Who's the bigger rat -- Bobby Petrino or Lane Kiffin?

Andre

January 14th, 2010
9:25 am

Petrino!!!!

JSS

January 14th, 2010
9:25 am

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Andy J.

January 14th, 2010
9:29 am

First and It’s Petrino by a mile. Not even close.

Otto

January 14th, 2010
9:33 am

Petrino was certainly the smartest to leave the Falcons.

PMC

January 14th, 2010
9:33 am

I don’t care really I’m just glad they are both gone.

Miserably awful human beings.

I guarentee you this, the blind kid that was a huge USC fan that ESPN did such a great story about. That’s the last human interest story at USC.

Kiffin is a self absorbed megalomaniac and he’s been continually enabled.

NYC Dawg

January 14th, 2010
9:34 am

Lane Kiffin is a dirtier rat. He disgraces everything he touches…

cantondawg

January 14th, 2010
9:35 am

PETRINO IS THE BIGGER RAT HANDS DOWN. Any coach that cannot face his players and tell them that he’s leaving is pathetic. He asked those players to sacrifice for him and then he doesn’t even has the courtesy to face them and leaves a hand written note. That’s the ultimate height of unprofessionalism and cowardice

AHS

January 14th, 2010
9:36 am

I think your a bigger brat than both of them!

bro

January 14th, 2010
9:36 am

MY dad was career Army and often stated as I have read in many books that “there is a man to ride the river with” A trusted and dependable person, who would stand with you when needed. Petrino and Kiffin are not the type of men that represent the brave man in this country-men who will support you and have your back covered-”MEN YOU WOULD BE WILLING TO RIDE THE RIVER WITH’ Just remember this people when you send you children to be nutured by these low down back stabbing coyotes.

Richard

January 14th, 2010
9:36 am

Hey Bradley, you forgot that Kiffin finished the season and actually coached the bowl game unlike Brian Kelly.

I will never understand why coaches get vilified like this. Kiffin was offerd the same job for a lot more money. There isn’t a person alive who wouldn’t have done the same thing. As fans, we get upset when coaches don’t show loyalty to colors like white and whatever they call the orange color in Knoxville. We forget that Kiffin is an employee and is only loyal to green. If UT offered him 1 million dollars more than USC, he would still be there.

Bradley, if you started at the AJC today, and tomorrow another paper called you and said “come work for us for 25% more money”, would you even spend a full second considering it?

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
9:38 am

i have to go with petrino. he slunk out during the night and at least kiffin left in the light of day.

cantondawg

January 14th, 2010
9:38 am

I don’t blame Kiffen for leaving since it was well known that USC is his dream job and he has roots in CA. If you look at the big picture you can’t blame him for wanting to go back home and i really think that he would’ve stay at UT forever if he hadn’t landed the USC job. However, Petrino left an NFL team for a middling SEC team and will probrably leave again soon. The disingenious drifter takes this one by a landslide. Hand the big rat “Petrino” a hunk of Provolone and Cheddar for the Grand prize

Brian

January 14th, 2010
9:39 am

As a long time Falcon Fan, I’m happy Petino bolted….. We have Smitty now!

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
9:40 am

Maak, i have neva seen college football in such a state of flux.

The faces of the UT recruits and players

January 14th, 2010
9:40 am

I am tickled to see the faces on some of the metro Atlanta kids that either play now for UT or were committed to play for them. Priceless it is. They BOUGHT IN to a very unstable program and with the police blotter and the NCAA scandal going on, UT is goning to be in deep T for a good long while.
They had it coming.

UGA? Well, all we need is a mid tier up and coming D coach and his subordinate staff and we are off and running again. Cycles cause these things to happen and UGA at 8-5 just underwent a down cycle but we are on the ups again withthe returning talent. We will be fine and come October, early November the record will reveal it.

If UGA only goes to the Citrus or maybe the Cotton every 3rd or fourth year and maybe play for all the SEC marbles every 3rd or 4th or 5th year ………….fine with the grads. If we were to win the SEC, then all else will fall into place. SEC title would be nice by 2011 or 2012.

GO Dogs.

PS:
UT………..you will be fine in 2013 for sure. HAHAHAHAHAHA

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
9:41 am

howeva, duty calls me to go with this kiffin fella as the masta of all rodents.

"Hollywood" Hulk Hogan

January 14th, 2010
9:42 am

No doubt in my mind it’s Lame Kitten. Petrino left a bunch of millionaires. Kiffin left a bunch of teenagers and kids in their early 20’s AND lied to them about their future.

Lame Kitten is the slime of the earth.

Matt

January 14th, 2010
9:42 am

Can I nominate Paul Hewitt for being such a crappy coach?

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
9:43 am

You gotta give the Turd Award to……Petrino…he wins for his photocopied note to his players, at least Lame went in and told his players

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
9:44 am

ah believe i would catagorize mista petronio as moah of the porcine ilk

Gordon

January 14th, 2010
9:44 am

Another excuse Kiffin has is youth. There is a brashness that comes with youth. He reminds me a bit of Jim Mora, Jr., whose father was also a coach and who thinks he knows more than he does. But it is understandable why, and time will humble and mature both of them. Also, Kiffin coached through the end of the season and faced his players, which means a lot. A school can fire a coach, a coach can leave a school. The big mystery to me is why USC hired him.

and what...

January 14th, 2010
9:45 am

You are the biggest rat…..among other thing.

sogadog

January 14th, 2010
9:45 am

What if, Dallas wins this weekend, Mushamp is hired by Tenn. this week, and Muschamp hires Rodney Garner as his DC. That leaves UGA without a DC or recruiting coordinator two weeks before signing day. Will UGA’s recruiting class hold together? Interesting times.

Kevin

January 14th, 2010
9:45 am

Petrino!!!……now give $10 to the Red Cross by texting “Haiti” to 90999. The charge will be made to your phone bill. Thanks.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
9:45 am

Mark, with all these changes, vacancies, etc. SURLEY there will be an opportunity for me to land on my feet. willie

UA Alum92

January 14th, 2010
9:46 am

Kiffin, but it’s kind of like arguing who has the worst smelling fart.

Rex

January 14th, 2010
9:47 am

remember MB…..Blank fired Reeves after 13th game of the season. Same number of games Petrino coached before leaving that year. Blank promised Petrino he would not meddle, but lied about that and continued his meddling ways. Blank promised Petrino that his foster son Vick was innocent and would be acquitted and available to play for Petrino and he was NOT. Petrino saw a sinking ship with a scallywag at the helm and decided Arkansas was a better job. ( it is ) IF Petrino coaches rest of the season then he misses out on the SEC job. I dont see why Blank is not a RAT for not letting Reeves finish the season? Blank wanted a new coach after 13 games….Petrino wanted a new job after 13 games and they both did whatever it took to get what they wanted, and everyone is better off now that Petrino left. Petrino and Falcons were a bad fit and Petrino figured that out before Blank did. And I still say Lame Kiffin is a bigger rat than both Petrino & Blank. ( but not Vick )

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
9:47 am

Maak, i do believe the atlanta jounal constitution has the slowest servahs since rod lavah

Dawgs97

January 14th, 2010
9:48 am

Who’s the bigger rat – Mark Bradley or Jeff Schultz? See the dilemma? Between Kiffin and Petrino, it’s a draw. Just like you and Schultz.

jim

January 14th, 2010
9:48 am

Lane Kiffin is a kinder, gentler rat – He takes his daddy with him wherever he goes. Does that make Monte Kiffin, Daddy Rat? Me thinks it does.

GoVols

January 14th, 2010
9:49 am

Great column, Mark. I have to go with Petrino overall in a head-to-head with Kiffin, though. I can’t blame him for taking his dream job even though I hate the timing and its impact on my beloved Vols. Dead-on in giving Kiffin the “award” for Obliviousness. I would actually rate Orgeron as the dirtiest rat.

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
9:51 am

theah must be some breakin story Maak. you have left the blog to self implode.
i wood nevah leave my men in such a diah situation.

Denver Dog

January 14th, 2010
9:51 am

I have to say that the rate the rat game is a tough one! This episode tells me two thing. One, that Tennessee went after someone that was not a real coach yet, and that definitley was upwardly mobile. Somewhere in there, they missed that part. Two, the USC program went down about 12 notches in 3 hours. It also sounds like Ed Ogreman comitted some more violations, and all of Kool and the Gang have no respect for the NCAA rules. Lane is the Scarecrow from the Wizard of OZ

Petrino, I think he knew he was over his head with the Pro Game, but had no courage to try and succeeed. Petrinon is the Cowardly Lion.

Cousin Vicker

January 14th, 2010
9:52 am

It has become quite popular among the AJC columnists to bash and take jabs at Mark Richt. So when something like this happens, I wonder if people realize how good UGA has it. Besides the fact that CMR is a proven winner who has taken the UGA program to it’s greatest sustained period of success, he is a gracious, humble, classy, and stable guy. My guess is he will be at UGA as long as UGA wants him. You can’t say the same thing about many other legitimate big-time coaches in college football.

Rex

January 14th, 2010
9:52 am

come on Dawgs97 ! Schultz is a much bigger “Kiffin hole” than MB. Schultz is ultra-lib anti fishing and hunting and IF MB is a libtard, he is wise enuff to keep it OUT of the sports section and focus on the sports related issues at hand…..Sure MB can be kinda smug, but at least MB HAS some humility…Schultz is a pompous, failed humorist with a political agenda and the attitude that “I am always the smartest person in the room”. Finally MB is more well rounded in his sports knowledge.

Saint Simons is my caddy

January 14th, 2010
9:52 am

Here is another factor to consider. Petrino really got a bum deal coming in to the Falcons organization. He was coming in to coach the team led by the electrifying Michael Vick. When the whole Dog fighting thing happened the organization collapsed on itself. Schaub was gone as a backup and bad attitudes were everywhere. Not to say Petrino wasn’t a Jackass, but under those circumstances not many men wouldn’t tuck the tail and run under those circumstances. Kiffen was handed the TN Vols who if you ask me in any average season is a top SEC program that could whip the sox of of anything those west coast boys can throw at us. USC is a top program for where they play. But they are unproven against the top teams in the SEC. I think they prefer to keep it that way.

Yea Pertino has no backbone and told his players in a note. But the NFL is business and the players a paid grown men. At the college levels the game is about heart and emotion. they are kids at this point. You HAVE to tell them. I hate Petrino. I hated Kiffen before he did this and now even more. I am not a TN fan for the record. But this guy just busted a deuce all over the SEC.

Otto

January 14th, 2010
9:54 am

Richard, Is it really better to stick around and coach the bowl game?

Leaving after the bowl recruits are left hanging. Some even enrolled early and now must wait a year to transfer if they do not like the new coach.

Bright Idea

January 14th, 2010
9:55 am

One NFL, one college, big difference. Why haven’t we heard Paul Johnson’s name for Tennessee coach?

GoVols

January 14th, 2010
9:56 am

Funny stuff, Gen Neyland!

George Holman

January 14th, 2010
9:56 am

Petrino, but it’s close.

Lacey Pearl

January 14th, 2010
9:57 am

Yalls need to quit knocking Lane. He is real cute and I like him a whole bunch. Yalls jist jealous.

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
9:57 am

Patrino because he left the Falcons before the season and when he was at Louisville he tried to leave before the season to go to Auburn.

DAWG07

January 14th, 2010
9:57 am

No lateral movements for lord SABAN? Although he espouses no lateral movement, seems like he has been head coach for a number of teams during his career. I guess its DO AS I SAY NOT AS I DO?

UGA Rules

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

By far, Petrino is the biggest loser. He quit on the Falcons during the season with 1 or 2 games left to play. At least Kiffin wasn’t looking for another job. I think he would be there now IF the USC did not open up. You can’t blame for taking a better job. I can’t believe I am saying this because I hate Tennessee and Kiffin. Regardless, people will talk about loyalty but think about it. Many of you may have put countless hours into your job. When job cuts happen, do you think your company will look out for you? Probably not. There’s no loyalty in business.

GO DAWGS!!!

matt_t

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

This is simple, Petrino left a pro team in the middle of the season that wasn’t going anywhere and the players were paid.

Kiffin left after a decent first season, screwing over all the kids who committed to play for him, who will likely never earn a salary from football. And having Orgeron call the UT recruits to get them to switch to USC while telling his current team he was leaving, well that’s just awful

MJM

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

Actually the worst ever is Brian Van Goober who has hop scotched all over the place.

juvenal

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

MB, hewwitt just turned another corner-because he’s in a maze!

