Lights, camera, action! Petrino wants you to know he’s sorry (UPDATED with video)
Unfortunately, Petrino won't be wearing neck brace tonight. (AP)
(Updated with link to ESPN story and video below)
So of the least-enviable jobs tasks imaginable, where would “Bobby Petrino-image repair rank”? North of Barry Bonds (post-[alleged]-steroid use) but south of BP (post-oil spill)?
Petrino has agreed to/orchestrated his first television interview since a somewhat comical motorcycle crash and face plant exposed his affair with an Arkansas subordinate and submarined both his career and his personal life. (Not his reputation. That already was a wreck.)
Petrino recently sat down with ESPN’s Joe Schad. The interview will air sometime tonight during the 6 p.m. Sportscenter. Maybe the Falcons for a chuckle to loosen up before their exhibition game against Baltimore. It totally should be on the big screen at the Georgia Dome.
According to Schad, Petrino appears both “remorseful” and “apologetic.” Both emotions would, of course, qualify as precedent-setting.
The funniest description I’ve seen of this interview came from the blog site Arkansasexpats, which wrote, “This is arguably the most anticipated interview in Arkansas history since Barbara Walters scored the first sit-down with Monica Lewinsky in 1999.”
Bobby Petrino. Monica Lewinsky. Perfect.
(Update: Here’s a link to ESPN’s story on the interview. A video excerpt is below. One of the money quotes: “Instead of standing on the sideline with [Arkansas players], I’m going to be sitting on the living room couch, watching them. And I just can’t believe I screwed up so bad.”)
“I’ll be a better coach because this happened, because I’ll coach the person and not just the player,” Petrino said in the interview, according to SB Nation. “I have a better understanding of what life is really about. Put your energy into people that love you and count on you.”
Sounds great. He should put that on a plaque.
Petrino has not spoken publicly since his firing but his temp replacement John L. Smith said at SEC media days that the two spoke last month.
Here’s the reality: Petrino knows his reputation has been soiled. No NFL team would touch him. At this point you wonder what major college program would touch him. He has a reputation for job-hopping, lying, manipulating and leaving wreckage in the rear-view mirror.
With the Falcons, he showed himself to be a coward. What happened at Arkansas was even worse because his affair with an underling exposed a public university to considerable damages (not to mention what the scandal did to the players).
Petrino won’t be speaking to you tonight. Nothing personal, but he really doesn’t care about you. He will be speaking to college presidents and athletic directors, whom he will try to convince that he is a changed man. (Or a man at all.)
But we judge people by actions, not words, and there are lot of actions to overcome. A TV interview doesn’t qualify as a cleansing.
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Some previous blogs on my favorite guy, Bobby Petrino
– Arkansas living with deserved humiliation after Petrino firing
– Petrino saga explained in Taiwan cartoon
– Arkansas had no choice but to fire Petrino
– Arkansas fans should be ashamed of themselves
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Rick
August 9th, 2012
12:34 pm
1st
Rick
August 9th, 2012
12:34 pm
Kudos from Schultz will follow!
LESD
August 9th, 2012
12:38 pm
Enter your comments here
LESD
August 9th, 2012
12:39 pm
Jeff, I’m starting to get the idea that you have a less-than-favorable opinion of this man’s character.
Wilson Pickett
August 9th, 2012
12:41 pm
Bobby will be the HC at auburn in 2014 if not 2013. He’s already be laid and the banker , the woodcutter, and the old drunk will get him saved and paid. When DaTrupa and DaLupa is the face of your program then a hire of Bobby is really no PR problem.
Rick
August 9th, 2012
12:41 pm
Now about this article, you right nothing he does or says makes him a good person right now! Is he serious!? ESPN interview? Thats original! Looks like the more dirt you do the easier it is to get on TV or in the media and apologize and all is forgiven! Thanks for not giving this guy a pass Jeff! He speaks of the team that he let down, however I wonder has he taken the effort to apologize to them? Maybe not in person (because I know they would kot let this creep with-in driving distance of the University) but by sitting down and writing a hand written letter to each athlete he coached! Speaking of Universities, hey Arkansas like the old saying goes “lie down with dogs and you get fleas”! Our franchise laid down with this guy and we got TICKS! I dont wish bad on anyone but sometimes you get what you give!
PetrinoHater
August 9th, 2012
12:48 pm
He lied during the Joe Schad interview. How could I tell? His mouth was moving. He will be hired as a coach by Thanksgiving this year for some desperate college
KoKoPuf
August 9th, 2012
12:59 pm
Next year, when Petrino is coach at UGA, you can tell us how great he is!
Matt the Brave
August 9th, 2012
1:01 pm
I’ll actually be surprised if he does get hired by anyone. This is almost as bad as Jim Harrick, except worse because he walked out on his team and is a dirty filthy liar. At least Harrick was only a liar.
Bombs away
August 9th, 2012
1:02 pm
Some charity could make a lot of money by strapping Petrino to a drone and dropping him on a terrorist in Pakistan with the hi-res cameras rolling. I would gladly subscribe to the live event.
Grantdawg
August 9th, 2012
1:04 pm
Hard to believe anyone would touch him at this point. “I’ll coach the person, not the player.” What? Who wants this guy to teach morality and character to kids?
Hollywould
August 9th, 2012
1:05 pm
Nice work Jeff/ Tell it like it is/ what a piece of crap Puketrino is
dtruth
August 9th, 2012
1:06 pm
Karma is a mother and it visit’s most of us at some point…. Just happy it hit Bobby P at the right time….Was in the situation of his life time, great football team, top quarterback, pretty much a national championship contender and he was slapped back to earth! He publicly shot his own self in the pecker. He is greatly deserving of what he got!
