—Spread control: Wake Forest 5.5.
—The second-placed Louisville volleyball team got off to a disastrous start at the #8 Pitt game on Sunday afternoon. The Cards eventually responded, pushing the 5th set before seeing the Panthers break their 37-game ACC winning streak. U of L will seek some vengeance when they host Pitt on November 18.
—Brett McMurphy’s latest bowl projections feature Louisville’s take on East Carolina in the Fenway Bowl. Pirates tore through Central Florida on Saturday.
—Jeff Greer has four main takeaways from Red-White Scrimmage.
Payne emphasizes passing, move will pay off in the end
This was an interesting excerpt from Payne’s post-match opening comments:
“All I’m saying is pass each other five times, get the ball in the lane and don’t shoot. Pass it and then that person is driving. If you rotate the defense, we get the shot we want. After five or six passes it goes to the pole, a few lane passes, take it to the pole and leave. There is no game for this – it’s just action and attack. That’s the concept I’m trying to teach. The frustrating thing was that it took 25 minutes until we arrived. I want them to take. We practice it every day.”
Louisville when made Pass and move as Payne asked, the offense flowed really well. There was a nice sequence between Ellis and JJ Traynor, which I thought looked very solid. Ellis made an entrance to Traynor, Traynor moved the defender and kicked back to Ellis, who had overtaken his man and driven down the lane, scratched Traynor’s man and found the recently relocated Traynor in the corner for an open 3. Now, Traynor has missed. shot, but it was a great combination of a great look and a transition between them.
There’s a reason Payne wants his team to pass and act consistently. Louisville isn’t a team capable enough to isolate every position or manage everything with pick-and-roll. Cards must go off the ball and be willing to pass. When they did this late on offense, they produced some really good looks. I wonder how they will fare in games against teams like FSU or Kentucky that really disappoint teams that overestimate their passing areas and want to move the ball more.
—Bill Connelly’s S&P ratings like Wake over Louisville are four points this weekend.
—I’d love to see more of Scott Satterfield’s emotion at the end of this video.
Also through @AlyssaKNewton: The Cardinals definitely had some fun celebrating this win before heading to the locker room. Watch as Scott Satterfield and Josh Heird get some hugs on the way to the Satterfield locker room. pic.twitter.com/dFGX3EwZ1T
— Tyler Greever (@Tyler_Greever) 23 October 2022
Very cool.
—The Louisville women’s soccer team suffered a 4-0 decline at the #10 Duke on Sunday.
— The Louisville defense’s game-sealing game against Pitt breaks ACC Digital Network’s top five games of the weekend (video).
—The Knoxville News Sentinel is firing this week.
—Charlotte fired her head coach over the weekend, and Bruce Feldman of The Athletic says Louisville OC Lance Taylor may be on the 49ers shortlist to take over the job.
—Yasir Abdullah may never be the loudest person in the room, but his one night play was loud when the Cardinals needed it.
— Did the return of Naked/Fat Louie change the Scott Satterfield era at U of L? Many people say yes.
—CJ’s Brett Dawson delivers key takeaways from Friday’s Louisville Live.
— The pre-season AP All-America team debuted for the upcoming men’s college basketball team.
—Matt McGavic of the Louisville Report has some final thoughts on Louisville’s win over Pitt.
—What do Clemson fans do!?
But the Vols’ field team made it look flawless. It was a week’s effort. Seybold said he started Saturday night by spraying fertilizer on the lawn.
On Sunday, Seybold came back with blowers to clean the crew, then vented them to “compress as much as we could get through,” Seybold said. On Monday they covered the field – here they are called growth blankets – because the temperature did not rise above 36 degrees on Tuesday after a cold front moved. They spent that Tuesday putting up the new goalposts they had painted. before. They sprayed more fertilizer on Wednesday, started painting the area, and finished the paint job on Thursday. They started Saturday afternoon with the checkerboards intact and a lush green glassless pitch for a 65-24 win over the Skyhawks.
Seybold is suitable for a wild week as long as it’s only once every 25 years. He said seeing Clemson fans on the pitch after every game would get old for him very quickly. “If we beat UT-Martin and they attack the pitch, we’re like, ‘Come on guys, what are we doing? Let’s be smart,’ said Seybold. Six years ago, we beat Florida for the first time in 10 years, then this year we beat them for the first time since and they were in no rush.”
—Bryan Brown was named one of On3’s top coordinators in week eight of the college football season.
—Cardiac Hill recaps Pitt’s Saturday night loss at Cardinal Stadium.
—Louisville City FC will open the USL Playoffs by hosting the Pittsburgh Riverhounds on Saturday night.
-Mike Brey forever.
Mike Brey on his offense this year: “I don’t care what we run as long as we share the ball and know what a good shot is.” pic.twitter.com/Fqo4UfbBqU
– Patrick Engel (@PatrickEngel_) 21 October 2022
—ESPN picked up the story of Jack Harlow’s Kentucky diss on Louisville Live.
—Louisville QB employee Samaj Jones says there was a “nice atmosphere” at U of L this weekend.
—On his first “out” as a Louisville Cardinal, Kamari Lands was impressive.
—The friendly cop drama this city needs.
—Rick Bozich says everything he’s done has worked since Scott Satterfield said he’d be getting more defensive.
—Kenny Payne says it was an “emotional” weekend for him as head coach of Louisville.
—I have five takeaways from the Panthers losing to Louisville in the Pittsburgh Post.
—Not a bad weekend for a newbie on an official visit to Louisville.
— Single game tickets are now on sale for the upcoming U of L men’s basketball season.
—Walk-on U from L TE Josh Lifson, a KCD product, says it was pretty surreal to experience Saturday night’s game-winning touchdown catch.
—I loved Lifson’s father’s enthusiastic tweet after the game.
—The fourth-ranked Louisville field hockey team was upset on the road at Cornell on Sunday.
—I have three main takeaways from CJ’s Louisville win over Pitt.
—And finally, I have half a voice, but will still be on the air on 1450/96.1 The Big X from 3-6 this afternoon. You can stream the show here.