VolGuy

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

There are so many awful things (Iraq,Afghanistan,Haiti) going on in the world today it’s hard to beilieve that anybody is interested in Petrino or Kiffin. It’s obvious that neither of them has any character, but is it their fault anymore than the system itself? College football has morphed into something very ugly. They start recruiting kids when they are in junior high school. They are showered with accolades and equipment from companies that would do anything to have their company logo on display. Kids who are good athletes grow up thinking that they are somehow “special” and that the rules that apply to other kids don’t apply to them. They don’t bother to take advantage of educations that they could never afford otherwise. They just want to put in their three years and grab the big NFL or NBA money. But if they happen to sustain a career-ending injury in college, they are cast aside like so much garbage.
Coaches like Petrino and Kiffin are football whores who peddle themselves to any pro or college team that is willing to meet their absurd salary requirement, and when a better offer comes along they walk away better off than they were before, regardless of whether they have a contract and regardless if they have been successful in their previous job or, as in Lane Kiffin’s case, if they have really done anything at all. All in the name of winning a Super Bowl or BCS Championship.

GT Falcon

January 14th, 2010
9:58 am

The question is a tough one…..

Otto

January 14th, 2010
9:59 am

Is Blank the gullible man in sports?

Oh no Mr. Blank I’m not fighting dogs.

Yes Mr Blank I’ll be in the office first thing in the morning (to pick up my stuff).

Who goes out and tells their boss they are looking for a new job? Is that not career suicide. Both coaches in question took a better job. Timing may stick but is there really a good time? Yes both coaches could have handled it better.

Word on the street now is Hamilton knew about Lane leaving days before the press conference and Fulmer may soon be AD.

Lame Peuktrino

January 14th, 2010
10:00 am

They are both worthless pieces of s!@t. Both will be at lower level jobs in the next 5 years because Lame can’t coach ( huge self promoter though ) and Mr. personality Petrino will never coach any where of significance.because nobody likes him he’s an ahole. (see Falcons) My only regret as a dawg fan is Lame was right he never lost to UGA. 1-0 Da#n

DAWG07

January 14th, 2010
10:00 am

IF Muschamp is hired at Tenn Smart will be the DC.

Randy Rhino

January 14th, 2010
10:01 am

Kiffin…the spoiled brat has probably gotten his way his entire life…Hot Wife, cool job in Southern Californica, Dad & Dad’s buds still coaching for him, and a 12-21 coaching record…Go Figure!

Dawg Fud

January 14th, 2010
10:01 am

who cares?

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
10:02 am

Rex, You forgot to mention that Petrino took a $2million haircut/year to “bolt”. Must have been great atmosphere at Flowery Branch.

ArmsBendBack

January 14th, 2010
10:05 am

Category: Immediate future of the program. Because Petrino was a rat, the Falcons were/are in a much better situation. It will probably take longer than it did for the Falcons to recover, but methinks UT will be better off in the long run as well. Program better off due to rat behavior: Falcons.

That should give you more justification for Kiffin’s crowning.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
10:05 am

Who is Gen Neyland?

gator83

January 14th, 2010
10:05 am

Kiffin wins the “award.” Petrino showed no class and dumped on highly paid professionals. The Petrino mistake was corrected with a good hire immediately following. Kiffin, however, dumped on an entire program by leaving two weeks before national signing day which could set UT back for a few years. Unlike what Kiffin said, because this year’s recuting class will probably be a disaster, he has left the program in MUCH worse shape than he found it. I never thought I’d say it, but I feel sorry for UT.

Declining UGA

January 14th, 2010
10:06 am

Need a category on nearness of Draft/Recruiting Day. By leaving three weeks before signing day, Kiffin has guaranteed that UT has a very rough recruiting year which is in direct contrast to the #6 ranked class before his leaving was announced. This could alter UT for at least the next three to four years!!! Petrino would not have been involved nearly as deeply with the Falcons draft as Kiffin was to UT recruiting and indeed the Falcons have certainly won two consecutive years without him. UT will not be as fortunate and thus Kiffin’s leaving is likely by far to have hurt his former team the worse.

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
10:07 am

oh, how ah long foah the days of yoah. life was much simpla then. guahls weah guahls and men weah men.

Angus

January 14th, 2010
10:09 am

I’ll go with Kiffin also.

The NFL is supposed to be purely a business.

While NCAA FB has almost become strictly business, most of us fans see it as something different, something with a little purity left in it.

Dave

January 14th, 2010
10:10 am

I will not argue that Kiffin did not handle this well, but, before we all go off the deep end with assertions and accusations…

1) We do not KNOW if he can coach or not. The body of work is NOT large enough to make that determination. We DO know his father can coach (he proved that with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers), and the fact that his father was part of the deal MAY have been the reason he got the Tennessee job to begin with.

2) Tennessee knew what they were getting when they hired the man. If they did not know, then it is their OWN FAULT for failing to do the proper due diligence during the hiring process. Besides, as noted above, they were not just getting Lane, they were also getting Monty.

3) Tennessee has NOTHING to cry about, because they royally screwed over a man in Fulmer who proved his loyalty AND competence time and again, won the SEC East as late as 2007, and yet got kicked out into the cold because he was not winning on par with Urban Meyer, Mark Richt and Nick Saban. This is CLEARLY a case of what goes around, comes around.

FINALLY, let’s be honest here: If YOU were the head football coach of Tennessee and YOU got offered a job at a clearly BETTER football program for a LOT more money in your HOME state, would YOU not jump at the chance??

I liked the "Traveler" the horse analogy...

January 14th, 2010
10:10 am

…but did you know that when daddy Kiffin was named head coach at NC State back in the ’80s he did exactly that – rode into the press conference on a white horse claiming that he was there to “save the day”! Check the records if you do not believe this!!!!!

Angus

January 14th, 2010
10:10 am

I didn’t say that very well, but I think you should know what I mean.

GT-UGA

January 14th, 2010
10:11 am

I’m no fan of lane Kiffin. That being said, if USC really is his dream job, then I cannot blame him for bolting from Tennessee. Petrino is the bigger rat.

jellybeandawg

January 14th, 2010
10:11 am

I have to go with Petrino as well for the mere fact that at least Kiffin was man enough to tell his players and the media face to face. Kiffin may not be able to coach and is obviously delusional but at least he is not LIAR and COWARD like Petrino. Petrino is just scum and is no better then Bob Ford in my book.

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:13 am

During a temporary break from hostilities, I want to admit that I agree with many Uga fans about CMR.
There is something to be said for the coach who stays like Richt and Fullmer, who actually like the place and fans.
They could have left like these rats Kiffen and Petrino during their best years and avoided taking the heat during the down years.
Tech coaches Curry and Ross took the money and ran as soon as they got the program back shipshape.
Having said that, let’s get back to hating each other.

Bill

January 14th, 2010
10:14 am

Get over it! What a horrible situation was the Atlanta Falcons’ job with the whole Mike Vick situation going down. Your hypocritical stance by bashing Bobby Petrino for leaving with 3 games left fails to mention the firing of Dan Reeves by the Atlanta Falcons when he had 3 games left. Karma. You whine and cry when a coach leaves on his own accord, but sweep it under the rug when an owner does the equivalent – give me a break. The only rat is the one that fails to see the obvious.

Supes

January 14th, 2010
10:14 am

PETRINO is the bigger rat, don’t forget he was involved in JET GATE with Auburn a few years ago too. Guy has ZERO credibility. Worst hire in the Falcons Franchise.

Ed

January 14th, 2010
10:17 am

Tie

DawgDad

January 14th, 2010
10:18 am

There’s something about walking out on a team YOU LEAD in the middle of a season when the going gets rough that’s just unforgivable as a human being and as a man. Imagine Gen. McAuliffe catching a ride out of Bastogne, or Patton signing on with the Germans after his post-slap furlough. Petrino’s scurry out of town was much sleazier than Kiffin’s, though I’d probably give the overall character sleaze award to Kiffin.

TheCamper

January 14th, 2010
10:18 am

Mr.Blanks, hired a quiter to coach his falcons knowing Petrino quit Louiville.
Bet Patrino applied for the USC job; now he has a shot at Tenn.
Just can’t trust a quitter…..its settled

!

C'mon Supes...

January 14th, 2010
10:18 am

…ain’t no way hiring Petrino was as bad as hiring Marion Campbell not once, but TWICE!

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 14th, 2010
10:19 am

Kiffin’s timeliness is worst. He leaves 3 weeks before signing day and with 8 guys who already had arrived. Plus he leave his minions behind to recruit.

This is a PUSH: There are no winners here!

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
10:19 am

willie martinez : He is a figment of his imagination. I’m flattered to have someone take my tag but disappointed they have no wit. To that point, I think I’ll step aside and let my alter-ego have the limelight for the day. MB can have his able staff a do pc address search if he wishes. If not, rest assured that the imposer has the stage. I’m pretty much done with the Kiffin thing for a while. My distant future remarks will deal with the real rat that fled from Atop Rocky. Orgeron. And I’ll type in english, not southernize…GBO

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 14th, 2010
10:20 am

Notes in the locker; Classic

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
10:20 am

Maak, ah know that yoah question was totally hypothetical, howeva, it reminded me of the time i was trying to decide which one of my sistas was the best kissah. ah finally came down on the side of Scahlett.

Bank Walker, Texas Ranger

January 14th, 2010
10:22 am

Mark this comparison is like a beauty contest between Maude and Mrs. Doubtfire.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
10:23 am

thanks Gen. it sounded like 2 different bloggers. best, willie

DawgDad

January 14th, 2010
10:24 am

“It has become quite popular among the AJC columnists to bash and take jabs at Mark Richt.”

Read the Editorial page. Attacking substance and character is modus operandi.

Otto

January 14th, 2010
10:25 am

Bill, Dead on

Jacket2010, agreed on all points.

Supes, It was up to Auburn’s AD to fire or speak to Tubberville.

Petrino had a moment of stupidity for taking the Falcons job. Good to see he recovered. Really? why take a job with a QB you can’t fire and will not run your system combined with a program that has a history of failure and bad personnel decisions.

Lane is a jerk but not for leaving for his dream job.

Hamilton and UT were stupid for only having a $800k buyout on Lane’s contract. What was Lane supposed to do? Turn down his dream job because he had only been at UT 1 year?

JaxDawg

January 14th, 2010
10:25 am

Tough Call here. Petrino was a coward more than a rat, he snuck out of the Dome and boarded the next plane out to call the hogs, whatever the Falcons are in a much better place without him. Kiffin is a rat, he looked 18 year old players in the face and begged them to help rebuild a struggling program only to turn his back to them when the opportunity arose. For that, he is a rat and a liar, what do recruits have to hold onto anymore, they go to schools and give their all to play for free only to watch their coaches bolt at the first sign of greener grass. I say pay the kids or let them transfer at will.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
10:26 am

speaking of rats, so is that guy that fired me.

Dawgs97

January 14th, 2010
10:27 am

Rex,

Excellent point about Schultz shoving his left wing, Obama-loving politics down our throat. To be a Dawg basher, coupled with being an Obama apologist does make Schultz the worst and most evil kind of hack writer, so called journalist there is.

I’m gonna take a wild guess here that Bradley’s politics match up well with Schultz. Bradley strikes me as a tree hugging, Obama apologist, too.

Otto

January 14th, 2010
10:27 am

TheCamper, Someone is a quitter for taking a better job? What kind of socialist thinking is that?

stendec

January 14th, 2010
10:27 am

Rather be bitten by a brown rat or a black rat? Both are still rats! These are two loathsome vermin who an affront to all decent sports people. To Hell with both of them! Always hated overrated Utterly Sickening Crapheads. Glad to see the swirl to the commode bottom has started for the Trojan condoms. ++STENDEC++

GoVols

January 14th, 2010
10:28 am

Sorry to the real Gen Neyland for thinking that poser was you -

A.W.

January 14th, 2010
10:29 am

Good job Mark Bradley, I like the information you provided. I also think that the category winners you posted was funny like BIGGER FICKER RAT AND BIGGER COWARDLY RAT! LOL

Russ, the Temporary Mascot

January 14th, 2010
10:29 am

Painting a little mascot’s a$$ white should qualify for consideration at being a rat. I can’t say for sure which coach did it, but I know it wasn’t Coach Willie or the other 2 defensive coaches that were fired only a few days before Christmas. If Coach Willie had been there I don’t think my a$$ would have been painted. Some coaches leave a school without warning and people look at them like they did something unconscionable and some schools fire coaches right before Christmas and think that’s a different deal. I am sitting in thinner right now so I may be controversial today.