Mr. Hankey
August 9th, 2012
1:07 pm
I wish everybody would just ignore this a-hole. that would be the worst punishment. However, I do LOVE that photo at the top of the article. Karma is a beautiful thing!
Birds of a feather
August 9th, 2012
1:08 pm
“Next year, when Petrino is coach at UGA, you can tell us how great he is!”
That’s a very real possibility. Any program that would hire a douchebag like Grantham would hire Petrino.
Mitch Kumstein
August 9th, 2012
1:10 pm
What a Douche. I hope he makes a fool of himself (again). The man simply has no class or character. I would not let him coach a hopscotch team.
Michael M.
August 9th, 2012
1:14 pm
Tell em to stick his head up his you know what………………..what a Bum ! Good riddens and don’t come back !
Mandrell Dawg
August 9th, 2012
1:21 pm
If Petrino hadn’t learned anything of moral importance before his joyride, I’m sure he hasn’t changed since. Anyone who hires this man is playing with fire and the question isn’t if you get burned, but when and how badly.
Matt
August 9th, 2012
1:22 pm
Some people deserve the benefit of the doubt…but, NOT ScumbagPetrino. This is just so, so delicious to watch. I guess karma really is a b*tch.
Phil Suckalewski
August 9th, 2012
1:29 pm
I hope that douch-nozzle doesn’t get any response from any teams. It is very transparent what he is doing, a lame ass attempt on trying to get another job. He sounds like a teenage kid, trying to find the right words to get out of trouble with his parents, thinking, “yea, they’ll buy this”.
Rick
August 9th, 2012
1:30 pm
No props for first? Dont look like Petrino will be first on no ones list for a while! Hehehehehe. Was that mean!?
Rimfire
August 9th, 2012
1:31 pm
Karma’s a bitch, huh Bobby…
Falconsufferersince66
August 9th, 2012
1:32 pm
Would he be able to get a job on a garbage truck in Arkansas?
MatthewH
August 9th, 2012
1:32 pm
I realize that you have to write about the news of the day, and finding topics every day can be hard. But, I find it interesting that both you and Bradley are writing about this. Please, no more (digital) ink on this man! He doesn’t deserve it. He’s just angling for a job. Maybe if no one wrote about him, he’s just go away.
khaki-wearing effiminate UGA fan
August 9th, 2012
1:37 pm
He’s a better football coach than Richt, period.
CLEMSONDUDE
August 9th, 2012
1:39 pm
He only regrets getting caught.
Bubba Bean
August 9th, 2012
1:39 pm
Jeff,
You have never written a better piece. This guy is a troll and he is just following the script written for him by the PR firm in charge of getting him another job. Looooooser!!!
vladamir sonovabitch
August 9th, 2012
1:44 pm
I can’t believe a single word this d**kbreath says. “Why did you do this?” He knows why. “Because for what I look like, this chick was a young hottie with a tight bod and I was bangin her!! Awesome!!! That’s why I did it.”
“What was your one weakness?”
BP: “I don’t know”
Yeah…BS. here’s what he thought… “My weakness? Her tight naked @$$ in my face dude. Seriously… that’s a stupid question.”
Would he do it again?
If there was a 100% guarantee that he wouldn’t get caught….. hell yes.
The Truth
August 9th, 2012
1:45 pm
Lol @ “trying to put my finger on the ‘y’…”!!! Mission accomplished Bobby. All puns aside, I think the answer to the”why” question is insainly obvious, especially to the 50 something crowd.
On a serious note, congrats to Jeff Shultz on his first decent article. For once Shultz makes some valid, supportable points. Kudos, and best of luck with your ongoing attempt to justify your existance as a journalist!
THE Dixie Redcoat Band
August 9th, 2012
1:48 pm
Who says he won’t end up at UGA or PSU someday! Pretty funny…
Rise Up!
August 9th, 2012
1:48 pm
If he’s truly a remorseful and reformed scumbag, he needs to do something other than be involved in football. Anything short of that … he continues to be a delusional narcissist.
Paddy
August 9th, 2012
1:48 pm
I see Idaho St. or Clermont-Mudd college in his future, maybe Edward Waters. That will about top hm out!
P Rose
August 9th, 2012
1:49 pm
He’ll get a TV reality show. Charlie Sheen, Anna Nicole Smith, Paris Hilton — bad is good in our twisted society. Why are we even talking about Bobby Petrino? Because, especially in the media, bad = good.
Mike Mularkey
August 9th, 2012
1:49 pm
Better him than me.
redweather
August 9th, 2012
1:53 pm
Wow! This is a tough crowd.
CT_Jacket
August 9th, 2012
1:53 pm
I would have been more impressed with the interview if he just said, “I may be a jack*ss, a liar and an adulterer, but I can coach football.” First, he will go to “treatment.” Then, some FCS school will hire him and put all sorts of ethical and moral clauses in the contract to cover themselves.
Rick
August 9th, 2012
1:53 pm
Coaching 101 for the reality show! Dude can coach just has no morals!
P Rose
August 9th, 2012
1:54 pm
Mike Vick is the poster child for the bad = good theory. Anytime his team’s game is televised, MV7 is the topic of conversation among the announcers 80% of the time. Why? Bad is good. We haven’t heard the last from Bobby Petrino. His own notoriety is about to make him a household name. He may not coach again but he’ll get his own reality TV show. Wait and see.
notbspn
August 9th, 2012
1:54 pm
To Wilson Pickett, You are truly an Updyke. He burned the bridge at Auburn years ago when he tried to go behind Tubervilles back to take his job after the 2003 season.
