College football notebook: Louisville fires former Tulsa coach Steve Kragthorpe; Memphis to hire Larry Porter

 
By The Associated Press
Published: November 29, 2009

Louisville fires Kragthorpe Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich needed less than 48 hours to hire Steve Kragthorpe nearly three years ago, confident the coach who turned around the moribund program at Tulsa could keep the surging Cardinals atop the Big East .

The honeymoon lasted until the fourth quarter of Kragthorpe’s first game.

Three seasons, zero bowl games, 21 losses and thousands of em...


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