When Louisville hired Kenny Payne, big things were expected from him so last season’s 4-28 stinker was a major shock. How bad was it?
Bad enough where people speculated he might not get to Year Two.
Part of it was he inherited a mediocre team anyway, at best, and another part of it was the possibility of a major NCAA penalty, possibly even the death penalty, made it hard to recruit high school players or even to go transfer fishing in the portal.
Payne and his ace assistant, former Blue Devil Nolan Smith, have recruited well this year though and the roster is almost entirely overhauled.