KRAGTH0RP3D

by Orson on Dec 5, 2008 10:55 AM EST

Louisville was down 49 at the half to Rutgers last night. If you missed the first half as we did, you tuned into the second half and fully expected Steve Kragthorpe to read his death poem into his headset, kneel, plunge his tanto into his side, and commit ritual suicide on the sidelines.

Unfortunately for Kragthorpe-san, it's hard to commit suicide when Davon Sharp and the rest of the Rutgers team is doing the job for you:

Louisville is standing by their man for now, but Louisville's pile of hot fail is accumulating like so many yellowed toenails stuck in the shag carpet of mediocrity. They went 1-5 in the Big East, yielding one of those to newly-fired GERG and Syracuse. They suffered through a macabre series of injuries this year, yes--they only took 25 players to Rutgers, and presumably expected the worst--but their late collapse was well short of a Thermopylae-style last stand. The Cardinals have looked mediocre to awful at times under Kragthorpe, and your trend graph is flowing ever-downward at this rate for his overall performance at the school.

You know a game is bad when ESPN keeps showing shots of the Lincoln Tunnel on commercial outros. You also know your defense had no shot when you let Mike Teel throw for seven touchdowns in his last game as a Scarlet Knight. On the upside, the slack time in the second half allowed for Chris Fowler to admit he'd never been to a local greasy spoon before midnight or sober, basically, and that was almost worth the agony of watching the second half.

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WOOO RUTGERS!!!! NEW JERSAYY!!!! /slams a Beast, climbs into IROC Z28, cranks Bon Jovi

by BurritoBrosShits on Dec 5, 2008 11:06 AM EST reply actions

The best part of that game was seeing the ‘R’ of RUTGERS chest painted souls fall off the bleachers.

by nolefan on Dec 5, 2008 11:13 AM EST reply actions

They actually took 62 players to the game of that only 25 were on the defensive side. Still woefully short of a full boat.

Based on the halftime score I would have guessed the “D” had closer to 8 live bodies and 17 scarecrows dressed in Louisville uniforms.

by Mitch Cumstein on Dec 5, 2008 11:30 AM EST reply actions

Hard times here in Derby City. Just goes to show how fast an up-and-comer can fall. Kragthorpe needs to go, esp. when there are a variety of good experienced coaches available who can right the ship.

by SDF Fan on Dec 5, 2008 11:50 AM EST reply actions

Speaking of Bon Jovi, when they went to commercial with about 4 minutes left to go, they started playing “You Give Love A Bad Name” over the PA. (They’d already gotten “Living on a Prayer” out of the way earlier.) And they put this 9 or 10-year-old kid who was vigorously singing along, with air guitar when appropriate, up on the Jumbotron, for the whole damn song. Lots of fun.

Seriously, though, as much as Louisville’s D might have been hurt, Mike Teel was actually damn good last night. He got those long bombs exactly where they needed to be. Of course, he did have one INT that didn’t count because of PI, but it wouldn’t have been a proper sendoff if he didn’t.

by Devin McCullen on Dec 5, 2008 12:08 PM EST reply actions

Here’s the kid, if you’re interested:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LXU_q67miU

by Devin McCullen on Dec 5, 2008 12:19 PM EST reply actions

I wish my team had a coach that would put the hammer down like that. Timeouts and goin’ for 50 before the half? I’m FOR IT.

Question: Ron English confronting Schiano at half-time: douchebaggery? Yes?

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Dec 5, 2008 12:22 PM EST reply actions

Being a UL is so rough these days, I’ve taken to using the coach’s name as an insult, as in “Go Krag yourself, Mr. Vice-President” and the like.

oof. good thing I was properly lubricated before, during, and after the game, unlike Coach Pinkel tomorrow.

by jon on Dec 5, 2008 12:26 PM EST reply actions

@7.
I didn’t see Coach English. Wha’ happened?

by jon on Dec 5, 2008 12:27 PM EST reply actions

Nobody saw it, but EA reported it (so it must be true). The studio guys were going on about how RE gave GS an earful in the tunnel at halftime. I guess he was offended about RU taking the TOs to get the ball back with like a minute left in the half and of course they scored since Teel was can’t miss and UL’s secondary was Georgia-esque. Did the ’ville hire Kevin Ramsey or something?

Anyway, take it for what it’s worth. Sort of dumb to bitch about getting RUTS at halftime. Especially when the secondary has so little interest in the game anyway.

by Gen. Stoopnagle on Dec 5, 2008 12:59 PM EST reply actions

[note: My moniker made sense when i set it up and petrino was our coach]

sad sad corrections to your post. we’re now 1-6 in the bigeast. and we brought 25 DEFENSIVE players last night. so in both cases our performance was even worse than you outlined.

funny headline on our rival uk’s board: i’ve got a fever.. and the only prescription is more Kragthorpe!

sigh.

by UofLiscoming on Dec 5, 2008 1:01 PM EST reply actions

This game was AWESOME. Every first string wideout had a TD and it was only out of mercy that Rutgers didn’t strive for 70. Because they could have, given that Louisville’s DC decided that sticking to man coverage on faster and/or bigger wideout was the plan regardless of how silly Teel and aforementioned wideouts made them look.

Still, BEST FIRST HALF EVER.

by John F on Dec 5, 2008 5:32 PM EST reply actions