Rick Pitino no longer coaches the Louisville Cardinals basketball team. While his firing was justified (and maybe a little belated), the rivalry between the Cards and the Kentucky Wildcats without him on the sideline has lost some luster.
David Padgett is a fine person and may even be a great coach one day, but I cannot muster the hatred for him that I had for Pitino. The history isn’t there and thus far Padgett has the personality of a day old doughnut.
Now that the defining era of the rivalry has passed, the heat between the fanbases has cooled off to some extent.