The strength of The U of L athletic program. It already generates more revenue thn any other ACC school!

Louisville also has managed to maintain one of the nation's top athletic budgets, despite receiving only $3.2 million annually from the Big East's current media rights deal. The Cardinals' current budget ranks higher than any current ACC member.

In 2011-12, the latest date available from the Office of Postsecondary Education's Equity in Athletics, Louisville had a budget of $84.4 million. The ACC's highest budget was Florida State ($81.4 million), while Maryland's budget was only $57.5 million.

The Cardinals' basketball program will fit in with the ACC's elite basketball programs. Since the 2004-05 school year, Louisville has reached two Final Fours and two Elite Eights.

Louisville is among four current and future ACC schools that have won 20 or more games in each of the past 10 seasons. Only nine schools in Division I have accomplished that, including Duke, Syracuse and Pittsburgh.

Last year, Louisville averaged 21,503 fans, the nation's third-highest number behind only Syracuse and Kentucky. The city of Louisville also has had the nation's highest rated college basketball television market in each of the past 10 years.

Over the last six years, Louisville is the nation's only school that has reached both the men's and women's basketball Final Four, a BCS bowl game, the College World Series and the Men's Soccer College Cup.

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Permalink Reply by Pitino_Strong on November 29, 2012 at 9:56am

Miami is old news dude! accept it. UofL is the future bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by larrywb59 on November 29, 2012 at 11:01am

Thanks for the spelling lesson spelling NAZI, now just so you know ANY SCHOOL in the SEC is a much higher profile job then UL even UK, SUCK ON THAT FOR A WHILE boy

kittykilla said:

Me thinks chumps( aka Grover) is jealous.
Larry Wilbur Barney...it's Tommy....not Toomy.
You need a course in grammar and sentence writing.

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Permalink Reply by larrywb59 on November 29, 2012 at 11:02am

now let's see if TOMMY breaks out the check book

larrywb59 said:

Thanks for the spelling lesson spelling NAZI, now just so you know ANY SCHOOL in the SEC is a much higher profile job then UL even UK, SUCK ON THAT FOR A WHILE boy

kittykilla said:

Me thinks chumps( aka Grover) is jealous.
Larry Wilbur Barney...it's Tommy....not Toomy.
You need a course in grammar and sentence writing.

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Permalink Reply by scalba123 on November 29, 2012 at 11:43am

...looks like poor Larry is hitting the PBR a little too hard this morning. Put the 24 oz can down and sleep it off, Little Brother.

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Permalink Reply by Wadsworth Longfellow on November 29, 2012 at 12:10pm

chumpsRus sounds more like ol' Hank on the call-in shows. That guy you all refer to as Grover seems to be a bit uneducated - maybe a dropout of special ed school. Perhaps this 5 step plan can help him enrich his life:

1) Grover - Roll off the cockroach infested sofa, while being careful not to knock over the inverted hubcap you call an ashtray sitting on the old empty wooden wire spool you refer to as a cocktail table.

2) Stagger towards the back door of your single-wide, kicking the empty Pabst cans out of your way, and exit trailer through said door.

3) While carefully negotiating the sleeping coon dogs in the back yard, make your way over to the old F-150 and remove 3 concrete blocks from under the truck (or the trailer, which ever is more convenient).

4) Wallow over to the 8 foot satellite dish and, using the concrete blocks, prop the dish up to face southwest (toward old man Kelsey's pig pen), and head back into the single-wide.

5) While taking care not to knock off the paper plate containing last week's left-over Domino's slices, turn the analog dial on the satellite reciever until The Learning Channel appears.

Hope this helps! Have a great day!!!

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Permalink Reply by kittykilla on November 29, 2012 at 2:00pm

Larry Wilbur Barney....you hitting the sauce again? Wanting some to suck on what?
For awhile there you were making sense but the more you drink, the more you are so incoherant.