Arkansas living with deserved humiliation after Petrino firing
John L. Smith has his hands together. He should drop to his knees.
HOOVER, Ala. — Similar to three months ago, when the invertebrate Bobby Petrino took his young wench (“student-athlete development coordinator”) for a mid-life crisis spin on his motorcycle and got run over by the karma train, Arkansas is feeling the pain for its missteps.
Sympathy? Anybody?
When Petrino was fired – not because Arkansas suits really cared that he cheated on his wife or even lied to their face, but rather to protect themselves from litigation for playing footsie with a subordinate – they hired former assistant John L. Smith.
This is the same John L. Smith who agreed to take the job as a temp (10-month contract) even though he had just left for the Weber State job four months earlier. So much for loyalty. In that sense, at least, this should be a seamless transition from Petrino.
Smith is 63. He’s entertaining. He’s the kind of guy who would watch his house burn down and suddenly break into vaudeville: “Hah! I told you my wife couldn’t cook!” He had several media members laughing at SEC Media Days on Wednesday. (Question: Would you like to be the Arkansas coach for more than one year? Answer: “Certainly. Do I look stupid? Wait, don’t answer that.”)
You want Smith warming up the crowd before the real comics come out. You just don’t really want him coaching a potential top-10 football team.
Prepare for the crash. And the laughter.
This is what happens when a college athletic program hitches its wagon to the morally bankrupt. Athletic director Jeff Long went behind the Falcons’ back and hired Petrino. They gave him everything he wanted. They played dumb when he hired his mistress for a legitimate job posting. They asked only for wins in return. In the end, they got a mangled Harley and national humiliation. (How Long still has a job for enabling this mess is remarkable.)
Bobby Petrino phoned Smith to talk about "Coaching, life, family."
Smith hasn’t been a head coach for six years. He went 14-21 in his last three years at Michigan State. He got the Weber State job because, well, it’s Weber State and he went to school there.
As if overcoming the emotional trauma of Petrino’s clumsy philandering and firing isn’t enough, Smith is trying to function as an SEC head coach while basically suffering from financial ruin.
Seriously. He admits that a series of failed real estate ventures likely will lead to him to declare bankruptcy soon. That might explain why he was willing to take a U-turn out of Weber State and grab the short-term job for $850,000.
I had a few questions for Smith.
One in particular.
Do you ride a motorcycle?
Answer (laughter): “No. I’d fall off and hurt myself.”
Me: You mean like your predecessor?
Answer: “Oh. Yeah.”
We know the man doesn’t have much of a conscience. He worked for Petrino. But did he have any problems leaving Weber State right after he got there?
“Well, you’re leaving your alma mater and you know people gave you the opportunity – yeah, it’s not fun,” he said. “But you weigh it, and the scales weighed heavier to leaving.”
He disclosed that Petrino phoned him last week. They spoke for up to 30 minutes. But Smith declined afterward to discuss particulars about the conversation — “Coaching, life, family” — but he expects Petrino to get back into coaching. He said the two remain friends.
So when you heard about the motorcycle accident, the girl and everything, were you disappointed with him as a man?
Answer: “Uhh … No.”
Alrighty then.
It gets better. Here’s Smith, somewhat, on his philosophy on life.
“Like we tell players, ‘You’re not a regular student. You can’t go out and do something stupid.’ Believe me, we all do stupid things. We just try not to be overly stupid.”
I’m feeling really good about the Alabama game right about now, how about you?
Smith is not new to adventures. He has run with the bulls in Pamplona. He climbed part of Mount Kilimanjaro. He has jumped out of an airplane (with a parachute). So in his mind, or out of his mind, taking the Arkansas job is just the next logical crazy step.
“My granddad came to this county when he was 12 years old,” Smith said. “His folks put him in a boat and said, ‘Go to America.’ What kind of adventure is that?”
One that inspires more good feelings than this one.
By Jeff Schultz
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Chi Town
July 18th, 2012
4:32 pm
1st.
Respect, Saban.
Dawg Haus
July 18th, 2012
4:37 pm
That picture never gets old.
Max Sizemore
July 18th, 2012
4:39 pm
Under John L., Michigan State was an undisciplined, dirty football team. Arkansas will get what it deserves.
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
4:42 pm
Dawg Haus — Agreed. I’ve used that picture four or five times. Probably in a series of a hundred. I may even get a tattoo.
rawdawg
July 18th, 2012
4:44 pm
Is it me, or does Shultz just come off as kind of a douche in this article?
Butter Bean Floyd
July 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
Oh but UGA lives with the deserved humiliation of the daily jail blotter news.
Dawg Haus
July 18th, 2012
4:48 pm
Good call on the tat, Jeff. Looking forward to seeing it on the next episode of AR Ink.
timthebrave
July 18th, 2012
4:49 pm
You mean Petrino would leave a football team worse off than when he got there?
I for one am shocked
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
4:51 pm
Rawdawg — It’s you.
Petrino's O Face
July 18th, 2012
4:51 pm
Arkansas should know better… can’t wallow in filth and expect not to get dirty. They put short-term winning over integrity and paid a dear price. Ask TN post-Kiffin how it worked out.
Randy
July 18th, 2012
4:51 pm
Actually all Falcon fans should send a thank you note to Arkansas. Petrino would never have gotten the Falcons to where they are now.
Skitty Fritty
July 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
What is Petrino doing now? I am sure Bama will take him once Saban leaves.
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
Go to America – declare bankruptcy…financial and ethical.
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
4:52 pm
Timthebrave — “You mean Petrino would leave a football team worse off than when he got there?
I for one am shocked”
I’m picking up the familiar scent of sarcasm.
Worm
July 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
Arkansas football is bankrupt!..And that Petrino picture is right up there with UGA biting the drug peddling WR from AwBarn!..Jack Crowe, Joe Kines, the Nutt,Pigtrino..the list goes on..Isn’t Frank Broyles still alive?
Gordon
July 18th, 2012
4:54 pm
I miss the days when sportswriters actually talked about sports.
