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I think he is in trouble.  Not because of the affair, but because he admitted to lying about it to his boss and it was with someone that he just hired as an employee about a week ago.

Is anyone going to remember this garbage when CBP beats Alabama this fall?

Bobby wont get fired. Jeff long is fixing to make a move for the ages. i have full faith that this will all get sorted out and next fall bobby petrino will be coaching the hogs. In fact this probably just cemented the fact that Bobby's coaching career will finish at the u of a many years from now.

Did I mention delusional:


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They are in full meltdown mode and delusional over on the Arkansas boards:


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Hard to predict at this point.  They are going through the analysis now.  It is Winning versus Image.  Both impact recruiting.  If Mike Price had a few great seasons before his stripper fiasco, what would have happened?   He would still have been gone.  But this is Arkansas, not Alabama.  Their prior coach was a Nutt.  Probably the major donors will determine the outcome.

Excellent post. I really don't know which way this one falls. How do you get past the lying to your boss and hiring someone who you supervise who is also your mistress? The fact he has won at Arkansas definitely muddies the water, but how can you ever trust the guy again? Plus, hiring someone you are sleeping with is usually an ethics violation in most states & against the law. This really makes Arkansas a laughstock.


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Much will be made about the "previous inappropriate relationship" Petrino speaks of and the fact that Dorrell was out riding the countryside with him.

But the two biggest factors working against Petrino are, No. 1, that he wasn't truthful with his superiors about the accident and lied about it publicly, and No. 2, that Dorrell was somebody who was hired to work under Petrino in the football office. If a "previous inappropriate relationship" with Petrino did indeed lead to her hiring, that's bad news for everybody involved.

I think he should come completely clean.....explain a little more about the relationship and who instigated it in the first place, and when did it start.....wasn't she supposed to be getting married in a few months, and if so was her future husband totally in the dark about everything.....Coach Pee should provide all the intimate details and pics ;D

The affair is between him and his family.  But the fact that he hired his mistress is Arkansas state business and will probably decide the outcome.

I feel sorry for Petrino.  But it's his own fault (or hers).

To be clear, Petrino is most certainly not the only coach in America who has stepped out on his wife. The affair isn't the reason Long placed Petrino on paid administrative leave Thursday night.

This is why: It appears the highest-paid state employee in Arkansas hired his mistress to a department job. Later, he lied to his boss, in turn allowing the department to release the lie and appear -- at least for a moment -- complicit in the cover-up. (Which it was not.)
Now, Long must review the situation and weigh that information against this information: Petrino is 21-5 over the past two seasons, and the 2012 team appears to be better than the 2010 or 2011 teams.

"I'm at the beginning of the review," Long said. "I don't know what I'm going to find."

Even if that is all he finds, Long probably has enough to fire Petrino. Petrino's contract is pretty clear on this, forbidding the coach from "engaging in conduct, as solely determined by the University, which is clearly contrary to the character and responsibilities of a person occupying the position of Head Football Coach or which negatively or adversely affects the reputation of the University or UAF's athletics programs in any way." In legal parlance, "review" could mean "meeting with the general counsel to make sure we're allowed to can this guy without paying him." After all, what manager can trust an employee who would lie to his face and put the entire organization at risk?

I feel sorry for Petrino.  But it's his own fault (or hers).

Andy Staples (SI) and everone else on the outside looking in seems to be looking at this from the wrong perspective. Arkansas is not probing this to find reasons to fire CBP. They are trying to find reasoning that can minimize the damage. MHO is that football at Arkansas (and Alabama) is more important than a few lapses of judgment that will be all but forgotten by September.

Everyone has to hop up on the self righteous horse every time it happens to someone else. CNS can do my sister on the BDS 50 yd. line marker at halftime of the Spring Game (then lie and say he did not) if he gaurantees another NC for 2012.

Andy Staples (SI) and everone else on the outside looking in seems to be looking at this from the wrong perspective. Arkansas is not probing this to find reasons to fire CBP. They are trying to find reasoning that can minimize the damage. MHO is that football at Arkansas (and Alabama) is more important than a few lapses of judgment that will be all but forgotten by September.

Everyone has to hop up on the self righteous horse every time it happens to someone else. CNS can do my sister on the BDS 50 yd. line marker at halftime of the Spring Game (then lie and say he did not) if he gaurantees another NC for 2012.

Andy Staples (SI) and everone else on the outside looking in seems to be looking at this from the wrong perspective. Arkansas is not probing this to find reasons to fire CBP. They are trying to find reasoning that can minimize the damage. MHO is that football at Arkansas (and Alabama) is more important than a few lapses of judgment that will be all but forgotten by September.

Everyone has to hop up on the self righteous horse every time it happens to someone else. CNS can do my sister on the BDS 50 yd. line marker at halftime of the Spring Game (then lie and say he did not) if he gaurantees another NC for 2012.

I really hope you're just trying to get everyone fired up, because if you are serious, then you are part of the problem in sports and in our country in general. It's not about just winning, it's about integrity & character and what we as a nation believe in.


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I just don't see the heads of Arkansas letting this slide. Football is big, but the image of the school is a lot bigger.  ;)

I'm sure they are trying to figure out how to keep him.  If they fire him it sets them back to the stone ages.

But with him putting her on the payroll like that, he has really put the AD in a tough spot.

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Yep.  Technically, she was already on the University payroll.  It was ridiculous for Petrino to move her under his supervision.  And lie.

I don't think the delay is to figure out if they can fire him.  They already know they can do that.  The delay is because they want to keep him around if they can, and they are waiting for the initial bombshell to blow over and access the damage.