Louisville Football: Cards in Charlotte for ACC Kickoff on Thursday

CHARLOTTE, N.C. – It’s kickoff time for the Louisville football team. Well, at least ACC Kickoff media day time for the Cardinals. Louisville coach Jeff Brohm is at the Hilton Uptown on Thursday, along with quarterback Lincoln Kienholz, defensive end Clev Lubin, and offensive lineman Lance Robinson, who are meeting with the media all day long. The Cardinals will chat with the local and national media, meet with the television folks, and spend time on radio row at the annual meetings with the media in the Queen City. Louisville will open the season on Sept. 6 in Nashville, Tenn., against Ole Miss. The Cardinals’ first home game will be on Friday, Sept. 11 against Villanova. Cardinal Sports is at the ACC Kickoff and will bring you all the news and notes from the day: Clev Lubin a hooper? Louisville preseason All-American defensive end Clev Lubin used to play basketball. It was pointed out to him while he was on the podium, during the Louisville press confernece, that he averaged 21.6 points and 11.4 rebounds in high school. “I told ya’ll I was a hooper,” Lubin said to Jeff Brohm and his teammates with a laugh. “I told you.” But then he said he had to “tell the honest truth” on why he didn’t keep playing. “I can’t shoot for a lick,” he said. “I can get to the rim, and I can score. I played hard, all that stuff. I wasn’t going to play no DI basketball. I couldn’t shoot a three if my life depended on it. “But I was a pretty decent basketball player if I do say so myself.” The start will be key for the Cards Eric Mc Lain from the ACC Network was talking about Louisville’s schedule and how “very important” the first three weeks of the season will be for the Cardinals. U of L will play Ole Miss in Nashville, Tenn., on Sept. 6 before hosting Villanova and SMU. “Strap in,” Mc Lain said. “We will know about them early. And that’s, you know, the good and bad part. You know, for some teams that, again, have a relative rookie, young quarterback, maybe you wouldn’t want it that way. But, you know, at the end of the day, we will. “By the end of September, we’ll know exactly who Louisville is.” What others are saying Wes Durham of the ACC Network was asked about Jeff Brohm and the Louisville offense with Lincoln Kienholz taking over at quarterback. “Your guy doesn’t miss with quarterbacks,” Durham said of Brohm. “I’m getting ready to sit down with him here later today to do a half-hour show, and we’re going to go all the way back to the Brandon Doughty days (from Western Kentucky). I mean, he doesn’t miss, and that’s the thing. Miller Moss was one thing. Tyler Shough is unbelievable. He’s going to be the quarterback of the New Orleans Saints, right? It’s just crazy the way this thing goes. That’s why the Lincoln Kienholz thing doesn’t, that doesn’t faze me at all. . . I think you have to trust the process, and I know people get tired of hearing that, but this guy’s proven to do this. And at a high level.”