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
4:55 pm
Jeff, did your assignment just get a little more fun?
Doc Hollidawg
July 18th, 2012
4:56 pm
Butter Bean Floyd
July 18th, 2012
4:45 pm
“Oh but UGA lives with the deserved humiliation of the daily jail blotter news”
Not intended to be a factual statement.
DublDawg
July 18th, 2012
4:56 pm
Is that a picture of Mikhail Gobachev wearing a white hat?
jvillebil
July 18th, 2012
4:56 pm
Jeff, I think we need a pool as to when and where Bobby lands back in football. You get points for 1) location; closest in miles to where he lands 2) level of football; high school, college, pro, ect 3) level of coaching, head assist, ect 4) when it takes place; month and year.
The winner gets free passes to his first game back. Oh and a free autographed picture from above.
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
4:56 pm
Jeff, throw some of that SEC swag your readers way!
Skitty Fritty
July 18th, 2012
4:57 pm
I think John L. Smith needs more time like Muschamp.
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
4:59 pm
jvillebil…..that was funny! but i don’t want passes to his game
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It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
5:02 pm
I detect slight sarcasm from skitty fritty (twas funny)….don’t think Jeff would appreciate it after his Muschamp article.
JB
July 18th, 2012
5:02 pm
Not a good Article. What would Schultz do if he just signed a new contract at the AJC for 125,000 per year doing this and the NY times called him to be sports editor 2 weeks later for $600,000 a year and he had 2 kids in college. I think we know the answer. Until you have walked in a man’s shoes.
5150 UOAD
July 18th, 2012
5:02 pm
But HONEY I just asked that pretty young girl if she wanted a Ride on My HOG. She did things I didn’t intend her to do.
GT
July 18th, 2012
5:03 pm
Arkansas handled their problem better than Penn State.
Bill
July 18th, 2012
5:04 pm
Smith sounds like the right idiot to follow a idiot..
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
5:05 pm
Is Pocahontas his Asst Head Coach?
Bill
July 18th, 2012
5:05 pm
Penn State is dead meat…NCAA is waiting to have the funeral.
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
5:07 pm
Bill, probably shouldn’t have referenced “meat” and Penn St. together…..
Wilson Pickett
July 18th, 2012
5:07 pm
Bobby should have left the Falcons!
Bobby will be coaching auburn in 2013. He will get paid,laid(again), and saved on the plains. The Banker can’t wait until Gene crashes and burns this year. Spare us the Nobody will hire Bobby after the Hogville problem…we’re talking auburn folks.
David
July 18th, 2012
5:11 pm
Hey, why wouldn’t he take the 850k? Are you kidding me?
It's Bill Clinton's state...whatdya expect?
July 18th, 2012
5:11 pm
Why does Muschamp always look scared on the podium? That previous pic was as good as bobby pigheads face
Oldskoolrazor
July 18th, 2012
5:11 pm
This is a childish and biased assassination piece. Most people feel like Long handled the situation pretty well. No one outside of Atlanta blamed Bobby for leaving the Falcons in the first place. Seemed more like making the best decision for yourself to everyone else.
Smith leaving Weber is meh. Any coach we would have hired would have been leaving another school. What did you expect us to do, hire some random homeless guy? And where would you rather coach? Weber St., or any SEC team?
You sir, think like a selfish 12 year old.
chuck
July 18th, 2012
5:14 pm
Jeff, are you one of those holier-than-thou people.? You really love to pile it on people.
mrTiger
July 18th, 2012
5:25 pm
did arkansas tell john smith that he can’t ride motorcycles with his girlfriends??
Butter Bean Floyd
July 18th, 2012
5:25 pm
Doc Hollidawg is sheeple.
Piney Woods Pete
July 18th, 2012
5:29 pm
This is what happens when a college athletic program hitches its wagon to the morally bankrupt.
You’re talking about UGA, right?
Delbert D.
July 18th, 2012
5:30 pm
He’s just being Schultz. I though he was interviewing for a job with the San Jose Mercury, which in my opinion is better than the AJC.
Nolan Richardson
July 18th, 2012
5:31 pm
L’ing AMO!!!!!!!
Nolan Richardson
July 18th, 2012
5:32 pm
I meant” L’ing MAO!!!!!!!
Delbert D.
July 18th, 2012
5:32 pm
I am holier than thou, assuming there is a very low standard for “thou.”
Well
July 18th, 2012
5:34 pm
Everyone else cheats but UGA. If a team beats UGA, that team cheated. UGA fans said so so it must be true.
Art Vandelay
July 18th, 2012
5:36 pm
Oldskoolrazor, you think the only barbs directed at Petrino came from Atlanta? Where were you when ESPN, SI and every other sports outlet in the country spent a week picking apart his decision to leave his players a “Dear John” letter rather than manning up and explaining his cowardice to them in person? Or that he went behind his employer’s back to interview for the Hogs job even though he was in the middle of his first season as head coach here? Or the incredibly bad decision to show up in Fayeteville at midnight screaming Pig Sooey at the top of his lungs in a presser only a couple of hours after the coward walked out of his job?
Bobby Petrino will surely find another job coaching somewhere where the administration doesn’t care about things like character or honesty — and he’ll leave that program worse off than he found it, just like he has everywhere.
Well
July 18th, 2012
5:39 pm
“Bobby will be coaching auburn in 2013. He will get paid,laid(again), and saved on the plains. The Banker can’t wait until Gene crashes and burns this year.”
UGA will be begging Booby to come coach there by next year. Banker? Who, Lowder? Uh…dumb@ss, Lowder was run out of Auburn last year.
Well
July 18th, 2012
5:40 pm
“Arkansas football is bankrupt!”
As is UGA football. Just ask the Clarke County prison system.
bucket
July 18th, 2012
5:51 pm
@ Well – if you really believe there is the slightest chance that Petrino will be the guy to follow Richt then you are as foolish as I thought you were after reading your other posts.
