http://www.realfootball365.com Louisville Cardinals Football News, scores, analysis and discussion. College Football News. en-us info@realfootball365.com Copyright (C) 2005-2008 www.realfootball365.com http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/13994 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/13994 The latest photos of University of Louisville football coach Steve Kragthorpe have him wearing a beard. Maybe that's in hopes no one will recognize him. For despite the relentlessly upbeat patter from both the coach and UL athletic director Tom ("The more I see of Steve, the more impressed I am") Jurich, there's no question that Kragthorpe enters 2009 with a large target on his back. The Web... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2009-06-01T05:13:22-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12510 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12510 The biggest question entering Sunday's University of Louisville-University of Kentucky football game at Louisville's Papa John Stadium at 3:30 is this: Has the Louisville defense learned English? No, this is not a unit made up of immigrants. But after the Cardinals' defense committed a season's worth of Cardinal sins (40.8 points per game allowed, nullifying 37 points a week from the offense),... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-08-29T17:13:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12399 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12399 It's almost as if wide receivers are becoming an endangered species at the University of Louisville. This year, they're disappearing faster than whooping cranes. In the spring, 2007 stars Harry Douglas and Mario Urrutia took their pass-catching talents to the NFL. That left speedsters JaJuan Spillman and Trent Guy and big receiver Scott Long -- still not a bad unit. Except that Spillman was... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-08-19T17:42:01-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12397 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12397 If Steve Kragthorpe has learned anything during his time as a college football coach, it's this -- you can never have too much of a good thing at any position. That's why Kragthorpe welcomed North Carolina State transfer and native Kentuckian Justin Burke to the quarterback mix this week. Or, more accurately, next season. A 6-foot-3, 220-pounder from Lexington Catholic, Burke was free-falling... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-08-19T17:31:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12347 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12347 Fortunately for Trent Guy and the University of Louisville football team, someone who has yet to be identified was an imperfect shooter. "An inch to the right it would have hit my spine," Guy told ESPN a few weeks after being shot in the back outside a Louisville nightclub, "and inch to the left, it would have hit a vital organ." The shooting spun off an altercation between Guy and a man who... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-08-13T12:27:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12094 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/12094 There's no question -- he's a lucky Guy. Shot in the back outside a Louisville nightclub on July 5, University of Louisville wide receiver Trent Guy was out of the hospital in less than a week and is expected to make a full recovery. Guy got into an altercation with a club patron who approached his fiancee, and both combatants were ejected. Then, as Guy and his date were walking toward a... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-07-18T23:03:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11897 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11897 That will teach Steve Kragthorpe to go out of town. The University of Louisville football coach left recently for a family vacation in Mexico. A couple of days later, junior wide receiver JaJuan Spillman was arrested for the second time in 18 months on marijuana charges and jailed overnight. Two days later, wide receiver Trent Guy, also a junior, was taken to University Hospital in Louisville... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-07-06T01:06:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11844 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11844 The football talent pool at the University of Louisville grew even more shallow last week. You don't lose a 6-foot-4, 280-pound player without it creating a ripple. Not that Aundre Henderson had lived up to his promise so far as a Cardinal. Given a four-star ranking by Rivals.com as a senior at Louisville's Manual High School and touted as the No. 2 prospect in the state, Henderson originally... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-07-02T05:12:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11845 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11845 Never underestimate the power of a stopwatch. Although running back/defensive back Ezedrick (Zed) Evans of Seagoville High School in suburban Dallas, Texas, hadn't been ranked by any of the major recruiting services, or even noticed much outside of his own prep conference, the 5-foot-10, 185-pounder burst into prominence -- literally -- at a Nike Camp in his hometown when he reeled off a 4.41... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-07-01T15:47:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11593 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11593 Ron English not only coaches football players -- he finds them. The new University of Louisville defensive coordinator was credited this spring with spotting Daniel Brown, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound safety out of Douglass High School in Atlanta, and signing him as a 2008 recruit. Somehow, Brown managed to play his senior season under the national radar, but he has been clocked in 4.5 for the 40 and... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-06-12T03:47:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11248 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11248 For three years, the stat line for University of Louisville running back George Stripling has been in free fall. Last week, it hit bottom. After Stripling missed all of spring practice because of a suspension, Cardinals coach Steve Kragthorpe finally just told him to clean out his locker (maybe Kragthorpe was waiting to see how potential replacements performed in April drills). His crime was... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-05-19T04:51:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11172 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11172 Mike Privott's dream football school was always the University of Michigan. That's why he decided to cast his lot with Louisville. Confused? Actually, there's a two-word explanation -- Ron English. After producing a series of high-profile linebackers and linemen as the Wolverines' defensive coordinator, English left Ann Arbor for Louisville when the Rich Rodriguez regime arrived. And Privott, a... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-05-09T01:22:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11079 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/11079 How would you like to be in Aaron Rodgers' cleats? For almost four years, he's been waiting around for Brett Favre to retire, kind of like a faithful, long-suffering butler hoping some day to inherit riches from his bachelor boss. Then, finally, it happened. The Green Bay Packers' legendary quarterback rode off into the sunset on his tractor, leaving Rodgers as the heir apparent. The Man.... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-05-01T04:58:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/10457 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/10457 That was quick. After Louisville's recently hired linebackers coach, Ted Roof, left to become Minnesota's defensive coordinator, Cardinals head coach Steve Kragthroep called a quick audible and came up with a replacement. In fact, Bill Miller's credentials seem, on paper, even better than those of the man he replaces. Miller spent 2007 as defensive coordinator at Western Michigan, where his... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-02-27T00:26:00-05:00 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/10452 http://www.realfootball365.com/articles/louisville/10452 The University of Louisville football program lost its Roof this week -- all the way to Minnesota. This was not the result of a tornado, but a better offer to Cardinals linebacker coach Ted Roof, just hired Jan. 3 after stepping down as head coach at Duke. Roof had been Duke's defensive coordinator before his promotion, and he replaces Everett Withers, who left Minnesota for North Carolina last... writersbridge@hotmail.com (Darrell Laurant) Louisville Cardinals 2008-02-26T02:00:00-05:00