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:30 am

Why I vote for Kiffen is because he taunted all of the Vol’s biggest rivals and now gets out of town leaving the program in shambles to face all their riled up foes?
I know all the Falcons fans disagree with me but I give Blank some of the blame for hiring Petrino with whatever amount of pay it would take.
If I was a Louisville Cardinal fan I would hate Blank.
Petrino had their program on top and when will it get back to that.

Rocky Road

January 14th, 2010
10:30 am

These blogs would be much better if these dawg fans would quit talking about UGA. The article is about two coaches who have nothing to do with UGA but you dawg fans seem to attack MB and JS any chance you get. Get a damn life guys…the world does not revolve around UGA. You are a middle of the pack SEC team, no better no worse…live with it.

Dawgs97

January 14th, 2010
10:30 am

DawgDad,

Yeah, thankfully as a Dawg living here in Texas, I don’t have care what goes on anymore on their biased editorial page, that had story after story bashing a genuine American hero like John McCain and defending a non-American like Obama.

The paper has made their politics well known and clearly is only out to appease a liberal, Georgia Tech loving fan base in the Atlanta area.

As a non liberal Georgia fan, it makes hard to read any of this paper online, but I love my Dawgs and my Braves and it’s a consistent way to keep up with both, for all the anger it brings out in me having to read ridiculous and biased garbage from hacks like Schultz and Bradley.

CraZyTRaDeMaN

January 14th, 2010
10:31 am

The infamous televised Hog call. Note Becky Petrino cheering at right.

NICE SLAP IN THE FACE!!!!!!!

bmeeks

January 14th, 2010
10:31 am

Colleges hire coaches. Throw a lot of money at them. They have one or two bad seasons and they get fired. The fans want them run out of town on a rail. A coach leaces a school on his own and he is tatraitor or worse. All it amounts too this day and time is who is going to screw who first. The coach bolts! The college fires the coach! The fans are calling for the moving van after a couple of loses!

jayrat

January 14th, 2010
10:33 am

I cant wish either of these two “greedy, egotisticle, scumbags” well.
ARk and USc , too bad you have these two jerks…

jayrat

January 14th, 2010
10:33 am

Enter your comments here

anotherdawg

January 14th, 2010
10:34 am

If Kiffin and company tried to get the Tenn. recruits to decommit and then come to USC, then that’s really low. Keep in mind though that Petrino leaving the Falcons was the best thing that could have ever happened. He showed no class in the way he did it, but I think it was the very best thing that could have happened for the Falcons, Petrino, and maybe the Razorbacks. If Tennessee can land the right coach, maybe they will be better off also, in the long run.

A Coach

January 14th, 2010
10:35 am

Petrino is the biggest scumbag of all time. True Lane Kiffin is up there, but Petrino has zero class. Kiffin at least finished his season, and he had done what he could on the recruiting trail (even if that was kinda dirty). Petrino didn’t even have the balls to tell his team in person, he left them a note. YEA that’s a real man that I would want to send my son to, to play football. I don’t blame Kiffin, USC is a better job, just not how it should have been handled.

DawgnMD

January 14th, 2010
10:35 am

They both have great big upper case I’s in their names. Who cares about those bums. We need to bring Travis home to run our defense right after they lose to the Cardinals this weekend. Got bless the folks in Haiti. You can also text your donation thru the Red Cross.

Russ, the Temporary Mascot

January 14th, 2010
10:36 am

If we had lost a game or two while I was temporary mascot I am sure the moving van would have been sent to my doghouse. I was a very successful temp with a big win over Tech and a win in a bowl game, too. Still, my a$$ isn’t white enough to be considered a full time mascot. I know one day soon Coach Richt is going to walk up to me and give me my walking papers like he did Coach Willie and the boys. I have a birthday coming up . . .

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:37 am

Mark Richt isn’t a rat for firing Willie Martinez. What in the WM record says job well done? Lucky u lasted there that long.

GoJackets

January 14th, 2010
10:37 am

Petrino is worse. He took a job that was over his head and ran and hid like a little girl when things got bad. Thankfully he has basically no chance at another bit time NFL or college coaching job. Lane Kiffin is scum bot not nearly as bad as Petrino.

Get a Life

January 14th, 2010
10:38 am

Who cares about Hati

WonderDawg

January 14th, 2010
10:40 am

Petrino is a good coach. I think he’s found that he is just one of many in the SEC, though. On the other hand, what has Kiffin done to deserve these jobs?

anotherdawg

January 14th, 2010
10:40 am

Speaking of politics, I can barely type. I think it’s “Al Gore’s Global Warming”

Sweet Home Alabama

January 14th, 2010
10:40 am

you are comparing a rat or a snake.dont like neither.Tenn has class fans and a pretty staduim.they will do just fine.

Bill

January 14th, 2010
10:44 am

Owners and ADs like Arthur Blank who claim to be victims when a coach leaves on his own accord, but claim it’s just business when they fire a coach in the same manner. These are the real rats.

Russ, the Temporary Mascot

January 14th, 2010
10:45 am

One time when I was a pup I was in a car with my brothers and we were on the way to Athens for a big game. I needed to stop on the way because of my notoriously weak bladder. I found a great spot along the highway and I asked the driver to pull over for me but he said, “Let’s go just a bit down the road, I know a better place.” I will continue this story in a later segment . . .

Neyland de toilet grande

January 14th, 2010
10:45 am

Yeah, Kiffin wins because he hasn’t accomplished Jack Stuff.

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:47 am

How many times will this country’s idiot billionaires buy a pro team and offer some college coach a fortune to leave?
The skills for motivating college and pro players are different as are the football strategies used.
Idiot billionaires?
I like that.
One function of a vent is the fans get to say what the AJC will not allow its sportswriters to spit out.

Phillip Fulmer

January 14th, 2010
10:48 am

All you “Vol” fans LOVED Kiffin right until the moment he made his decision to leave, and now call him slimy, rat, etc. Like he didn’t exhibit those behaviors during his 14 month reign in Johnson City. No, y’all looked the other way and thought he was the second coming of Neyland. And now you’re so HURT that he chooses sunny So Cal over Johnson City, TN. You guys ARE as stupid as you sound when you talk. Enjoy your 5-7 season next year. I’ll be laughing my arse off while you BEG me to come back.

'Bama 1

January 14th, 2010
10:49 am

I’ve learned to tell how they both are lying. When their mouths are moving. Talk about two pea’s in a pod. Both are total A**HOLES!

Lord of the Lizards

January 14th, 2010
10:49 am

Kiffin because of his mouth and utter disregard of the rules. UT needs to run that Hamilton guy out of town. With this next hire being so critical, do the Vols really want the decision on the next coach in THIS mans hands???

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:49 am

Bill – agreed.

Boise Dawg

January 14th, 2010
10:49 am

I actually think that Kiffin leaving for USC was the least offensive thing he did while in Knoxville. The guy is obnoxious and I can’t understand why the Vols hired him in the first place, let alone Southern Cal.. but coaches leave for their “dream job” all the time and don’t get this much flack.

I guess some of the vitriol is because we aren’t used to seeing a coache leave a program with the reputation and money that Tennessee has… but that was a hiring mistake. Why hire a young coach that has strong ties to another elite program? It was not a stretch to think that Pete Carrol might leave for the NFL in the near future and that Lane Kiffin might then want the USC job. I think this entire mess falls squarely on the AD at Tennessee, what a dumb hire that was.

D(r)ooley

January 14th, 2010
10:50 am

Option 3 – Mark Richt

Eric

January 14th, 2010
10:50 am

1. Petrino. 2. Saban (I will not be the coach at alabama). 3. Kiffin.

Sarah H

January 14th, 2010
10:51 am

I think with the Falcon’s record (remember Dan Reeves), that Petrino was the smart one. Remember, it is all about the money.

sk

January 14th, 2010
10:53 am

SUUUUUUUUU-IEEEEEEEEEEE

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
10:54 am

You know what.
Pete Carroll deserves an dishonorable mention in this vote; maybe a close third in the voting.
Two current Trojan pros have stated he tried to talk them out of leaving with variations of the “how can you leave your buddies in the lurch?” etc.
Sanchez and White I think are the two.
Bobby Ross did the same thing in 1991 when Swilling satyed and hurt himself in the next year’s draft.
Then as soon as the college coach gets offered the better money, it’s bye bye.

NORRIS

January 14th, 2010
10:55 am

I dont see how any body can complain about Petrino. The guy totally left because of lack of support on the team. The team was full of guys that were insubordinate and should have been fired. And yes, they had to be removed before the new coach could even come in or it would have been the same thing all over again.
The team was full of a bunch of thugs!!

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater

January 14th, 2010
10:56 am

2 words for Petrino & Kiffin: Business Ethics!! they’re just like your typical CEO of a large company- only CFB is involved.

Dr. Phil

January 14th, 2010
10:56 am

This recalls the joke about using lawyers for lab experiments: there are numerous and available, nobody cares if they are injured, and there are some things that even a rat won’t do for money. The university presidents that encourage this behavior and the puppet athletic directors should be put into the same rodent cages with the Petrino and Kiffen.

Dawg 3/20

January 14th, 2010
10:56 am

Check out this story about Lame Kiffin

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncaa/recruiting/football/columns/story?columnist=shurburtt_jc&id=4822232

Nativebird

January 14th, 2010
10:57 am

Petrino’s victim was our beloved Atlanta Falcons, Kiffin while just as big a rat in personal terms as Petrino, victimized our SEC enemiy, which is still aweful, but none the less, not near as painful.

Dorsey Hill

January 14th, 2010
10:57 am

Let’s see Kiffin utilizes provocation to gain attention, stir things up and to make money. He doesn’t care how accurate he is in what he says. He isn’t very good at what he does.

Mark, is this article an example of unwitting self-loathing?

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
10:57 am

A Coach said: ” I don’t blame Kiffin, USC is a better job, just not how it should have been handled.”

So, how it should have been handled?

Smoke Porterhouse

January 14th, 2010
10:58 am

Glen Mason. He didn’t even coach his first game for the dogs before he quit.

kauai dawg

January 14th, 2010
11:00 am

That’s like trying to say what is worse a earthquake or a tsunami? They are both devastating. For sure 2 guys who don’t get it. Not that public opinion is a good measuring stick but these guys have proved themselves to be real pieces of work. There is no “me” in team. That doesn’t register with them.

Please continue to pray for Haiti. God Bless!

BubbaDaBaller

January 14th, 2010
11:02 am

Like saying what’s worse…Incurable Syphilis or Herpes?

Larry A

January 14th, 2010
11:05 am

really, this is a contest. Hmmm. Petrino leaves and NFL job for a lower tier SEC school – most college coaches aspire to become NFL head coaches not the other way around.

Kiffin leaves a top tier SEC school (but not the most prestigious position in the SEC by far) for one of THE top/most prestigious positions in college football. Their roster is stacked, I could coach USC to the BCS (and trust me – I am not flattering myself here).

USC is a half step from the NFL – the players are practically pros anyway – so if he wants back in the NFL, USC is the place to be.

Petrino was FAR and away the rat of all rats in NFL history. He could coach USC to 5 straight straight NCAA championships and I doubt anyone in the NFL would talk to him.

Midday Links «

January 14th, 2010
11:05 am

[...] Midday Links 2010 January 14 by James Kratch The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s Mark Bradley ponders the question — Lane Kiffin or Bobby Petrino, who’s the bigger rat? [...]

LFP6

January 14th, 2010
11:06 am

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I’m pleased to announce that a new class has been added to the upcoming semester.

The class:

CF 1313: College Football; Lying, Cheating, and Backstabbing.

The class will be taught by both Coach Bobby Petrino and Coach Lane Kiffen.

We also wish to remind students who take this class that they bring their own daggers.

Thank you for your time.

Ron Recruitment

January 14th, 2010
11:08 am

Gators continue gaining

“Florida, which has the nation’s top-ranked recruiting class, has two of the top 3 prospects and five of the top 15 nationally committed. Also, all four of the versatile movers (Powell, Easley, Elam, Floyd) are committed to the Gators.There is talk that this could be the best recruiting class ever assembled. Those numbers certainly would support that argument.” – JC Shurburtt, Scouts

Johnny Reb

January 14th, 2010
11:11 am

I’m just glad we gots the best coach in the SEC, Houston Nutt. This guy is as honest as the day is long. I bet we get a SEC West Championship this year. Go Rebels!!

Otto

January 14th, 2010
11:12 am

Larry, Sadly a mid tier SEC job is a step up from the Falcons job. You can either turn into Glanville or run.

Norris, Agreed the Falcons especially at the time Petrino was hired were a disgrace to this city. Congrats to Petrino for understanding he made a mistake and attempting to get his career back on path.