AtlJack
July 18th, 2012
5:56 pm
As long as college football breeds the insane fans that it does, The Petrino’s and Paterno’s of this world will flourish.
The rabid fans who only care about wins (as if THEY are winning) will put pressure on the schools to do “whatever it takes” to win.
This is why the President of Penn State did whatever Paterno wanted. Its why three janitors at Penn State were afraid to report a child being raped, because the rapist was a member of the priesthood (a football coach).
Wins are all that matters. Look at what the President of any SEC school makes; then look at what the football coach makes (include all the perks) and ask who has the power.
bamaguy
July 18th, 2012
5:57 pm
It’s an opinion piece, not a news story, and Schultz is entitled to his opinion. Just like Paul Finebaum is over at the Birmingham News. Besides, bashing successful programs who do not wear red and black sells newspapers in this market. And all newspapers are in the business of selling advertising and subscriptions. I always enjoy Schultz’s opinions, even when I don’t agree with them.
SEC Media Daze
July 18th, 2012
6:03 pm
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Statues R' Us
July 18th, 2012
6:05 pm
Glad Arkansas didn’t build a statue of Bobby Petrino.
Arthur You-Know-Who
July 18th, 2012
6:37 pm
Hey! I get hosed by Vick. I get left in the lurch by Petrino. Who gives a cr@p about John Loser Smith? What about me? What am I, a f-ing cash tree to be plucked of leaves any time of the year? I just hope our guys win at least one more game than the Razorbacks.
Hillbilly D
July 18th, 2012
6:40 pm
He climbed part of Mount Kilimanjaro.
The bottom part or the top part?
Paddy
July 18th, 2012
6:44 pm
Odskoolrazor………..are you kidding me, no one outside of Atl blamed Petrino for leaving the Falcons! It was a national story where every media market jumped on his sorry ass. Get a life pal.
DP
July 18th, 2012
6:52 pm
The only complaint I have about that picture of Petrino is that it is zoomed in too tight. Whoever took it should have framed it little wider to also capture the entire Arkansas Razorback image on the wall behind him.
Jeff, good job with the questions to Smith. Glad to see that everybody didn’t pretend there wasn’t a stench in the room.
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
6:54 pm
Jvillebil — I say Petrino has a job next year, at a Division 1 program but in a non-BCS conference.
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
6:55 pm
JB — Congratulations on possibly the worst analogy in the history of analogies.
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
6:56 pm
Chuck — “Jeff, are you one of those holier-than-thou people.? You really love to pile it on people.”
Holier than thou? No. I just hate cowards and frauds.
DP
July 18th, 2012
7:01 pm
Jeff, on the subject of holier than thou, what did you think of LSU’s new QB suggesting that it was God’s plan for him to drunkenly assault a girl in a bar and get kicked out of UGA so he’d wind up at LSU? When it comes to athletes invoking God, that one will be hard to top.
b
July 18th, 2012
7:15 pm
To H with Petrino. But good luck to the Arkansas fans.
Sage of Bluesland
July 18th, 2012
7:16 pm
Jeff is spot-on with this article.
I’m very happy for Bobby Petrino and his entire family; they are very blessed to have him.
I’m equally happy for the entire Razorback nation; their blessings have been a beacon as well.
I love Karma. Well written, Jeff. Keep fighting the good fight–and exposing the frauds and charlatans…
Larry
July 18th, 2012
7:45 pm
“…when the invertebrate Bobby Petrino took his young wench (“student-athlete development coordinator”) for a mid-life crisis spin on his motorcycle and got run over by the karma train…”
That’s damn good writing right there, Jeff!
Touché!
Larry
July 18th, 2012
7:47 pm
chuck,
Jeff and I have had our differences (he hcas bannned me at least once and pardoned me), but unlike a wus like you, the man does have the courage to call a scumbag a “scumbag.”
LakeDawg
July 18th, 2012
7:49 pm
Jeff, you are on a hot streak lately. Good wordsmanship. I actually cracked a couple of smiles.
AR Resident
July 18th, 2012
8:04 pm
Word on the street locally is that there was no motorcycle accident and Mr. P was summarily beat up by the suspecting fiance of his “wench”. Notice how only he had injuries….injuries inconsistant with a motorcycle accident.
RGB
July 18th, 2012
8:09 pm
A Petrino Costume for Halloween sure would be winner!
Red hogs jacket.
White cap.
Cervical collar.
Lots of dark red rouge.
If it were a couple, the woman could wear a blonde wig and go as the “student athlete development coordinator”.
Michael
July 18th, 2012
8:13 pm
Yea well as an Arkansas fan I’m still glad they hired Petrino. He took a mid level SEC football program and turned it into a top 10 national program. Finding a coach to take over a top 10 program is a lot easier than finding a coach to build one…..And in answer to your question Jeff, that’s why Jeff Long still has a job.
Realiy
July 18th, 2012
8:18 pm
I love college ball but really wonder what its comming to. Players getting locked up for drugs, D.U.I. rape, theft, and whatever else is available to do. I have been a fan for 50 years and just don’t recall this type behavior in the 50,s and 60’s. As for Petrino that chubby little squrt cares nothing about integrity anyway. Why the surprize. Remember the Motto! JUST WIN BABY!
heartofdarkness
July 18th, 2012
8:28 pm
If you are in the business of college football or banking, you had better be able to look rapaciousness, mendacity and venality in the eye, and say, “I’ll have another.”
5150 UOAD
July 18th, 2012
8:31 pm
Jeff Schultz
July 18th, 2012
6:56 pm
Chuck — “Jeff, are you one of those holier-than-thou people.? You really love to pile it on people.”
Holier than thou? No. I just hate cowards and frauds.
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Hahahahahaha but JEFF is OBAMA and the Liberals 24/7/365……..
I still LOVE the COUNT…………..We are getting close to the Olympics…………Were are the LOLO(the virgin) Jones photos? The COUNT can’t get a virus sucking that blood. LOL
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5150 UOAD
July 18th, 2012
8:35 pm
Chuck — “Jeff, are you one of those holier-than-thou people.? You really love to pile it on people.”