PrezObozo
August 9th, 2012
1:54 pm
Petrino 2nd, pedophile supporting Perverterno & his foot long nose 1st!
Kmac
August 9th, 2012
1:55 pm
I do agree he is a way better coach than Mark morality issues aside. On that merit alone he will get another coaching gig at a major college.
Dr. Phil
August 9th, 2012
1:59 pm
Petrino did not lose his moral compass. He never had one.
Kmac
August 9th, 2012
1:59 pm
and he really knows that. In his head Coach Petrino is thinking screw all of you I know I am an excellent coach. he cant say that however but knows his audience is the School presidents and athletic directors. Screw everybody else. He could care less about Atlanta, Auburn, Louisville, or any other previous stop. He knows he has skills and I agree with him.
slick
August 9th, 2012
2:00 pm
If I’m Mr. Blank, that picture of Petrino in the neck brace and all scratched to hell is sitting on my desk.
Sneakers O'Toole
August 9th, 2012
2:04 pm
I’d hire him to drive the ball retriever at the driving range in a heartbeat. Sell buckets for $50
Bubba the Bulldawg
August 9th, 2012
2:05 pm
Tech could use some creativity on offense.
If they hired Petrino that would mean they’d have to find a QB that could actually pass the football.
Dave
August 9th, 2012
2:08 pm
Jeff, if Derek Dooley has another bad year at UT, do you think the Vols descend into the slime pit and hire Petrino? With the kind of money that flows through that program I have to wonder if they’ll at least be tempted by his on-the-(college) field record.
DHD
August 9th, 2012
2:08 pm
Funny how they are always sorry when they get caught.
M915
August 9th, 2012
2:11 pm
Everyone will forgive him in a couple of months.Thats how the “GOOD OLE BOY” network operates.
whobitchakokoff
August 9th, 2012
2:12 pm
Anybody know how I can get in touch with his “underling”?
Ted
August 9th, 2012
2:13 pm
He says he “can’t put his finger on” why he did this – I bet his girlfriend put her fingers on the reason many times…
Hehehehe!!!
August 9th, 2012
2:14 pm
“trying to put the finger on the why….” Didn’t that get you into this trouble?? Putting your finger on the the Y ???
All I'm Saying Is....
August 9th, 2012
2:16 pm
Petrino the punk will coach again.
Too old a reference for most of you but if Nixon can come back from lying to the nation then Petrino can easily recover from lying to Razorback Nation.
Petrino might have to start again with a FCS school (Kennesaw State is starting a football program, right?) but a FBS school will eventually take another chance with him. His record on the field is too good to pass up for a school salivating with ambition (Bill Curry will retire (again) this time from Georgia State soon, right?).
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:19 pm
When is CHOKE going to tell Art Blank he is sorry or stealing his 72 million?
Hey Schultz
August 9th, 2012
2:20 pm
I have a standing bet that he will be back on the sidelines somewhere by 2014? What do you think?
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:23 pm
Petrino has been gone for 5 years. Why does the AJC worry about ex employees so much.
Shouldn’t they be more concerned with why it’s been over 8 years since their last playoff win?
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:26 pm
Hey Jeff
When is that “CHOKE MUST GO” article coming? You know like the one you did for Vick
Spell Check Dawg
August 9th, 2012
2:27 pm
good riddens?
Patrick Elston
August 9th, 2012
2:27 pm
What goes around, comes around. No remorse for this individual. And if you’re a Falcons Fan & you have any remorse for this man, then shame on you too.
VolT
August 9th, 2012
2:29 pm
when tennessee dumps dooley, they will go after petrino—book it. He can coach and win titles.
oldfart
August 9th, 2012
2:32 pm
Tell him to cross the river and fetch Jimmy Swaggart to see how it is done. “I have sinnnned”.
Mike "WEED" Vick
August 9th, 2012
2:33 pm
Sometimes the world is fair, and people get what they deserve. Now if the world would just bring us a Falcons Superbowl and bring ‘CHOKE’ a bad case of herpes, that would be icing on the cake.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:33 pm
So all Spring and Summer not even a single article about CHOKE but as soon as a Former coach makes a statement, the AJC is allllllll over it.
I believe there are more pressing issues like why this team paid an overrated qb 72 million and has CHOKED in every playoff game, yet in Baltimore you have a qb that was paid 42 million less and has won a total of 5 playoff games, taken his team to 2 championship games and and a dropped td away from the Superbowl.
Do you think that is more important than lashing out against an ex coach?
Just a thought
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
2:34 pm
Just try for half a second to put yourself in his shoes.
Arthur Blank and Rich McKay lied to him.
Michael Vick lied to him.
Michael Jenkins, Warrick Dunn, Alge Crumpler, and the entire OL had already quit on him.
He was sitting at the helm of the Hindenburg with nothing to look forward to but six straight months of non-stop media coverage focusing on the coach of the team with a Michael Vick problem.
Everybody did what they had to do to survive – personally, professionally, and in some cases, legally (see DeAngelo Hall hiring a crew to destroy a concrete slab dog kennel he had just paid $30,000 to pour four days earlier – one day after Vick was arrested).
He just wasn’t the kind of person who has the patience and demeanor to abide this type of environment. Does that mean he deserves to have his entire personal and professional life torn asunder? I think not. And who are we to judge anyway? What does the Bible teach us about passing judgment?