Parking Dawg

January 14th, 2010
11:13 am

How many players came, or committed to Tennessee because of Lane Kiffin? How may players paychecks were affected by Bobby Petrino’s departure. In professional sports how many times do we hear players and management say, “this is a business.” I’m no Petrino fan, but he didn’t sit in players homes and convince them to come play for the Falcons, as for his departure, tasteless as it was, that’s just business.

As for Kiffin, he convinced young men to trust him and come to Tennessee. Then jumped ship at the first opportunity. I didn’t like Kiffin shortly after he came to Knoxville. He cheapened what had been a respectable, albeit struggling program. His last act shows what little loyalty he had to those men he wanted to be loyal to him. He gets my vote for the bigger rat. If I was a parent whose son was being recruited by a Lane Kiffin coached team, I would do all in my power to steer my son elsewhere. I gave him 3 years at Tennessee just based upon the negative light he brought to that program. I’ll reset the clock and give him 3 years @ USC. That is of course if some NFL team doesn’t come calling first.

NC Braves Fan

January 14th, 2010
11:16 am

Mark: on the timeliness issue, I think Kiffin gets BRPs (Bonus Rat Points) since he left recruits and the Vols program in such a lerch. Petrino left in the night late in a lost season.

At least Arthur Blank had the time to get TD on board and get things together in time for the year following.

Ross

January 14th, 2010
11:16 am

Full discloser, I am an AR fan.
I don’t understand the venom directed at Petrino for the following reasons:

Petrino was not a good coach at Atlanta.

The Atlanta players hated Petrino and where thrilled to see him go.

Atlanta was better off without Petrino. Petrino was smart enough to know that he was not a good fit in the pros so he left to go do something he is good at.

Petrino probably figured the players would be celebrating that he was gone. He could have handled the situation much better obviously but having a feel good meeting when you are bitter toward the players and the players hate you seems rather dishonest.

Petrino did not hurt Atlanta as a team, Kiffin has dealt TN a bad hand.

Your points are biased in favor of Mr. Blanks version of events. Coach Petrino was not the only one who handled the situation badly but he is the only one who had enough class to not fight it out in the media.

Jim007

January 14th, 2010
11:16 am

It’s a Tie.

Petrino & Kiffin are both losers and P.O.S.

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
11:17 am

What Mark and Jeff say about either Tech or Georgia is nothing compared to what fans say on live blogs whgen their team is losing.
Then its “bench the QB, fire some assistant, fire the head coach and fire the AD” usually phrased in an insulting way.
So where are all you defenders of your coaches and players when it is your own crazed fans doing the bashing?
Just curious.

Indra Moedjio

January 14th, 2010
11:17 am

For the Falcons, Petrino is a big Rat, and for Tennessee, Kiffin is also a big rat

West Coast Bias

January 14th, 2010
11:18 am

USC is a better job than Tenessee. Get a grip and grow up people. Lane Kiffin isn’t a rat. He left his job for a better job after the season was over- end of story. If he was a lawyer leaving a law firm for a better law firm after a year, no one would think twice.
By Bradley’s definition, 90% of the coaches in the SEC are rats for leaving their last coaching job- Richt left FSU with Bowden’s blessing and Houston Nutt was run out of Arkansas but I can’t think of another example like this. Meyer and Saban are clearly rats.

Get Some Perspective

January 14th, 2010
11:19 am

Tenessee’s next coach will be considered a rat by someone.

Mid Town Joe

January 14th, 2010
11:20 am

This is an insult to the rat species!

MarkBradleylikesMen

January 14th, 2010
11:21 am

MARK BRADLEY IS A RAT. THIS ARTICLE IS POINTLESS .. HOW ABOUT WRITING SOMETHING WORTH READING. THE FALCONS ARE A TERRIBLE ORGANIZATION. PETRINO IS DOING A GREAT JOB WITH THE RAZORBACKS.. GIVE HIM HIS CREDIT.

JSS

January 14th, 2010
11:21 am

Volaholic…
???? “Ted Striker” is another Jeffrey
But thanks and please give!!!

Johnny Reb

January 14th, 2010
11:21 am

Ross – THANK ARKANSAS for giving us Houston Nutt!! SEC West Champs 2010!!

gdawginkalamazoo

January 14th, 2010
11:23 am

Petrino hands down. He slithered out the back door and lied. At least Kiffin said that he would be interested in the job and that he has connections to the program in a big way. With the one NC this millenium USC used to be THE premier program in the country (according to ESPN).

Get Some Perspective

January 14th, 2010
11:23 am

Bama 1 — you do realize your current head coach has lied on record on multiple occasions? Just wait, he will eventually lie to you too. I know it’s probably worth it because of the title, but he will.

That Guy

January 14th, 2010
11:24 am

I’ve got one thing to say about this whole pointless thread:

Pants on the ground, Pants on the ground, Looking like a fool with your Pants on the ground!

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
11:24 am

I agree with u Ross.
I think Mark and Jeff are limited about how much they can knock the billionaire.
I hate all the billionaires running pro teams and taking a successful college coach and tempting them with money to take a job they probably know they will fail at.
The skills at the different levels are not the same.
Only an idiot billionaire with flunkies like McKay around would think otherwise

Jackets2010

January 14th, 2010
11:26 am

Mid town Joe gets my vote for best one-liner today. Good one dude.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
11:28 am

Johnny Reb,
You’re welcome. Enjoy the QB killer and the Cotton Bowl!

Poser

January 14th, 2010
11:29 am

The atmosphere and rabid fan base of football, especially college ball has created this type mood. Most coaches nowdays have that “don’t give a damn attitude”. We all know as long as our team is winning the coach is the big hero. And could most likely stay where he’s at as long as he desires. However if he has a so-so season its time for a change, regardless of how many winning seasons he has had the past 10 or more years. There isn’t much loyalty to the coach so I’m sure theres not alot of loyalty from the coach to the school. Surely these coaches know how fast the average fan will turn on them in a bad season. So they may as well go when a better opportunity pops up. Thats the nature of college ball my fellow fans,

Dorsey Hill

January 14th, 2010
11:29 am

Recruitment Ron,

Here are a few of the 5 star players UF has had since 2004:

Dee Webb

Jarvis Moss

Chad Jackson

Andre Caldwell

Joe Cohen

Carl Johnson

James Wilson

Torrey Davis

Cameron Newton

Who are these people???? Recruiting rankings are meaningless and you posting them on a UGA blog just shows that you are a sad, pathetic and stupid person. Congratulations though as these qualities are considered an asset by your fellow Gators.

Double A

January 14th, 2010
11:29 am

Who’s more pathetic…Atlanta journalists or Knoxville beat writers?

Answer: Atlanta hacks by a mile.

Will Knoxville harp on Kiffin years later? Doubtful, they’ll get a good coach and move on. While pathetic no talent, uncreative, Atlanta “journalists” will continue forever about Petrino.

What a pathetic excuse for a professional sports town Atlanta is. Go celebrate the Falcons first back to back winning season…with Petrino’s replacement.

Habersham Dawg

January 14th, 2010
11:32 am

It’s Petrino. Kiffen finished the season.

WR

January 14th, 2010
11:34 am

Every one is jumping down Kiffins back, and in the defending him, especially versus Petrino, I want to make it known, I’m not a fan of Kiffin but a fan of real life circumstance. If Kiffin goes to Tenn, and does a horrible job, he, fired, no questions asked the second thoughts given. If Kiffin didn’t stir the media as he did, probably more to invigorate life into the program, then because he believed half of what he said, his coaching ability wouldn’t come into question. Throw out the Oakland drama, no one has preformed well in that position in quite some time, see Al Davis. Now to reality, a reality not focused on stirring up fans that feel betrayed:

Kiffin to a good position at Tennessee, he helped to breath new life into a program that was seemingly on the decline. Taking the position, he couldn’t have imagined his dream job would come open within a year of his hiring, so how do you fault a person for going after there dream, be it the current one as it maybe. Petrino on the other hand didn’t leave the Falcons for a dream job, there’s not many coaches dreaming much about coaching at Arkansas as the pennacle of their career. In college football outside of Notre Dame, USC is right up there with the best positions to hold as a head coach. If a coach was hired to coach a program like Georgia State, did a decent job, and UGA came calling next year, not much would be made of his departure, outside of the students or fans of Georgia State, is it different because GSU is an upstart, is it different for taking a job for any major college program versus a lesser program. If you think it is somethings wrong with you not Kiffin, you wouldn’t tell James Doe, he is a rat for taking a job as a operations manager at UPS and leaving the blah blah corporation, so why is it different for a coach.

I’ll ask you this Mr. Bradley, your a writer for the Marietta Daily Journal for a year, now the AJC comes calling, now tell me you would stay at the AJC, tell me that lie.

Johnny Reb

January 14th, 2010
11:35 am

I’m just saying that we have the classiest coach in the SEC. He’s 100% happy here. Kansas came after him big time and he turned them down. Go Rebs!!

Bill

January 14th, 2010
11:39 am

USC = Probation

Grass isn’t always greener on the other side, but to each their own.

WR

January 14th, 2010
11:39 am

Should read on earlier post, tell me you would stay at the Marietta Daily, tell me that lie

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
11:39 am

Kiffin did a lot of damage to UT with his departure.
Petrino, did Falcon’s fans a favor with his departure and the ensuing house cleaning that took place. It never would have happened if he had stayed. Would just have been more of the same.
Much better organization now.

Starring Kam Fong as Chin Ho

January 14th, 2010
11:42 am

Petrino is the bigger rat. He crapped on a football team. Kiffin only crapped on UT

mgdawg

January 14th, 2010
11:43 am

Petrino is worse, he quit during the season. While I disagree with what kiffin did, I can understand it, what is worse is the actions afterward. I believe that is his dream job, if he would’ve turned it down who knows who the next coach would’ve been and if kiffin would’ve had another chance. However, getting recruits on campus to not sign up for classes is inexcusable. Wasn’t kiffin the one that got mad because meyer supposeably called a recruit during a visit at tennessee? Kiffin just did basically the same thing.

I think Kiffin is a “rat” but I can understand why he did what he did. Petrino is worse, you don’t leave a team during the regular season.

Big Ted

January 14th, 2010
11:46 am

mgdawg -

You don’t leave a team during the regular season unless Arthur Blank fires you with 3 games left Dan Reeves.

meh

January 14th, 2010
11:52 am

I think Pretrino leaving was beneficial for the Falcons. He did more damage while there than he did by leaving. Kiffin leaving the Vols, on the other hand, hurts them more than if he’d stayed. That being said, Bobby Petrino is the biggest POS I have ever seen.

meh

January 14th, 2010
11:53 am

I bet Petrino throws his name the hat for the Tennessee job.

Old Dawg New Trick

January 14th, 2010
11:54 am

to every one defending Kiffen : Not everyone would jump ship because of more money and that is the point INTEGRITY! some people have it some don’t Petrino and Kiffen DO NOT!!

dougdawg

January 14th, 2010
11:56 am

well, just think about that little song we used to sing in elementary school — ‘three blind mice.’ they, read kiffin, kiffin, and orgeron, went after the farmer’s wife, read usc. what happened will probably happen to them. lot’s of wisdom in kid’s songs!!!!

MiamiDawg

January 14th, 2010
11:56 am

Dont forget to include the programs. They enable this sort of behavior.

Should add the names of the ADs, the boosters… without them, all this would not be possible.

Dennis the Menace

January 14th, 2010
11:58 am

I’ll cast my vote for write in candidate John Calipari. Stay long enough at Memphis to get them in trouble they haven’t seen since Dana Kirk and then bolt for the bluegrass. On the other hand, UK is worse than he is for hiring a walking NCAA investigation.

dougdawg

January 14th, 2010
11:58 am

hope they don’t go after the coach’s wife, too. we’re talking hollywood here. if i were layla, i’d put a plastic surgeon on retainer; if she ever slips (drops?) to 7-6, lane baby is outta there. sorry, couldn’t resist it.

Russ, the Temporary Mascot

January 14th, 2010
11:59 am

And they call me a dog!

Da Big Rat

January 14th, 2010
11:59 am

BOTH !

These two parasites are just below alligator urine on the scale of honor, loyalty and credibility.

Lose boys Lose!!!!

Coach Saban

January 14th, 2010
11:59 am

Mark, Are you using Coach Kiffins highly thought out calculated move to advance his career and obtain a position that is definitely not a lateral move as a way to deflect attention to your articles on the DC search at the University of GA?

