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I bet if you look close, you can still see the marks Ramsey left on Jurich’ s back and vice versa. They scratched each other’ s backs constantly, it seemed.
That’ s not Tom’ s fault. In fact, I applaud him for getting that installed as part of his contract. Some might even say he earned it. But that doesn’ t mean his firing wasn’ t justified. The new Board of Trustees at the University of Louisville, led in part by one of the university’ s biggest donors and supporters, Papa John Schnatter, put into place checks and balances that didn’ t appear to be in place before their arrival.
Part of those checks and balances included being held accountable for what employees underneath your jurisdiction may have done to harm the school’ s financial wellbeing and image.
In other words, a good portion of the reason Pitino was fired – hiring people who didn’ t have the university’ s best interests at heart – is one of the main reasons Jurich was fired as well. He hired Pitino and is now on the hook for having, potentially, two major NCAA violations happen under his watch.
This is where Jurich’ s leadership seemed to cease. As scandals mounted and things seemed to be spiraling out of control at UofL, plenty of opportunities arose for Jurich, the usually-unabashed leader, to take over a contentious press conference or a rocky board meeting.
Instead, Jurich took a back seat, leaving people like Ramsey, Postel, Pitino or contracted NCAA compliance expert Chuck Smrt to take the lead role, interjecting only when asked a specific question and, even then, sharing only brief responses, mostly.
But hey, if it was a press conference about a Papa John’ s Cardinal Stadium expansion update or UofL’ s now-ill-timed announcement of a $ 160 million apparel deal with the school, there was Jurich, front and center, salivating over a hot microphone, accepting rounds of applause and appreciation.
And, make no mistake, the fearless leader should be there telling us all about the good times.
The fearless leader should also be front and center when the university is in turmoil. The fans should have heard from him in those times before anyone else. They needed to.
Regardless, there are many out there who believe that Jurich has done nothing wrong, including many of the same media members who sold out to be mouthpieces for the university in exchange for job security.
Nevertheless, all the positive things that Jurich accomplished at the University of Louisville should, over time, supercede the damage he was, at best, complacent in helping prevent.
And I think they will. Down the road, when time heals the wounds, they’ ll build a statue of him. And they should.
The constant reminder of Jurich’ s footprint on this university is all up and down Floyd Street.
It never ends.
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46 EXTOL SPORTS / JANUARY 2018