I don't think he was trying to insult Louisville. I'm sure it is a nice city and it is much larger than Baton Rouge. I think he just meant Baton Rouge is not the country. It is fairly urban and an hour from New Orleans. It is not the country.
I have been great place. It is about as Country as Baton Rouge the Capital of Louisiana.. Have you been to Baton Rouge ???? I would classify them both as Southern Cities....
Is is true that Skip offered to trade Brady and Fisher to Louisville for Patrino, Pitino and a coach to be named later? If so, let's take it.
Actually Baton Rouge is a bigger City, the Population of Louisville is 248,762 in the last Census. Baton Rouge is over 400,000 Louisville http://www.fairus.org/Research/Research.cfm?ID=1037&c=9 Baton Rouge http://brgov.com/aboutus.htm
Firstly, I apologize for getting this thread way off topic. Just a little defensive of people knocking a place they've never visited. Actually, Louisville merged with Jefferson Co. (which was always Louisville anyway) similar to the way Baton Rouge merged into a City-Parish. Louisville Metro's population is now correctly considered to be almost 700,000. Also, people are saying that UofL is a basketball only school. When Howard Schnellenberger came here, the school was considering dumping the program or dropping back to I-AA. I'd say we've come a long. I can't back it up with a source, but the school has been the top non-BCS spender on football operations for at least a few years now. Sure C-USA sucks, but it was better than the independent status we held prior. At the risk of sounding like our President when speaking of the economy, sustained gradual growth blah blah blah. I've also read about people putting butts in the seats. All but the very first game sold out this year. Another milestone for someone going from nobody to somebody. I will admit that even though the tickets were sold, many of the seats went empty every now and again. I personally would attribute this to us being "ESPN whores" and scheduling so many weeknight games. I guess its better in the long run. I'm one fan hoping that being in the Big East will at least mean that 10 of our 11 games will now be on Saturday...when college football is supposed to be played. Back to the subject: My bottom line: I will buy my season tickets next year in the student section for both sports, and attend all the games and cheer loudly regardless of whether Petrino is on the sidelines or not. As many of you LSU fans have faith in your AD, I have faith in ours. He's made excellent hires and improved the program top to bottom since he's been here. If Petrino goes, he'll be replaced. If he stays, people will forget about most of this come next season if/when he wins the first few games. Well, at least until December when silly season heats up again and we'll all go through this again.
