It just makes you really proud that you were a part of it.”Ĭrum had a front-row seat in March 2022 for the introduction of one of his former players, Kenny Payne, as Cardinals coach. “You try to remember all of the things that you did, things that happened,” Crum said at a February 2020 ceremony honoring the 1980 title team. And Crum was present for the September 2022 dedication of Denny Crum Hall, a new campus dormitory for athletes and students. He frequently attended Cardinals games played on the KFC Yum! Center home court bearing his name and signature. Crum had 11 more overall wins and 55 more than his most influential advisor amassed at UCLA.Ĭrum remained a beloved, revered and respected presence around Louisville whose legacy has been recognized in many ways. Nonetheless, Crum was inducted into the Hall of Fame in May 1994, with Wooden, his college coach and longtime mentor at his side. He accepted a $7 million buyout in Mahis 64th birthday - and was replaced by Rick Pitino, an eventual Hall of Famer who guided Louisville to a third NCAA title in 2013 that the governing body later vacated following a sex scandal. The second half of his tenure was not nearly as successful as the first, however, as Louisville endured two separate NCAA investigations and never returned to the Final Four after Crum’s second championship season. A disciple of the legendary Wooden, Crum often wore a red sport coat and waved a rolled-up program and stat sheet like a bandleader’s baton as he directed Louisville to 23 NCAA Tournaments and six Final Fours. So we got to get to the point as a football team where we can put ourselves in a position where we could get in the postseason and hopefully make some noise.Nicknamed “Cool Hand Luke” because of his cool, unflinching sideline demeanor - legend has it he never uttered a curse word - Crum retired in March 2001 after 30 seasons at Louisville with 675 victories, which ranked 15th all-time then, and championships in 1980 and '86. We didn’t make the playoffs and that’s not good enough. "We don’t want to stay stagnant, and we appreciate and we are extremely proud of the success that we had last year, but we didn’t make the playoffs. “I (was asked at the combine) what’s the goal of the offseason, and I just said, 'Look, we don’t want to take a step back,'" Holmes said last month. One of the youngest teams in the NFL last season, the Lions revamped their secondary in free agency and added three potential Day 1 starters in the draft to a talented returning nucleus on both sides of the ball.īoth Lions coach Dan Campbell and general manager Brad Holmes have embraced the lofty expectations surrounding their team, with Holmes saying after the draft he believes the Lions have the talent to win a playoff game for the first time since the 1991 season. More: Detroit Lions won't play internationally this fall The Lions finished 9-8 last season and missed the playoffs for the sixth straight year, but won eight of their final 10 games (including that season finale against the Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field) and will enter this fall as the favorites to win the NFC North. The Lions have never played in the kickoff game since its inception in 2002, and last year they were not scheduled for any primetime games before being flexed into a Sunday night game − the final game of the regular season − in Week 18. Historically, the defending NFL champion has kicked off the season with a Thursday night game, but the primetime spot is new for the Lions.
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