LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – It was Rick Pitino who told me about the ice cream. He used to tell his players this story:

You’ve got a perfectly good bowl of ice cream. Maybe it’s vanilla bean. Maybe it’s Rocky Road. It’s cold, it’s creamy, it’s promising. Then someone plops a speck of, well, excrement into the middle.

Just a speck.

But nobody says, “Oh, it’s fine — just scrape that part off.” No, he told me, in his own way, what you’ve got now is a bowl of @#$%&! ice cream.

Which brings us to the University of Louisville football team.

This is a team with flavor. With potential. With something to look forward to most weeks.

But the problem with the Cardinals — after an exhaustive taste test — isn’t the ice cream. It’s the specks. The small, foul, momentum-killing specks.

Their first dec

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