Louisville’s fall camp is about to open with a public window for fans, and the first six practices are set for 9:45 a.m. ET on Thursday, August 6; Saturday, August 8; Monday, August 10; Tuesday, August 11; Thursday, August 13; and Friday, August 14.
Most of those workouts are expected to take place on the grass practice fields, though weather could push the Cardinals inside L&N Stadium or the Trager Indoor Practice Facility. Fans planning to attend are asked to park in Bronze Lots F & G.
If practice is on the grass fields or inside the Trager Center, fans must stay behind the ropes along the sidelines. If the team moves into the stadium, spectators have to remain in the stands.
No photos or videos will be allowed during any of the open practices.
There’s plenty else on the Louisville radar as camp nears. Koen Entringer and Clev Lubin both landed on the preseason watch list for the Nagurski Award, which honors the best defensive player in college football. Louisville is one of just 13 programs with multiple players on the list.
On the hoops side, Jeff Borzello’s latest way-too-early rankings for ESPN put Louisville at No. 12, with the Dec. 12 trip to Lexington singled out as the most important non-conference game on the schedule.
Pat Kelsey also continues to stay active on the recruiting trail. The CJ’s Brooks Holton highlighted four class of 2027 prospects Kelsey is watching closely, and Louisville commit Ja’Hyde Brown was listed among the area’s 10 best pass catchers for the upcoming high school football season.
Back with the current roster, Tre Richardson’s debut is one of the main storylines as Louisville football heads into camp. Lance Robinson also made the Outland Trophy watch list.
Elsewhere in the program, women’s soccer junior midfielder Amelia Swinarski was named to the preseason All-ACC Team after leading the Cardinals in goals, assists and points last season.
The basketball conversation has its own headline-grabber too: Peyton Siva told The New York Post that leaving Louisville for St. John’s was one of the hardest choices he’s ever made.
“It was honestly one of the most difficult decisions I made in my life, making the call to Coach [Pat] Kelsey, someone who gave me an opportunity in this coaching world,” he told The Post in a phone interview, after agreeing to leave his job as an assistant coach at Louisville for the same position at St. John’s.
“It was tough. It was tough not only to make that call, but make the call to leave Louisville.
A couple of sleepless nights. But I think it was the right decision and the best decision for my family and myself.”
Siva also pointed to the chance to work under Rick Pitino as a major factor. “Obviously, the biggest thing was getting a chance to work under Coach Pitino as a coach,” Siva said.
“I think Coach is top three, if not the best college coach of all time. To get a chance to work under him would be amazing, especially breaking into this coaching world and breaking into this coach profession, there’s no one better to work for and to work under and to learn from.”
And he made clear he’s excited about the move. “I’m very excited to join St.
John’s and the staff and work under Coach. I watched a lot of the players they recruited, I’m very familiar with a lot of their games,” Siva said.
“It’s a winning program. Coach has done a great job of getting them back in the limelight.
What I can bring is my energy, my expertise, my knowledge from my playing days with him, but also my playing days over in Europe, and they have a lot of European guys who have come over to the states.”
Beyond the Cardinals, former Louisville assistant and current Boston College head coach Luke Murray made the aggressive move of having BC’s longtime radio team let go because he reportedly did not want any ties to the prior regime. Another former Louisville King is headed to the NFL, as defensive tackle Travis Bell signed with the Cleveland Browns.
Louisville’s fall camp storylines are already piling up, and that first open practice on August 6 will give fans their first real look at the 2026 team in motion.
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