Oh, Louisville. Louisville, Louisville, Louisville. What to do with the Cards?
The ACC invited Louisville to join after Maryland left for the Big Ten and on paper it seemed like a logical and reasonable trade, possibly even a basketball upgrade (if an academic net loss).
It’s been a colossal embarrassment instead.
First there was the Rick Pitino-Karen Sypher scandal (2009), a humiliating extortion case for the Hall of Fame coach in which he admitted to a “very brief” dalliance with Sypher in a restaurant. Call it 15 seconds of instant regret.
He survived the next scandal too, one involving strippers and recruits (2015), but the third scandal, the Adidas scandal (2017) was too much and he was sent packing.