Things of note:

Jamon Brown has moved back to defensive tackle.

Lorenzo Mauldin appears to be staying at defensive end.

Ryan Hubbell, Gerald Christian, Robert Clark, James Burgess, and Keith Brown are already enrolled and will (presumably) go through spring practice.

Maybe it's just me, but ever since Chicken Knowles came off the table, I've been less interested in b-ball recruiting this year than any year in recent memory.

But anyway, Demling is covering national signing day on his blog and Terry Rozier gets to make it official today.

As far as I can tell, the only other players we're looking at in the 2012 class are Robert Upshaw, Jakarr Sampson, Ryan Taylor, and Andrew White (maybe? I've heard mixed things about this guy). It doesn't seem like any of those guys are pulling the trigger today.

Soooo, welcome home Terry Rozier!

I think BYU is the best football school available to be added to our conference. However, I would have liked to see the conference try to replace what we lost in terms of basketball more than they have (i.e., Memphis & Temple instead of SMU/Central Florida)

This is moving painstakingly slow, but whatever

The best chances for Louisville to get a Big 12 invite involve Mizzou leaving and the league re-expanding back to 12 teams. It appears that Mizzou just took a step towards leaving; a decision to go to 12 teams would put us in solid position.

My pre-season expectations are fulfilled

Congrats to both guys.

Someone should post that youtube video that's a composite highlight reel of our four signees

As the saga continues to unfold, Jerrell Moore has pushed his decision back to next week. Damarcus Smith is still set to announce tomorrow.

I don't know what this means but feel free to make unsubstantiated inferences from this development below.

Fortunately, there's no live video, so there won't be any drama about shirt color

UPDATE: He's not announcing today

Apparently, the kid is still set on coming to UofL, even if that requires going to prep school for a year first.

Ignore the title of the youtube video. Now, knowing that Teddy Bridgewater is the QB (and this is his sophomore season), rewatch the highlight video and tell me who is the star, Bridgewater or Harris?

The correct answer: it doesn't matter, because they both play for us.

After a week of partial freaking out, the two big head coaching jobs that opened up have been filled. Even if Rodriguez gets fired at Michigan, they're going to hire Harbaugh. So for time being, Charlie remains in Louisville

Beef O'Brady's Bowl, #27. BBVA Compass Bowl, #30. Thats right, suck it Kentucky, Mark Schlabach ranked our lower-tier bowl higher than your lower-tier bowl.

Boom.

We're close to cracking the top 25. But perhaps more intriguing is UNLV's entry into the polls. They have an impressive resume so far with wins over Wisconsin and Virginia Tech. It should be a very good game when they come to town on Dec. 11.

Kentucky Sports Radio, a website that has made a habit out of criticizing professional journalists for shotty reporting, takes its own stab at the practice by making a thorough "investigation" into Jordan Campbell's amateur status using facebook and google search.

Now, the only thing that really bothers me about this article/post is that I think people give KSR the credibility of being legitimate journalism when it really isn't. But such is the nature of the internet age I suppose.

I don't know why I post this or why we should even watch, but for some reason, basketball recruiting keeps pulling me back in. Hood is set to announce his decision at noon on Wednesday.

UPDATE: Noon in Mississippi means 1pm.

Barry Larkin's son, Shane, has committed to play basketball at Depaul. Most Louisville fans cheer for the Reds and Barry Larkin was my favorite Red of all-time (I wasn't alive for the Big Red Machine). This, combined with the haplessness of Depaul basketball, should make it easy to cheer for Shane.

Of course, all of this probably goes out the window if we ever lose to Depaul (but we won't, they're like Memphis), but for now, congratulations to Shane.

As far as I know, Giles brings with him no baby-mama drama. I assume that he won't be eligible till 2012, but I could be wrong. He played in 3 games for S.C. this year.

Welcome aboard, Jarvis

I don't have a subscription, so I can't read the article, but the headline and abstract explain enough. I don't feel happy or excited about this. Are we really this desparate?

Welcome aboard, Chuck

Gorgui Dieng has shot up to #44. Justin Coleman dropped some to #50.

At his current rate of advancement, Gorgui Dieng's ranking will surpass the number one spot by late August and he will be the first recruit ever to reach negative digits.

About time Charlie Strong. What's it been, like 3 weeks since we had a new football recruit to talk about? jeez... (we really need a sarcasm font)

I bet you thought the 2010 football recruiting class was done, didn't you? And then Charlie Strong adds another fourt star d-tackle. Todd Chandler, eat your heart out

I hope people at Texas A&M appreciate the offensive genius they hired as their "passing game coordinator." What the hell does that even mean? Isn't that just the quarterbacks coach? It always irked me that he had a passing game coordinator and a running game coordinator, as if they were two aspects of offensive football that couldn't be reconciled with each other under one coach

jody demling says that our 2011 football class (consisting of 4 dudes) is ranked 7th in the country. I realize this means nothing, but I'd rather start out at the top than have to work up to it

Report from the recruiting authority that is Jody Demling:
Dominique Brown has committed to Louisville, which means that Preston Brown has also likely committed to lousiville, as the two are a reported "package deal"

Game footage (not from the YMCA) of Russell Smith playing against Brewster Academy (which has several D-1 players, including Will Barton). Fast forward to the 2:57 mark to see some highlights of Smith. He look's like he's pretty quick/athletic and has a decent jump shot.

Josh Bellamy, juco wide receiver, had been committed to USF

6-4, 305 lb., Jake Smith from Alabama. Had been committed to UAB, switched this weekend when offered by Charlie Strong