Rodney Ruxin said:

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akm91 said:

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It's not just the affair. He's left multiple teams in the lurch moving on to new gigs in the middle of a season.

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He literally JUST left a job a month after accepting it.

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so he should have stayed at a lower paying job when the big offer finally comes along? Just like all of us would.

The angst is over the fact that the hire does nothing to elevate the program above laughingstock status that was earned after last season. This hire cements it for the 2023 season.

1939 said:

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I'm a little confused. Does he suck as a coach or are people mad he cheated on his wife?

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He's an absolute dumpster fire of a man, but he can coach offensive football. He's no Art Briles in either capacity so there's that.

This was the motorcycle incident. Sparks were flying in that relationship...

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um-yeah said:

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This can help shed some light...

https://www.bannersociety.com/2014/1/10/20727441/bobby-petrino-controversies

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Petrino leaves a wake of destruction everywhere he goes.

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So does Jimbo so I guess they are a match made in heaven that A&M will spend years recovering from once they are both gone in a few years.

I don't give a s**t about his marriage and him banging hot chicks on a motorcycle...HOW ARE HIS OFFENSES!?!?!

Oh, I know:

Arkansas (FBS Ranks SP+ Offense)
2008 - 32nd
2009 - 8th
2010 - 2nd
2011 - 11th

Louisville
2014 - 36th
2015 - 42nd (Lamar Jackson)
2016 - 8th (Lamar Jackson)
2017 - 2nd (Lamar Jackson)
2018 - 102nd

I want performance and think this is going to work. Petrino will help be able to work with Jimbo and create a more effective offense. I do not care what his personal life was 10 years ago.

I don't care about his personal life. His career has hit rock bottom and was just hired to be the OC at UNLV for chump change. He is no longer relevant. It reminds me of the scene where the Indians offered Lou Brown the Manager position while he wqs working at Tire World in the movie, Major League.

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It's not just the affair. He's left multiple teams in the lurch moving on to new gigs in the middle of a season.

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Cliff Kingsbury says hello.

Showstopper said:

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1939 said:

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I'm a little confused. Does he suck as a coach or are people mad he cheated on his wife?

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He hasn't been good in a long time. His last good year was 2011. It was so long ago we were still in the Big XII for crying out loud. Since then it has been 4-5 loss seasons or worse.

So basically he'll fit in great here.

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This is utter BS. He was a huge success offensively at both Louisville and Missouri St when you compare his start to finish. There's no denying that even if you don't like the hire.

I think (hope) that this hire could work. Let Jimbo CEO and recruit while Petrino develops O players, play calling and schemes. My main concern is Petrino's declining skills. He probably peaked 15 years ago. Saban somehow has managed to adapt and advance. I think Petrino is here only 2 maybe 3 years max.

I think Petrino is here for 2 to 3 years as well. Either he gets a head coaching job from doing well with us or he gets fired

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1939 said:

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I'm a little confused. Does he suck as a coach or are people mad he cheated on his wife?

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He hasn't been good in a long time. His last good year was 2011. It was so long ago we were still in the Big XII for crying out loud. Since then it has been 4-5 loss seasons or worse.

So basically he'll fit in great here.

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lol. We didn't hire him to be HC. And actually he's had good offenses. And OL is what held him back when he didn't, which won't be his fault here if that's the issue.

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Before the motorcycle incident, I had a negative opinion of Petrino due to the classless manner in which he left the Falcons to go to Arkansas. It looks like he's done the same to UNLV. There is a bad trend associated with him.

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That's just the nature of the beast, almost all coaches do it.

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No

Patrino left before the season was ove and let the Falcon players know by putting a petter on their lockers.

That is NOT the nature of the beast. Just another example of a man with zero integrity.

It's amazing to me how many are putting their heads in the clouds or just too lazy to really look into how trash of a coach and person he is.

Oh

We are going to fire Jimbo but not Patrino. Interesting

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We are going to fire Jimbo but not Patrino. Interesting

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Not at all what I said. I stated I agreed Petrino will be gone in 2 or 3 years. Either a head coach somewhere or fired....if we are successful some team will hire petrino as a head coach. If we suck, petrino will be fired. Nothing was mentioned about jimbo

AG81 said:

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um-yeah said:

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This can help shed some light...

https://www.bannersociety.com/2014/1/10/20727441/bobby-petrino-controversies

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Petrino leaves a wake of destruction everywhere he goes.

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I agree that hit piece is very negative, but you could easily find similar fact patterns of college and pro coaches. Most have had multiple stops along the way, it seems that's the nature of the beast. And almost no one tells their current employer they are interviewing with others ... so my only issue with any of this is that he could have left more gracefully.

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LB12Diamond said:

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We are going to fire Jimbo but not Patrino. Interesting

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Not at all what I said. I stated I agreed Petrino will be gone in 2 or 3 years. Either a head coach somewhere or fired....if we are successful some team will hire petrino as a head coach. If we suck, petrino will be fired. Nothing was mentioned about jimbo

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Unless a turnaround happens, Fisher will be gone once his buyout cost reaches an acceptable level. More than likely, Petrino will go with him in that scenario.

I'm more concerned with the judgment of a man who willingly stops coaching in the NFL because he wants to coach at Arkansas.

