Breaking News-Petrino to Arkansas

SBR Lou · 12-11-07, 06:10 PM

Yeah it has been confirmed. Makes Arthur Blank look silly after how he spoke highly of Petrino last night, saying how he earned his respect with how he handles adversity...

rjt721 · 12-11-07, 06:12 PM

Michigan just missed out on another viable candidate.

Great hire for Arkansas.

EaglesPhan36 · 12-11-07, 06:15 PM

Petrino is a scumbag. Sure he got thrown into a POS situation, but he handled that team as poorly as possible. I hope he blows dong at Arkansas.

stump · 12-11-07, 11:51 PM

Originally posted by EaglesPhan36

Petrino is a scumbag. Sure he got thrown into a POS situation, but he handled that team as poorly as possible. I hope he blows dong at Arkansas.

I agree 100%

Louisvillekid1 · 12-11-07, 11:59 PM

Don't even get me started , although he was thinking he would have had vick, and they prob would be going to the playoffs with him, however he signed a 10yr contract before he left us. . .

SBR Lou · 12-12-07, 12:28 AM

This guy is just a quitter, he will never get hired in the NFL again, let him sign another multi year deal in college and bail after another year again. How can you be comfortable with this guy as your coach with his track record even stemming from college?

jackpot269 · 12-12-07, 01:00 AM

Originally posted by crazyl

This guy is just a quitter, he will never get hired in the NFL again, let him sign another multi year deal in college and bail after another year again. How can you be comfortable with this guy as your coach with his track record even stemming from college?

good point

Seattle Slew · 12-12-07, 01:52 AM

I agree. He's a scumbag. Nutt went 75-48 at Arkansas. Let's see this guy do better in the SEC. I doubt it.

The Falcons owner does look like a complete idiot. Every rumor had Petrino looking at college jobs all season, and this clown goes on ESPN and backs the guy and his dedication.

Originally posted by EaglesPhan36

Petrino is a scumbag. Sure he got thrown into a POS situation, but he handled that team as poorly as possible. I hope he blows dong at Arkansas.

jon13009 · 12-12-07, 08:18 AM

I wonder if the Atlanta players had the feeling Petrino was leaving?
Petrino really did make Blanks look silly after that MNF game. Wonder what Mora Jr. is thinking now?

Doc JS · 12-12-07, 08:24 AM

He signed a 10 year extention his last year at Louisville. And proceeded to leave for Atlanta.

He signed a 5 year contract with the Falcons. And as recently as Monday night, was talking about how nobody was quitting, we're all in this together BS. Less than 24 hours later, he's off for Arkansas.

His word is not worth the paper it's printed on.

moses millsap · 12-12-07, 11:25 AM

A sick, sick man. Horrible hire and I hope he dies an early death.

louisvillekid · 12-12-07, 06:10 PM

Originally posted by Eric Crawford

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Oh, baby.

That was my exact thought when I found out Bobby Petrino had left the Atlanta Falcons with three games left in his first season to become head coach of the University of Arkansas.

Not coincidentally, those were the same words Tom Jurich said to me on a November night four years ago. I had called to tell him the people on an Auburn booster's jet that had flown to Sellersburg, Ind., to meet with Petrino weren't, as the coach had told U of L officials, members of a headhunting firm, but the Auburn president, athletic director and trustee chairman themselves.

Oh, baby.

Petrino is lucky Jurich didn't fire him that night. If he had, Petrino wouldn't have accomplished all that he has today. And by that I don't mean his top-10 rankings, coach- of-the-year awards, Orange Bowl championship and impressive wealth.

I mean this: He managed, somehow, to come off as less honest than Michael Vick and more conniving than Nick Saban. I don't know which is more impressive.

At least he won't be as reviled in Atlanta as its most hated man -- Union Gen. William T. Sherman. All Petrino burned were bridges.

Oh, baby.

Atlanta, we could've told you. We've seen it all before. The assurances of loyalty. The indignation when doubted. The departure in the night. The only surprise is that Petrino is leaving before ever establishing that he could succeed, even a little, in the NFL.

Few people seriously held this season's struggles against him, least of all team owner Arthur Blank.

Amid the dark cloud of Vick's sentencing Monday on a federal dogfighting conviction, Blank offered Petrino as a ray of hope in interviews, calling him the team's CEO and praising him for "dealing with the set of cards that unfolded this year."

A little low on honesty

Blank should have known Petrino is usually bluffing. According to reports, the coach assured Blank earlier that day he'd return to coach the Falcons. Now it's being reported that he (or his agent) already had been in contact with Arkansas. When Petrino coached the Cardinals in the Orange Bowl, he had spoken to at least one prospective Falcons assistant several days before the game.

To steal a line from the late Atlanta humorist Lewis Grizzard, if honesty were oil, Petrino would be a couple of quarts low.

Oh, baby.

Arkansas? Let me guess, it's always been his dream to have unlimited access to Wal-Mart. You buy something, return it three months later, they don't care! It's a place, no doubt, that his family members can call home. They have to call home, just to find out where it is.

In January he said coaching in the NFL was his dream. I hope somebody at Arkansas, for the school's sake, asked Petrino just how many teams he's dreamed of coaching.

Let's get this straight. Arkansas now has Petrino, John Pelphrey coaching basketball and ex-U of L coach Tom Collen coaching women's basketball. If they come for Bill Keightley, there's going to be trouble.

Oh, baby.

A remarkable coach – if only …

The sad part of this is that Petrino was, and may still be, a remarkable college coach, if he can just get recruits and their parents to stop laughing. Though all of a sudden, all of these off-the-field messes that U of L has been hinting that he left here are much more pertinent, now that he's returning to the college game.

Maybe Arkansas knows what it is doing. It did hold an unusual late night news conference to announce him, lest he bolt before the ink was dry. As if that would stop him. It took him only a week to talk to Louisiana State after signing one of his U of L extensions.

But seriously, the man can coach. Razorbacks fans, you're in for a treat. His tenure may well be the most exciting few weeks in your program's history.

During his four seasons at Louisville, he talked with Auburn, Louisiana State and the Raiders.

Petrino's coaching career started in 1983 as a graduate assistant at Carroll College in Wisconsin. He became offensive coordinator there in 1985. It was the start of a career that saw him work as an assistant at eight colleges before becoming U of L's coach in 2003. He led the Cardinals to a No. 3 ranking in 2006 and finished 41-9 overall, including an Orange Bowl victory this year.

HERE TODAY, GONE TOMORROW
Bobby Petrino's stint at Atlanta was one of the shortest for a non-interim coach since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.
Pete McCulley was fired after starting 1-8 with San Francisco in 1978 ,and Sid Gillman went 4-6 in his second stint as San Diego's coach in 1971 before quitting.
In an interesting twist , Lou Holtz coached the New York Jets for 13 games in 1976. He went 3-10, then left the team with one game remaining to become the Arkansas' coach.

Bobby Petrino's coaching career
1985-86 Carroll college (Off Cord.)
1987-88 Weber St. (receivers & tight ends coach)
1989 University of Idaho (QB's coach)
1990-91 University of Idaho (Off. cord.)
1992-93 Arizona St. (QB's coach)
1994 University of Nevada (Off. cord.)
1995-97 Utah St. (Off. Cord.)
1998 UofL (Off. Cord.)
1999-00 Jacksonville Jaguars (QB's coach)
2001 Jax Jaguars (Off. cord.)
2002 Auburn (Off. cord.)
2003-2006 UofL (head coach)
2007 Atlanta falcons (head coach)
2008 Arkansas (head coach)