It would be 70 years before these two schools would face each other again. 5. Stephan (My personal favorite until Teddy came around.). 3. those were great teams during his era and if we'd been in a better conference would have received more clout. Specifically, since 1998, the Cardinals are 7025 at home. Here's a look at who they were and what happened during their UofL careers. (AP Photo/Gerry. Cooper was the first African American head football coach in Louisville football history, and also the youngest. ** His 404.7 average yards per game during the 2017 season is the highest single-season performance in program history. 4) Chris Redman [14], Bobby Petrino, Auburn offensive coordinator and a former Louisville offensive coordinator under Smith, was hired to be the new head football coach. 2) Brian Brohm This is a list of Louisville Cardinals football players in the NFL Draft. Bonnafon inked an undrafted free agent deal with the Carolina Panthers in 2018. His experience at Notre Dame gave him ideas on developing a spread wing offense so his undersized players could be better utilized. That's just details, man!!! However, the university completed a major expansion and renovation for the 2010 season. 2005-2023 CBS INTERACTIVE ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ** His 10,775 career passing yards is second highest in program history. [30] Cardinal Stadium was demolished in 2019. ( if you are known by 1st initial alone you qualify). On December 5, 2022, the University of Cincinnati hired Scott Satterfield to be the program's next head coach, replacing Luke Fickell. [51][52][53], Consensus and unanimous first-team All-Americans in bold. Lamar 5) Brohm- I cant decide which one so I am leaving it at that, 1) Lamar ** Most career yards in school history with 13,175. 12 among dual-threat quarterbacks and gave him an 0.8788 overall rating. Honorable mention: Dave Ragone, Jeff Brohm, Browning Nagel, and of course Johnny Unitas. 1. 22 overall by the Birmingham Stallions, 85 miles from his hometown of. Jeff Brohm. 3. ranked fourth nationally in rushing touchdowns with 20 . It was also used heavily as a high school football stadium, hosting state championship games from in 19642002, including hosting all four state championship games played annually 19792002. In baseball, Koster played professionally for 10years for the Philadelphia Phillies (one season) as well as the minor league teams Louisville Colonels and St. Paul Saints in the American Association. Transferred to Florida State. [22], The next season, Jackson, now the full-time starting quarterback, continued to impress, passing for 30 touchdowns and rushing for 21 more, leading Louisville to a 94 record, highlighted by a 6320 win over then No. done I'm not going to do the whole list but I Will just put out there my tie for the No. In sixgames, Koster scored 18 touchdowns, 10 extra points, and 2 field goals and went on to finish second in scoring in college football with 124points. He had just finished his starring run as Boynton Beach High's quarterback. Petrino went 419 in four seasons as head football coach, the best winning percentage (.82) of any head coach in Louisville football history. Lamar Jackson was a highly-valued target by 247Sports, which gave him four stars and placed him as the No. Selections [ edit] [1] Notable undrafted players [ edit] Note: No drafts held before 1920 References [ edit] ^ DraftHistory.com Brohm led the 2006 team to a 12-1 finish and Orange Bowl victory over Wake Forest before an eight-year NFL career with the Green Bay Packers and Buffalo Bills. He capped the season with an MVP performance in the Cardinals win over Mississippi State in the Music City Bowl. Your favorite before Teddy spells his name Stefan. ** His 72 career touchdown passes ranks third, behind Redman and Dave Ragone. [citations needed], Following Frank Camp's retirement, Navy defensive backs coach Lee Corso was hired to take over as Louisville's head football coach. Khalib Johnson. Unfortunately for Petrino and the Cardinals, Jackson's presence had masked severe deficiencies with the offensive line, running game and defense. Hard to argue one way or another against any of these former Cardinal greats. ** His career 157.92 efficiency rating is second highest, trailing only Stefan LeFors. The industry-generated 247Sports Composite placed at No. He'd made four career starts before halting his football career due to health-related issues. "But there's no Lamar!!!!" Among his many highlights were the well-known leap over a Syracuse defender and five touchdown performance in a blowout victory over highly-ranked Florida State. Jackson ran for a Music City Bowl-record 226 yards . Honorable mention: Stephan, Raggone, Stu Stram-because he was a whittle guy and his dad won Super Bowl, Jay Gruden because he believed in Howard the Pipe, # 3 Jeff Brohm/Brian Brohm (brother combo you get 2 for 1 here), #2 Browning Nagle(Fiesta Bowl alone) And Johnny U! THE GOLDEN ARM. 6' 2'' 218 lbs . It was to be the home of the American League Kansas City Athletics when their owner Charles O. Finley signed a contract to move the team to Louisville in 1964, but the American League owners voted against the move. You must be kidding, obviously. [39] Now the Cardinal Bird dubbed Louie appears at most Louisville sporting events and along with the spirit squad leads the crowds in cheers. 3. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. "Fred Koster: The Cards' First Superstar." The recently retired quarterback ran the 40 yard dash in 5.28 seconds. 5. [citation needed], Unitas was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1979 and his record 47-consecutive-game touchdown passes is a record compared to Joe DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak. 2. The group is under the direction of coach Sheryl Knight. Champaign, Il: Sports, 1997. Before he came to the football team for punt returns he was on the track team and basketball team, where he was named captain in 1916. On a recruiting trip to IU, track star Milt Campbell would advise Lyles against IU so Lyles would settle in his hometown university and play for Camp. Ranking the 5 best quarterbacks available in 2023 NFL free agency. About logos 2000 Louisville Cardinals Roster Previous Year Next Year Record: 9-3 (15th of 116) ( Schedule & Results ) Conference: CUSA Conference Record: 6-1 Coach: John Smith (9-3) Points For: 405 Points/G: 33.8 (16th of 116) Points Against: 268 Opp Pts/G: 22.3 (43rd of 116) SRS: 7.37 (31st of 116) SOS: -2.22 (79th of 116) DB R-So. Unitas has a statue because of his contribution to football overall. 4. No Lamar on the list? [19] On January 4, 2014, it was announced that head coach Charlie Strong was leaving Louisville to accept the head football coach position at Texas. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. At the press conference announcing his hiring, Schnellenberger drew laughs when he said the Cardinals were "on a collision course with the national championship. Report this user for behavior that violates our Community Guidelines. I think Teddy and Lamar could be interchangeable also. He's also added another 259 yards and five scores on the ground. 3) Lefors- very good dual threat that kept plays open with his legs, great throwing %, maybe the best heart of a QB I can remember at UofL. Cunningham was selected No. #1 Teddy and Lamar-nothing needs to be said! 2021: Became the second quarterback and 14th player overall to rush for over 1,000 yards (1,031) . Louisville would also begin producing elite wide receivers such as Ernest Givens (198485) and Mark Clayton (197982), Clayton would go on to become the first Cardinal to break the 1,000yard mark with 1,112 receiving yards in a season (1981) until Arnold Jackson surpassed him in 1998. Good lord was he good! Throwing for 3,718 yards and 27 touchdowns, Bridgewater would earn Big East Offensive Player of the Year honors. topped the Eagles in the Super Bowl next year. The Louisville Cardinals may be very well represented in the 2023 NFL Draft. [citations needed], A four-year letterwinner at linebacker and center from 1949 to 1952, Otto Knop earned honorable mention Associated Press Little All-America honors as a sophomore and United Press International All-America his junior year. Rob Carr/Getty Images. 18 pro-style quarterback nationally in the 2013 class. He retired following the 1968 season. Louisville ended I-A independence by joining the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) in 1963 only to leave for independency again in 1974. He started five games during his lone season at Rutgers and led the team with 711 passing yards. Louisville has continued to enjoy stellar quarterback performances since the turn of the century. Brissett doesn't have the upside as anything more than an average starter, but he also has a high floor as . During Vince Gibson's tenure at Louisville, Gibson nicknamed his team the "Red Rage". Brown rushed for 1,795 yards and 16 touchdowns in four years, with his career best of 825 yards coming during his junior campaign. He managed just six yards on two carries. 2. The victory over the Drake Bulldogs capped a near-perfect season for the Cardinals. Cunningham threw for 473 yards, one touchdown and one. In their inaugural season at Cardinal Stadium the Cardinals finished the season 91 with their first bowl appearance winning in the Sun Bowl against Drake 3420. The University of Louisville made its first bowl appearance January 1, 1958, as Frank Camp's squad battered Drake 3420 in the Sun Bowl. [citations needed], Although this was a low point for the Cardinals in their history they did produce some notable NFL talent. Left on the table was the best player available, a dual-threat quarterback from Louisville, Lamar Jackson (LJ). Today, Corso is a well-known college football analyst for ESPN College Gameday. UofL finished with a 91 record. Following a redshirt season, Pass has appeared in 19 games with 11 starts at Louisville. Unitas (I've watched film and he was ahead of his time) # 3 Jeff Brohm/Brian Brohm (brother combo you get 2 for 1 here) Washington Commanders coach Ron Rivera made it clear that second-year quarterback Sam Howell is not the starting quarterback for the team next season. Petrino also served as offensive coordinator for the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars under Tom Coughlin and tutored Jake Plummer while