The Aftermath

No, no, I am not talking about the failed Dr. Dre Album. I am instead talking about the fallout from the big win last week. The picture you see above is the beloved Cards favorite symbol. I must say I walked out of the stadium with that happily thrown in the air. The last gasp for duh ville did bring back some bad memories of hail marys gone bad in UK's history, but it turned out for the best. Instead of giving you my commentary, I will allow you to read comments I have copied and pasted from the UL message board on http://louisville.rivals.com. Enjoy!

• On that last play for UK, I was watching Woodson, seeing if we were going to get pressure. When I saw him turn to throw the ball to his left, I looked over there and was absolutely sure I saw the UK receiver running out of bounds along the UK sideline, and he wasn't anywhere near Woodny, so I didn't think he was pushed out.
• I know, every game is full of blown calls and it's just part of the game. But we really did the get the short end of the stick in this game even though we let that guy be that wide open with 34 seconds to play. We should have won.
• Ok the Cats got us, our defense is a work in progress, and we continue to make mistakes. But now is not the time to scuttle the ship and jump. The fact that UK beating UL is called an upset, shows where our program is compared to theirs. They will slink back to the dog$hit leagues next season when all their playmakers graduate, while we will be talking about better things like possibly being 2 time defending Big East Champs.
• Theyve won 2 out of 9 games against us...pretty impressive. Our program is still far ahead. This stuff always seems to happen with a new coach and new system. Like Howie said last night "the blind squirrel found its nut". We'll go on next year to dominate them again as they go back to the 3 and 4 win season with only like 3 or 4 returning starters on offense. We'll have every running back returning, 3 of the oline, another top 5 QB in the country, Spillman and Mario will take over WR, and our defense returns the majority(not that its a good thing right now).
• but saying that UK was much better than UL is simply not true. I believe if UL had played a real good team on the road and played like that, it wouldn't have been close. The whole game was a recipe for disaster and UL nearly came away with a win. The bad penalties, turnovers, dropped passes, not making tackles, and blown coverages will get you killed usually against a really good team. I give credit to UK for playing a better game than UL. They didn't turn it over, but that goes to dropped passes by UL's defense. There were three passes that were picks if UL's secondary had any hands. I just feel like it was apperent UL has more talent, but the coordination is suspect. That falls on the coaches and the QB. It is not pee wee football where the coaches can make sure there are 7 guys on the line of scrimmage, that is the QB's job and Brohm blew it. The whole game was a series of disappointment for me. Congrats to UK though, they did earn it, but it would have been humiliating to show up at WVU with that kind of effort. UL would have lost by at least 30. I could easily see 5 losses if the coaches don't A) solve the penalties, B) teach the D how to tackle, C) tell Mario to catch the ball or he is riding the bench. UL has way too many playmakers sitting on the sideline for Mario to continue to drop pass after pass. Sorry, but I just had to vent. I'm done. Go Cards! Get it fixed against Syracuse.
• This is what irks me...this kind of crap-it is obvious that the refs were bias, the commentators were bias, the clock guy was bias. That win cost UK a lot of $$$$
• YES!!!***** HOME TOWN CLOCK KEEPER! HE ROBBED US THE REST OF THE GAME*****The WR was two steps in the end zone with 35 seconds left...the clocked was let go down to 28 sec*Guy returned the ball out of the endzone and was laying on the ground with 24 sec....but the clock didnt stop until 21 sec*Brohms next long pass that was almost picked was bouncing on the ground with 16 sec...the clock ticked on until 14 sec remained.*The next pass to Guy was pretty accurate, he ran out of bounds with 6 seconds, and the clockeeper stopped it at 5 seconds. I can understand it takes a second for human error.That totals up to 12 seconds lost. HUGE!!!!I counted in my head how much time would been left after Douglas was tackled...and the play went on for about 5 seconds after the regulation time was run out. Thanks to college football stopping the clock with a first down, that would have left us with 7 seconds. Plenty of time.
• We are one lucky play away from being a shoe in for the National Championship

And those are comments all taken from the message board today! Planet Red was in a state of distress on Sunday, but here's to the Cats moving on from a big W and taking down the pigs