Dorsey Hill AKA "Winston Churchill"

January 14th, 2010
11:59 am

Those of you who are wondering why Bammer fans will not admit that Saban is a lying, scumbag, POS and will defend him no matter what all you have to do is study about the Weimar Republic and the subsequent rise of Hitler. A once proud nation is disgraced and impoverished. Germany is a fourth place team in the West Division, I mean Western Europe. What do they do? They turn to a guy who wins. They turn to a guy who makes the trains run on time, and by any means necessary. Look Bama has just gone through the SEC like Hitler through Europe and you want them to take notice of the smell coming from the “work camps.” All I can say is good luck with that. It ain’t happening. At least not until he either leaves or loses 3 games in a season then the Bammers will turn on him and quick.

All I can say for us is that:

We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in Athens,
we shall fight in Knoxville and Jacksonville and Atlanta,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength through the air, and we shall defend our end zone, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight them on the ground,
we shall fight them in the trenches,
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, our University were subjugated and starving, then our supporters would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, good once again triumphs over evil.

Go Dawgs!!!!!!

Black Lab

January 14th, 2010
12:00 pm

good article…winner is Petrino….not facing his team during the exit….but I also like the articles in the LA Times about Kiffin yesterday….it will be interesting to USC record at the end of next November

Coach Saban

January 14th, 2010
12:02 pm

Dorsey, you could fill up several septic tanks and create some green grass for your next DC with that post.

Sarah H

January 14th, 2010
12:02 pm

As a Hog’s fan I am sorry that we lost Houston. He was driven out of Arkansas in part by a mama whose baby boy was suppose to be the next great quarterback. He wasn’t. Hum, a parent who ruins a college coach’s career. ESPN are you listening?

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:02 pm

All this talk of integrity and loyalty……

What about the coaches that flirt with other schools only to leverage up their salaries and stay?

What about the next DC at UGA? Will he be a rat to those young men he recruited at his former job?

We’re living in an age of” what have you done for me lately”. Rabid fan bases. Millions of dollars in TV revenue. And million dollar coaching salaries. This ain’t the 60’s.

Today’s motto: “Do unto others before they do unto you”. It goes for coaches, AD’s and team owners.

Big money driving all of this.

Simple Simon

January 14th, 2010
12:03 pm

How horrible it was for Petrino to run out on the Atlanta Inmates. The only thing Kiffin did wrong was open his mouth – seriously, that guy is dumb – and call Vol recruits, trying to convince them to jump on his gravy train.

db

January 14th, 2010
12:04 pm

They’re both Rats, yes with a capital R. Although Petrino has a history of doing this and he even left the Falcons in mid season. So we can call him an A$$ Rat as opposed to Kiffin who is a Rat’s A$$.

Dawg Tired

January 14th, 2010
12:05 pm

Can I write in Nick Saban? Actually I’m voting for Petrino for the reasons you listed. I understand that Petrino can actually coach, but I think that cuts against him in that when he leaves he actually lose something. Obviously UT is better off without the Lame Brat Kitty because he would have ruined the program eventually. Now they can go out and get someone who actually can and wants to coach at UT. UT will be ok in the near future (assuming no probation – who knows just what Orgeron actually did in recruiting these kids?).

Big XII

January 14th, 2010
12:05 pm

Why are people from Georgia obsessed with Lane Kiffin?

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:07 pm

Sarah-
Have you forgotten about the hateful emails sent to Mitch by a Nutt friend? Nutt treated Malzahn like dirt. He may seem like a good ol boy, but he’s got a huge ego that got in the way of making good decisions when it came to what was best for the program.

TheManMike

January 14th, 2010
12:08 pm

Petrino. He look like the old man who yells at kids to get off his lawn….

Bobby Petrino

January 14th, 2010
12:08 pm

Me, by a mile!

catlady

January 14th, 2010
12:10 pm

Kiffin’s leaving affects students. Petrino’s was a blip in the road for professional players. Kiffin, hands down.

NA

January 14th, 2010
12:10 pm

Pretty close but Petrino will remain the worst of the two.

Coach Saban

January 14th, 2010
12:10 pm

Big XII, I’m the coach at Alabama and I’m obsessed with Georgia. Just between you and me UT has approached me with big bucks and I can’t wait to tell Kirby I’m leaving .

GAIL

January 14th, 2010
12:10 pm

I think they should coach together…they both blow.

ptc dawg

January 14th, 2010
12:10 pm

Kiffin took advantage of 18 year old kids trying to make the biggest decision of their life. Maybe some of you expert bloggers had all the answers when you were 18, but a lot of these kids were looking for guidance from Kiffin and Ogeron. He left these kids hung out to dry after selling them a bill of goods he couldn’t deliver. To do this to high school kids makes him the biggest RAT by a mile.

Petrino did not have the support of the players and they quit on him(after they argued with him). He didn’t have support of the owner, because he was still having a love affair with a criminal. The millionaire players still got their paychecks and got face time on ESPN. Petrino did the Falcons and their fans a great service by leaving because it forced them to get a GM and a new coach.

Personally, I thought the job at Arkansas was a better one than the Falcons, at that time.

UT will eventually become the winner out this situation, because Kiffin can’t coach and the NCAA is going to be all over him.Somebody get Gen Neyland another Bloody Mary.

fishtales

January 14th, 2010
12:11 pm

For everyone dogging on Saban saying he lied multiple times…please list them. Let’s hear all of your examples please. He lied to the Miami media about leaving because they kept pressing him while the season was still going on. He was always truthful to the Dolphin players and to the Dolphin woner Huizenga…both of whom hold zero ill will toward Saban about the way it was handled. No, the only people angry is Dan LeBatard who felt he deserved to know what Saban was doing and you idiots that keep perpetuating this lying crap just because you don’t like his arrogant style.

Sarah H

January 14th, 2010
12:11 pm

RoswellHOG – Can you control what your friends do? I can’t and neither could Houston. Heck, he couldn’t even control what his wife did.

David Basham

January 14th, 2010
12:12 pm

Mark, You are being soundly whacked on UGA coverage by David Hale. You know that “gunslinger syndrome” that all writers have, knowing that there’s a better person just around the bend and all he/she needs is a chance? That’s how you should feel right now.

jw

January 14th, 2010
12:12 pm

Kiffin wins – stiffing a college team is 1000 times worse than bolting a pro team – the pros on the ATL team didn’t like the guy from the get go – so he fled before getting fired – plus, AB can look swell in those suits and say all he wants, he was part of that plan – he had to know the the big Cowboy was stalking his guy – Kiffin just plain out bolted with little or no warning – tons worse!

1eyedJack

January 14th, 2010
12:13 pm

Come on, vowels, cheer up. You’ve been down before. I’m sure you’ll land on your heads somewhere.

Lane Kippen

January 14th, 2010
12:14 pm

I gave those thugs at Tennessee what they deserved.

Hawg Fan

January 14th, 2010
12:14 pm

give me a break. The FalCONS were a bunch of spoiled brats who would not listen to their coach anyways. The Vick situation certainly was of no help. Thank God he left your trainwreck of a program, which has gone to the tubes anyways. Bigger rat: Falcon fans

Meg

January 14th, 2010
12:15 pm

I think they are both rats!!

Magic Hog

January 14th, 2010
12:15 pm

You are a really bunch of AZZ HOLES

P F

January 14th, 2010
12:17 pm

Petrino. Petrino. Petrino. No one is even CLOSE to this slime. When Mack “I can’t win a championship with an ACC team” Brown deserted UNC the night before their bowl game, I thought he was a rat. Petrino takes the cake by a mile. At LEAST Kiffen finished the season. Even if he is an idiot.

michael

January 14th, 2010
12:17 pm

WAAAAAAAAAAAAA thats all you atlanta falcons do is cry and whine about petrino who cares get over it you got a coach who likes to fight the other teams players

RC Cola and a Moon Pie

January 14th, 2010
12:17 pm

Franchione!!!

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:18 pm

Sarah-
He had two of the best running backs of all time, at the same time. Yet he refused to develop a credible passing game. So he got out coached (and beat)because he was too stubborn to adapt.

Nutt was responsible for how he and his staff treated Malzahn. If Gus had been allowed to coach the offense, things would have been different. But wait… that would take the spotlight off HN. And we can’t let that happen.

Dan

January 14th, 2010
12:19 pm

Cmon Tennessee fans lets summarize
Stay Knoxville instead of getting more money to do the same job at a school with a more successful history and it happens to be in So Cal
Please anyone who would choose to stay would be to stupid to be a successful football coach

Latrino

January 14th, 2010
12:19 pm

Bobby Petrino aka Bobby Latrino….because he left the Falcons in a real sh….ty position!Petrino was full of “CRAP”the whole time he was in Atlanta!Kiffin bails on Tennessee,Kelley bails on Cincinnati..who cares they are both ranked right behind the worst of the lot..Latrino…Oh you can put Nick Saban right behind those clowns too…3 weeks before leaving the Dolphins…”I am not thinking about leaving here for Alabama.”………A PACK OF LIARS ALL OF THEM!!!!!!!

Bob

January 14th, 2010
12:20 pm

Was there any bashing of arthur blank when he fired Dan Reeves? Not that I can recall. If you’re still pissed off the Petrino quit on a team that quit on him call him back. The Falcons are in a much better place without Bobby Petrino. Don’t you think it’s time to get over it?

Mark Petrino Kiffin Bradley

January 14th, 2010
12:20 pm

Mark Bradley gets my vote. Cancel your AJC subscriptions until they fire this Georgia hating rat. Mark, maybe you can be the sports information director for USC. If they hired Kiffin, they’d probably hire you too.

Tom

January 14th, 2010
12:21 pm

Petrino didn’t have a good thing with Atlanta. The players didn’t respect him. He forgot he was dealing with grown men who make tons of money instead of college kids on scholarship. I can recall a problem with D’Angelo Hall. But everyone had problems with DHall.

However I will give credit to BT that he wasn’t such a jerk all the time. Kiffin has to be the most arrogant, selfish, stupid, loudmouth, prick I’ve ever seen. He didn’t belong in the South, this is such a blessing in disguise. Trust me, someone will come to Tennessee. Wouldn’t be shocked to see Fulmer back. Muschamp would be a fool.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:22 pm

Latrino……I have to admit, that’s a good one!

Lane Kippen

January 14th, 2010
12:23 pm

I went from toothless hillbillies to babes on the beach!

Steve

January 14th, 2010
12:24 pm

I don’t care who the bigger rat is I’m just glad tha ajc took KIrby’s mug off the darn UGA home page.

Ron Mexico

January 14th, 2010
12:24 pm

I say Mark Bradley!

ynot

January 14th, 2010
12:24 pm

Bobby is the biggest rat. He baled before it was over.

Gatorfan

January 14th, 2010
12:25 pm

Kiffin hands down. What he did to UT and their student athletes is appalling.

dsk

January 14th, 2010
12:25 pm

get over it atlanta.

Jim

January 14th, 2010
12:26 pm

Mark, give it a rest on BP, or at least admit that there are at least two sides to this, and one is that Petrino was mislead about the Falcons job from the word go, lied to by Blank, and chose to get out of that hell-hole while he still could with his pride. He sliced his paycheck in half by doing so. Sorry he didn’t give you a big warm hug and a personalized snuggy to remember him by on his way out. But you’re right about Kiffin. He can’t even coach.

Navigator

January 14th, 2010
12:27 pm

I’ll go with Kiffin, as Petrino became a rat when he vaulted from the Falcons, and Kiffin has always been a rat, even before he got to TN.

NCAA Police

January 14th, 2010
12:28 pm

Funny thing Kiffin leaving Tennessee in the wake of NCAA recriuting violations….Did’nt he leave USC right after the time Reggie Bush got PAID to play at USC??????????????????….Al Davis said Kiffin is a liar…I guess he was right!!

Now In Stereotype

January 14th, 2010
12:28 pm

Don’t forget smog, earthquakes, real riots, plastic celebs, gang wars, traffic conjestion, bankrupt state government, hippies, liberals, etc.

Technophobia

January 14th, 2010
12:32 pm

Mark, I think you left off one important category: impact on players. With Petrino, all the falcon players were still NFL players with lucrative contracts. With Kiffin, the players (especially recruits) to some extent bet their futures on Kiffin being there.

Bill Heath

January 14th, 2010
12:32 pm

GO PETRINO! A GREAT COACH – WILL TAKE ARKANSAS TO THE NATIONAL TITILE IN 2010.

N85EAGLE

January 14th, 2010
12:32 pm

Brian Van Gorder. Wrecked GSU THEN JUMPED SHIP after one season. Committed to the Gamecocks and jumped ship again.

