Fire Steve Kragthorpe!

I’m so sick of watching my beloved Cardinals implode this season. They go from beating the #15 team in the nation, to losing at UConn…eesh. No chance of a BCS bowl this year, and I’m ready to face the fact that there won’t be any bowl this year.

This coming on the heels of a 11-1 season last year that, save a bad quarter at Rutgers, would have seen Louisville destroy the joke that was The Ohio State University (I’m sorry, but adding the “the” to Ohio State University is just ghey, and capitalizing it is mega ghey) for the National Championship. A BCS bowl we got, but no national title game, being a one-loss Big East team…too many folks decry the Big East when I think you can say much worse about the PAC-10, the Big Ten, and the ACC. We did dispatch our bowl opponent, and finished with a 12-1 record. In fact, the Big East went 5-0 in bowl games.

It’s hard to watch your team crumble…it’s hard to watch your QB, who should be in the running for the Heisman, who came back to contend for the national title, playing for nothing when he could be in the NFL now…and it’s even harder seeing what Gramps has got going on down the road in Lexington (no, I don’t hate UK…and I’m happy for their success…but couldn’t it come without our self-destruction?)

Kragthorpe is too much of a “players” coach, whereas Petrino was an “in your face” coach. The lack of discipline is evident on the sideline and in the games. The lack of discipline translates into the penalties we rack up. The lack of emotion is evident during the games. The lack of any true coaching strategy is evident during the games. I have no clue what sort of “hands on” Kragthorpe is doing in terms of the defense…but I think it’s safe to say he isn’t getting anything done.

The disaster at Kentucky would have never have happened with Petrino coaching…I don’t think Kragthorpe had any emotion during that game, which is bad, considering ol’ gramps (Rich Brooks) was putting on quite a show. What is he, like 80?

We now sit at 4-4 with four games left…and those include South Florida (#2 in the current BCS standings, but that’ll change since they lost to Rutgers), #9 West Virginia, and Rutgers, which just knocked off South Florida. Heck, I don’t even know that we can consider Pitt a win…we’ve already lost twice at Papa John’s this year…including a loss to woeful and pathetic Syracuse. Syracuse. We were 37 point favorites as I recall. So, prove me wrong Kragthorpe…win out and I’ll apologize and become a fan…or do what I expect you to do, and I’ll become even more vocal about you needing to go. I guess one plus to Tom Jurich keeping you around for a couple of seasons means a wealth of season tickets become available…but I’d rather see you hit the road, tulsa boy.

Another blogger has a great post on the way our offense klunked in the game against Uconn. With the talent we have on offense, there is NO EXCUSE for this Kragthorpe. Your play calling is hit or miss…and at times, it’s miss the broad side of a barn. Like tonight. Louisville = Duke…I shudder at the thought! And yet, I know it’s true…

Here’s a great site to expand upon the whole firing Kragthorpe thing…and if you’re a Louisville fan who would love to see Kragthorpe go, make sure you email Tom Jurich to let him know exactly how you feel.

I’m too upset to type much more…because I know I’ll go off and become rabid. But I’m so ready for football season to end and basketball to start. I think I’m even getting wistful for the Ron Cooper days…nah, not really…but I’d take John L. back, that’s for sure…nah, not really.