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You also think Les Miles is nothing but lucky.

Petrino is a great coach and program builder, one of the 10 best in the country.

 

Guys like that don't change. If a MAC or Sun Belt school wants to take a chance on him, I can see that. but an SEC AD or any other BCS conference AD has no reason to take that risk. There's too much money at stake.

 

No I don't. I just think that quote - which was from an LSU fan board last year - is funny as hell and pretty much sums up the LSU fan base mentality.

And Petrino sure left a great program in place at Arkansas...

 

Hogs fans would drink from a truck stop urinal before acknowledging Arkansas State in any way.

 

Wait wait wait. Back up the truck.

Doesn't EVERYBODY think this? Luck, deal with the devil, call it what you will ...

 

I don't disagree that the guy is a douche and will always be a douche, but I think some school will give him the benefit of the doubt and hire him. I will be stunned if he's not at a BCS conference school by next season and I wouldn't be surprised at all if he winds up at Auburn.

 

Should put quotes around it. I've been attributing it to you for a long time.

And it's not a coach's job to make a team succeed when he leaves.

Louisville the four years before Petrino arrived: 34-16
Louisville the four years with Petrino: 41-9
Louisville the four years after Petrino left: 22-27

Arkansas the four years before Petrino arrived: 27-22
Arkansas the four years with Petrino: 34-17
Arkansas this season: 4-5

That's why people praise Petrino.

 

Uh, if you're a program builder the program doesn't collapse immediately following your departure. You build something that can last.

 

I think Bobby Petrino's doing some branding work with this system. Many Louisville fans would have killed to hire him back after two years of Steve Kragthorpe, and Arkansas fans feel the same way after three-quarters of a season of John L. Smith.

 

That's not entirely fair. O'Brien wanted a quarterback who was totally committed to football and would be there in the spring. Wilson couldn't or wouldn't agree to that so O'Brien said maybe their partnership should end. That's was certainly a questionable decision, but it's not like it was a talent judging issue. He didn't look at the two and decide Glennon was better.

That said, if NCSU has many more games like Saturday, the Wilson situation isn't going to help his case.

 

This from the school that hired John Calipari ... Mitch, you cannot be serious!

 

Tom O'Brien was militaristic when it came down to the Russell Wilson decision. O'Brien wanted someone who was with the program year-round. Usually, that should be the case. But there's little question that Wilson was an excellent player, an unparalleled leader and the sort who did different things because it captured his interest, not as a ploy to be lazy, a diva or an attention grabber. O'Brien didn't think outside the box, plus he was pretty sure Mike Glennon might transfer if Wilson stayed. So Wilson went.

Thing is, while NCSU fans are not an exception to being elephantine and forgetting, he wouldn't have saved NCSU against Virginia.

I also seriously question if this loss suddenly puts O'Brien on the hot seat. Now, if they lose out, don't get the sixth win and stay home for the holidays, then maybe ...