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Bobby Petrino (Lover of Harleys and Volleyball Players)

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OH10;1027441; said:
The letter was bush.

But I understand why he did what he did. (by leaving, not by dropping ouff a bullshit letter). He was going to get canned after 3 failing years anyway and he knew that. So he just went ahead and decided not to waste the next two years of his life at a place where he cannot succeed.
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'Cept this was his first year as Falcon's HC.

Edit: Apologies, OH1O, I misread you post.
 
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Some of the Falcons' quotes are very telling.

One said "The NFL is for men. I guess he figured out that it wasn't for him."

Ouch. :tongue2:
 
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A college coach can browbeat the 'boys', threaten to take away their schollie, et cetera. However, it's a different kettle of fish when your player makes 4-10 times what the coach makes. "Hey, I'm all-pro, making $20 million a year. What do you think YOU can tell ME?"

Yeah, pretty hard to get your point across. I guess that sorta stuff makes those long recruiting trips look pretty good. Telling guillable teenagers how wonderful university xyz is, and how it'll make a man of you........

Coaching the pros IS for a man, and does any one out there know any truly successful pro coaches other than Paul Brown that were college coaches? If memory serves, Petey (Carroll - USC) was only one or two games above .500 (as a pro coach) and he's probably the most successful college coach now.

:gobucks3::gobucks4::banger:
 
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Seems to me the pro game is much more about managing egos than it is about Xs and Os. In college, yeah, there's some ego I'd bet, but at the end of the day, even the most ego driven kid knows he's not a pro yet. Most, not all, realize you gotta play the game to get to the NFL and most, not all, believe they can improve if they listen.

But...

How do you coach Peyton Manning? I mean, maybe that's a bad example, 'cause of his work ethic, etc, that you hear about... but, really... what are you going to teach him at this point?
 
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SanAntonioBuck;1027419; said:
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Wow, could this organization sink any lower at this point? I hope Michael Jenkins can get outta there.
 
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Week old...but still fun

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Zimmer: Still not a big fan of Petrino

Posted by jreedy October 20th, 2010, 3:47 pm


Bengals defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer is not one to mince words. So when it came time to ask him about his first return to Atlanta since the 2007 season from hell, when the Falcons went 4-12, and Petrino resigned with three games left to take the job at Arkansas, Zimmer pulled out the Ginsu knives.
Said Mike Zimmer of Bobby Petrino: ?He is a coward. Put that in quotes. He ruined a bunch of people?s lives, a bunch of people?s families, kids, because he didn?t have enough nuts to stay there and finish the job. That?s the truth.?

On going back to Atlanta, Zimmer said about that season ?I was never even there. As far as I am concerned. I never even was there. When a coach quits in the middle of the year and ruins a bunch of people?s families and doesn?t? have enough guts to at least finish out the year. I am not a part of that.?
Pretty good stuff, but it gets even better in his appraisal of Petrino: ?He is a coward. Put that in quotes. He ruined a bunch of people?s lives, a bunch of people?s families, kids, because he didn?t have enough nuts to stay there and finish the job. That?s the truth.?
When asked if he had seen a two days like that before, where the Falcons lost on Monday Night Football, a coach resigns and then is doing ?Woo Pig Sooie? 24 hours later in front of Arkansas boosters, Zimmer said: ?No, most people in football have enough courage about them and enough fight to stick through something and not quit halfway through the year. It is cowardly.
?He came in and said he resigned, he would talk to us all at a later date, walked out of the office and no one has ever talked to him since. Not that anybody wanted to.
"He's a gutless bastard. Quote that. I don't give a shit.
When told that we might might not be able to use the B word, Zimmer went one better: "How about this, gutless MF. You can use that."
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Here's hoping the accident wasn't too serious and that he'll be fine.

SI.com

Hogs' Petrino crashes motorcycle, taken to hospital


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Arkansas Razorbacks football coach Bobby Petrino crashed his motorcycle after veering off a highway and was taken to a hospital for treatment, a state police official said Monday.
Police spokesman Bill Sadler said the crash happened Sunday night on Arkansas Highway 16 in Madison County near Crosses, a community in northeast Arkansas about 20 miles from Fayetteville, where the school is located. Sadler said Petrino's motorcycle left the highway and crashed.
Sadler says Petrino was taken to a hospital in Washington County, but he declined to say which one. He said he didn't know the coach's condition or whether he was still hospitalized Monday.
Zack Higbee, a spokesman for Petrino, would not comment or confirm Monday that the coach was involved in the crash.

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