Cali_domer
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Bobby Petrino Motorcycle Accident
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The Polish Irishman
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Bobby is scumbag..Just ask Falcon fans
Can he be our next offensive coordinator? Great football mind.
Can he be our next offensive coordinator? Great football mind.
greyhammer90
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I'd take him in a second. He's un-freaking-believable at play calling.
Ndaccountant
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Details are murky, but the girl was hired by Bobby P to help with fundraising and some recruiting stuff. She was a Vball player for the University. Bobby was on a get a way with the family and went out for a ride and magically ran into this girl.
The fact his first reaction was to hide this......it doesn't look good.
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Who cares? I'm not sure why this is a big deal, and I don't mean on this board. I mean in Arkansas. Wow, the coach sucks at motorcycling. Lets have a press conference about it?
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Somewhere Arthur Blank and the Atlanta Falcons team he abruptly left are smiling
greyhammer90
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I think the press conference is about the 24 year old motorcycle decoration that was on the back.
Ndaccountant
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He lied and it drew negative attention to the university. I'm not sure any superior would by happy with that.
Also, the question on if he broke state law by hiring the girl was interesting. I have no idea why the question was asked and if there is merit to it, but it was interesting none the less.
The Polish Irishman
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Now that is funny.
When Alabama coach Mike Dubose was found to be having an affair with a football department employee, the Alabama Board of Trustees met to discuss the situation. When the closed meeting was done a reporter asked one of the Trustees if DuBose would be fired, he replied "The Coach will be evaluated on "W"s and that doesn't stand for women."
DuBose had gone 11-12 in his first two seasons. The woman filed suit and got a $300k out of court settlement. DuBose "voluntarily" tore up the last two years of his contract. The '99 season would be his last unless the Bama gave him an extension. He won the first two games then was upset by cannon fodder Louisiana Tech with a backup QB and the masses called for his head. Rather than fire the football coach the UA Administration FIRED THE AD. DubBose got it together after that only losing one more regular season game, beating Auburn for the first time in Auburn and beating UF twice. After the second win over UF in the SEC Championship game the two years removed from his contract over the affair were restored. He was named SEC Coach of the Year in '99.
Bama was ranked #3 preseason in '00. They lost the opener to UCLA on national TV. Bounced back against Vandy then lost to perennial cream puff Southern Mississippi. Moving vans showed up at his house. He won two of the next 3 then lost the last 5 including a game to Central Florida in only their 4th season of Div 1 ball.
That UA Trustee was prophetic, DuBose was eventually fired over "W"s, and it didn't stand for Women. He didn't have enough Wins. The good ol' boys in Tuscaloosa made their priority clear.
Really it was no surprise as in '92 Alabama's Basketball Coach Wimp Sanderson "resigned" over the sleeping arrangements with his secretary. Seems she went to away games and they had connecting rooms but saved money using only one set of sheets. The affair wasn't want brought Sanderson down as the affair was onging for 15 years. It started while he was a UA assistant coach. In the Spring of '92 it seems the secretary tried to break off the affair and ended up with a black eye. She sued Sanderson, UA, and the AD (not the one that got fired 7 years later in the DuBose Affair, altough this one did get his walking papers over the handling of the NCAA's Antonio Langham Investigation/Sanctions) and won $275K in a settlement.
Once again the UA powers that be showed that sleeping with the staff is good ol boy stuff. Black eyes are a different matter, at least if they get into the media.
SEC is about winnin'.
I heard that Petrino claimed the accident was due to sunlight. No mention of a reach around? Sometimes on a motorcyle things can get out of hand.
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WOW! She definitely has some great qualifications for fund-raising and recruiting. It's all about your ASSets.
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I read something this morning that basically said "his personal life is not for public consumption, but if he lied that is a problem." Well what kind of sense does that make? He only lied because the public was asking about his personal affairs. I'm not defending Petrino the human being. The guy is a scoundrel. But I hate this idea that everything is everyone's business. If he wants to boink a 26 year old, that is between him, his wife and the 26 year old. And if the girl wants to ride around on the back of a bike, she's an adult and is aware of the risks of doing so.
