yeah it was a shady move, but you can’t blame him for wanting to leave a team that is going absolutely no where. they have NOTHING to build around. and he did take a pay cut to leave. i think the way he did it was wrong but the reasons were all fine.
You’d think if he respected them enough he would have at least had someone proof read the document. Everyone knows that in a sentence naming yourself and someone else, you put the other person first. “best interest of me and my family (my family and me).” Come on Bobby!
To all you haters out there….I’m not a Petrino fan or anything. Just maybe won’t to present another side.
I was asked to resign from my ministry position once while having to tell everyone it was something “I” was doing and while the existing leadership told everyone it was something “I” was doing…even though they asked me to resign based on giving me a package to leave so that they could save face to everyone and cover some stuff up.
There are always two sides and this hits me a little on the personal side, just because I may have walked in his shoes. I really don’t know the situation or anything surrounding it. In fact this post is the first of anything I’ve ever seen. I never watch pro football.
Maybe he’s a coward…maybe not. I guess I won’t be the one calling him one.
Petrino was useless as a head coach. At least Los still has his balls.
(Sorry. I wouldn’t have said that if I hadn’t just come from a rocking Christmas party.)
If you’re a Falcons fan this is good news. Like Pete Carroll, Steve Spurrier and others, Petrino isn’t suited for the NFL.
Jerious Norwood has a gaudy 6.2 yards per carry average, yet Warrick Dunn (3.1 yards per carry) has nearly 3 times the number of carries of Norwood. Strange personnel decisions; strange team management (players complained he ran the team like a college squad) according to reports from the locker room.
It’s a good deal for both parties. Cut your losses with Petrino, with Vick.
Start fresh w/ a new HC and QB and build around Roddy White and Norwood.
And Jason…I hear you. But this is pretty straight forward. His team sucks. he lost his starting QB to dog fighting charges. He thought he would come in and go to the playoffs.
Now he is rebuilding.
Halfway through year one.
No matter how you slice it…he’s a quitter and a coward. I’m all for the guy admitting that he’s not cut out for the NFL and then sticking it out for 3 more games, with a signed contract with the Hogs or whatever…but the fact is…there are 3 more games left and the guy just left. what a joke. what a message to send people, especially kids…hey, things got tough, you can’t win at this so quit early. If people look up to Petrino, then I guess we’ll see some Pop Warner teams exiting the field in the 3rd quarter when they realize they can’t come back for the “W”.
Boy, am I lucky to be a Razorback Alumni. The funny part is that we’re gonna suck next year too…no McFadden, No Felix Jones (the 2nd best runner in the country and no Monk @ reciever. Casey Dick can’t throw the ball and all our other WRs are ex Highschool QBs that couldn’t cut it at that position in college…wow. Let’s just hope he doesn’t quit on these “kids”.
I think saying that he’s a coward is going a little too far, gentlemen.
1) It’s clear that being head coach of the Falcons wasn’t working out, for one reason or another.
2) Despite that, he’s still a good coach, and he deserves to be in a place where he can be successful.
3) The Arkansas job wasn’t going to stay open until the end of the NFL season. It’s a good job, with talented players, great facilities, and zealous fans.
4) If the Arkansas job was the best fit for Petrino, as he deemed it was, he was right in taking it before someone else did.
5) Once he agrees to take the job, it would assuredly be leaked if not announced.
6) The Falcons are better off having a coach resign immediately than one who would stay around for three weeks whom you knew was leaving.
If you’re at a job that isn’t working for you, are you a coward if you find a job that’s a better fit towards the end of a big project? No, you quit, make a clean break, and move on with your life.
Petrino was in a lose/lose situation. If he had stayed until the end of the season, there likely would not have been a job for him next year. He took the better option of making a transition to the program that’s the best fit, and arousing the ire of Falcons staff and fans.
Nobody seems to remember that Rich McKay, the current general manager of the Falcons left his job at Tampa Bay for Atlanta at the same time of the season in 2003!
In response to Josh…
1. Obviously. So quit? I have been in lots of “not working out” situations. I did not quit.
2. He is a good coach. Who quits. When his next team is down in the 4th quarter by 20. They might as well quit.
3. He is the one who committed. I would be scared if I was an arkansas fan.
4. Same as point 3.
5. Same as point 3.
6. The Falcons are better off with a coach who sticks it out than quits.
the NFL is a dangerous place for coaches. the only real continuity in the league where there isn’t consistent winning is in Baltimore and Tennessee, where management and ownership have decided that it is better to commit to a coach over the long term.
with the salary cap, however, comes inevitable ebbs and flows in personnel, along with incredible pressure to sacrifice family and relationship in pursuit of wins.
the personality of someone who makes it to a head coaching position in the NFL is going to be hardened and confident. petrino seems to lack that fiber, instead reaching the top of the profession through brilliant coaching, but a lack of maturity, accountability and character, which are three things this team needs most (of course, that could be said about the Bengals, the Raiders, the 49ers …)
one thing seems certain, based on history: arkansas is going to rue the day they hired bobby petrino to lead young men at their campus.
RAIN IT DOWN
for real… what a tool…
yeah it was a shady move, but you can’t blame him for wanting to leave a team that is going absolutely no where. they have NOTHING to build around. and he did take a pay cut to leave. i think the way he did it was wrong but the reasons were all fine.