serving as an assistant coach at Arizona State. He signed an undrafted free agent deal with Tampa Bay and also spent time with Pittsburgh during his one season in the NFL. Due to financial difficulty Louisville did not participate in the 19171921 seasons. Find out more. Brian Brohm [20], In January 2014, seven years after leaving for the Atlanta Falcons, Bobby Petrino left Western Kentucky to return to Louisville as head coach after Strong's departure. Hes got the tools," UofL quarterbacks coach Frank Ponce said. Breakdown: The conversation at quarterback undoubtedly starts with Malik. give me the statue here [21] In 2015, the team won the Music City Bowl in their second year under Petrino, in part due to the outstanding performance of freshman quarterback Lamar Jackson, who ran for 226 yards and scored four touchdowns. Question, Comment, Feedback, or Correction? Malik Cunningham (6-1, 190, R-Sr.) Evan Conley (6-2, 212, Jr.) Brock Domann (6-2, 227, Jr.) Khalib Johnson (6-2, 210, Fr.) The Miami, Fla., Northwestern product entered his freshman season as a reserve but would gain the starting spot by game four and finish as the Big East Freshman of the Year. If you disagree with this list, that's just like, your opinion, man. [citation needed] But, he decided against leaving when he was reminded that Indiana shunned him earlier in his career. Louisville jerseys would stay traditionally the same with plain white jersey with red lettering or a red jersey with black lettering. [citation needed], The University of Louisville Ladybirds are 20-time national champions winning its seventh national title in 2008, making back-to-back titles for the squad after the win in 2007. King was an undersized end for the Irish and was known[by whom?] Champaign, Il: Sports, 1997. Did you know who I was referring to when I mentioned the 2 misspellings? ** His 0.94 interception percentage from the 2013 season is the lowest single-season rate in Louisville history. 5. Stefan Lefors Beginning in 1914 the Cardinals joined the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) and they would participate in Kentucky Intercollegiate . But no way Brian is above Chris. Fueled by former head coach Scott Satterfield leaving for Cincinnati days before the bowl, Louisville won 24-7 to retain the Keg of Nails. Do you have a sports website? Louisville: Cardinal Football. Following two seasons with the Vikings, including a Pro Bowl season in 2015, Bridgewater suffered a leg injury that sidelined him for the entire season. Have to have Lamar on there. His 467 yards against Utah in '07 ranks No. He was the more mature ready brohm imo, This post was edited by 516card 5 years ago, Yeah but 2 down votes for forgetting Chris Redman!!!!!! Bet. There have also been All-American, All-Conference and bowl MVP performances from a number of quarterbacks in recent years. [citation needed], After back to back 76 seasons in 2010 and 2011, Strong led Louisville to an 112 season in 2012 capped with a Sugar Bowl win over Florida, Louisville's second BCS game victory in school history, and after the season, Strong agreed to terms on a new contract that made him the seventh-highest paid head football coach in the country. Days after the 54-23 loss to Syracuse,[24] Petrino was fired with a 28 record. Frank Camp revived the Cardinal Program in 1946 after World War II ended. The University of Louisville began playing football in 1912 where the Cardinals went 3-1. [citations needed], Cardinal Stadium played host to its 20th season of Cardinal football in 2017. You probably don't even know who Wally Oyler and John Madeya were, maybe even Stu Stram. T. W. Alley was hired to replace Corso, but was fired after two unsuccessful seasons. [citation needed], Tom King was the first coach to attempt to build a program at Louisville. His best team was the 1990 unit, which went 1011 and routed Alabama in the 1991 Fiesta Bowl en route to appearances in the final media polls. This scheduling change fits with other end of year SEC vs. ACC rivalry games such as Georgia vs. Georgia Tech, Florida vs. Florida State and South Carolina vs. Clemson. You get an upvote just for a Howard Stevens mention. Louisville, which finished last year with a 6-7 record, opens the 2022 season on the road at Syracuse with an 8 p.m. kickoff Sept. 3. Do you have a blog? [27]:197. Several local schools also played some games in Cardinal Stadium prior to 1998, including the annual St. XavierTrinity rivalry featuring the two major boys Catholic high schools in the city (a game now played at Cardinal Stadium). LOL at #3. We present them here for purely educational purposes. The University of Louisville began playing football in 1912 where the Cardinals went 31. Where can I vote for Marty Pulliam? Once the university was integrated in 1951, Camp and his assistant coach, Wood, sought out potential recruits. He collected MVP honors after throwing for 447 yards and three touchdowns. Things began to go downhill in Kragthorpe's first season as the Cardinals, fresh off an Orange Bowl win with most of the players returning, began the season ranked in the top 10 in the AP and Coaches' Poll but struggled to a 66 record and were not invited to a bowl for the first time since Ron Cooper's final season in 1997. As a rookie, he was excellent, but as a second-year man, he wasn't (yes, the . 