Holier than thou? No. I just hate cowards and frauds.
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But Jeff you are a liberal oBAMA lover so the cowards & frauds statement comes with quilifactions.
When will the COUNT add Lolo Jones pic to the blog. He can suck that blood and get no Viruses. Well if he is FAST enough to catch her LOL.
5150 UOAD
July 18th, 2012
8:36 pm
Chuck — “Jeff, are you one of those holier-than-thou people.? You really love to pile it on people.”
Holier than thou? No. I just hate cowards and frauds.
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But Jeff you are a liberal lover so the cowards & frauds statement comes with quilifactions.
When will the COUNT add Lolo Jones pic to the blog. He can suck that blood and get no Viruses. Well if he is FAST enough to catch her LOL.
Jim Wooten's Remaining Brain Cell
July 18th, 2012
8:52 pm
I’ll make sure I watch Smith’s halftime interviews this year…http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvrRvUYRdD8
SecFan
July 18th, 2012
8:54 pm
Bradley may try but nobody moralizes like the Schultz!!.
whiskey breath
July 18th, 2012
9:24 pm
For some unknown reason, we Atlanta people feel the right
To look down on other southern states.Shame on all of us.
Snoop Dawg
July 18th, 2012
9:33 pm
Arkansas fired Petrino. Georgia gave Richt a contract extension. Petrino is one of the best football coaches in the country. Richt is one the worst coaches.
Go figure…
Petrino could win national championships with the talent on UGAs roster. He could also win a national title with the players eho have quit the UGA squad under Richt.
Richt does not have the ability to win a championship in the SEC.
Looks like the UGA fan base prefers preaching to coaching…
What a joke. Sad…
Rob Carlyle
July 18th, 2012
10:35 pm
It is obvious that Jeff Schultz is very uneducated and does not have the ability to write a story with a degree of intellience that I have.
DawgNole
July 18th, 2012
10:39 pm
bamaguy
July 18th, 2012
5:57 pm
It’s an opinion piece, not a news story, and Schultz is entitled to his opinion. Just like Paul Finebaum is over at the Birmingham News. Besides, bashing successful programs who do not wear red and black sells newspapers in this market. And all newspapers are in the business of selling advertising and subscriptions. I always enjoy Schultz’s opinions, even when I don’t agree with them.
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Good, concise summary–and by a bama fan no less.
Jsmith broke
July 19th, 2012
1:02 am
jl smith just declared bankruptcy, but he’s making almost a million this year from arkansas–what gives???
HeeHawSamWainwright
July 19th, 2012
1:19 am
From “similar to anybody?”…. the best opening salvo in many a year!
Braxton
July 19th, 2012
3:08 am
Smith is totally in over his head…expect a crash (maybe even a losing record) in 2012…
Meeker
July 19th, 2012
3:49 am
I can’t believe you still have to write about this crap. Is there actually news out there any more? You and many other writers give journalism a bad name.
Fielder
July 19th, 2012
4:57 am
AJC: The SEC plans to “closely monitor” coaches’ behavior on the sidelines this season and will be prepared to penalize teams for unsportsmanlike behavior if necessary.
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SEC coaches are already calling this the “Grantham Rule,” after UGA’s Todd Grantham, who’s notorious for his boorish thug behavior.
TrishaDishaWarEagle
July 19th, 2012
6:23 am
Payback for foisting Bill Clinton on the rest of the Nation.
Kind of like how I get a perverse grin reading about the ghetto murder rate and pending municipal bankruptcy in chicago..
TrishaDishaWarEagle
July 19th, 2012
6:27 am
Maybe Petrino can get a gig hosting a rehab camp for former UGA players currently under indictment
TrishaDishaWarEagle
July 19th, 2012
6:34 am
I try to not make fun of UGA on here..i really do..but then I pause..remember mark Richt saying “we saw cam newton as more of a tight end prospect”, smile, and continue bashing UGA.
Paddy
July 19th, 2012
6:56 am
Meeker……..Arkansas and Petrino are news in a very related way. That is why it is still reported on by SEC country writers, radio & TV. Jeff is spot on doing this piece during “media days”. You must be new to the way journalism works. A follow-up on what his ex girlfriend is doing now would also be interesting and highly read article.
cloudodust
July 19th, 2012
6:58 am
“Sitting back and watching the Arkansas train wreck has been, ah, how you say in America? Entertaining?”–Blah Blah Gabor
Paddy
July 19th, 2012
7:04 am
Jsmith broke……..CS is making almost 1 mil this next 10 mons. Bankruptcy occurs in previous years of bad investments. His current salary has no bering on his financial problems other than the fact his creditors now have a new source of money to make them whole.
mgdawg
July 19th, 2012
7:17 am
Arkansas knew what they were getting with petrino and got what was coming to them. The way they went after petrino when he was with the falcons and the way petrino went about taking the job was as low class as low class can be.
Rodster
July 19th, 2012
7:49 am
Well said Jeff. I still remember those videos of Petrino right after he slipped away from the Falcon’s before the end of the season and was doing the soooee pig call at Arkansas. Arkansas is getting exactly what they deserve.
Bobby Petrino
July 19th, 2012
7:55 am
Where do I file for unemployment?
Carlos
July 19th, 2012
7:56 am
Jeff, you are hilarious
Bobby Petrino
July 19th, 2012
7:56 am
Perhaps Penn State will consider me for head coach…afterall, they clearly do not care about ethics.
Damon Evans
July 19th, 2012
7:58 am
Hey Bobby Petrino…I feel your pain.
Damon Evans
July 19th, 2012
8:00 am
Coach Smith…take my advise…say away from white women.