Bobby Petrino is one of the most preeminent developers of talented college QB’s in the nation. He would have left the Falcons for Arkansas at the end of the year anyway.
I say give him the head coaching job at Tech and make Jerry Sandusky his assistant.
JL
August 9th, 2012
2:34 pm
If the ex Texas Tech Coach can get re-hired after suing his college, then believe you me, Petrino will have no problemo getting a suitor.
The Kent B-Ball Coach is still working, so is the ex-GT Coach who lied about his resume.
Meyer who lies every other word, is still working.
Win games, character doesn’t matter.
Dee
August 9th, 2012
2:37 pm
Georgia Tech would definitely hire him since that’s the only way they’ll ever beat UGA and all they have on campus are ugly nerd chicks who look like dudes.
Matt "CHOKE" Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:40 pm
You guys should be happy Petrino quit, because there was nowayyyyyyyyyyyy he would have drafted CHOKE.
BitterDawgFan
August 9th, 2012
2:42 pm
Choose your favorite scandalous wreck: Petrino, Paterno or Pitino.
How pathetic are some of these “molders” of young men?
Mike "WEED" Vick
August 9th, 2012
2:43 pm
Petrino would have drafted his boy Brian Brohm from Louisville
Al Beeski
August 9th, 2012
2:44 pm
Schultz, why don’t you write about sports and stop freaking worried about people’s personal lives, go fix your own home and stop worrying about other peoples’ lives away from the field. Keep your own house straight if you know what I MEAN!!!
Mike "WEED" Vick
August 9th, 2012
2:44 pm
Pitino. At least his actions didn’t really affect others. Just embarrassed himself; and the Minuteman jokes are funny
Taxi Smith
August 9th, 2012
2:47 pm
Actually I think walking out on the Falcons the way he is harder to forgive that what he did in Arkansas. Men have gotten themselves into sexual hot water for eons, and often make amends. But leaving a job and a team in the middle of the night reveals a pretty sorry character. Leaving a job for something a man sees as better is okay; we’ve all done it. But not the way he did. No man can respect that.
Kmac
August 9th, 2012
2:49 pm
skills prevail over moral compass. World we live in now
Dee
August 9th, 2012
2:49 pm
Pitino. At least his actions didn’t really affect others. Just embarrassed himself;
Huh? He definitely affected the fiancee of the chick who he was cheating with. What about his wife? If you though they had a bad marriage before, I’m sure this affected it towards the negative.
Football Fanatic
August 9th, 2012
2:50 pm
SAY WHAT YOU WANT!!!!!! SOME TEAM WITHIN 2 YEARS WILL GIVE THIS MAN THE OPPURTUINITY TO BRING THEIR TEAM FROM MEDIOCRE TO COMPETING FOR A CONFERENCE TITLE TO POSSIBLE NATIONAL CHAMPION!!!!
squeal like a pig
August 9th, 2012
2:51 pm
What about the paula jones interview or the jennifer flowers interview or the ……….
oldfart
August 9th, 2012
2:53 pm
@Football Fanatic – QUIT BOGARTING AND PASS THAT THING THIS WAY!!!!!
Reggie's balls
August 9th, 2012
3:05 pm
GO FALCONS!!!! Bobby Petrino Sucks!!!!!
Typical Redneck
August 9th, 2012
3:07 pm
It took him 50+ years and a getting busted having an affair to figure out what life is all about? What an idiotic d-bag.
Lindsey
August 9th, 2012
3:09 pm
This was a great article Jeff, I love the idea of them playing this interview tonight at the Dome!! Talk about karma, Bobby did this to himself. He deserves this, what an idiot!!
jacksoncurtain
August 9th, 2012
3:11 pm
PHUCK YOU Petrino, your a doucshe! You suck as a person and it’s good you finally realize that. But everyone in the nation realized that a few years back. You betrayed the NFL, the NCAA and worst of all your own FAMILY! I would expect this sort of thing from a young man, but not someone at your age. Your personal principles suck! You have not changed in 4 months. Your just sorry you got caught and lost your career and the respect of your family.
Gorge O'leary
August 9th, 2012
3:14 pm
I’ll bet Penn State wishes they had Petreeno!
Kendell Jones
August 9th, 2012
3:15 pm
I don’t care how good a coach he is. He could never fill the shoes of Coach Richt. Coach Richt is a Christain man, and the scumbag who calls himself a coach could never fill the shoes of Coach Richt. I had rather have a mediocre coach than someone like Bobby Petrino. I am a dyed in the wool fan of Georgia, and God forbid that anyoine like Petrino show his face on the Ca mpus of Georgia, let alone as a coach.
king of mean
August 9th, 2012
3:17 pm
when you think about it – this is all really Michael Vicks fault…
Bone
August 9th, 2012
3:22 pm
What a waste of air!
WTF
August 9th, 2012
3:27 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan how many playoff games have you won? Oh that’s right douche bags don’t play football.
Fun Size
August 9th, 2012
3:29 pm
Maybe Penn State will hire him to get them ready for when they emerge from NCAA Siberia many years from now….
Bubba Bean
August 9th, 2012
3:30 pm
Hey ‘CHOKE’, are you trying to repress a major man-crush you’re having for Matt Ryan or something? Man, that one note song is getting old. Give it a rest.
DawgNole
August 9th, 2012
3:33 pm
Matt “CHOKE” Ryan
August 9th, 2012
2:33 pm
So all Spring and Summer not even a single article about CHOKE but as soon as a Former coach makes a statement, the AJC is allllllll over it.