Herschel Talker

January 14th, 2010
12:34 pm

The conclusion drawn is absurd. Petrino is far worse. He left in the middle of the season, a day after telling his boss he wouldn’t. Period. End of story.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:35 pm

Bill Heath-
Easy there buddy….but I like the way you’re thinkin’. Anything better than the Cotton Bowl will be a new watermark IMO.

Petrino Slime

January 14th, 2010
12:37 pm

Petrino is like that slimy slug that leaves a trail up your walkway to your front door.You can squash em but you still have to wash their slimy trail away.Petrino didn’t have the stones to talk to the players face to face..I don’t know if Kiffin did or not?Therefore Petrino tops the list!

Real American

January 14th, 2010
12:38 pm

Did everyone hear that – Mark actually liked Petrino at one time, so that gives his obsessive bashing of Petrino all these years later credibility. Petrino should have held a press conference when he left Atlanta, outside of that the Falcons were pathetic and criminal. Boo freaking Hoo.

Vick=Dog killing Thug

January 14th, 2010
12:38 pm

my first thought is that Petrino is the worst stinking rat as he jumped ship during the season. But then I would guess that Kiffin would of left mid stream as well.

Neither of them have any honor. I always root against Arkansas and now I’ll do the same against USC

So happy to have CMR at UGA. I’ll never doubt the man again.

what about it

January 14th, 2010
12:38 pm

Is this like saying I am the fastest boy in fat camp? Let’s wait and see what the NCAA does to UT for Kiffy’s transgressions

CRACKER JACKET

January 14th, 2010
12:39 pm

Lane Kiffin is worst but it’s pretty close with a rattler and a copperhead! the kids that Kiffin let down makes him more evil!

Sarah H

January 14th, 2010
12:39 pm

RoswellHOG Yes, you are so right about the running backs and I certainly don’t think Nutt was even close to perfect, however, he may be in charge of his staff, but you can’t always control them.

Monica

January 14th, 2010
12:39 pm

Petrino. At least Kiffin verbally told his players he was leaving.

Shug

January 14th, 2010
12:42 pm

Who’s the rat who jilted Bowling Green, then Utah, and has now put Florida in some sort of limbo?

Kiffin #1

January 14th, 2010
12:43 pm

Kiffin is a snake in the grass I will tell you why…..He is contacting all Tenn Recruits and asking them to join him in Cal…..No Class at all.He sticks the knife in and then twists it gutting his victims…He is not a good coach….why else would his father be helping him get these jobs???

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
12:43 pm

Here is an interesting blog, http://southeasterncollegesports-sportsnut.blogspot.com/2010/…

front office

January 14th, 2010
12:43 pm

As someone who is familiar with the Petrino ordeal, I’ll go with Kiffin being the bigger rat. Personally, I never really cared for Petrino, but the way the media has portrayed his departure is inaccurate to say the least. I don’t know if “reporters” such as yourself Mr. Bradley didn’t bother researching the whole story or if you just chose not to print it because it casts Mr. Blank in a bad light. Since Petrino left our program, I have grown to respect him for remaining quiet on the whole ordeal, choosing the high road while he has repeatedly attacked by those who have no clue as to how the whole situation really went down, and yes Mr. Bradley, that includes you. For starters, Bobby Petrino gained permission from Mr. Blank to speak with Arkansas, it was going to a mutual departure, Petrino wanted back in college (specifically the SEC) and Mr. Blank wasn’t happy with the direction of the team. Then comes the Michael Vick sentence and fearing a PR nightmare (losing both the head coach and star QB within 24 hours), Mr. Blank recanted and informed Coach Petrino that he was longer permitted to speak with the Arkansas officials. It was too late, and the rest is history.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:45 pm

Sarah-
I disagree. It is the head coaches job to decide how the staff treats/accepts one another. When Damien Williams and the number one QB prospect don’t fit your organization, then it’s time to re-evaluate your organization. Not gonna happen with HN. Watched him for 10 years, and it was obvious that we would see nothing new. He just would not adapt. I think we’re seeing this at Ole Miss. Heck of a running game….passing attack? Not so much.

Susan Matheson

January 14th, 2010
12:47 pm

Reminds me of Charlie Pell leaving Clemson in 1978.

off to better places

January 14th, 2010
12:47 pm

Bradley your getting almost as pathetic a Barnhart! Hard to believe this is the best thing you can write about…. Who cares!!!! If the chance to move on to bigger/better things, or the situations a better fit. Your telling me you wouldn’t jump at it, who wouldn’t? Tell me, do you think the Falcons would be better today if Petrino stayed? Or would you and your georgia snuggle buddies like it if Kiffin stayed and beat your arses the next few years?
hmm right decision by BOTH, well we’ll see about Kiffin a little premature to say yet.

dap01

January 14th, 2010
12:48 pm

The most appropriatate comparison:

Paris Hilton is more deserving of a job than Kiffin. At least Patrino has done something.

Hey, Mark Bradley and Jeff Shultz, is there anyway to slant this article against Coach Mark Richt and UGA?

BravesFanSince1961

January 14th, 2010
12:49 pm

Both are rats and rats is rats. You just gotta kill the one that is going to gnaw your face off versus the one that just slinks around leaving pellets in your cereal. Petrino is the one that will gnaw off your face. But honestly? I’d not trust either man with ANYTHING I care about.

Not Disappointed

January 14th, 2010
12:49 pm

Both give you the feeling of needing a SHower! Great article.

Ramblin Wreck!

Real American

January 14th, 2010
12:50 pm

We shall see how many articles will be written in the future by you or some other Atlanta journalist, paralleling another coach’s departure to that of Petrino’s. That’s my definition of obsessive. Is Arthur Blank handing out Home Depot gift cards to you guys or what?

Is Petrino perfect, no, but he’s no Judas Iscariot either.

Dorsey Hill

January 14th, 2010
12:50 pm

In addition to the “I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.” Plaxico Burress says Saban told the Michigan State team he wasn’t leaving Michigan State for LSU. “Then the next day, the very next day, Saban said, ‘Guys, I’m going to LSU. So that let me know where he was coming from as a person and how loyal he was. … I didn’t trust anything he said at that point. Nothing.”

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
12:51 pm

From KNS : Air Force football coach Troy Calhoun has scheduled a meeting with his players at 5:50 p.m., according to the Colorado Springs Gazette.

There were no indications what the meeting concerns.

Ed

January 14th, 2010
12:51 pm

(Dis)Honorable Mention Rats: Butch Davis, Nick Saban, Tommy Tuberville (Ole Miss days), and Rich Rodriguez.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:55 pm

Any chance that UGA will go after Ruffin McNeill since Tubbs let him go?
Sorry, I know it’s off topic.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
12:55 pm

Dang..with all these Arkansas bloggers on here, is anybody manning the cash registers at the WalMarts around town!

Steve Smith

January 14th, 2010
12:55 pm

To me it’s Petrino, hands down. All the reasons have pretty much been given above, but a couple to recap:
1)Promised Arthur Blank he was staying the day before he bolted
2)Left with 3 games to go in the regular season
3)Did not meet with his players to tell them he was leaving

I can’t believe Petrino is even able to get young men to commit to playing for him.

While I’ve always thought Lane Kiffin was an a$$, the only thing I found scummy was having Coach Oregoren (sp) call recruits to tell them not to attend class at UT, so they could transfer to USC. What a d-bag.

As I heard someone say last night
If I saw Kiffin coming to my door to recruit my son, I would certainly have some hard questions for him to answer.
If I saw Petrino coming to my door to recruit my son, I would just start shooting.

chDawg

January 14th, 2010
12:57 pm

I think the bigger rats would be Bradley, Shultz, and AJC. They caved in to the same delusions that Kiffen has and thinks flashy attention headlines are more important than substance and truth. Incapable of actually putting forth articles with any merit they have caved in to the type of drive by journalism that is so common today. Driven by page views they use the lowest common denominators to spark interest.
Lately their articles seem to be driven more by personal opinion that any facts, and in most cases their opinions either seem to be biased or contradictory to the facts. Do I need to point out that the AJC has spent the last 14 months basically promoting Kiffen and his tactics and now they seem to want to take shots at him. They should just send him a check for the page views.

ARK

January 14th, 2010
12:57 pm

UglyOldDog

Your break at Home Depot is up, now mix me some paint!

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
12:59 pm

UglyOldDog,
No one is manning the registers……we’ve all gone to worship the BCS trophy!

NewsFlash!!

January 14th, 2010
12:59 pm

My sister-in-law works for the UT Athletic Department and let me know that UT has extended an offer to Kirby Smart to come to Knoxville as the HC. She thinks it’s a $3.25M/year offer but not sure. Kirby is to meet with the Knoxville AD team this weekend.

ARK

January 14th, 2010
1:01 pm

RoswellHOG

The proverbial cart before the horse with the whole BCS thing. How about concentrating on winning the WEST.

ugaman

January 14th, 2010
1:02 pm

i think they are both rats. i am not by any stretch a ut fan but it stunk how coach kiffin did this. i do think he had in the back of his mind all along that if it ever opened up at usc he would bolt. he is just a punk. maybe petrino a bigger rat and kiffin a bigger punk. i had told a ut fan a couple of weeks ago i hope they got it handed to them in their BOWEL game. i usually hope the conference has a good showing but not for that jerk.

phoenix falcon

January 14th, 2010
1:03 pm

Dawgs97

where you born this stupid, or did you have to work up to it.
just curious.

B Smith

January 14th, 2010
1:03 pm

You forgot to include Saban in this list – ask the people in Miami and Louisianna.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
1:03 pm

ARK,
That was a response to another post regarding the Nat’l Championship.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
1:04 pm

ARK,
The trophy remark was regarding Bama’s trophy on display at Walmart.

SEC FAN

January 14th, 2010
1:05 pm

THE BIGGEST RAT MAY WELL BE MARK BRADLEY HIMSELF. DOES HE GET PAID FOR HIS VERY POINTED ARTICLES THAT CLEARLY HELP A CERTAIN PROGRAM PARTICULARLY RIGHT BEFORE SIGNING DAY? IS HE ON THE TAKE? IT IS BECOMING MORE AND MORE OBVIOUS HOW WH WORKS.

phoenix falcon

January 14th, 2010
1:05 pm

hey Mark…. what about Jim Mora At UGA coaching the defense?

Tracey

January 14th, 2010
1:08 pm

Petrino was older and should have known better.

Kiffen is a tough one to figure out. I mean, he could just be colossal jerk because he’s young. I can’t figure out if he really thinks he is the “end all be all” of college football or if they boy is just stupid.

Either way, UT is better off without him and Atlanta is better off without Petrino.

bt

January 14th, 2010
1:08 pm

The left bank deserves Kiffin because he is the A typical LA Turd in the westcoast punchbowl.

wAw

January 14th, 2010
1:09 pm

There were some AMATURE athletes betrayed by the Kiffen move. That’s the biggest factor in my book.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:09 pm

Ark…I’ll have you know I work at the Varsity…I got fired from Home Depot!

Rjl

January 14th, 2010
1:11 pm

At least Kiffin did not leave in the middle of the season. Bigger rat Petrino

DaWg

January 14th, 2010
1:12 pm

The person I work with for quitting right before we needed help at the most.

ARK

January 14th, 2010
1:12 pm

UglyOldDog

I’ll have 2 Chilli Dogs.

….and when you get a chance MIX MY PAINT!!

phoenix falcon

January 14th, 2010
1:15 pm

SEC FAN

do you people REALLY think the writers of this paper are bias?
Look people we ALL have our biases, but in my 30 years of reading this paper, i have seen both schools hailed as great, and both schools treated like the redheaded step child who’s feet stank. if i asked 100 people down on the flats, all 100 would say the paper was biased in favor of the dogs, and vice verse, if you hate the paper and what/how they write, this is America, YOU DON’T HAVE TO READ IT. THERE ARE 40 MILLION PAPERS IN TEXAS YOU CAN READ, yet you keep reading the ” biased ” paper. what kind of idiot would keep reading a paper he hates?

John

January 14th, 2010
1:15 pm

Mr. Bradley,

If you are going to call Bobby Petrino a rat for what he did, then shouldn’t you call Lou Holtz a rat also? In 1976, as head coach of the NY Jets, he quit after 13 games into his 1st season with them to take a head coaching vacancy at Arkansas. His W-L record with the Jets, 3-10.

BIG DAWG 2

January 14th, 2010
1:16 pm

Bill Heath…what kind of moonshine you been drinking?The Dawgs are way better than the Hogs and even the Dawgs can’t compete with Florida or Alabama because they won’t pay the players like Alabama and Florida does…Now USC will be paying more $ to these recruits…so just go slop your “hogs” and cry in your moonshine because you know Georgia has the best team money can’t buy!

