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Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) - It’s no secret the University of Louisville football team has been struggling lately.

Coach Kragthorpe says the blame falls squarely on him.

The cardinals took another tough loss on Friday night to Cincinnati and they lost the keg of nails.

The Cards face West Virginia next Saturday at noon at Papa Johns Cardinal Stadium.

He was never the right pick. His record at Tulsa was 8-5, 4-8, 9-4, and 8-5. This might be good enough for Conference USA but inadequate for the Big East. After he left Tulsa they went 10-4 and are currently 10-3.
Kragthorpes recruiting class is currently ranked 74 in the country. Based on this and a harder schedule they will probably win 3 or 4 games in 2009.

I believe the blame is 100% on him. Jurich is too close to this man to have the objectivity to see that he is not good for our program. His clouded judgement is not only hurting our program but his legacy. He once was viewed as the best in his field and now it's a shame he has tarnished his record with this hire. This is why you don't work with friends and family. If our football coach had been a reg joe to him he would have had no issued letting him go after this season. The expectations of the fans are legitimate and he needs to realize who pays the bills. The fans will stop coming to games and with ticket sales down and maybe with his position on the line will he see the light - but by the time that happens it may be too late for him. Maybe he should have went to Florida State while his stock was still high. I feel for the awesome players that we still have and unfortunately I hope they transfer to a team that will utilize their talent and actually coach them in the game of football and leave the raising to their parents. You can do God's work all you want but he chose the profession of football and he needs to do his job too.

He shows no emotion. It's almost as if he doesn't care about the team, the school or even football.

No comment..he is to balme.

I WOULD SAY GIVE HIM ONE MORE YEAR THEN IF WE HAVE ANOTHER BAD AND OR OFF SEASON THEN IT's TIME FOR THE COACH TO MOVE ON.

what about the players...

even if the platers were the best footballers ever born they wont follow a loser! Get your act together kraggy!!!!!

Because I think he is not a strict coach like Petrino was and he expect alot out of the team but it look like the players don't even want to play for him he was a bad choice to bring in as head coach and we haven't made it to a bowl game sense the BCS Orange Bowl game yes he is to blame for it

Coach K may be the coach,but he is not the one who is missing tackles,dropping passes,or fumbling. Just imagine if people would have looked at Howard Schnellenberger's record after his first 2 years as coach. Did they ask for his head? Give this man a chance. I don't think we will regret it.

Coach Kragthorpe has to take some of the blame, that goes with the position. He is alone in the blame though, talent wins games and although they had great talent on the offensive side of the ball last season and a disappointing year the talent was not there this year. The wins against K-State and South Florida gave us all hope that we could have an impressive year and go to a bowl, but in the end the talent on this Cards team let him and us down. Look back at the pre-season projections of this team from the experts around the country, that is were we finished. Let's judge Kragthorpe on his recruiting now, that is how we will win again, not changing head coaches at this point.

HE doesn!t seem to know how to motivate snybody. He appears to have the deer in headlights look all the time

He had nothing to fix coming in to Louisville, now we need someone to fix his mess

Of Course he is/ Last year didn't matter about recruits or anything else/ He had more talent then he has ever seen & didn't know how to handle it/ Of course they were thugs, Most good athletes are (Sad, but true). He has proved himself to be a good mid-major coach, but he has demonstrated to me that he does not have what it takes to keep Louisville at a level expected by our fans.

Yes He is ultimately responsible for everything with the team and how it performs.

Isn't the coach alway be blame!!!

When you become a head coach you are the teams leader. You win you get the credit, you lose you take the blame.

He and his organization

I keep reading, Krag had to rebuild. Would Brian B. have given up the millions from the NFL to have come back to a rebuilding team? NO! He came back because he knew there was enough talent to contend for a national champship. Doesn't sound like Krag inherited a rebuilding project, but it sure is now

I believe it is both Coach K and the teams fault. We need more players with talent. Petrino had a rare team that had talent. I believe if he had this young team now he would be in the same spot. Of course, as flighty as he was who knows. You need both, a good coach and a talented team. Right now we have neither. I'm sticking by Coach K and the team for right now.

Recruiting not going anywhere, Junior College just a bandaid over a gun shot wound. Why the he-- is he talking about JC quarterback unless he knows what I think and that is Matt Simms is leaving. Only coach in America that would have let Cantwell play entire game. That just further represents my opinion that next years excuse will start with "we have an uproven rookie quarterback". If he wants to get a JC player tell him to go get a couple of Kickers and renig on the 3 scholarships we wasted this year.
Question for those who said Kragthorpe was an offense genious. Didn't the offensive coordinator he had at Tulsa stay behind and that's why Tulsa is good? Maybe he got credit for something he had nothing to do with.
TJ please do not expand the stadium because next year we will barely draw 30,000 maybe for a good conf. game. Realistic next year is probably 3-9 maybe 4-8.

Do you think Coach Kragthorpe is to blame for U of L's bad season?