Arkansas to fire Petrino?
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And hiring your mistress, and lieing to your boss, and embarrassing the university, ...
Obviously there is more to it than a simple affair, although I would wager that there is a "morality" clause in his contract.
Its a combination of things. The affair, they lying about it, the improper hiring of the mistress, ect.
The university did the right thing. For a major university in a major sports conference, the head coach of the football team is in actuality, the face of the university. Take any SEC school, including your own, I would bet that you could name all 12 (or 14) head football coaches, but would be hard pressed to name a single Dean.
This was alot of bad publicity, and the longer it hung around, the worse off they would be. So they let him go. Good call IMO.
I would agree with you here IF... he didn't lie about having an affair and lied about his real reasons to have her on the payroll and lied about her being with him when he had the accident.
I could see the payroll reason. That is abuse of power, and I guess that would be enough reason.
See I had my doubts. But I did not know about the lying...that is alone is "cause" for firing someone. And it's too bad, I have read in a few places that the Razorbacks were easily a top 10 team...even a top 5.
When all the details come out, it's usually the lying that gets you in hot water. Jim Tressel, Tiger Woods, Bill Clinton, Richard Nixon (90% of our politicians actually), can all attest to that. And speaking of lying, looks like Skip was recently busted pretty good on national TV...
Jalen Rose calls out Skip Bayless on air for his trumped up high school history (VIDEO) | Ball Don't Lie - Yahoo! Sports
Jalen Rose calls out Skip Bayless on air for his trumped up high school history (VIDEO) | Ball Don't Lie - Yahoo! Sports
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Listening to callers from arkansas on a local sports show today. Many there are saying the boyfriend beat the the hell out of Petrino and that the motorcycle accident was staged. The whole truth will eventually come out.
Arkansas threw away any chance of being a great team.
They just conceded the SEC West to Alabama and LSU for the next decade.
They just conceded the SEC West to Alabama and LSU for the next decade.
I don't know, they seem to have LSU's number more often than not. Alabama? Different story there.
So what would you have done with Petrino after so many ethical and legal transgressions? This goes way beyond football or athletics. Where do you draw the line on employee behavior? The reputation of the university is at stake. Frankly, I was surprised he lasted through the weekend.
Dorrell is still employed by the university??
BTW - this has to be the funniest comment I've read on a web site in years...
Update: Jessica Dorrell
BTW - this has to be the funniest comment I've read on a web site in years...
Update: Jessica Dorrell
Damn. Is he a PLAYER or coach.
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...4/bobby-petrino-text-messages-alison-melder/1
http://content.usatoday.com/communi...4/bobby-petrino-text-messages-alison-melder/1