I believe there are more pressing issues like why this team paid an overrated qb 72 million and has CHOKED in every playoff game, yet in Baltimore you have a qb that was paid 42 million less and has won a total of 5 playoff games, taken his team to 2 championship games and and a dropped td away from the Superbowl.
Do you think that is more important than lashing out against an ex coach?
Just a thought
___________________
What’s more important to those on these blogs who are familiar with your worthless contributions is getting you banned.
TuffShhhtuff
August 9th, 2012
3:35 pm
Just wondering. If PSU were to hire him, would that be an upgrade or a downgrade? Hmmmmmm?
TuffShhhtuff
August 9th, 2012
3:37 pm
Just wondering, again. What would be his source of income now? Did he ever sell his house in Ark.?
'Bout to Git Real
August 9th, 2012
3:38 pm
If it weren’t for his cowardly abandonment of that fine group of young men in the Falcons locker room, I would prefer Petrino over that wimp Mark Richt.
CMR needs to go teach Sunday School with all the other sissy boys.
Stop talking about Jeebus and start doing some matt drills already.
Dumbo
August 9th, 2012
3:39 pm
Hey JS……wanna bet his name starts getting banded about come the second week in Nov….especially by folks around Knoxville or down in Lubbock
Dee
August 9th, 2012
3:39 pm
@ WEED
You said Pitrino. My bad.
DawgNole
August 9th, 2012
3:39 pm
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
2:34 pm
Just try for half a second to put yourself in his shoes . . . .
Arthur Blank and Rich McKay lied to him.
Michael Vick lied to him.
Michael Jenkins, Warrick Dunn, Alge Crumpler, and the entire OL had already quit on him . . . .
He just wasn’t the kind of person who has the patience and demeanor to abide this type of environment. Does that mean he deserves to have his entire personal and professional life torn asunder? I think not. And who are we to judge anyway? What does the Bible teach us about passing judgment?
_____________________
It wasn’t only the Falcons, lamebrain. He’s spent the better part of his professional life being deceitful, immoral, and dishonest. That’s what he’s being judged on here.
PSU Officials Move the Joe Paterno Statue from the Stadium to the Library
August 9th, 2012
3:42 pm
To Remind the Students to Keep Quiet
1eyedJack
August 9th, 2012
3:44 pm
His face looks naked chickenish.
Bet his future ex-wife hopes he can get a job.
Sam
August 9th, 2012
3:47 pm
UGA should hire him as offensive coordinator. He’d have the moral compass of Mark Richt to lead the team and talk to the media. Let Petrino do what he does best: diagram X’s and O’s.
I’m sure he would keep his mouth shut so he could rebuild his reputation for a return to head coaching (not that I would ever want him coaching my team) some day.
4 Jacks
August 9th, 2012
3:48 pm
I would rather the devil himself caoch and be an example to my son. Fact is everyone this Petrino jerk has come in touch with now knows what the devil is and his lying sack of s%&t ways are. This Petrino sack of s%&t is a worthless POS and I would not trust him or anything he said as far as I could throw Stone Mountain. This guy is nothing but posion.
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
3:50 pm
Ok, DawgNole, the article was written in Atlanta by an Atlanta writer. Anything Petrino did prior to coming to ATL obviously wasn’t a problem because the Falcons offered him a head coaching job.
For most people in ATL their point of reference is his infamous tenure as the Falcons coach.
Obviously, there are other factors, but I was referencing one. Nothing I wrote suggets that his issues were limited to the Falcons problem.
Try to relax. Maybe read a self-help book. Try to be less ironic when you call people “lamebrain.”
Also, study up on irony. It’s a key literary device.
Bhorsoft
August 9th, 2012
3:51 pm
Future coach of Georgia Regents College!
It's raining here
August 9th, 2012
3:52 pm
My 3PM appointment just walked in and they smell like rotten garbage.
Styles
August 9th, 2012
3:53 pm
Almost got himself killed for a piece. You should get fired for that.
N
August 9th, 2012
3:55 pm
That’s right! Git him!!!
~piggly wiggly~
August 9th, 2012
3:58 pm
Is Petrino also “sorry” for leaving a four-sentence laminated note at the locker of each Falcon player before he skipped town during his 3-10 campaign?
Sid
August 9th, 2012
3:58 pm
Enjoyed the read Jeff. It would be ok with me if nobody hired him for another 20 years…….maybe he can be the greeter at Walmart.
~piggly wiggly~
August 9th, 2012
4:06 pm
A nice unknown woman waved someone down to help
Petrino after his viagra wore off.
DawgNole
August 9th, 2012
4:14 pm
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
3:50 pm
Ok, DawgNole, the article was written in Atlanta by an Atlanta writer. Anything Petrino did prior to coming to ATL obviously wasn’t a problem because the Falcons offered him a head coaching job.
For most people in ATL their point of reference is his infamous tenure as the Falcons coach.
Obviously, there are other factors, but I was referencing one. Nothing I wrote suggets that his issues were limited to the Falcons problem.
Try to relax. Maybe read a self-help book. Try to be less ironic when you call people “lamebrain.”
Also, study up on irony. It’s a key literary device.
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You’re wrong again, ironically. Obviously what he did prior to coming to ATL indeed was a problem. His ATL performance simply continued his well-established pattern of questionable behavior. You cited his ATL issues in your pompous scolding of those of us who would judge him. Let me repeat: he’s being judged here on far more than what he did in ATL alone.
Do you get it now? Probably not, ironically.
