Louisville Football: What’s a realistic outcome for Cardinals in 2019?

It’s a new regime for Louisville football under head coach Scott Satterfield, so what’s a realistic outcome for the Cardinals?

There is no way around it, 2018 was a disaster for Louisville. After a 2017 season that underachieved in the final year of the Lamar Jackson era at quarterback, Bobby Petrino entered 2018 on the hot seat, and boy was it uglier than anyone expected.

The book-end to the second era Petrino concluded with a nine-game losing streak and a 2-10 record overall. To add salt to the wound, the Cardinals were win-less in conference play, saddling an 0-8 record in the ACC.

After moving on from Petrino and his coaching staff, Louisville’s athletic department knew a culture change was necessary. As such, they went out and made a GREAT culture hire in nabbing Scott Satterfield from Appalachian State. He built a consistently good-to-great FCS school that later turned into one of top FBS schools in the Group of Five.

Satterfield compiled a 47-16 record that included three bowl wins in five seasons at the school, so in addition to being a culture hire, it’s clear that he can flat out coach.

While this is a good hire and Satterfield has put together a solid staff, it is expected to get uglier before it gets better. Let’s take a look at how this thing might shake out for the Cards in 2019.