3. With Louisville announcing that it would give up independent status and join Conference USA, a weak football conference at the time, for the 1995 season, Schnellenberger left for Oklahoma after the 1994 season. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. The four-star prospect made an immediate impact at Louisville. The SPORTS REFERENCE and STATHEAD trademarks are owned exclusively by Sports Reference LLC. He was our program's first Heisman. The 1990 season highlighted what was, at the time, the most successful decade in U of L football history. Bryce Jay Underwood pulled in an offer from Rutgers football this week, putting the Scarlet Knights in a steep competition for one of the best quarterback prospects in the nation. He was 32years old when he was named head coach. The 12-win season was the Cardinals' second in program history. The Louisville Cardinal was a four-year starting quarterback at college and enters the draft as a late-round selection (but he may go undrafted). Before Unitas the QB position was just another back. Unitas (I've watched film and he was ahead of his time). He would eventually sign with the New York Jets, but was traded to New Orleans a few months later. [3], Tom King had the program going in the right direction until he decided to play Detroit for $10,000. Camp would see success early after going 701 in his second year and was accredited for being able to gel current players with the new recruits returning from war. finished fifth in the ACC in rushing . As a freshman, Jackson would throw for 1,840 yards and 12 touchdowns, while also running for 960 yards and 11 scores. One of UofL's most celebrated athletes, Johnny U's number 16 jersey is the only football Cardinal jersey with both it and the number retired. [citations needed], In 2013, it was announced that the game would be moved to the final game of the season following Louisville's 2014 move to the ACC. [32], Louisville and Kentucky football series was revived in 1994 after the success of the basketball series that restarted in 1983. Louisville quarterback Malik Cunningham announced Friday that he is entering the 2023 NFL draft. by Dov Kleiman February 28, 2023 2:16 pm. Drafted: 135 players. [43], The University of Louisville football program created its annual Card March tradition prior to all home football contests to help bring fans out to the stadium earlier and to give the football team added inspiration before the game. Frequently Asked Questions about the NFL and Football, Pro-Football-Reference.com Blog and Articles, Subscribe to Stathead Football: Get your first month FREE. Fans are encouraged to arrive early and greet the players with the assistance of the UofL marching band, cheerleaders, and Ladybirds. Find out more. Camp would also see the Cardinals leave Parkway Field and move to Manual Stadium. ** His 30 touchdowns during the 2007 season is the second highest single season effort in UofL history. The quarterbacks will participate in drills on Saturday, March 4, at 10 a.m. PST, along with wide receivers and tight ends. "[This quote needs a citation], In his sophomore season, Unitas completed 77 of his 154 passes and threw 12 TDs. Again, it's simple to sign up and just as simple to discontinue. The only variable is time. Were excited about him and hes going to have a bright future, but its going a little fast right now kind of like it did for Evan (Conley) last year.. [27]:197, Louisville claims nine conference championships. [6], Camp would introduce the rivalry of Memphis, taking the Cards out of independency and joining the Missouri Valley Conference (MVC) and lead the Cards to their first bowl game during his tenure. Reed, Billy. Camp, like King, would see another President pull resources and scholarships in the early 1950s would see both Otto Knop, who at the time was being recruited by Bear Bryant of Kentucky, and Johnny Unitas, who was being recruited by Indiana, elect to stay at Louisville and play for Camp. Prior to that the team played its games at Old Cardinal Stadium. # 5 John Madeya Do you have a sports website? But their cast of characters for the next level contains more than just Cunningham. It's also equipped for the soccer, field hockey and lacrosse teams to use. Top 5 Louisville Quarterbacks All Time? Koster was a standout forward for the basketball team, leading the team in scoring twoyears. 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[40], The cheerleading squads are a national powerhouse with the large co-ed squad winning 15 National Cheerleaders Association Collegiate National championships (198586, 1989, 1992, 1994, 1996, 199899, 200305, 200709, 2011), the all girl squad winning 9 championships (199899, 200105, 2009, 2011) and the small co-ed cheerleading squad winning 7 championships (200511). He closed the year by collecting MVP honors in the Music City Bowl. Walter Peacock (19721975), Louisville's all-time leading rusher would become the first star of this era, at 3,204yards Peacock would account for much of the Cards offense. 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