In a collision of circumstances that college sports somehow excels at creating, officials from Louisville and Cincinnati met in Boston on Monday to plan promotions for their Dec. 17 meeting in the Fenway Bowl. Meanwhile, back home, the Bearcats were busy swiping the very same guy who was supposed to coach the Cardinals in that game, Scott Satterfield. No awkwardness there at all.
Satterfield’s out-of-nowhere hire rippled elsewhere, too. News broke two hours before Purdue coach Jeff Brohm (a Louisville native) had a 10 a.m. press conference to discuss the Boilermakers’ Citrus Bowl game against LSU. By 10:04, athletic director Mike Bobinski had launched a preemptive statement that the opening at Brohm’s alma mater is “not today’s focus of conversation.”
At 10:09, an undeterred reporter asked about Louisville, a job Brohm turned down in 2018.
