... to good friend Steve Kragthorpe to take over as the head coach of the Cardinals' football program back in January of 2007, the basketball-minded school had been experiencing a renaissance of sorts on the gridiron.

Under then head coach Bobby Petrino, the Cardinals were perennial contenders in a much improved Big East, and were fresh off of a season in which they won the conference championship and beat Wake Forest to capture the Orange Bowl, the school's first and only BCS bowl win.

All of this success was the culmination of an unprecedeted run in which Louisville made nine straight bowl appearances and moved from Conference USA to the Big East.

Louisville football was by no means an upper-echelon program like...

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