What's With The Cards?

Is this Ron Cooper Redux?

The Louisville Cardinals were supposed to compete for a national championship this year. After four horrific games (marked by porous defense, numerous repetitive brain-dead penalties and now two losses) one must wonder if the team's proving poorly coached.

Something's up. That's for sure.

Instead of trying to make the national championship game, it's a fair question now whether the Cards can make any bowl game (or even a winning season).

Think that's overreacting? Consider this. Louisville just lost to a team (Syracuse) that hadn't won all season and that won only a single conference game in the last year!

With the Cardinals' schedule still including games against Cincinnati, West Virginia, South Florida and Rutgers, all of a sudden six wins don't look like a lock.