re: Bo Mattingly: Fans Already Asking About Bert's Buyout

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I'm genuinely curious to see if he'll be able to stay on the straight and narrow at Louisville. The first few years will be easy but once he's not as closely watched will he revert back to his old ways?

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Louisville taking him back after a year in the sunbelt isn't going to have had time to give him a life altering experience.

It isn't the off the field stuff that happened first, it was reaching a level he deemed to be good enough, then spending less effort/time on recruiting (he's a dick in real life so it doesn't help). So you have a decline in talent, no real indication he could have continued the success at Louisville or Arkansas with the talent that made up the roster.

He isn't much different than Nutt, wins with inherited talent for the most part, doesn't like to recruit, would rather ride a motorcycle than play pick up basketball games.