Louisville was supposed to suffer, right. The Cardinals were supposed to pay penance for the NCAA misdeeds that put basketball on probation, Rick Pitino in Greece and the program on thin ice. Instead, U of L is skating right along. So what happened?
Chris Mack is what happened. From the time Louisville AD Vince Tyra lured Xavier’s head coach to re-boot the Redbirds, U of L’s period of purgatory has been practically painless and darn near entertaining with a full fan buy-in.
“It’s not hard to buy in,” said Mike Rutherford, founder of U of L fan site Card Chronicle.