Charlie Strong to Louisville
December 9, 2009 by Mat Houchens
Filed under Football
Yes we talked about it a week ago, but now it’s practically done… all we’re waiting on now is an inked deal.
The school has called a meeting of the personnel committee of the Louisville Athletic Association board of directors for Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. ET, where it is expected that the board will be asked to approve the hiring of Strong, a source close to the search said Tuesday.
Charlie Strong interviewed with Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich on Sunday in Gainesville. There are no reasons on why Strong isn’t expected to be named the head coach after today’s meeting at 3:30 PM. We will update this post with the “official” announcement from Tom Jurich and Louisville.
Strong looks to bring his defense expertise to Louisville after the previous two coaches at Louisville being offensive coaches. He aims to bring up the 67th defense in the NCAA and the 7th defense in the Big East up to contender level.
His recruiting for the area and the south will be welcomed though:
Strong’s deep recruiting ties to the South would be welcomed at Louisville. Kragthorpe and his staff largely abandoned recruiting in the area in favor of looking for players from the West and Southwest.
It will be interesting to see what kind of impact he can have in recruiting at Louisville and if more bigger defensive names start heading towards Louisville… only time will tell.
I for one am sad to see Strong go but he greatly deserves this opportunity as a head coach and hope he does well with it. I wish the roles were different and it was Addazio leaving instead of Strong 
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