I also don't understand why there wouldn't be 50 young OC's lining up to beg for the job at an SEC school looking to get innovative and turn our festering corpse around. Or maybe there were, but Jimbo wanted someone safe who he could boss around and get out of here in a couple of years.

Either way, I just want us to win some GD football games. Like average 9.5 wins a year like a program of our size and resources should. This does nothing to make me believe that is happening anytime soon.

No one that makes big decisions cares about ethics if you perform. They'll play the ethics games when there's a media swell but money is all that matters.

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It's not just the affair. He's left multiple teams in the lurch moving on to new gigs in the middle of a season.

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Cliff Kingsbury says hello.

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Add Lou Holtz to the list.

His short tenure in Atlanta...

With their franchise quarterback effectively sidelined for the season, the Falcons appeared to be a rudderless team. On December 10, 2007, with the Falcons at the bottom of the NFC South with a 310 record, Petrino resigned to become head coach at Arkansas, less than 24 hours after personally promising owner Arthur Blank that he was staying in Atlanta. Petrino informed his players of his departure via a four-sentence laminated note left at the locker of each player, a move that many in the organization and in the NFL harshly criticized.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Petrino#cite_note-15][15][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Petrino#cite_note-16][16][/url][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Petrino#cite_note-17][17][/url] Even before resigning, Petrino had rankled the Falcons players with his aloof manner. He was known to walk through the locker room without speaking to the players. He was also reluctant to share personnel decisions with the players; Harrington learned through the media that Petrino considered Leftwich the starter even though Harrington had engineered two straight wins in Leftwich's absence.[url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby_Petrino#cite_note-18][18][/url]

Showstopper said:

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1939 said:

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I'm a little confused. Does he suck as a coach or are people mad he cheated on his wife?

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He hasn't been good in a long time. His last good year was 2011. It was so long ago we were still in the Big XII for crying out loud. Since then it has been 4-5 loss seasons or worse.

So basically he'll fit in great here.

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Did we forget a Heisman in 2016? And Missouri St hadn't been to the FCS playoffs in like 30 years when he got there, and made the playoffs in 2 of his 3 years there. Hate his morals, you can think he's a jerk, you can hate the fact he job hops, but the guy can flat out coach.

A&M can't help ourselves. Why, for Pete's sake, can we NOT hire an offensive coordinator who can drive his attractive secretary around on a motorcycle safely?

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I don't give a s**t about his marriage and him banging hot chicks on a motorcycle...HOW ARE HIS OFFENSES!?!?!

Oh, I know:

Arkansas (FBS Ranks SP+ Offense)
2008 - 32nd
2009 - 8th
2010 - 2nd
2011 - 11th

Louisville
2014 - 36th
2015 - 42nd (Lamar Jackson)
2016 - 8th (Lamar Jackson)
2017 - 2nd (Lamar Jackson)
2018 - 102nd

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All I care about at the moment is:

Texas A&M
2023 - ___ (Conner Weigman)
2024 - ___ (Conner Weigman)
2025 - ___ (Conner Weigman)

1939 said:

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I'm a little confused. Does he suck as a coach or are people mad he cheated on his wife?

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Well let's see, how did he do since the peek of his career.

Fired for joyride Arky
Fired for performance Louisville
Left non-P5 for a slightly better non-P5

That's not exactly a shooting star

If we see a completely differently offense Petrino's offense - and a much more aggressive defense (that's had to practice against Petrino's offense), and the Aggies score more than 24 points in more than two games, I'm down for whatever he has to offer the team.

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Before the motorcycle incident, I had a negative opinion of Petrino due to the classless manner in which he left the Falcons to go to Arkansas. It looks like he's done the same to UNLV. There is a bad trend associated with him.

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I'm glad Saban is a saint….

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ac said:

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Before the motorcycle incident, I had a negative opinion of Petrino due to the classless manner in which he left the Falcons to go to Arkansas. It looks like he's done the same to UNLV. There is a bad trend associated with him.

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I'm glad Saban is a saint….

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When you win championships every other year you become a saint. In fact they literally call him Saint Nick

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It was more than an affair; he hired her on staff.

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I see what you did there!

He lied to his AD after all of the other stuff. He's a really good coach but a low integrity person.

The issues run much deeper and broader than an affair and they have popped up in several of his "stops" along the way

My $0.02, which is worth less than that:

Having read the timeline of his career moves linked on the page 1, Petrino has no business ever being a head coach anywhere again. I can see why nobody else wants him anywhere near their program and how he wound up at UNLV. I would say everybody deserves a second chance, but he is way beyond his second chance. Surely Jimbo knows this is a gamble.

From an X's and O's perspective, I am excited to see what he can do. I don't think he can do all that much damage from the OC spot. If he leaves mid-season, we'll survive. I hope it works out.

Sq 17 said:

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Actually hiring your side piece when you work at a State U in on the wrong side of the line

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So was that illegal or just poor practice?

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Sq 17 said:

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Actually hiring your side piece when you work at a State U in on the wrong side of the line

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So was that illegal or just poor practice?

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I guess he doesn't have anything about Sark getting hired? Alcoholic and cheated on his wife. Yet he gets a second chance.

I don't care about any moral posturings.

JUST WIN BABY.

If he wins, all is well. If not, then GTFO.