OlBallSack
July 19th, 2012
8:04 am
Maybe TrishDaWarEagle saw Cam as more of a laptop stealing loser that got kicked from one school and managed to finagle a lucrative $$$ signing at another school thanks to his “agent” daddy. Trisha go take a long walk off a very very short pier.
globeflyer
July 19th, 2012
8:11 am
Misery loves company……
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July 19th, 2012
8:20 am
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bobby petrino's bloody face
July 19th, 2012
9:13 am
that picture will never stop being funny.
Capt Jack
July 19th, 2012
9:17 am
Damon, the word you you mean is advice, not advise. That UGA education shines through again.
FOR REAL
July 19th, 2012
9:18 am
I hope Jacksonville State stomps their butts in their season opener.
JIM
July 19th, 2012
9:20 am
Arkansas AD Long looks like the only one with integrity from what I see.
Most everyone school in the USA would have kept Petrino because he wins, yet Long shows him the door and your criticize him. Long deserves praise he is anything but morally bancrupt, as you say.
Whopper Dawg
July 19th, 2012
9:25 am
Arkansas has no one to blame but themselves. Talk about walking right into one.
SylvanHi
July 19th, 2012
9:26 am
I JUST read the caption under John L. Smith’s pic… ROTFLMAO!
Jason
July 19th, 2012
9:28 am
Climbed part of Kilimanjaro? That’s suppose to impress anyone? I climbed the entire thing and I’m nobody. A guy from Gwinnett did it a few months ago… he has no arms or legs but still made it all the way to the top. It’s not a walk in the park but it’s not Everest either. If you don’t make it to the top, it really isn’t worth mentioning.
Duke Keith
July 19th, 2012
9:32 am
Dude, Pampelona? Is that near Atelanta?
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JHP
July 19th, 2012
9:45 am
“the invertebrate Bobby Petrino took his young wench…”
Jeff, give it a rest. This is the kind of article you find at TMZ or the Daily Mail.
Preseason All-SEC team includes six UGA players | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
9:58 am
[...] Schultz: Arkansas living with humiliation after Petrino firing [...]
1eyedJack
July 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“My granddad came to this county when he was 12 years old,” Smith said. “His folks put him in a boat and said, ‘Go to America.’ What kind of adventure is that?”
John L. had mean great-grandparents. Putting a 12 year-old in a boat somewhere in Europe and telling him to go to America, that’s cruel. I hope they at least gave him some charts and a sextant.
1eyedJack
July 19th, 2012
10:12 am
“My granddad came to this county when he was 12 years old,” Smith said. “His folks put him in a boat and said, ‘Go to America.’ What kind of adventure is that?”
John L. had mean great-grandparents. Putting a 12 year-old in a boat somewhere in Europe and telling him to go to America, that’s cruel. I hope they at least gave him some charts and a sextant.
1eyedJack
July 19th, 2012
10:13 am
Jeez. I didn’t even get the, “you already said that” thingy.
Jones
July 19th, 2012
10:15 am
Disloyal to spouse and teams = Bobby Petrino
Disloyal to spouse and loyal to team = Larry “Chipper” Jones
One hated, one deified.
Go Braves!
Mitch (the one in Rome)
July 19th, 2012
10:15 am
Jeff, I love your writing on sports. It’s always refreshing and funny. That opening paragraph made me laugh out loud. Thanks for asking tough questions to morons.
Frontman
July 19th, 2012
10:20 am
UGA education – now there’s an oxymoron…
Pitbull
July 19th, 2012
10:31 am
And just think that the Aubarn President and Athletic Director met with Petrino on a plane in Louisville to discuss the possibility of him leaving Louisville to become the Aubarn coach without asking Louisville for permission or informing Tuberville.
That motorcycle crash could have happened in Aubarn just as easily.
Just think, If Petrino had gone to Aubarn he could have told his girlfriend he was in the mooooooooooood!! And she could have worn a bell around her neck so he could find her in the pasture.
Petrino's motorcycle
July 19th, 2012
10:51 am
@ Oldskoolrazor,
For real how about you Google NFL’s top 10 college coaches that should have stayed in college guess who’s number 1.
Taylor Wooten
July 19th, 2012
10:55 am
Well well…gotta feel good if your Arkansas Razorback, huh? LOL
SECGRAD
July 19th, 2012
10:57 am
“R”Kansas lives with humiliation because it is “R”Kansas. That state is as big an embarrassment to the SEC as West Virginia will be to the Big 12.
alphadog
July 19th, 2012
11:01 am
The young woman involved in the Petrino incident may be guilty of extreme poor judgment but to publicly call her a “wrench” is extreme poor taste. Regardless of her career-climbing actions she is still someone’s daughter, sister, and hopefully, future fiancee’. That said, Petrino got what he deserved.
Petrino's motorcycle
July 19th, 2012
11:13 am
You know it amazes me that all you trolls even now when it’s obvious that Petrino is a complete disgrace and failure at being a human being can still take jabs at UGA or ATL. I don’t blame Ar-kansas for wanting to hire a winner he almost made Louisville national contenders and look at them now. Ar-kansas was like the Vandy of the west back before they hired him and wanted to win and unfortunately there’s one good thing Petrino knows how to do and that’s win football games well except for in ATL can’t say he had the pieces together to really win much especially after losing Vick. However it doesn’t change the fact that everyone in the sports world outside of Ar-kansas basically burned Petrino’s reputation to the ground. Schultz you guys at the AJC need to invent a filter so these morons will stop taking up space on all your blogs. Otherwise you might need to make a blog dedicated to all these Petrino lovers that have about as much class as him.
art
July 19th, 2012
11:40 am
@alphadog, it’s WENCH not WRENCH… And excuse me, but any grown woman who knowingly has an affair with a married man deserves to be called that and worse.
Dawg Tired
July 19th, 2012
11:48 am
I’m having a difficult time seeing Arkansas being humiliated. I mean look at the last two hires for head football coach. I have a friend from Arkansas whose only comment about the whole Petrino fiasco was , “But he was winning games! Why did he get fired?”
bbama67
July 19th, 2012
12:02 pm
Schultz is still perpetuating Blank’s lie that Arkansas’ AD went behind his back to hire Petrino. Petrino and his agent both were up front with Blank. Schultz’s biased hate comes again. And it’s incredible the hold Blank has on the Atlanta media.