Skeezix
August 9th, 2012
4:24 pm
What a jerk this liar is and ESPN is doing us all a disservice by giving him airtime, but of course ESPN knows it’ll increase ratings. Why don’t these kind of jerks just go away and crawl under a rock somewhere forever? They have no shame. The worst part is some college somewhere will probably hire him and he knows it.
I plan not to watch it.
Really?
August 9th, 2012
4:26 pm
He’s never come clean on the bike ‘accident’ (i.e., wasn’t one, his main squeeze girlfriend’s fiancee beat him when he found out). What a dick…
Peter
August 9th, 2012
4:38 pm
It took him 50+ years and a getting busted having an affair to figure out what life is all about? What an idiotic d-bag.
Gee how could anyone have said it better ?
Pitiful Petrino
August 9th, 2012
4:38 pm
Hey! What would have done…did you see her? She was smoking hot and I owned it!
Damn motorcycle…screwed up everything!
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
4:40 pm
No, I’m pretty sure most people are referring to his abandonment of the Falcons in 2007.
Whatever happened before that is relevant, but not to me.
Much like you, DawgNole. Irrelevant.
Dr. J.
August 9th, 2012
4:52 pm
Hilarious!!!! I love the fact that he relies on his “faith”. Reminds me of Mark Richt. These coaches are all losers. Where’s a Bear Bryant when you need one?
Dan Cathy
August 9th, 2012
4:56 pm
Bobby ought to go on TV and say something negative about the gays.
Everybody in the SEC will fall in love with him all over again.
Mark Richt might even propose to him.
chuck
August 9th, 2012
4:56 pm
Hey Jeff and some others. How long are you going to hate on Petrino. You are not hurting Petrino, you are only hurting yourselves with all the hate. I guess you folks have never made a mistake. Must be nice to be perfect.
Hillbilly D
August 9th, 2012
5:07 pm
He will be speaking to college presidents and athletic directors, whom he will try to convince that he is a changed man.
And in a couple, three years, somebody, somewhere will bite and hire him. That’s the reality of big-time college sports.
Mike Bobo 17 INT
August 9th, 2012
5:09 pm
He got what he deserves…..
Well
August 9th, 2012
5:11 pm
“Bobby will be the HC at auburn in 2014 if not 2013.”
UGAG needs him more since UGAG hasn’t been relevant since 1980.
r cagle
August 9th, 2012
5:11 pm
Wrong, Jeff. The perpetrator sleeze bag matchup is Bobby Petrino and Bill Clinton. Monica Lewinsky was just another victim of the latter.
JSS
August 9th, 2012
5:13 pm
“I’ll be a better coach because this happened, because I’ll coach the person and not just the player,” Petrino said in the interview, according to SB Nation. “I have a better understanding of what life is really about. Put your energy into people that love you and count on you.”
Please let Liberty or Bob Jones University hire that buffoon and I can die a happy man! Snakes serve a purpose (in nature), that cretin serves none (like certain AJC bloggers) but to serve as witness of real life hubris looks like!
Well
August 9th, 2012
5:14 pm
UGAG logic: Auburn will hire Booby and fire Chizik.
Booby never got close to playing for a national championship. Chizik actually won one.
Well
August 9th, 2012
5:14 pm
” Monica Lewinsky was just another victim of the latter.”
Hardly a victim.
NCBravesFan
August 9th, 2012
5:16 pm
Petrino wept.
Jackson
August 9th, 2012
5:21 pm
Desperation for success will lead someone to hire him, regardless of baggage. He may have learned a lesson, short term, long term your colors always show. He will be successful again, then the arrogance will come back. I hope not for his family’s sake. But, a snake is a snake.
JSS
August 9th, 2012
5:22 pm
BS Bob Jr. and types like you! I said it on the day the Falcons hired him (urged on by the likes of John Kincaid) that they were making a pact with the real version of that imaginary Devil so many of you are scared of!!! Requested my season ticket refund away and washed my hands of them!
And you nuts still trust Arthur Blank’s judgement!
JSS
August 9th, 2012
5:28 pm
Somewhere old Max Howell is laughing uncontrollably!
Right Wing Bible Thumpin' Gun Nut
August 9th, 2012
5:36 pm
Petrino will be HC at Tennessee in 2013.
Arkansas not fooling me
August 9th, 2012
5:40 pm
Does anybody realize what is happening here? This is all part of Arkansas’ master plan to rebuild his image and come back after the scab John l smith is gone. He has never been fired but is instead on leave. Take that to the bank. Typical chicanery from an SEC school..
Spud Webb
August 9th, 2012
5:50 pm
This guy is something else…no bike accident and this would still be going on!! SCUM BAG
Beast from the East
August 9th, 2012
5:54 pm
Jeff,
He’ll either be coaching at Kentucky or Tennessee next year.
b
August 9th, 2012
6:02 pm
Answer the dang question!
b
August 9th, 2012
6:04 pm
You forgot to mention the engagement he wrecked!
Hillbilly D
August 9th, 2012
6:12 pm
You forgot to mention the engagement he wrecked!
That ol’ boy sure dodged a bullet and I ain’t talking about Petrino.
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August 9th, 2012
6:14 pm
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August 9th, 2012
6:25 pm
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TampaGator
August 9th, 2012
6:26 pm
Beast….
I disagree. I don’t think the SEC comish will let allow him to coach in the SEC again….and I am sure he has already communicated such desire already. I think he will end up out west somewhere……or as an assistant in the NFL. I am wishing his best coaching offer will be in the Arena leagues.
