Please Beat Louisville

[Bearcat_Nippert]

Please do all of us a favor and take down the Cards on Saturday. They should have never been invited to the ACC, certainly not ahead of Cincinnati or UConn. I cannot stand them anymore and would love nothing more to see their season end with a loss to Pitt and then Kentucky.

Good luck to Pittsburgh!

 

[Pghfan]

I'll do my best

 

[Pitt_97]

They should have never been invited to the ACC, certainly not ahead of Cincinnati or UConn.

What are you smoking? We'll do our best!!!

 

[UPitt '89]

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Please do all of us a favor and take down the Cards on Saturday. They should have never been invited to the ACC, certainly not ahead of Cincinnati or UConn. I cannot stand them anymore and would love nothing more to see their season end with a loss to Pitt and then Kentucky.

Good luck to Pittsburgh!

Actually, Louisville was a much better choice for the league than Cincy or UConn.

Sorry.

 

[Pghfan]

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Actually, Louisville was a much better choice for the league than Cincy or UConn.

Sorry.

Louisville puts sports ahead of anything and everything. Got to give them that.. Hookers for recruits, that's dedication.

 

[9nationalchampionships]

“Neck brace” Petrino & “IHOP” Pitino

 

[Pghfan]

Louisville is up front with their priorities though, they basically say it and are fine with it.. Bball is king, they don't care if Pitino is banging asst coaches wives on a table in a restaurant, he is a good coach and they can live with our scorn. In a sick, demented way, you got to respect that..

 

[UPitt '89]

ACC is an athletic league. Louisville was clearly a better choice than Cincy or UConn.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Louisville is up front with their priorities though, they basically say it and are fine with it.. Bball is king, they don't care if Pitino is banging asst coaches wives on a table in a restaurant, he is a good coach and they can live with our scorn. In a sick, demented way, you got to respect that..

Spot on!

 

[Panther Parrothead]

ACC is an athletic league. Louisville was clearly a better choice than Cincy or UConn.

Exactly. On their message board, even Louisville fans expressed surprise that they were invited to join the ACC, given their not-so-great academics reputation. That "invite" made it quite clear that the ACC wanted the best team available with the best sports programs.

 

[pitt-girl]

Exactly. On their message board, even Louisville fans expressed surprise that they were invited to join the ACC, given their not-so-great academics reputation. That "invite" made it quite clear that the ACC wanted the best team available with the best sports programs.

The B1G also abandoned their "academic" facade with the Nebraska invite.

 

[Panthertag]

The B1G also abandoned their "academic" facade with the Nebraska invite.

And athletics with Buttgers...

 

[Panther Parrothead]

And athletics with Buttgers...

For the Scarlet Knights, their Big 10 invitation was like manna from heaven. They bring nothing of major value to the Big 10, including the phantom NYC market.

 

[Dr. von Yinzer]

I wish Louisville had beaten out West Virginia out for that Big 12 bid.

Had that happened, I firmly believe that West Virginia would be in the ACC right now and we would have our big game back.

Alas, they took one community college over the other and we are lesser for it.

 

[Panthertag]

I can't believe some of you care this much about another schools academics...it's an "athletic" conference! And some of you need to quit ripping on other schools because their academics aren't up to Pitt's standards...so what.

 

[Pitt79]

Louisville puts sports ahead of anything and everything. Got to give them that.. Hookers for recruits, that's dedication.

Pitt needs to step it up in those areas! Thing is, it doesn't hurt your academics at all! So what if your 200 or so scholarship athletes get 750 on the SAT if the other 30,000 students average 1250.

 

[Jeffburgh]

I wish Louisville had beaten out West Virginia out for that Big 12 bid.

Had that happened, I firmly believe that West Virginia would be in the ACC right now and we would have our big game back.

Alas, they took one community college over the other and we are lesser for it.

I'm not sure - setting aside if the ACC was willing to stoop THAT low ...

End of the day, it is about TV sets.

WVU brings, literally, nothing to the table that the Virginia schools and Pitt don't, and Pitt has a bigger reach.

ACC wasn't adding teams just to add teams ...

 

[Jeffburgh]

Three, four years ago, whatever it was, the talk was all this breathless bs about the Big 12 raiding the acc, the hillscrews babbling about being at the "big boy" table and what not ...

But, the Big 12 made a catastrophically bad decision not gobbling up Louisville instead of WVU, or in addition to them (that Texas won't let anyone else in aside ...).

That really left the ACC in a position to be doing a pickup basketball game and all of a sudden see a stud sitting there for them to pick up.

It mostly fell into their laps.

Big 10 went low rent for the tvs, though I think the Rutgers bringing NYC tvs was always over stated, but, got them and poached Maryland, leaving the ACC to somehow manage to be forced to trade up ... Then be the league to get ND to date them ....

Big 12 adds WVU

Big 10 adds Rutgers and Maryland

ACC adds Pitt, Cuse, Lousville and dating ND

 

[PushupMan]

Please do all of us a favor and take down the Cards on Saturday. They should have never been invited to the ACC, certainly not ahead of Cincinnati or UConn. I cannot stand them anymore and would love nothing more to see their season end with a loss to Pitt and then Kentucky.

Good luck to Pittsburgh!

Louisville 2014-15 total athletic department revenue: $104 million (3rd in the ACC behind FSU and Notre Dame)
Cincinnati 2014-15 total athletic department revenue: $42 million
UConn: $72 million.

The ACC could have invited UConn or Cincinnati, but Louisville was the clear choice as long as the criteria was an athletic department with strong fan and corporate support. UConn was a distant second, and Cincinnati is a program that continues to do more with less. Unfortunately (for UC), that's not what the ACC needed to replace Maryland.

 

[WNYPanther]

I wish Louisville had beaten out West Virginia out for that Big 12 bid.

Had that happened, I firmly believe that West Virginia would be in the ACC right now and we would have our big game back.

Alas, they took one community college over the other and we are lesser for it.

I'm glad they didn't, Hoopies can rot in hell. The Big XII is dying a slow death and I'm gonna enjoy seeing WVU stuck in the flyover states equivalent of the final years of the Big East once Texas & Oklahoma head for greener pastures.

 

[PushupMan]

I honestly think that by the time it came to choose between Louisville, UC, and UConn, the ACC pretty much knew it had to be UofL.

It's been well established that Louisville had an agreement to move to the Big XII as soon as that conference could find a suitable 12th to go with us. Oklahoma wanted UofL even without a 12th, but Texas was against it. If you remember all of the rumors in the summer of 2012 about Notre Dame, FSU, Clemson, Georgia Tech and Miami as possible additions to the Big XII, it doesn't take too much of a leap to figure out where that was coming from.

It was Oklahoma working behind the scenes to recruit someone from the ACC for the 12th member that was acceptable to Texas.

Once Maryland did the unthinkable, many in the ACC realized that adding Louisville was the best way to shut down the Big XII's efforts to poach an ACC football power.