![]() Hopefully Cardinal fans will return to the Yum! in the droves they’ve been known for in days gone by. Starting with feisty cross-town rival Bellarmine at 9:00 Wednesday. If you are a Cardinal fan, make sure to include Ellis and his health in your prayers tonight and every night before hitting the sack.Ī season where it’s hard to predict a whole lot of Ws, given the flaws revealed thus far. Hercy Miller played but a couple minutes before intermission. The Cards leading scorer last evening was the only PG to play in the 2d. The well chronicled most serious deficiency of this conglomeration was on full display.Ī lack of reliable ball handling guards beyond El Ellis. But late in the game, the outcome still in balance, Syd Curry and JJ both got offensive rebounds on the same sequence, just couldn’t convert. The best sequence hitting the O glass, the most encouraging, actually resulted in no points. Though it eventually won the rebounding battle over the shorter visitors, U of L’s bigs were meek for the most part. Six of his 8 boards were on the offensive end. Despite his slender frame, Traynor displayed his penchant for mixing it up. What was fascinating about the opener was how KP stuck with JJ Traynor, giving him an inordinate amount of PT, even though he really wasn’t playing well at all. The defensive lapses were, to be delicate, disturbing. Still tentative but not nearly as nervous as Sunday last, they seemed more comfortable trying to score the ball. A difficult 80-73 exhi defeat of the Chaminade Silver Swords.ĭespite its troubles prevailing, the Cards did look somewhat improved. On the court, in front of yet another disturbingly sparse “crowd,” Kenny Payne notched his first W in the first chair. There are some other visiting restrictions too, but you get the point. New U of L AAD Zach Greenwell advised yours truly last night before the game that the Cards have been docked 7 days out of 100 allowed for next academic year. The perspective here is that the program has suffered more than enough already in that regard. So, if there’s one vexing aspect of the go to the corner for 10 minute timeout in a dunce cap slap on the wrist, it’s the recruiting restrictions. Most important, the inability to recruit at levels that would make the program relevant again. Five years in purgatory, paddling down the River Styx wondering if there would ever appear safe harbor. Of course, there has been other punishment already served. Unlike Fredo, but just Skelton who breathed easily when he stepped back ashore to share a brewski with his former rival, the University of Louisville community is finally able to breathe easily. (Except Oklahoma State, which for some reason got a post season ban.) Despite its previous travails, U of L’s penalties, such as the are, were in line with others recently rendered by the same decision maker. What did obviously inform the decision was the sea change brought about by NIL, and the NCAA’s diminution of power. Many heads are still being scratched at that one. In a frankly surprising turn of events, like version uno of McGuane’s movie when Dance doesn’t shoot Skelton, Rick Pitino not only wasn’t penalized, he was totally exonerated. This close and engaged observer has been publicly and repeatedly of the opinion that the university would be served well by the firing of Tom Jurich and Rick Pitino, as odious as that was for much of the fanbase, and the total extreme makeover in that building behind Rodan’s The Thinker. The you’ve been naughty boys decision to be honest did not come as a surprise here at Seedy K HQ.īut for different reasons than was suspected back when this whole quagmire of a turmoil began half a decade and whole different college sports mindset ago. ![]() ![]() ![]() Which is about how many outcomes there might have been when U of L’s fate was finally revealed Thursday morning. Dance shoots and kills him.Īs it turns out, they actually filmed a third ending. They decide to end the feud.Īt least in the version your scribe saw when it played at the Vogue back in the day.īut imagine this writer’s mouth wide open gobsmacked surprise when he rented a video of the flick years later. The duo fight over the gun, which falls in the water. To Skelton’s surprise, it doesn’t happen. To use another movie analogy, sort of how John Cazale’s Fredo felt getting in that bass boat, heading out in the lake at the end of “Godfather II.” Not unlike what Louisville fans have been feeling while awaiting for oh so long the IARP decision on the fate of the men’s hoops program. Will Dance off Skelton or not? Skelton wasn’t feeling too confidant. The film builds to a climax where the two are out by themselves on a boat. Former U of L thespian Warren Oates’ Nichol Dance remains a rival.Ĭlients get stolen. In Tom McGuane’s seriously hip ‘75 flick of his own novel “92 In The Shade,” Peter Fonda’s Tom Skelton drifts back to the Keys to again take up his fishing guide biz.
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