Wake Forest at 1 p.m. This one is available on the ACC Network Extra.
A quick run down on the injuries that we're aware of. Alexis Hamilton has been out all season, going down with an ACL tear right before the season opener. Kelly O'Neil has been out for an extended period already with a back injury, details are not known. And in the past week, Emily Scott and Melanie McHenry have both been either out, or at least on limited playing regimes due to knee injuries (we have a report of a stress fracture for Scott, and a strained patella tendon for McHenry, neither are anything official).
Along with the departure of Maggie Mullen from the team, the injuries at DS have left the team eyeing the remaining DSes closely. Freshman Mia Stander has stepped up and proven herself capable of taking on the role beyond any shadow of a doubt. Akela Yuhl, sophomore, has stepped up and filled the role well, and we still have Natalie Palastro who could step into the role as well, so we're still in a good situation for DSes, but I certainly wouldn't want to lose any more to injury.
Today might be a good day to spread some of the playing time around and develop some of thoseextra players that have spent time in the wings ready to step up when their number is called. Wake Forest sits in the bottom quarter of the ACC rankings at 4-11 in conference, 9-18 overall. Wake has dropped decisions against Air Force, UNC Greensboro, and Ohio University.
The VolleyCards are the lone "fall sport" that we regularly cover that is still in action...with WSOC and Field Hockey finished for the season.
Cardinal Couple Radio Hour
We discussed Volleyball, Women's Basketball, and even had a little bit of fun with Rowing event names.
A special "Thank You" to WCHQ for giving us this great venue to relay the joy and excitement of Louisville women's athletics.
A special "Thank You" to WCHQ for giving us this great venue to relay the joy and excitement of Louisville women's athletics.
Catch the replay fun at:
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JMcA
Are you trying to make a silk worm out of a sow's ear with the volleyball injury situation. :)
ReplyDeleteNow that Bobby Petrino is gone are you submitting your application, Paulie?
ReplyDeleteLOL. I think they should interview Mike Gilpatrick.
DeletePaulie
So, I decide to sleep in on a Sunday morning/afternoon and THIS happens? Bye-bye Bobby. Thanks for all you did here but the writing was on the wall and Vince and the Board finally read it and reacted to it.
ReplyDeleteI can't say I'm surprised.
Curtis "They come and go" Franklin
I think my comment upon Petrino's return was (quoted from memory, so may not be *exactly* right), "If he's successful in 5 years, I'll be the happiest person ever to have been wrong."
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DeleteWe tried Bobby 2.0 and it worked for awhile. We did have Teddy and Lamar during his time and those are two players that I'll never forget and always be grateful for.
In the end, the inability to hire a good defensive coordinator and a team that eventually lost confidence in his ability to lead them caught up with him.
I hope that the Cards get Brohm.
-- The Real Joe Hill --
Jared has a nice article planned for Monday and he'll cover the Petrino decision as well.
ReplyDeleteWhat I will say is -- to echo -- Joe in that defense eventually did Bobby in. I think he'd make a great offensive coordinator for someone. Maybe the fire goes out for coaching for him. I know $14 million would soothe me a bit.
A new era awaits. We survived Cooper, Kragthorpe and we'll survive this too. Now, onto a great WBB season and a long run for Volleyball!
Paulie