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Drilled To Perfection

By Pat Forde

Tuesday, September 30, 2008

There are 41,999 empty red seats in Papa John's Cardinal Stadium on this summer afternoon. Exactly one chair is taken, 24 rows up in Section 228, on the 20-yard line. In it sits a middle-aged man, with a black ballcap shading his lined, freckled face. Through owlish eyeglasses he watches the whirling activity on the field below, but he is locked in on one player at the center of it all. On the broiling artificial turf, members of the Louisville Cardinals briskly conduct another day of off-seas ...

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