Appropriate that the backdrop to a press conference announcing a big raise and contract extension for Dan McDonnell would be a blowup of a happy University of Louisville baseball player.
A day after Tom Jurich announced that he would fight any effort by the University of Texas to lure McDonnell away from UofL, the vice president of athletics was announcing a new $1 million salary and a 10-year contract for the Louisville baseball coach.
The background photo just happened to be John Dao, a co-captain of the 2009 UofL baseball team which came within two wins of making it to a second College World Series.