Louisville, UK football might be onto something big with portal hauls

If, in the not-so-distant future, football overtakes basketball in Kentucky as the top sport in the state, just know the seeds for the turnaround were planted this year. Sounds almost like blasphemy to consider given the stranglehold hoops has had through the years. But Indiana making, and being favored to win, the College Football Playoff national championship sounded pretty outlandish for most of its 138 years of the program's existence — until the Hoosiers made it this season. What Louisville coach Jeff Brohm and new Kentucky coach Will Stein have done — as the transfer portal window for football closes Friday — speaks to an arms race of sorts. Both former Trinity High...