Of course it was over-reactionary and irrational, but I spent a significant chunk of the halftime period Friday night wondering if this was just how things were going to be from now on: Disappointment right from the get-go by Cardinal football slowly leading into a Louisville men’s basketball season where the old annual preseason dreams of a national championship felt multiple generations removed.
It was a low place.
The hour and-a-half or so that followed was just what the doctor ordered. For me, for you, for everyone who has been looking for a jolt after the last few years of the malaise that has gone hand-in-hand with Louisville’s two flagship sports programs.