ReidAdair

January 14th, 2010
1:16 pm

I think Bobby Petrino is the bigger rat, but what Lane Kiffin did at Tennessee with the violations and now, perhaps, Ed Orgeron interfering with UT commitments, is disgusting.

It was laughable to see him standing there last night, talking about running a “clean, disciplined program.” As I recall, he, Orgeron and Norm Chow were all at USC when the alleged Reggie Bush violations occurred.

Enjoy, Mike Garrett and USC.

Mark

January 14th, 2010
1:18 pm

This one’s easy: it’s Petrino in a no contest. Leaving copied notes on your players lockers?! At least LK faced a press conference and didn’t sneek out of town. Of course he almost got skinned in the process!

UA Alum92

January 14th, 2010
1:19 pm

“Newsflash!” IF Coach Smart were to leave for the UT job, I think most Bama fans would say “More power to you! Good luck! See you the third Saturday in October!” I honestly think that move would pain Dawg fans much more than us.

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
1:19 pm

Big Dawg 2-
I wouldn’t go as far as Bill, but……”Dawgs way better than Hogs”? I guess we’ll see.

saban

January 14th, 2010
1:19 pm

Richt`s a bigger rat than either.

Going after my hairdresser.

Is there not honor left?

Excuse me while I hypnotize Smart again.

Satan

Fert Smeller

January 14th, 2010
1:21 pm

The Dawgs looked real good last year – Real Good. Sarcasm. SEC East in this order: Everybody Else, then Georgia, and finally Vanderbilt. Go Gators!

We would do the same

January 14th, 2010
1:25 pm

I can’t stand Lane Kiffin. I think he’s a tool, but can anyone honestly say that they would have not done exactly what Kiffin did. It’s not like he left Tennessee. for just any job. It was his “dream” job. I wish all the Tennessee. fans would just get off it.It’s not like he denied that he would take the position and turn around and do the opposite (ehhm…Saban).

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:25 pm

Fert Smeller has old Meyer had a panic attack lately realizing Teblow won’t be there to cry some more

BeBe

January 14th, 2010
1:27 pm

At least Kiffin finished the season and although it was brief, at least addressed the players. Let’s not forget the cowardly Petrino exit!

Biggest RAT

January 14th, 2010
1:27 pm

You Bloggers all have it wrong………George W. Bush is the biggest Rat sports fans ever saw……..afterall he bankrupted the Texas Rangers and then a bunch of fools gave him the chance to Bankrupt The United States!

DGill

January 14th, 2010
1:28 pm

The question should be whom is the biggest RAT….Lane Kiffin or Mark Bradley? You just can’t leave it alone,can you? Both of you are Rat B—ards!!!!!!

Dorsey Hill be a dunce

January 14th, 2010
1:29 pm

Dorsey dunce hill,

Hey bubba. The article is about Petrino and Kiffin. Not Saban. And if you believe what a felon and team cancer Plaxico Burress says then you are truly a moron. No one else at MSU was saying the same story as Plaxico so that right there tells you a lot about Plaxico’s credibility.

You’re just to blinded by your anti alabama hatred to look objectively at things. Every time you post the article can have absolutely nothing to do with Alabama or Saban yet your dumb azz always has to find a way to make a degrading statement about either Bama or Saban.

And don’t even bother replying back Mr. Dorsey Dunce. We can’t hear you. We’re having a party and all the clanging from our latest national championship and our 7 other national titles and 22 conference titles is making too much noise. What is it Dorsey Dunce? 29 years and counting???

Fert Smeller

January 14th, 2010
1:29 pm

UOG

Between the xanax and the circumcisions we found time to own your PUPS. Cry on that.

cottonmouth

January 14th, 2010
1:30 pm

How is Kiffin a rat? Took a better job at a better place. What person on this blog would not do that? UT was worse off with Fulmer, he should be voted a rat for taking money and not doing anything for 5 years. As far as Petrino goes, who cares? He’s not even worthy of Arkansas, and even Clinton was worthy of that.

Why not many colored coaches ?

January 14th, 2010
1:30 pm

Why limit to just one?

Mark

January 14th, 2010
1:30 pm

One thing that puzzles me the most about Kiffin though and it’s his dad. Supposedly and from all reports and testimonials he is one of the great minds in defensive football; however his son appears to be socially retarded with either at worst a very light (or no) grasp on the world around him; as though he’s in his own little bubble and at least, he couldn’t care less what anyone thinks about him. And then there’s his dad. We all have or had a dad, but his worked with him every day; day in, day out at UT and LK acted like (is?) a total fool for most of those 13 or so months. I know by age 33 or 34 you’re grown (or should be) but if I’m Monte Kiffin I’m saying, “son you need to tone it down a bit” or SOMETHING! Maybe it’s just me but MK is more enigmatic than LK. MK is a proven, highly respected authority (heck GURU) at the best level of football. LK is just a spoiled done-nothing brat into whose lap these tremendous jobs keep falling for some strange reason.

C. Cowherd said yesterday that LK has “it.” Really?! How about just a real smooth talker who has his daddy tagging along and Ed O out doing insane things on the recruiting trail. Without either of them around we know that his stint in the NFL was an absolute failure on all levels.

Just my .02

Confederate Bulldog

January 14th, 2010
1:31 pm

I wish them both a head on car wreck with each other. And no one walks away alive.

DirtyDawg

January 14th, 2010
1:31 pm

It’s a pretty sorry state when you have to compare ‘rats’. How anybody could take either of these two people seriously is beyond me. Petrino will do OK cause any team/school that has a pig for a mascot and is proud of it, won’t be able to ‘get it’ with him. As for Lame Lane, he might be able to put it over on the Southern Cal folks, after all at least half of everybody out there is a phony, so who’s to know which is which? Plus, if you can fool half of the people half of the time, you can probably last half the time.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:31 pm

Didn’t UA have a coach named Red somebody

Obama

January 14th, 2010
1:32 pm

1. Bobby Petrino.
2. King Roy Barnes
3. Kirby Smart

Mitch Cumstein

January 14th, 2010
1:32 pm

Falcon fans, Arthur Blank and Co WOULDN’T LET Petrino meet with the players. After the Michael Vick cluster they couldn’t afford the PR hit of losing their coach to the college ranks so they let him walk, but turned their media lackeys on him. They told him if he left they would make it ugly for him and they did. Who bashed him the most during the process? ESPN. Who is a big sponsor of ESPN, including college gameday? Wow, Home Depot. Would you look at that.

W A Q

January 14th, 2010
1:33 pm

Well the first thing you know ole Lane a millionaire,
Kin folks said Lane move away from there, California is the place you should to be, so they loaded up truck and moved to Beverly, Hollywood that is,, USC,, movie stars…. The Lane Hillbillies….. LOL

Criff

January 14th, 2010
1:33 pm

Trying to decide who’s the bigger Rat is like asking who’s the ugliest–Rosie O’Donnell or Joan Rivers? Sort of gives a new meaning to “Go Dawgs!”

Big Dawg 97

January 14th, 2010
1:33 pm

1. Bobby Petrino
2. Kirby Smart
3. Lame Kitten

who cares

January 14th, 2010
1:33 pm

QUESTION:
If a kid is NOT offered a scholarship or an offer to visit a school, how does a kid SWITCH? First and foremost, the kid has to APPLY to tthat school’s admissions board and be accepted. So if USC did not offer a visit to the kid that is selecting UT, how can that recruit GO to USC? Does USC have a list stating these UT recruits must be admitted? Orgeron stunk at Ole Miss. Had the USC job opened earlier, UT might be talking to TUBERVILLE, who, I think HAS BEATEN alabama and florida, more times than he’s lost to them. Eat the Humble Pie Hamilton and re hire Fulmer if you cannot get Muschamp to sign. Houston Nutt? Maybe-then neyland Stadium would be The NUTT HOUSE. Skip Holtz? Have not followed ECU’s conference. Cutcliffe-OC and QB Coach are his best qualities. Some OC’s are best at being OC rather than HC’s. Would love to see Tee Martin as the QB coach. Fulmer and Martin?-why not? Make the Call HAMILTON! oh-Petrino is the bigger Rat. No notice, no player address and moved out of town like the Baltimore Colts.

Razorback that Azz Up

January 14th, 2010
1:37 pm

DirtyDawg

How original, a bulldog for a mascot. There’s something to hang your hat on.

Martin

January 14th, 2010
1:37 pm

Can Kiffin coach or does his daddy do the coaching?

dawg gone it

January 14th, 2010
1:38 pm

We should count our blessings that we have a class act like Richt at UGA.
I’d take that loss to UT any time over having a coach like Kiffin.

Atlanta Sports

January 14th, 2010
1:40 pm

I know you write this drivel to stir things up but the subject of Petrino is tiresome and boring. You and all the Petrino haters need to get a life and move-on. The Falcons are better off with Smitty.

Just observing

January 14th, 2010
1:40 pm

UT fans and alums are all up in the air over this “betrayal” by Lane Kiffin but how about Phil Fulmer and Johnny Majors? Think those 2 guys are loyal UT people? They were both thrown out like garbage by the very bunch who now cries “betrayal!” Then to replace Tennessee native son and life-long Volunteer Fulmer they go out an hire a
Southern California dude if there ever was one and then get all in a tiff because he wanted to take his “dream job.” Hey folks, the man talked about USC the whole time he was in Knoxville: duh!! What goes around comes around.

Bad karma sucks don’t it?

W A Q

January 14th, 2010
1:41 pm

Well the first thing you know old Lane a millionaire,
Kin folks said Lane move away from there, California is the place you should to be, so they loaded up truck and moved to Beverly, Hollywood that is,, USC,, movie stars…. The Lane Hillbillies….. LOL

David

January 14th, 2010
1:41 pm

Petrino left a “dead from the head down” Falcons team to go back to college (where he wanted to be since Blank lied to him about Vick’s status, to be fair to Blank, Vick lied to Blank too). Petrino had to leave then because of the recruiting time frame involved so it was either leave then and have a chance to get some recruits or finish the season and play your first season at Arkansas with scrubs. Kiffin left TN in the heat of the recruiting season AND after repeated NCAA violations. Kiffin wins this one hands down…

And for my fellow Falcons fans who can’t seem to get over the whole Petrino thing (you too Mark Bradley) GET OVER IT!!! Petrino leaving was good for all the parties involved, you should be happy and stop feigning vitriol toward him. The players didn’t like him when he was here and he didn’t like coaching them either. I think it’s telling that even with Petrino gone, guys like D. Hall and A. Crumpler were demanding trades out of Atlanta. Something was bad wrong with the organization and Petrino was only a small part of it.

Butch Carter

January 14th, 2010
1:42 pm

Dude. Petrino left you guys like 2 years ago. Quit bitching about it because it worked out for you anyway. Must be a slow day in sports when you have to dust off the Petrino file.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:42 pm

Razorback that Azz Up…. I here LSU wants your mascot for dinner

WonderDawg

January 14th, 2010
1:45 pm

Russ, the Temp, why don’t you go play on I-75?

Yo Razorback!

January 14th, 2010
1:45 pm

Your mascot is FOOD!

Mr. Riley

January 14th, 2010
1:46 pm

both are neither stand up guys…to me they both are spinless and weak…the only difference between the two is that one (petrino) actually had a couple of winning seasons at a program (louisville) while the other has yet to do anything..

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
1:47 pm

Ugly-
Are you aware that our beloved mascot, Tusk II died recently? It’s too soon……too soon to make light.
Now, where’d I put that bottle of shine?

John Paul

January 14th, 2010
1:47 pm

I say John Calipari is the ALL TIME KING OF THE WORLD SCUMBAG RAT. At least Petrino didnt steal his former teams recruits and leave the program he bolted in shambles. TWICE!!! Although it does appear Kif AND Petey Boy are of the same mold, it hasnt been proven yet. ALL HAIL KING VACATE RAT, SLIMEBALL LOVE ‘EM AND LEAVE ‘EM JOHN CALAPARI!!!!

Sarah H

January 14th, 2010
1:48 pm

Roswell Hog – I am a former teacher. I had to control about 100 6th graders during the day. I did the best I could but I could not control everthing they did. I think that is the same with a lot of leaders. We do our best but don’t always get it right. I know that Nutt should have had better control over his staff, but my bet is that he didn’t go home with them at night.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:48 pm

Yo Razorback!

Excuse me, but MVick has left the cafe…but I love eating PIG, SOOO PIG

Razorback that Azz Up

January 14th, 2010
1:50 pm

Ugly

Asthmatic bulldog. Hear that – it’s the sound of fear – no, just your “dawg” weazing.

