Louisville AD admits team took Wakeyleaks info but claims it wasn't helpful

Tom Jurich claims there was no benefit from the information received from Wake Forest's radio announcer

The world learned on Tuesday details of the fascinating story that former Wake Forest assistant coach -- and current team radio announcer -- Tommy Elrod had "attempted to provide confidential and proprietary game preparations on multiple occasions, starting in 2014."

The investigation into Elrod and the case, creatively dubbed "Wakeyleaks," began when Wake Forest coach Dave Clawson alleged that Louisville had somehow acquired some materials from Wake Forest that it shouldn't have possessed.

So now that the culprit in question has been caught, it only makes sense that Louisville would comment on the situation. The school's athletic director did just that on Wednesday.

"Our offensive coordinator Lonnie Galloway and Tommy Elrod have known each other for since 2007," Louisville AD Tom Jurich said in a statement. "Lonnie received a call from Elrod during the week of the Wake Forest game, and some information was shared with him that week.

"Among the communication were a few plays that were sent and then shared with our defensive staff. None of the special plays were run during the course of the game. Our defense regularly prepares for similar formations every week in their normal game plan.

"Any other information that may have been discussed was nothing that our staff had not already seen while studying Wake Forest in their preparations for the game and the material was not given any further attention. I'm disappointed that this issue has brought undue attention to our football staff as we prepare for our upcoming bowl game."

Isn't this all wonderful? I mean, if you weren't already convinced that college football is the greatest dumb sport in the world, this has to put it all over the top, right? It's a scorned radio commentator giving away team secrets. It's like some some kind of horrible spy novel come to life.

A spy novel the ACC plans on reading thoroughly.

"Protecting competitive integrity is fundamental to the Atlantic Coast Conference," said the conference in a statement released Wednesday afternoon. "The conference office is in the process of obtaining the internal findings from Wake Forest University. Based on the information provided, and any other information obtained, the league office will perform its due diligence, and as necessary, additional discussions and actions will occur."

As for whether Louisville actually benefited from the information it received, I don't care.

Jurich and Louisville maintain that they didn't, and that could very well be true. It could also be true that Louisville did use the information and doesn't want to say that publicly because it prefers to just move on from the situation.

The only thing that matters here is we have a radio commentator gone rogue. It's a story we can all laugh about to stay warm as we make our way through the winter.