You’d think if he respected them enough he would have at least had someone proof read the document. Everyone knows that in a sentence naming yourself and someone else, you put the other person first. “best interest of me and my family (my family and me).” Come on Bobby!
To all you haters out there….I’m not a Petrino fan or anything. Just maybe won’t to present another side.
I was asked to resign from my ministry position once while having to tell everyone it was something “I” was doing and while the existing leadership told everyone it was something “I” was doing…even though they asked me to resign based on giving me a package to leave so that they could save face to everyone and cover some stuff up.
There are always two sides and this hits me a little on the personal side, just because I may have walked in his shoes. I really don’t know the situation or anything surrounding it. In fact this post is the first of anything I’ve ever seen. I never watch pro football.
Maybe he’s a coward…maybe not. I guess I won’t be the one calling him one.
I agree Carlos. What a lame-o
Petrino was useless as a head coach. At least Los still has his balls.
(Sorry. I wouldn’t have said that if I hadn’t just come from a rocking Christmas party.)
If you’re a Falcons fan this is good news. Like Pete Carroll, Steve Spurrier and others, Petrino isn’t suited for the NFL.
Jerious Norwood has a gaudy 6.2 yards per carry average, yet Warrick Dunn (3.1 yards per carry) has nearly 3 times the number of carries of Norwood. Strange personnel decisions; strange team management (players complained he ran the team like a college squad) according to reports from the locker room.
It’s a good deal for both parties. Cut your losses with Petrino, with Vick.
Start fresh w/ a new HC and QB and build around Roddy White and Norwood.
Yea. I agree with all that Brad said. But he is still a coward.
And Norwood needs the ball. Like all the time.
And Jason…I hear you. But this is pretty straight forward. His team sucks. he lost his starting QB to dog fighting charges. He thought he would come in and go to the playoffs.
Now he is rebuilding.
Halfway through year one.
Seriously, who can blame the guy for leaving when you got to deal with shenanigans like this bullshit:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=3149600
Hey Carlos,
I know it’s unrelated, but I know that you’re from Riverside, so I ‘m wondering if you were part of this:
http://zackriesland.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/from-my-starbucks-cup/
No matter how you slice it…he’s a quitter and a coward. I’m all for the guy admitting that he’s not cut out for the NFL and then sticking it out for 3 more games, with a signed contract with the Hogs or whatever…but the fact is…there are 3 more games left and the guy just left. what a joke. what a message to send people, especially kids…hey, things got tough, you can’t win at this so quit early. If people look up to Petrino, then I guess we’ll see some Pop Warner teams exiting the field in the 3rd quarter when they realize they can’t come back for the “W”.
Boy, am I lucky to be a Razorback Alumni. The funny part is that we’re gonna suck next year too…no McFadden, No Felix Jones (the 2nd best runner in the country
and no Monk @ reciever. Casey Dick can’t throw the ball and all our other WRs are ex Highschool QBs that couldn’t cut it at that position in college…wow. Let’s just hope he doesn’t quit on these “kids”.
I think saying that he’s a coward is going a little too far, gentlemen.
1) It’s clear that being head coach of the Falcons wasn’t working out, for one reason or another.
2) Despite that, he’s still a good coach, and he deserves to be in a place where he can be successful.
3) The Arkansas job wasn’t going to stay open until the end of the NFL season. It’s a good job, with talented players, great facilities, and zealous fans.
4) If the Arkansas job was the best fit for Petrino, as he deemed it was, he was right in taking it before someone else did.
5) Once he agrees to take the job, it would assuredly be leaked if not announced.
6) The Falcons are better off having a coach resign immediately than one who would stay around for three weeks whom you knew was leaving.
If you’re at a job that isn’t working for you, are you a coward if you find a job that’s a better fit towards the end of a big project? No, you quit, make a clean break, and move on with your life.
Petrino was in a lose/lose situation. If he had stayed until the end of the season, there likely would not have been a job for him next year. He took the better option of making a transition to the program that’s the best fit, and arousing the ire of Falcons staff and fans.
Nobody seems to remember that Rich McKay, the current general manager of the Falcons left his job at Tampa Bay for Atlanta at the same time of the season in 2003!
In response to Josh…
1. Obviously. So quit? I have been in lots of “not working out” situations. I did not quit.
2. He is a good coach. Who quits. When his next team is down in the 4th quarter by 20. They might as well quit.
3. He is the one who committed. I would be scared if I was an arkansas fan.
4. Same as point 3.
5. Same as point 3.
6. The Falcons are better off with a coach who sticks it out than quits.
the NFL is a dangerous place for coaches. the only real continuity in the league where there isn’t consistent winning is in Baltimore and Tennessee, where management and ownership have decided that it is better to commit to a coach over the long term.
with the salary cap, however, comes inevitable ebbs and flows in personnel, along with incredible pressure to sacrifice family and relationship in pursuit of wins.
the personality of someone who makes it to a head coaching position in the NFL is going to be hardened and confident. petrino seems to lack that fiber, instead reaching the top of the profession through brilliant coaching, but a lack of maturity, accountability and character, which are three things this team needs most (of course, that could be said about the Bengals, the Raiders, the 49ers …)
one thing seems certain, based on history: arkansas is going to rue the day they hired bobby petrino to lead young men at their campus.