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.

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!

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 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/

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.