Q
July 19th, 2012
12:04 pm
Hey, I’d bang that blonde girl and her pearly white chompers too. I think the worst part is he rode a Harley, those guys are douchy.
Dooley: ‘You’re not going to have Tennessee to kick around anymore’ | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
12:05 pm
[...] Schultz: Arkansas living with humiliation after Petrino firing [...]
Paddy
July 19th, 2012
12:05 pm
JIM……….Ark Ad, Long had no say in the matter. The Board of Gov’ers made that call quick. They were protecting the Univ. from impending sexual harrassment etc. that was going to cost the school huge amounts of $. Well documented from the local press and Little Rock newspapers. Only thing Long did was have a press conference to announce the firing. He was out of the loop!
Cram
July 19th, 2012
12:06 pm
Maybe if Ga. hired Petrino, we could talk about National Championships instead of just making the SEC Championship game. Oh well, we have CMR and he’s a class act.
Q
July 19th, 2012
12:06 pm
“And it’s incredible the hold Blank has on the Atlanta media”
He does have a sweet stache.
Arkansas Dave
July 19th, 2012
12:17 pm
For everyone that thinks this program is crumbling, let’s see how this season plays out. JLS is a good man and was actually the perfect fit for THIS team, THIS year. For those of you laughing now, again…. let’s let this thing play out and see who is laughing at the end of the season. For those of you that are blasting the character of others, including Jeff Schultz, you should look at your character first and then see if you are worthy of casting stones. For that evaluation we don’t need to wait, your flaws are evident now.
HoosierBack
July 19th, 2012
12:30 pm
wow, let it go guys, let it go.
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
12:48 pm
I see the baboon named “Well” is back
An Auburn fan berating another program is a joke
Auburn is the most morally bankrupt program in America
You talk about the Fulmer Cup yet Auburn holds the all time points record
You are so easy to abuse
UGA coach Mark Richt: ‘We don’t recruit bad kids’ (UPDATED) | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
1:08 pm
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Bo in North Carolina
July 19th, 2012
1:21 pm
Carlyle, if you are so intelligent, what have you written and published?
Jeff as usual another good one.Thanks! Appreciate the humor and sarcasm.
Hawg Times
July 19th, 2012
1:24 pm
Schultz, I guess you must have inside information that has not yet been disclosed, judging by your quote “They played dumb when he hired his mistress for a legitimate job posting.”. Are you suggesting that J. Long, or somebody else within the organization knew that Dorrell was Petrino’s mistress prior to the investigation which followed the motorcycle accident?
This article is full of misinformation, and lacking facts. It’s better suited for the National Enquirer.
Well
July 19th, 2012
1:40 pm
“I see the baboon named “Well” is back”
Your obsession with me is duly noted, trailer trash.
“Auburn is the most morally bankrupt program in America”
No trash, that honor belongs to Penn State.
“You talk about the Fulmer Cup yet Auburn holds the all time points record”
Check out this years Arky stats, ma’am.
“You are so easy to abuse”
I’m sure you say that to all the little boys out there.
Well
July 19th, 2012
1:47 pm
” Mark Richt: ‘We don’t recruit bad kids’ ”
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHHAHH!!!!!!!!!!
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
2:03 pm
Well
Typical Auburn comeback
Can’t defend your school because you know what I said is true so you personally attack me
Hog Wyld
July 19th, 2012
2:03 pm
Just pile on Petrino everyone. You are just mad he had to leave such a horrible franchise(Falcons) to find a better life. He is not the first person to cheat on his wife. Why should he lose his job for that? The school buckled under pressure from hacks like Schultz who have a vendetta against Petrino and the success he brought to the school
Haters.
Well
July 19th, 2012
2:15 pm
“Can’t defend your school because you know what I said is true so you personally attack me”
I love hypocritical mutt fans. Defend my school? LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PERSONAL ATTACK: I see the baboon named “Well” is back
Pot, meet kettle.
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
2:16 pm
Success at all costs schools
Head of the line-Auburn
Next in line-Ohio State
Newest addition-Arkansas
DawginLex
July 19th, 2012
2:16 pm
You are a baboon
I’m not any of the things you call me
Jimmy Crack
July 19th, 2012
2:16 pm
It couldn’t have happened to a more deserving program, hiring a scumbag quitter of men in the middle of the night and having the audacity to broadcast that moment to the world. How unbelievably embarrassing, you backwoods fools. You are reaping what you SOWEEE!
Mr. Hankey
July 19th, 2012
2:20 pm
Delighted about Petrino. Love the pic. Really WOULD make a great tattoo!! Maybe put it on a lower cheek. I got fired by somebody one time and put a picture of her on the very front of my toilet seat so when I sat down, guess what was sitting there. Might do the same with Patrino. Can’t wait to see the next train wreck in his life. Don’t think karma is done with that mother……er.
Well
July 19th, 2012
2:24 pm
“You are a baboon”
PERSONAL ATTACK.
Well
July 19th, 2012
2:25 pm
“Head of the line-Auburn
Next in line-Ohio State
Newest addition-Arkansas”
I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that DawgInLex did NOT attend nor graduate from the University of Georgia.
Just a hunch.
So much more expected
July 19th, 2012
2:33 pm
? No new blog since Arkansas coach?
Jeff, where were you to press saban on whether his daughter made 1st string?
Or did she beat up her position coach?
So much more expected
July 19th, 2012
2:36 pm
Jeff, why exactly are you in Hooterville, err Hoover, AL?
This is all we get?
Dawglasville
July 19th, 2012
2:50 pm
Love the pic. Arkansas asked for it and got it. Just like we asked for it when we hired Harrick, and we sure got it.
Paddy
July 19th, 2012
2:57 pm
HogWyld………the pressure didn’t come from the media. Once your Board of Gov’ers knew the truth, they booted his sorry butt! Get your facts straight and take off the blindes, pal!!!!!!!!!