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Reggie Bush only lied to the NCAA because they asked him about his personal affairs. Being asked if he was the only person involved in a motorcycle accident is hardly an inquisition into personal affairs-- paparazzi-style. The dude is also an employee of a public, tax payer funded institution. Not necessarily in this case, but yeah, overall, the public does get to know a little more about you...when you work for them.
My take on all this is Arkansas is just giving this all lip-service. Petrino ain't going anywhere. They can look tough and claim the "moral" highroad when asked about their commitment to ethics and standards by placing a "suspension" on Petrino. But, as BGIF alluded to earlier, the ultimate decision by Arkansas in this will based on wins and losses. Nothing more.
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Rhode....what would your sentiments be had this been Brian Kelly?? Had this been the University of Notre Dame, would you then support the HC's actions when it brings negative publicity to the University as a whole? Because I can tell you, many alumni would not share your view, and I'm sure there's not many alumni from the University of Arkansas that are none too pleased with thier head coach this morming.
Gary Moeller was canned by the University of Michigan for making a very poor decision in his personal life, I wouldn't be too surprised if Bobby Petrino gets his *** canned for making the very same type of poor decision. While Moeller was fired for driving while intoxicated, and it's not the same as cheating on your wife, it's still in the same moral compass vicinity.
Moeller got canned, O'Leary got canned, Heywood got canned, Price got canned, Sanderson ... but Pinkle (DUI) and Pitino (restaurant sex affair/abortion) did not. Like a magnetic compass the moral compass is subject to local influences (winning) and varies by location.
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I'm not going to lie, I actually feel kind of sorry for the 24 year old. She's a piece of **** and is morally as shallow as a thimble, but every person she knows, including her parents, now know that she has been sleeping with this guy.
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IrishJayhawk
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This story is all around sad and awful. I take no joy.
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Are all Razorback fans this dumb? Apparently wins carry more weight than being a complete scumbag.
Arkansas Razorbacks fans rally to 'save' embattled coach Bobby Petrino - ESPN
Arkansas Razorbacks fans rally to 'save' embattled coach Bobby Petrino - ESPN
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I'll say this, being around a fan base all the time completely blinds you to reality. I've experienced it. I have gone to Tennessee (as a person who HATES UT athletics) during one of its dirtiest time periods. Lane Kiffin, the "hostess incident", the gas station robbery, the police officer beat down on the strip, the 3 members of the basketball team getting caught driving around with weed and an unregistered gun, and the Bruce Pearl incident. Do you know what I thought at the time about Tennessee's issues? "Meh, just some bad eggs on the team, a bad hire by UT athletics (Kiffin), and a coach that was caught in a lie (Pearl)." Keep in mind, this is a sports team that I hated for most of my adolescence. I was seriously caught off guard when I read some sports journalist saying that UT needed the death penalty. Then I realized that I had been practically indoctrinated. I still disliked UT athletics, but I understood them more. I had been around them, met a lot of fans, and was being drowned in their hopeful optimism from the second I woke up, to the second I went to bed.
My point is that I hated UT athletics, and still found a way to sympathize around them when I was around them constantly. I feel after reading a lot of what Buster says about OSU that he's going through the same thing. He hates OSU athletics, but his understanding of them is softer than most peoples due to his constant exposure to them. He has a more "humanitized" view of them than most on this board.
So that's what I think is going on in Arkansas. I don't think that they think adultery is alright anymore than most people. But I think that they are viewing things through much different glasses than anyone else in the country. If you think I'm wrong in my assessment of what localization can do to perspective, let me ask you this...
Does this man look like someone who just got accused of covering up child molestation?
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Seriously? With the way he bolted on Louisville AND Hotlanta??? Dude has scumbag written all over him.
This, acutally doesn't suprise me at all.
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