The Floyd Street Tribune: Say hello to the recruiting sagas and wars for Louisville basketball
Inside: And away we go. Kenny Payne immediately makes Louisville a major player on the recruiting front again, and with that comes much-welcomed intrigue.
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If the big headline from Kenny Payne’s hiring was the historic nature of it, the first follow-up story has to be about recruiting.
Louisville has juice again.
No ifs, ands or buts about it: That was a big factor in Payne’s candidacy making sense. Yes, he’s a former member of a national title-winning squad. Yes, he has been an assistant at the highest levels of college basketball and more recently added valuable NBA experience. Above all else, Payne has a reputation as a killer recruiter. Louisville has a big fish at the helm, and the Cardinals have re-entered deeper waters. They are cool again.