Mora less Petrino
July 19th, 2012
3:02 pm
Mora and Petrino are probably the two biggest DA’s to ever coach any team in ATL. The Hawgs now know and UCLA will find out.
Richt, Georgia have been hurt by too many recruiting risks | Jeff Schultz
July 19th, 2012
3:04 pm
[...] • Arkansas living with deserved humiliation after Petrino firing [...]
Pitbull
July 19th, 2012
3:18 pm
Dawglasville, just to set the record straight – we did not hire Harrick. Harrick was forced on us by Michael Adams as they were both good friends at Pepperdine when Adams was President there and Harrick was the basketball coach. Those two and their wives had dinner together almost every Saturday night. The AD had Harrick forced on him and look at how it turned out. Notice that Adams keeps a low profile re the athletics department now. Remember how that loser Adams chose for Ad when he forced Dooley out had to sit there by himself and almost beg for his job in front of the media with no Adams in sight after he got caught running around on his wife. Adams, Evans, and Harrack – as well as Petrino – my opinion is they are all putzes. But Adams kept his job because as we all know it runs down hill.
Hog Wyld
July 19th, 2012
3:23 pm
@ Paddy
Just another hater you are.
Alabama vows to avoid 2010-type complacency | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
3:27 pm
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bbama67
July 19th, 2012
3:29 pm
I’m not getting the Arkansas got what they deserved from a negative angle perspective. They got 21 wins in two seasons, a BCS appearance, a top 5 finish, a rebuilt program from the disaster Nutt left and a top 10-15 team this season. This negativity is coming from fans of the biggest underachieving program in college football. You keep the choir boy and keep underachieving.
Hollywould
July 19th, 2012
3:51 pm
Well, you have to understand LEX. Don’t you know he is the high and mighty leg humper? He calls everybody names when he gets his feelings hurt. War Eagle!!
Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being an undisciplined team | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
4:16 pm
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Ed
July 19th, 2012
4:29 pm
Sad fact, a jerk always has a following. Shultz, I see your following is the cream of the crop. The one thing I’ve found to be true of every jerk to write a column, blog or post on a message board is that everyone is guilty unless they are your ‘everyone’. But concerning you, what I would give to have the time to waste researching and scrutinizing you and your family and then penning it to paper. I’m thinking there would be some great humilating stuff.
Piglets: Media Days Recap | The Southerner Journal
July 19th, 2012
5:07 pm
[...] need salt for the wound, Jeff Schultz of the Atlanta Journal Constitution gloats in Arkansas’ humiliation, as should be expected of a writer in the town that guy left to truly rekindle National [...]
Ed
July 19th, 2012
5:08 pm
I get it now. I posted the first post before I bothered to check the source, though I should have known by the tear stains anyway. Boo-hoo. So Petrino bent you and the falconettes over with three games left (though most of your loser team and fans had already. You and Blanc need to get over it already, life has gone on. Though I must admit, everytime I hear one of you whiney Georgia people go like this all these years later, it just confirms to me that Arkansas just plain bent you over and broke it off. Ouch!
Richt, Ole Miss coach respond to Spurrier’s schedule shot | UGA sports blog
July 19th, 2012
5:17 pm
[...] Schultz: Arkansas living with humiliation after Petrino firing [...]
PonGT
July 19th, 2012
5:50 pm
Normally, Schultzie, you know nothing about what you opine. However, this time you’re spot on!
Ed
July 19th, 2012
6:50 pm
Ok, someone who knows everything Shultz knows and everything he doesn’t, lmao.
TechHog
July 19th, 2012
8:25 pm
To all you people saying Arkansas got what it deserves and Petrino left Arkansas worse off when he left. Nothing could be further from the truth. Arkansas finished with 11 wins last 2 seasons and in the top 5 last year and will have a top 10 team this year. When Petrino arrived, Arkansas was not to be found in the top 50 teams. I say if that’s what they deserve then thats great… a team capable of competing for the National Championship even though they play the Tide and Tigers.
Reality
July 19th, 2012
8:38 pm
Hog Wyld!? Yea, alot of guys cheat on their wives. Yea, and also alot of people lie, steal, even murder. So whats the big deal? The only reason Petrino was fired is because of Sports writers. GROW UP and get your brain x-rayed. I’d bet a million $ it looks alot like a football.
Ted Striker
July 19th, 2012
9:24 pm
Damn good column.
Ed
July 19th, 2012
10:06 pm
Damn good column if your butt-sore, lol. Tell us your teams (if it is not Jawja) so we can examine them. Jawja by the way, the new Thug U, taking the title from Miami. Yep, that’s the perception on ESPN. Maybe if your coach had the gonads to actually kick the worst offenders off the team he wouldn’t be starting the season with half his defense suspended. Petrino broke one off in you boys and its 5+ years later. Geesh, get over it and right your own ship. Petrino screwed you and left your cess-pool city, we fired him. Grown men can see the difference.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
July 19th, 2012
11:08 pm
How does an 0-4 playoff record look on your resume?
AJC sux
July 20th, 2012
12:17 am
Right in line with all the other wacko “writers” at the AJC. Jeff probably shares a cube with Cynthia Tucker.
Ed
July 20th, 2012
1:56 am
To each his own I always say, but this guy makes Barney Frank look straight. Creepy photo. Give the Tucker chick a buzz cut and she would look more like a sports writer. This guy could never work in Arkansas covering sports, maybe fashion and home deco or an advice for the lonely column but certainly not sports.
