What if Big 12 took UofL instead of WVU...

[bbwvfan]

What if the Big 12 had chosen Louisville over West Virginia during realignment?

Meanwhile, it's hard to consider Louisville was ever anything but a Power Five program under Jurich, now in his 20th year at the school. The basketball program speaks for itself. Football had been in the big time since joining the Big East in 2005.

It took Maryland bolting the ACC for the Big Ten in order for Louisville to find its Power Five home a year later. The Cardinals' future is lucrative and assured. The ACC's grant of rights has been extended out 20 years. If Notre Dame decides to join a conference in football during that time, it essentially must the ACC.

If there is a next great round of conference realignment across the country, the ACC will be able to sit it out.

"Louisville won the lottery," that TV consultant said. "There's no doubt about that. They could be like Cincinnati [today]."

 

[bbwvfan]

Should the Big 12 have invited Louisville?

Last week, I got an interesting email from a reader who wondered if the Big 12 was feeling the sting of regret by not inviting an eager Louisville program into the Big 12 -- and then promptly watching the Cardinals win a national title in basketball and a BCS bowl game in the same calendar year, a feat duplicated by only Florida and, yes, Kansas.

 

[Anotherwvufan]

The B12 should have invited both Louisville and WVU, period. Louisville will be back. Penn State recovered from Sandusky. Baylor is still around after the r*pe scandal. USC paid Reggie Bush and survived.

I expect that more teams and coaches will be implicated in this pay for play scandal. Teams will go on probation and come of probation.

 

[GoldRusher]

JMO but I think when it's all said n done the Big12 will be able to say they did the right thing by passing on UL.

Louisville is and has been a dirty program for a long time. Pitino, Strong,Petrino... all have been guilty of cheating at UL and now at least SOME of it is getting addressed no thanks to the NCAA.

The Big12 is the punching bag of the media already, can you imagine having UL AND Baylor going on right now? It was an accident I know but GREAT move by the Big12 by leaving UL be iyam.

 

[bbwvfan]

NCAA should hand Louisville the death penalty, and ACC should kick Cards to the curb

But as the Bible says, you reap what you sow, and the ACC is suffering from its disastrous decision in 2014 to replace Maryland with Louisville.


West Virginia or UConn would have been a better choice. Fair or not, Louisville has long been regarded as a renegade school, academically ranked among the worst in the Power 5.

Now Louisville finds itself in the center of perhaps the biggest NCAA scandal of all time. Ten people have been arrested, including coaches from four schools, after the Department of Justice conducted an undercover investigation of Adidas, a shoe company that pays colleges hundreds of millions of dollars to wear its attire.