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What a sleezy and unscrupulous human being. Hats off to Arkansas for putting principles before winning. Jeff Long's indictment is so damning that I don't see how he'll ever get another shot at a pro or a big-time college coaching job. Division III football here we come.
I supposed you could survive a girlfriend, accident (false report), Inj's, a favoritism job, and strained relations with your AD. But not all in the same news sequence.
Anyone see the photo of the fat, ignorant (my conjecture), redneck student-type guy supporting Petrino with the poster that said "What's wrong with scoring in the off-season?" I'm sure HE'LL make a fine, upstanding citizen if he finishes college.
The (illegal) hiring of his girl friend (who is engaged to someone else, I wonder how that is going for her) is what killed him, I think. Among other things it provides the grounds for dismissal. I would not be at all surprised if he garners another DI coaching job after a few years.
IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that guys like him feel 'entitled' to their misdeeds, and despite seeing other similar cases in the national media, it never dawns on them that THEY will be caught. I love the fact that he lost his 'guaranteed' money, but I feel very badly for his wife and kids.
Marlow wrote:IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that guys like him feel 'entitled' to their misdeeds, and despite seeing other similar cases in the national media, it never dawns on them that THEY will be caught. I love the fact that he lost his 'guaranteed' money, but I feel very badly for his wife and kids.
He saw the whole Tiger Woods scandal unfold and apparently just yawned. He saw the Arnold scandal and laughed. Is he laughing now?
Marlow wrote:IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that guys like him feel 'entitled' to their misdeeds, and despite seeing other similar cases in the national media, it never dawns on them that THEY will be caught. I love the fact that he lost his 'guaranteed' money, but I feel very badly for his wife and kids.
He saw the whole Tiger Woods scandal unfold and apparently just yawned. He saw the Arnold scandal and laughed. Is he laughing now?
Anything for a young pussy. Don't you know anything?
Marlow wrote:IT NEVER ceases to amaze me that guys like him feel 'entitled' to their misdeeds, and despite seeing other similar cases in the national media, it never dawns on them that THEY will be caught. I love the fact that he lost his 'guaranteed' money, but I feel very badly for his wife and kids.
He saw the whole Tiger Woods scandal unfold and apparently just yawned. He saw the Arnold scandal and laughed. Is he laughing now?
Anything for a young pussy. Don't you know anything?
Oh my, Pego!
Not only do I not know anything, I don't even suspect anything.
In this case, it is not the affair, per se, but that it was with a restricted member in that regard who was hired inappropriately. My guess is that he would still have his job if she was at some place other than the school.
Cooter Brown wrote:Should've never given her a job and he'd still have his job. Too many employee law issues to let that slide.
Also lying to his boss, which led to the University parroting his original story to the press. Each on it's own merits would have led to his dismissal.
I'm sure he'll get another chance, and probably relatively soon. I was "impressed" with how quickly Tressel got another job. Obviously not at the level of his previous one, but it didn't take long at all.
Explain me this: Bubba Watson is a big winner and his home is on the market for $1.45 mil and Petrino, a scumbag loser has his house on the market for $2.5 mil. Would you buy a scumbag's house? Maybe Soros will buy it.
Master Po wrote:I'm sure he'll get another chance, and probably relatively soon.
Of course he will. It's college football!!
Not so fast my friends.
Will another school eventually hire Petrino, long regarded as one of the brightest offensive minds in the sport?
He has not been a stranger to controversy. While coaching at Louisville, he met with Auburn officials about that school's head coaching job when Tommy Tuberville was still coaching the Tigers. Petrino abruptly left the Atlanta Falcons and took the Arkansas job with three games left on the NFL team's 2007 schedule.
There have been instances where scarred coaches have landed on their feet. . . . . .
In May 2003, then-Alabama football coach Mike Price was fired for what the school called improper behavior after Price spent time at a strip club and drank too much the night before a charity golf outing. The humiliation continued after two women from the club were quoted in a Sports Illustrated story about a wild night in Price's hotel room.
In December 2003, Texas-El Paso hired Price, who had denied the women's allegations and sued the magazine for $20 million. The suit was settled out of court in 2005, and Price said at the time that he felt vindicated by the settlement.
UTEP athletics director Bob Stull, who brought Price to the school, said Wednesday that the Petrino and Price situations were "not even close" to being the same.
"Mike had too much to drink one night. That's really what happened," he said.
It's also a blatant violation of forum rules. Where's lonewolf when we need him?
Been out working my annual HS track meet, marvelling at the patience of HS coaches. Although Rye Catcher and I are a rare species, conservatives, on here, I gotta say I don't really understand the comment. I would rate it less egregious but equally gratutious as the opposing shots that flourish on this forum..
lonewolf wrote:I would rate it less egregious but equally gratutious as the opposing shots that flourish on this forum..
If you knew who George Soros was, you would understand that Rye's comment was more egregious than mump's, since mump at least broke forum rules in the most civil manner he could, while Rye deliberately tried to poke his finger into the eyes of folks that didn't share his political views.
Many years ago, a guy warned me about such dalliances, "Bill, the f___ing you get is not worth the f___ing you'll get." He was right. This cost Petrino $18 million, it appears, not including what his wife will eventually want. I sure hope it was worth it.
bambam wrote:Many years ago, a guy warned me about such dalliances, "Bill, the f___ing you get is not worth the f___ing you'll get." He was right. This cost Petrino $18 million, it appears, not including what his wife will eventually want. I sure hope it was worth it.
bambam wrote:Many years ago, a guy warned me about such dalliances, "Bill, the f___ing you get is not worth the f___ing you'll get." He was right. This cost Petrino $18 million, it appears, not including what his wife will eventually want. I sure hope it was worth it.
All because some punk tried to "stiff" a hooker, pun intended.
While prostitution is legal in designated areas in Colombia, such behavior would violate agency rules of conduct, in part because it could expose the agents to blackmail or facilitate espionage, help an enemy get inside a security perimeter and otherwise distract agents when they are supposed to be focused on protecting the president, he said.
The violation came to light, Mr. King said, because under the hotel’s policy, guests of people staying there must leave their identification at the front desk and leave by 7 a.m. On Thursday morning, he said, a hotel manager realized that one of the women had not left and went to the agent’s room to ask her to leave.
The agent is said to have not let the manager in, whereupon a Colombian police officer went to the room. Inside, the woman complained that the agent had not paid her. Eventually the agent did pay her, and she is said to have left without further incident, Mr. King said.
While no law was broken, the Colombian police sent a report to the American embassy recounting the incident.
This guy will be personna non grata among the other agents. When young red-blooded American men can't pick up hookers in countries where it's legal, the terrorists have won.
bambam wrote:Many years ago, a guy warned me about such dalliances, "Bill, the f___ing you get is not worth the f___ing you'll get." He was right. This cost Petrino $18 million, it appears, not including what his wife will eventually want. I sure hope it was worth it.
And he may have just been hoping to get and never actually got the goods. Wouldn't that be a hoot!