Newnandawg
July 20th, 2012
6:27 am
Petrino transformed Arkansas from an afterthought into an elite program. If UGA would hire him as offensive coordinator, we’d have a national championship within 2 years.
brick
July 20th, 2012
8:32 am
Arkansas fans here still defending Petrino and the actions of their AD. No one blames Bobby for leaving, in fact most Falcon fans, no wait all Falcon fans, are glad he did. Its how he left that shows the type of man he is, in the middle of the night and a note, he was told to write, on his desk. Its shady, its ethically wrong and it was wrong of Long to go behind Falcon management. With the results he was getting do you think Falcon management would have stopped them, they would have been glad to get out of his contract. Long didn’t want to even fire him after he broke Arkansas’s own morality clause, circumvented Arkansas’s hiring practices to hire his little fling. He didn’t even want to fire him after Petrino lied to him, on national tv, he only fired him when the humiliation being throw towards Arkansas forced him to. And what does Long immediately do, goes behind another administration’s back and hires their coach.
But the question is, is Long dumb enough to not realize what was going on in the football office before the motorcycle crash? Or do people of Arkansas view unethical and immoral behavior as acceptable?
thepro
July 20th, 2012
8:32 am
And to think the “experts” at ESPNU actually think Arkansas will serious contend with Ala. and LSU for the SEC west title…With John L. Smith as head coach? I think not!!!
bbama67
July 20th, 2012
10:37 am
brick – Long didn’t go behind Blank’s back. Blank knew Petrino was interested in the Arkansas job and was considering leaving. He was up front with Blank. Blank is a bad naive owner proven by the Falconvicts he kept around and how he believed in Vick. Blank also allowed McKay to undercut Petrino from the time Petrino took the job through the draft. Blank and his p.r. department only went on the attack because Vick’s sentence had just come down the day of the Monday night game and they didn’t want another bad p.r. hit so they lied about Petrino not being up front with them about leaving. You naive Falcon fans keep believing the spin put out by people like Schultz. By the way, it shouldn’t be difficult for you to notice what Schultz, Blank and many other media members and radio guys in Atlanta have in common with Blank.
As you should recognize, I’m not an Arkansas fan but I do live in Atlanta and have grown tired of hearing the spin and lies coming from the Falcons side. It is a bad franchise. Petrino had a right to be upset given McKay’s actions and not being told about Vick’s situation. He thought he was getting a chance to coach a dynamic qb. Instead he stepped into a lockerroom of entilted immature thugs who supported a felon.
Richt, Bulldogs address perception of being an undisciplined team | SEC Football
July 20th, 2012
10:45 am
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Brett
July 20th, 2012
12:00 pm
hog fan here, just gotta ask this question, is everybody in ATL still that butt hurt??? If i recall things turned out pretty good with that coach yall got. No one here in ARK is still a huge fan of BP and no doubt he has made plenty of mistakes, but let him worry about them and move on. Why show the world how much he hurt yall that all these years later yall still wanna cry about it. And i can tell you that we are not sitting here ashamed, if anything we are proud of the fact that we have an AD or put morality over wins, say what you will about jeff long but in many peoples view he is the best AD in the country. MOVE ON or cover the inmate row yall have, AKA georgia bulldogs!
mark
July 20th, 2012
4:15 pm
So Arkansa takes the high road morally. And Georgia embraces Richts’ jailhouse Dawgs. Double standard anyone. Or is it because Patrino had the audacity to leave the Atlanta Flacons and Mr. Schultz is beholden to them for a good portion of his paycheck. I think so!!!
Jeff Schultz
July 20th, 2012
4:24 pm
By the way, thanks to all for comments, even to those who think I’m an idiot. I do find it interesting that many critical of the column respond with something along the lines of, “What about Auburn!” Well, I don’t cover Auburn. My media outlet covers Georgia, so I wrote a Georgia column. Others also are focusing too much on Isaiah Crowell. He was only a part of this column. If Crowell was the only recruit from 2011 who ran into problems, probably wouldn’t be that big of a deal (relatively speaking). But losing seven of 26 recruits from 1 class in 1 year is significant. Even Mark Richt acknowledged that. No agenda here. But I respect the fact that everybody has their own opinion. Thanks for reading. J.
Claymation
July 21st, 2012
8:18 am
Jeff, where the heck is Pampelona? There is a town in Spain called Pamplona where crazy drunk people run with bulls once a year. Copy editor please?
zbulldawg
July 21st, 2012
10:44 am
HERE again the school is being blamed for what Petrino has done to himself. They didn’t cover any thing up They said NOT HERE !! Good for them. Put the blame where it belongs. We must stop trying to blame every one for someone esles’ actions. YOU DID IT YOU DONE IT IT”S YOURS !!
Yo Vince
July 21st, 2012
11:15 am
Jeff, I have a picture of a co-worker, in really bad underwear, only, beer gut in tow, passed out on a blowup matress, with dirty socks next to his face. I e-mail it to him everytime he misses work. Please use this picture of Bobby ONLY. It’s the money shot!
RazorFin
July 21st, 2012
1:00 pm
Coach Petrino did make a few BIG mistakes, but I would rather have him than any other coach in college football coaching my team,. Good luck Coach Petrino. I hope you learn from your mistakes and can move forward and have a happy and successful life. I have made a few mistakes in my life. I was fortunate enough to learn from those mistakes and move on. It can be done regardless of what some of you think.
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
7:56 pm
It was never “if” but “when” Petrino would do something to embarrass his latest team.
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
8:02 pm
Three Arkansas football players were arrested for residential burglary, with University Police alleging that they stole several items, including laptops, from dorm rooms on campus.
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
8:04 pm
A woeful off season for Arkansas off the field continues Saturday, with word that a couple more Razorbacks have found themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
8:07 pm
FAYETTEVILLE — Anthony Oden, who was arrested last Saturday and charged with driving while intoxicated for the second time in just more than a year, has been dismissed from Arkansas’ football team, Razorbacks coach Bobby Petrino said in a release Friday.
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
8:08 pm
Cut n paste baby!
Marietta :D
July 26th, 2012
8:10 pm
Football Graduation Rates: SEC
Vanderbilt 89%
Georgia 68%
Florida 67%
Alabama 67%
LSU 67%
Mississippi St. 64%
Auburn 63%
Kentucky 63%
Mississippi 61%
South Carolina 57%
Arkansas 55%
Tennessee 53%