Louisville Huge Business

Owsley Brown II | Louisville should strive for quality, not size

Why do people like living here and raising their families here? While there are many wonderful reasons, I want to focus on just one: our fortuitous size. We are big enough to have, for example, great urban cultural and educational resources, and to have three international Fortune 500 companies happily based here. Yet we are small enough to still have a sense of oneness with our fellow citizens in other parts of the metro area. This sense of community makes us feel we really can be responsible for our own destiny and that we really are able to take advantage of opportunities we create for ourselves. It also makes us feel our problems are not of such an overwhelming nature that we are helpless to solve them. We have, by and large, a well-balanced, well-sized urban and suburban social system, and one that seems highly satisfying to the human side of our citizen's lives. If you are interested in the arts, you might easily think that “if only our city were bigger, we would have the population to make our orchestra work financially.” But size alone turns out not to be the answer, when we consider that even Philadelphia, a city about twice the size of ours, now has its great orchestra in bankruptcy. What will help is open minds to engage in creative, practical problem-solving, and dealing with issues we should have dealt with 25 years ago, which is, I believe, exactly what‘s now going on in our own orchestra's case. The orchestra reminds us, though, that our arts here are a gift of gold to our city, improving our children's performance at school and stimulating in countless adults creativity, which allows them to better solve their personal, business and our city's civic problems. And in relation to the huge contribution to our city's well-being made by our arts, their net cost to our community is rather modest. Contrast this with our own Louisville Water Company, now 150 years old. When we in the public think of it, we think of the architectural wonders at the foot of Zorn Avenue; of the two magnificent spots up on Crescent Hill; and, recently, of the company's great new office on Third Street. Right from its 19th-century founding, the leaders of this company, wanted to impress and to elevate the public perception of the company and its product. And they tried to do this via world-class architecture. And, boy, did it work!

Josh Selby Went 49th in Draft…Helps Kentucky??? « Louisville ...

Kentucky fans all remember the recruiting saga last year over 5 star point guard Josh Selby who eventually decided on Kansas over Arizona, UCONN, Tennessee, Syracuse, and Kentucky. Of course picking Kansas wasn’t what we wanted but the kid made his decision and that decision may just help Kentucky in the future. Now I’ve got you wondering….How does Josh Selby going to Kansas last year help Kentucky???

However, Josh Selby’s’ decision may not only help Kentucky but could help many other college programs as well to include Louisville. The one-and-done industry is big business in college basketball whether we like it or not. Personally I am more for a two-and-done format or just get rid of the one-and-done rule and go back to the old way. Potential one-and-done players are amazing basketball players whom can greatly help programs and are hard to pass up in college basketball. Of course Coach Calipari goes after them all but many teams are slowly starting to realize the potential of these players and go after them as well. Duke grabbed Kyrie Irving and while he did get hurt and couldn’t help them throughout the year as much as they would have liked, he still went number 1 in the draft. Ohio State has had their share of these players as well as Texas and a few other programs. Other teams are starting to get their hands in the mix as well such as Louisville this year with the possibilities of Wayne Blackshear or Chane Behanan playing one year only.

Kentucky has set a standard for one-and-done players that other programs have to prove as well. To get one-and-done players you have to put these kids in the NBA after one year and they want to go high. If you still don’t see where I am going with this…keep reading slowly. Kyrie Irving went number 1 in the draft, Brandon Knight went number 8, Cory Joseph went 29 . All these players were one-and-done players that went first round in the NBA draft and were scattered throughout last years player rankings out of high school. Three of these players hold importance to our subject and those are Kyrie Irving, Brandon Knight, and Cory Joseph. Rivals listed these players respectively at 2, 3, and 4 out of high school. Josh Selby was considered the number 1 point guard in the country and was highly recruited and was considered a top 5 NBA draft pick early on. What happened that made him drop to be a second round number 19 pick (49 overall) doesn’t really matter.

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