Going into the off-season it seemed Georgia Tech Geoff Collins would have the ACC’s hottest seat. That’s what happens when you win 9 games in 3 years, but he now has a buddy on the scorching hot seat bench. It’s Scott Satterfield at Louisville.
Dino Babers deserves a hot seat mention, but things don’t seem as dire for Babers as Collins and Satterfield.
Scott Satterfield really needed a bowl victory over Air Force Tuesday.
He really needed to beat Kentucky in the season ending rivalry.
He needed at least one, did neither and Louisville looked terrible in both games.
Now three years into his tenure the Cardinal program is worse in year 3 than year 1.
Satterfield did a wonderful job in 2019 getting Louisville to 8 wins after inheriting the trainwreck left by Bobby Petrino.
It’s been all downhill since.
After the Kentucky we addressed what is wrong with Louisville.
It’s starts at the line of scrimmage. This team simply isn’t’ physical.
The Cardinals looked exactly the same against Kentucky as they did against Ole Miss. Those two teams pushed Louisville’s defense from end to end. The defense ranked 77th coming into Saturday and it’s sure to fall after giving up over 500 yards Saturday to Kentucky.
It was evident Tuesday as well.
Undersized Air Force didn’t just out-scheme Louisville, they pushed them around the field. They manhandled them so much, that Air Force had so much time to throw that they passed for 3 times (252) more than their average of 82 yards a game.
When they wanted to throw they threw. When they wanted to run they did to the tune of a 28-14 lead at the Half. The second half was better but the Cardinals needed a late stop to get the ball back and they couldn’t get it.
Louisville wasn’t ready to play and the chronic lack of physicality showed up again. Throw in a recruiting class that’s in the bottom half of the ACC, and there is not a lot of positive around the Louisville program.
Clemson is consistently better, Wake Forest and NC State have passed Louisville. That’s leaves Louisville no better than the 4th best team in the ACC Atlantic.
That falls on Satterfield.
Louisville football should be better than this… much better.
Scott Satterfield will get one more year to prove he can be the guy to fix this.
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