BW, are you a Louisville fan?
What can you tell me about the Tom Jurich departure?
Just kinda curious because he went there from NAU, I think.
Gimpy -been a Louisville fan for nearly 50 years.Jurich was fired in a massive overreaction by the Board of Trustees in a big Power struggle for several reasons
1.Jurich`s continued support of Rick Pitino.
2.Power struggle and personal dislikes with severalL BOT members (Biggest enemy was PIZZAPUNK John Schnattner.
3.BOT-overreaction to NCAA screwing of Louisville with the over-the-top penalties for accusations that where recanted by the main accuser who wrote the book with the help of a INdiana University booster and owner of the small book company that started the whole mess.
4.Several BOT members where appointed by the ******* Governor Bevin who is doing everything he can to keep Louisville from surpassing of Kentucky in any endeavors.You have to live here to understand how most of the state hayseed hillbilly population hates anything at all to do with "that big city University ".
5.Too many people also felt Jurich was too powerful and was getting too big for his brtches because he was always pushing to keep upgrading facilities and programs.That irritated some academics.
6.Like i stated earlier Jurich was solidly supporting Pitino and when he refused to fire Pitino he was fired too.7.Another thing was when the previous University president was sent packing because of very questionable use of school money the acting BOT also used the fact that Jurich was friendly with him (former UL president ) and The NCAA mess and the things mentioned earlier to so-called "clean house' and in the end it all was like a avalanche rolling towards Jurich that he couldn`t stop.
he just ticked off some people who used underhanded crap to get rid of him .That`s the way many fans see things here.Jurich and Pitino are both suing the school for wrongful termination and i suspect both will win.Jurich did nothing wrong.