Petrino - not riding solo (and fired at Louisville)

And any state employee who who has ever been fired for similar transgressions in the past may have something to say about it if Petrino gets a pass. I guarantee there has been a precedent set, and it's not to let this kind of stuff slide.

Fired employees from the past lining up with their lawyers and their hands out would make for an ugly scene in Fayetteville.

I know, I know, "It's the SEC ... he's won 21 games ... they'll be good next season" is a popular, though very shortsighted and pedestrian argument.

Think the HR people and the lawyers with the University are going to give a shit about football when they are examining their options?

 

YF is living up the Y in his name, as he clearly has no clue as to how SEC football -- and the "laws" surrounding them -- works.

 

Shall we make a bet?

 

When all is said and done, neither one of them can keep their jobs.

 

I wonder if Ms Dorrell was one of recruiting hostesses before getting promoted to recruiting coordinator. Instead of pleasing the recruits you get to please the coach.

 

Said she was fundraiser for athletic dept. As a volleyball player, she wouldn't have had time to be a hostess.

 

And the judge will say that there's a compelling state interest in having a winning football coach, because a winning team not only can be seen as good for the economy, it'll also mean we all can feel good about ourselves.

 

Freq: Not being judgmental---I have no doubt we could all share 'this-one-time-on-the-pitchers-mound' stories---but your posts are making me sick.

Where did your wife and kids think you were while you spent a year on a brown flannel blanket in a rainy cornfield?

I've been in cornfields. Bugs, mud, pesticides, bees. Trying to imagine how many women (and what sort of women) think that's a good time.

 

A balloon is beyond the pale, but Bed Bath and Beyond isn't??

 

I'll go ahead and be judgmental. If husbands at the midlife cliche stage of things could be this inventive, ingenious and energetic in their own marriages, they wouldn't default to the affair in the first place.

 

And as messed up as it is, I think again "There but for the grace of God go I."

 

I put this out on Twitter, but I'll say it here, too.

There are a lot of Arkansas fans up here very upset with Petrino right now, but there are also PLENTY who are defending him and whatever he does in his personal life, as long as the Hogs are winning.

Flash back to 2007, the the affair allegations between Houston Nutt and Donna Bragg surfaced. Were fans coming to Nutt's defense? Not publicly. He has to be fired, right? No admin leave. Gone.

It's amazing what taking a program to its first BCS bowl can do to a mindset.