JSS
August 9th, 2012
6:57 pm
Hillbilly, you speak the truth! He should send Putrid a thank you note every April 1st!!! That guy and the Runaway Bride guy missed a sure shot at misery!!!
DawgNole
August 9th, 2012
6:58 pm
Bob Jr.
August 9th, 2012
4:40 pm
No, I’m pretty sure most people are referring to his abandonment of the Falcons in 2007.
Whatever happened before that is relevant, but not to me.
Much like you, DawgNole. Irrelevant.
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Doesn’t matter what you’re sure of, because you’re wrong. How many times do you have to be told, ignoramus. And it also absolutely does not matter whether or not his past is relevant to you–because YOU don’t matter.
His past IS relevant to those on here who are judging him; those to whom you directed your pious sermon. You’d do well to wise up before flapping your gums in a public forum.
Seriously?
August 9th, 2012
7:08 pm
Does this guy really think anyone believes a word that comes out of his mouth? This interview was nothing more than a PR attempt to get back in the game by apologizing and trying to sound contrite. I’ve seen better acting at grade school plays than the bit where he chokes up during the interview. Give me a break, Petrino. Go away…
Slick Willy
August 9th, 2012
7:10 pm
Bobby,
I think you’ve screwed the pooch on the coaching gigs so you probably should just stay in Arkansas. With some acting lessons you ought to consider going into politics or becoming a teevee evangelist. Since the motorcycle didn’t have training wheels I left a well loved and loved in El Camino down there you can have. Still has the padded Astroturf in the bed. Oh, and Cash is King, they were paying you 7 figures, you didn’t have to put her on the payroll. Gotta’ go, Hillary is in Africa an’ I’m gettin’ busy here if ya’ know what I mean.
Ex-Pres & Loving It,
Bill Clinton
Rise UP!!
August 9th, 2012
7:18 pm
Bobby Petrino is no longer a Razorback, but he will Always be a pig!
abby normal
August 9th, 2012
7:18 pm
F…Bobby Petrino. He’s pond scum and I hope he never gets another job in football.
Gordon
August 9th, 2012
8:55 pm
We get it Jeff. You don’t like Bobby Petrino.
Integrity
August 9th, 2012
9:01 pm
People deserve to be forgiven if they are truly remorseful and make amends. They don’t necessarily deserve million-dollar college coaching jobs. Being forgiven does not mean you get back everything you once had before you fudged up. I hope Bobby has a long and successful career coaching at a mid-level high school.
jerry sandusky
August 9th, 2012
9:05 pm
I say the guy deserves a second chance. Speaking of second chance, has anyone seen my old buddy, JoePa, lately?
Ol' Timer
August 9th, 2012
9:22 pm
This ol’ boy is a zero on a ten scale. I wouldn’t trust him in a hen house with a muzzle on. He’ll climb a tree to tell a lie when he could stand on the ground and tell the truth. He’s such an empty suit he doesn’t even cast a shadow when he walks down the street.
native atlantan
August 9th, 2012
9:33 pm
Justice has been served. This man deserved what he created, and for crapping all over the Falcons.
Karma
August 9th, 2012
9:38 pm
Hello, Mr. Petrino…I’m Karma, nice to meet you.
RC--apoi
August 9th, 2012
9:41 pm
Well, I read all these comments and all I got to say is, make one teeny little mistake and they’ll ride you out of town on a rail. I mean, one little motorcyle ride with a
hottie young supporter behind you, one little spin-out, and you’re out on your hind end.Rick James
August 9th, 2012
10:17 pm
Petrino is rotten human being but my bet is that by the time the SEC network signs on he’ll be back on the sidelines.I’m thinking Kentucky or Tennesee.Hope I’m wrong.
JASon
August 9th, 2012
10:44 pm
“At this point you wonder what major college program would touch him.”
Any college team that wants to win.
Arthur Blank
August 10th, 2012
12:18 am
I wouldn’t hire him to stock hammers on Aisle 13
when are we goin' beat a top team ? how many will we beat 2012 ?
August 10th, 2012
1:34 am
This is what passes for news around here, what Petrino says. In the meantime, we have our coach making the news not for beating a top team, or even saying if he does, he will grow a Fu Manchu, not a Goatee, with 67 of his signed scholarship recruits all he has remaining, currently going 0-9 against teams who made the top 10 after beating # 9 Auburn way back in 2006.
LDawg
August 10th, 2012
3:54 am
Man, that picture never gets old!!!
alex
August 10th, 2012
6:25 am
Why do you continue to berate this guy? I don’t care either way about him, but I mean really. He left here years ago and you just can’t let it go. It’s like he is an ex girlfriend of yours that found someone new and you are so bitter you can’t stand it. For God’s sake move on. The Falcons are in much better shape than they would have ever been with Patrino. Stop crying like a little bitch. Grow up and move on. Start acting like a man for a change. You make me sick.
Bobby Two
August 10th, 2012
6:54 am
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August 10th, 2012
6:54 am
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Bobby D Nile
August 10th, 2012
6:59 am
He is not sorry for what he did he is sorry he got caught! He has NO character #1 because he would have come out right away and not lied about it #2 He did not once apologize to the young lady whose life he ruined, why because it wouldn’t help him. If you answer a question with “that’s a good question, I don’t know” you got ALOT more soul searching to do. I just pray that when he watches this interview he sees the same lying, manipulative, and self-righteous man we all see! SOOO-RRR-EEE!
