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Razorbacks…Hope You Like Your Carpetbagger…
Posted by Joel on December 11, 2007
Well, the looooooooooooong wait for a head coach for the University of Arkansas has ended…with Bobby Petrino. Don’t worry about his job with the Falcons, because he quit that…
This guy’s resume is filled with more short stays than skanks hanging at the Four Seasons for a celebrity sighting. He finally got a head coaching gig at Louisville, taking over for the funny yet incompetent John L. Smith, in 2003. Louisville was on the verge of greatness, and with Petrino, took the team to the Orange Bowl last year. Soon after that, he was playing footsies with Arthur Blank on a 5 year, $24.5 million a year contract. Somehow, I don’t think all the Quick-Crete he wanted was included in compensation.
Now, he is taking some more billionaire Walton money, as he is now gonna coach at Arkansas. If I were a Razorback fan, I would be nervous and pissed at the yahoos that made this job so unattractive. Let’s start off with nervousness. Petrino and zealous Auburn boosters and the school president tried to cut a midnight deal just 2 days before the “Iron Bowl”. Keep in mind that Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville was still employed at head football coach. Petrino has also talked to LSU and God only knows who else while employed at Louisville, all in the hopes of getting more dollar dollar bills y’all. Like puppets on a string, Louisville said “yes sir” and gave it to him…EVERY TIME!!! Of course, he still left. I would also be nervous because he left the Falcons because he couldn’t take a little losing and didn’t feel the need to rebuild, which you guessed, Arkansas very well may have to do with McFadden, Jones, and Monk possibly leaving for the NFL.
I would also be mad at the yahoo nut jobs that ran off Houston Nutt and made the Arkansas job highly unattractive. I know that every coach and anyone else in the public eye will face scrutiny, but the way they put Nutt’s business out in the open and on front street, made it almost Britney Spears like for him and his family. It was so bad that he left Arkansas, his home state and dream coaching job, for Ole Miss. That’s bad…
A carpetbagger originally was a Northerner who moved to the South during Reconstruction (Petrino is from Montana). The term was meant to be derogatory, meaning someone who exploits until all resources are used up, then moves on (see coaching resume). Arkansas, I hope that you enjoy your carpetbagger, because he won’t be there long…
TideDruid said
How could you not love being a fan of this conference right now? Who needs the movies when the best drama is always south of the Mason-Dixon?!
Joel said
SEC Football…It’s FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN-Tastic!!!
TideDruid said
BTW, was that guy in the picture drawn as an evil Lincoln on purpose? Given the time period and all….
zigzag said
Did you hear Blank being interviewed by those clowns in the booth during that drudgery last night. He said he had every confidence that Petrino would be able to get that crummy bunch up to speed with a new quarterback, blah, blah. Blank had no clue that asshole was even talking to Arkansas. Petrino is one devious son of a bitch. The hogs seem to have really stepped in the dog’s business with this guy.
Joel said
@TideDruid-Yeah I remember talking about this in high school in U.S. History. But when you look at a side profile of Petrino and the cartoon, they do look a little bit alike…
@Zigzag-Petrino will be there until a really big school opens up. He’s a good coach, let me rephrase that, a good COLLEGE coach, but if I were an AD, I wouldn’t touch this guy. For the most part, Blank has been an owner who lets his coach do just that and stays out of the way, unlike Jerry Jones or Al Davis. If he couldn’t work with Blank Check, who can he work with???
Pig Sooie…
Thomas the Terrible said
What did you people huh? Jeff Long will bring Big East mediocrity to the SEC as Arkansas’s AD. LOL plus he the third choice after 2 average ACC coaches.
http://ymswwc.wordpress.com/2007/09/12/jeff-long-is-hired-as-arkansas-new-ad-vows-2nd-tier-big-east-mediocrity-for-2nd-tier-sec-school/
zigzag said
Guys like Petrino and Saban are just “football whores” who have resumes fatter than a Sears catalogue. LSU is very likely to open up sooner rather than later and Petrino would kill his mother for that job.
Joel said
They are pimpin Petrino for all it’s worth. I am watching the Petrino presser, which was scheduled originally scheduled for tomorrow at 10:30 am, which happened tonight. It had everything, from Petrino putting emphasis on passing (shots at Nutt), to Petrino “calling the Hogs”. It’s surreal, because yesterday he was on the Falcons. Amazing…
Gate 21 said
No Pass Out Checks: Petrino to Arkansas
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