FIRST WORD
We owe it to our studentathletes and fans to get this turned around. I did not have the confidence that it was going to happen next season without a change and it needs to start happening now.”
Louisville athletics director Vince Tyra, in a statement Sunday announcing that football coach Bobby Petrino had been fired. The Cardinals are 2-8 and 0-7 in the Atlantic Coast Conference. Purdue’s Jeff Brohm, a former Cardinals QB who has a house in Louisville, is expected to be among the favorites to replace Petrino.