Bobby Petrino
August 10th, 2012
7:14 am
I am very sorry. Sorry I got caught. Sorry I did not tap the girl a few more times. Sorry I did not have some more honeys on the side. Sorry I did not milk more money from King Arthur Blank before I blew town. Sorry I did not get more money upfront from the Hogs. Yes….I am reeeeeealy sorry.
Spike
August 10th, 2012
7:21 am
Jeff. GATA!!
Louie Lou Eye
August 10th, 2012
7:23 am
When UGA fires Richt or her leaves on his own to become a missionary, Petrino will be trolling the sidelines in Athens. The good thing is most of the women in Athens are stone ugly so Petrino won’t be tempted to ride any on his Hog….or his motorcycle. Book it.
when are we goin' beat a top team ? how many will we beat 2012 ?
August 10th, 2012
7:34 am
China has 14 Gold Medals in these “sports” : Badminton, Ping-Pong and Synchronized.
mike
August 10th, 2012
8:04 am
I am trying to understand what is the purpose of this article. The man has moved on from Atlanta and you people continue to beat a dead horse. Is kicking someone when their down the best you folks can do? How about explaining why the Falcons are continuing their losing ways.
On the other hand...
August 10th, 2012
8:24 am
Being a scumbag has had no effect on Lane Kiffin’s job prospects;
Mike Price got a head coaching job following his escapades at bama;
Job hopping has never seemed to cause Urban Meyer any problems;
Lying to the press hasn’t hurt Nick Saban’s career.
I have no doubt that Petrino will be back coaching sooner than many would like.
ARdawg
August 10th, 2012
9:51 am
What a dou+che art thou Bobby P. Just go away man. It hasn’t even been a year and I know crocodile tears when I see them. Petrino was good for Arkansas and Arkansas was good to Patrino. I defended that slime right here on Schultz’s board. I am ashamed of myself now.
ARdawg
August 10th, 2012
10:03 am
Petrino will get a job eventually. I’m okay with that, the man has to make a living but, I do not enjoy him in my face. No problem with his affair, no problem with Lowdergate or the trash heap he left in Atlanta but to tell the baldfaced lie he did with his road face to hide his affair proves what a lowlife he is. He’s remorseful for that….yeah right
BTW, the word is around Arkansas that there wasn’t even a motorcycle wreck. The story Jessica’s fiancee beat the crap out of him and they fake the wreck
Dawg Tired
August 10th, 2012
12:34 pm
Motorcycles really are more dangerous than I thought.
when are we goin' beat a top team ? how many will we beat 2012 ?
August 10th, 2012
12:37 pm
Let’s all stop and talk about Bobby Petrino crying, instead of asking ourselves when in 7 years in a row, currently, we haven’t beat a team making the top 10, and now face 2012 with but 67 scholarship recruits of our 85.
Really smart.
Brainiac(Dawg For Life) / (CMR fan for life)
August 10th, 2012
1:18 pm
@ The Dixie Redcoat Band:
Your ENVY is showing and you know damn well UGA has the perfect and complete opposite to Patrino in CMR!!!!!!!!!!!!
You may end up at Penn State(Your kind of atmosphere if we are to believe the RUMORS) but in the interim we Dawgies will just “STICK with RICHT”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kno whut I’m sayin??????????????????????????????
Brainiac(Dawg For Life) / (CMR fan for life)
August 10th, 2012
1:33 pm
@ Bobby D Nile:
One of us hasn’t been exposed to the SAME Petrino BS???????
I’m wondering how her life was spoiled by Petrino unless, of course, he HAWG TIED her and forced her to do all the things that evidently has happened!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This sounds more like a Monica Lewinsky/Bill Clinton deal to me!!!!!!!!!!!
Only difference is Clinton was Impeached(Kinda) and Petrino was fired(for real) and neither has or will change!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Brainiac(Dawg For Life) / (CMR fan for life)
August 10th, 2012
1:45 pm
@ Bobby D Nile:
Also he most likely has been “Apologizing” to her 2 or 3 times a week unless his wife has an electronic ankle monitor on him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Schultzy: Do you not have any info on how his family relationship is??? Bill Clinton never apologized to Hillary but he helped get her the Secretary of State job so maybe B Petro can get his wife a bigtime job and ease out of the headlines
PS: Always remember!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you want to catch ANY ANIMAL ON THIS PLANET(Including the human species) you bait the trap with Food or Sex!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when are we goin' beat a top team ? how many will we beat 2012 ?
August 11th, 2012
6:39 am
I do not care about Bobby Petrino one iota; all I care about is that we’re currently on a 9-game consecutive loss streak all the way back to 2006 losing to every team who made the top 10 and that we’re down to but 67 scholarship recruits and transfer-in to play our 14-game cupcake schedule of but 1 game vs the 5 SEC teams in the Coaches’ Poll Top 10.
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Pitbull
August 13th, 2012
4:50 pm
A very believable man.
Hahahahahahahaha!
dawg4life
August 13th, 2012
6:34 pm
I’m not one to kick someone while they’re down but, Damn that pic still makes me laugh. This guy has left a wake of destruction everywhere he has been. You want some good reading? Go back and look at the mess Kragthorpe was left to clean up after he left Louisville… Granted, him walking out on the Falcons was probably the best thing that has happened to the franchise, it still was a slimeball move. Then you want to ask this poostain to maintain a position of leadership at an institution of higher learning???? Do us a favor Quitrino and pull your bottom lip over your head and swallow….
need for speed
August 20th, 2012
4:44 am
come on now people. there’s not a man reading this that would’nt want a taste of that hot azz blonde. He needs to come out and confess “yeah dude, i did her and she was good”