For the bulk of my adolescence, nearly every adult conversation about Louisville basketball that I listened in on was centered around what was wrong with the program and what could be done to get it back to where it had been in the 1980s. While the number of discussions were abundant, their focal points were limited to a select few areas.
First, there was the commonly held thought that Louisville's struggles were the direct product of an inability to recruit at an elite level anymore. Second, there was the notion that the game was passing Denny Crum by, a discussion which was typically an offshoot of the first one.