Yahooty

January 14th, 2010
1:50 pm

How’s that playoff thing working for the Falcons this year? Hope you get to watch the Cowboy’s as the beat up Minnesota this wkend.

Tewks

January 14th, 2010
1:51 pm

I don’t like either one but with Kiffin, I can’t blame him for wanting that USC job. It might have been his once-in-a-lifetime chance. Now I’m shifting my attention back to Haiti. I hope everyone here connects with what’s going on there.

at RoswellHog

January 14th, 2010
1:51 pm

You have our sympathy. Now at UGA, we bury our fallen mascots inside Sanford Stadium. Do ya’ll serve your’s up on a checkered tablecloth? If not, that sounds like an idea!

Pete

January 14th, 2010
1:52 pm

It’s humanly IMPOSSIBLE to be a lower reptile than Quitrino who bailed in the MIDDLE of a season.
Kiffin did what any other NCAA coach would do when offered a Top 3 job in college sports.
Tenn. would react EXACTLY the same as Arkansas if they landed a coach who bailed on his current school. They’d offer him the key to Rocky Top.

FAT CAT

January 14th, 2010
1:53 pm

I squash RATS like these guys all the time after I makem “SQUEAL LIKE A PIG”….anybody want to go for a canoe ride down the Chatooga???????

SEC FAN

January 14th, 2010
1:53 pm

Look, Tennessee’s AD hired Kiffin because he listened to the crazy Tenn. fans. This blogging is going to bring down others. Most times the blogger is really from another school pretending to be an ardent fan of which ever school they are trying to bring down. We need to learn to read between the lines. Usually really solid fans are working and busy with making a living and don’t have time for all this crazy ranting and raving. Mark Bradley has really taken aim at certain schools. I wonder if he is trying to influence recruiting and is he taking under the table money???????.

I seem to remember that Them Po Ole Dawgs

January 14th, 2010
1:54 pm

were underdogs at Arky this past season but for our not-too-memorable year, them Dawgs still whipped the ‘Hogs into hash. Mmmmm-MM!

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:54 pm

RoswellHOG my condolences, our beloved mascot died recently too…he saw what Tennesse did to us and with Florida looming it was too much for him

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:56 pm

Razorback that Azz Up …don’t you know that we Bulldogs are full of GAS brrrrrrp sorry

RP

January 14th, 2010
1:57 pm

Can’t help but notice that UT is in an uproar over losing their coach so close to signing day. Think they’ll give a whit about taking some other school’s coach even CLOSER to national signing day? Right.

Coop

January 14th, 2010
1:57 pm

Georgia = A top second-tier program

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
1:58 pm

How many dogs are buried in Sanford stadium? Our Hogs are just too big for that. But I guess it’s great tradition for you guys. Congrats.

UA Alum92

January 14th, 2010
1:59 pm

Kiffin described the USC job as being the “number one job” in college football. Anyone believe this? If not (loyalties aside) what are the top jobs in college football?

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
1:59 pm

6 dogs and 92000 people after what Tech did to us last year

Otto

January 14th, 2010
1:59 pm

Can I vote for none of the above?

Mark, you kinda liked Petrino because L’ville ties but I thought you have UK ties. Sounds like you kinda speak out of both sides of your mouth.

OSCAR

January 14th, 2010
2:00 pm

Now help me remember, wht was Willie fired?

Razorback that Azz Up

January 14th, 2010
2:00 pm

Our mascot didn’t “die” per se, as it had more to do with needing a Christmas ham. You have to admit that our mascot could hurt you in the woods and be savory in your belly, all on the same day.

David Granger

January 14th, 2010
2:00 pm

That’s like asking who sexier, Rosie O’Donnell, or Roseanne Barr?

Skeptic

January 14th, 2010
2:02 pm

Has anybody ever considered that maybe Southern Cal wanted Monte Kiffin and Ed Orgeron, with maybe Norm Chow thrown in to boot, and was willing to take Lame Kitten in the deal?

old news

January 14th, 2010
2:04 pm

Slow news day, eh Bradley? Surely you’ve got something better that this topic (again)?

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
2:04 pm

Razorback that Azz Up …see that just goes to show ya….Petrino is so low he made Christmas hams out of ole Tusker….The Man Has No Shame

Bill

January 14th, 2010
2:05 pm

Good, relevant article: “The Disloyalty Club”

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=neumann/100114&sportCat=ncf

cls

January 14th, 2010
2:05 pm

Geez Louise!!! You all really need to get over this Petrino thing! He’s gone, you’re happy he’s gone, Get over it!!! I bet if Blank had fired him after 13 games you would have thought it was ok. Tell me what the difference is there??? There is none. Get over it.

David

January 14th, 2010
2:05 pm

Hey Pete – FYI before you use ALL CAPS…Petrino left the Falcons with 3 games left in the season, not in the MIDDLE of the season. They weren’t making the playoffs, they had nothing to play for (not even pride, since Vick took that away before training camp) and Petrino knew he didn’t want to coach in the NFL anymore at that point. I’ll recognize the elephant in the room here since nobody else wants to admit it…Petrino hurt the feelings of some Falcons fans. We all know the team was crap. Most of us realized something else was wrong when guys didn’t want to play for the Falcons anymore even AFTER Petrino was gone. Mike Smith is a better NFL coach than Petrino. Petrino is happier at Arkansas than he was with the Falcons. Petrino has Arkansas on the way up and the Falcon’s are in much better shape under Smith. Why can’t you people just admit Petrino made the right move when he left? To me, what Brian Kelly did to Cincy this season or what Butch Davis did at Miami a few years ago was MUCH worse than what Petrino did. Get over it already

RoswellHOG

January 14th, 2010
2:06 pm

Wow,
ESPN reporting Derek Dooley on UT’s list. Is he that good?

Code Red

January 14th, 2010
2:07 pm

Really???? I mean really, really??? Is it still that big a deal in ATL that Patrino is gone. It makes me no never mind that the folks in GA have to continually bash the guy, because he is doing something he loves…coaching college football. I am a hog and will always be a hog and I am quite positive that Coach BP will not be our coach for an extended amount of time…..folks that is the buisness we are in.

Ginger

January 14th, 2010
2:09 pm

I like that piece of writing…funny !!….Both are big time rats….Peddlers, Fast talkers…No core values….Neither has won NC as head coach…..Falcons and Vols are so much better off without them

lou holtz

January 14th, 2010
2:10 pm

Let’s see what’s worse, a piece of crap or a turd?

Ms. K.P

January 14th, 2010
2:11 pm

I think it is a photo finish, but if I had to decide it would be Kiffin. How do you look at your own kids knowing you let down other kids. Rats is an understatement. A-hole is more befitting.

dannyc

January 14th, 2010
2:16 pm

It’s a deadbeat tie

Hillbilly Deluxe

January 14th, 2010
2:17 pm

Would I rather step in a dog t*rd or a cow t*rd? What’s the difference, either way it stinks and you can’t get it off your shoe.

dannyc

January 14th, 2010
2:17 pm

The best part of both ran down their daddies’ leg

How2fish

January 14th, 2010
2:17 pm

Kiffin is King Rat…why..because of how he treated the kids in his care…how many did he dupe into early enrollment and are now stuck, not that UT is a bad school but they may now not be in situation that fits their talents….the Hawg caller at least left behind very well payed Men in his wake only time will tell the true damage Kiffin did to these kids..UT will be fine its a great school with a rich history..I’m glad he is gone but he treated these kids like dirt by bolting as he did..oh and Code Red be careful what you wish for…him leaving is not an issue if he gives the school a heads up..but history shows he won’t.

True UGA, Temp UT

January 14th, 2010
2:22 pm

Hey, its a business!! Coaches get fired for not going to bowl games back to back seasons! Fulmer couldnt produce even though he a just gone to SEC title game the year before, he was fired! Kiffin was only half-heartedly embraced by UT fans. The old guard, good ole boys, talked badly about him and wanted him gone. Everything new he tried to do, older fans would chastise him and threaten to no donate money. The kids, the players, are the ONLY losers. I believe Kiffin and Dad really did motivate the players and inspire them with fresh coaching techniques! Like the early post said, we all would gladly take OUR DREAM JOB for MORE MONEY!! Rural KNoxville? Sunny Cali? REALLY? Its life, sometimes life sucks. Never can predict what will happen, just be ready for it. Wish Kiffin well, and its on to the next one…

ARK

January 14th, 2010
2:23 pm

Someday Petrino will leave the hogs, but I doubt we will be crying about it years later. It’s called the life of college football. Coaches come and coaches go – you people are acting like a head coach personally lead you down to the altar and exchanged vows. Grow up and see sports for what they are – the bottom line.

bobby petrino

January 14th, 2010
2:24 pm

I don’t blame Kiffin one bit. If I’d been offered the USC job, you think I’d stick around out here in the sticks?

cheetah1976

January 14th, 2010
2:34 pm

Some of you folks have been giving Kiffin “props” for not leaving before Tennessee played their bowl game. Wake up! The USC job wasn’t available when the Vols got their butts kicked by the Hokies on New years Eve!
Although I think he’s a spoiled brat disguised as a football coach, I don’t blame him for taking what can only be described as his dream job. Who knows if the opportunity would have ever presented itself again. Plus, it’s a bonus for me seeing Tennessee get hosed!

Tewks

January 14th, 2010
2:35 pm

David – You make a good point. It seems to have worked out for the Falcons and the Razorbacks. The bottom line to me, though, is how it was handled by Bobby. Gutless.

Brian D. Inman

January 14th, 2010
2:41 pm

At least Petrino didn’t affect Atlanta’s ability to draft players.

wheelz007

January 14th, 2010
2:41 pm

Yes, Derek Dooley is that good.

Jim Murphy

January 14th, 2010
2:42 pm

I think it’s so cool that Bobby Petrino screwed the Atlanta Falcon’s and the much, much beloved Arthur Blanks! The name fit’s, Blank, to think he belived Vick about the dog fight’s. ATL you deserve all you get and by the way how did those Falcon’s work out for you this year? Coach Smith is a great one. Blank and the idiot Ted Turner and this sco called sports writer belong in the ATL. Home of the losers, see Hawks, Braves, Falcon’s G-Tech…..

ATL4life

January 14th, 2010
2:42 pm

The Atlanta Falcons, at that time, didn’t deserve the courtesy, nor did Arthur Blank.

Mike

January 14th, 2010
2:44 pm

The true rats are DeAngelo Hall and Arthur Blanc. Great move by Petrino to leave. Hall is uncoachable and Blanc wouldn’t let Petrino coach!

Mikey

January 14th, 2010
2:45 pm

45-19 45-19 45-19 45-19 hahahahahahahaha

David

January 14th, 2010
2:47 pm

Tewks – Thanks and I’m not trying to debate you on this, but do you know how it was handled by Petrino or do you just know what ESPN and the Falcon’s have said? I know one of the agents involved in all of this and I can tell you without a doubt, we don’t know how Petrino WANTED to handle this situation. Someone earlier wrote that Petrino wasn’t allowed to speak with the players, that is true…but even if he was allowed, I doubt he would have done it as that team had turned against him because he demanded discipline from them and they wouldn’t respond so he had really “lost” the team. He wanted out of the NFL in a bad way because of that and I have a hard time blaming him. As for that midnight press conference where he called the Hogs…not his idea and I bet if he had to do it over again he would refuse to do it, but you also have to remember just a few months earlier, Arkansas hired Dana Altman to coach the basketball team only to have him bolt a week later to go back to Creighton and had also entered negotiations with 3 other coaches only to have them use it as leverage at their current schools for more money, so the Arkansas folks wanted to get him into Fayetteville and get him on TV as their new coach as soon as possible.

G-Money

January 14th, 2010
2:47 pm

Neither is the bigger rat. The true big fat rat in all of this is the NCAA. They have kids working and generating massive amounts of income, yet they are not adequately compensated. These same kids who attract these tremendous fan bases at sold out stadiums, excessive merchandise sales, and phenomenal television revenues are continued to be exploited by helping these coaches to outrageous salaries, that are in no way indicative of their true value to their respective schools.

Jesup

January 14th, 2010
2:50 pm

Remember……alot of Falcons fans thought Petrino was in over his head and needed to go. but all the vols were on the……LANE TRAIN……..WHOOT WOOT

Hillbilly Deluxe

January 14th, 2010
2:51 pm

G-Money

Well said.

mars

January 14th, 2010
2:51 pm

Biggest rat? Petrino!
Biggest loser in this scenario? USC!
Just because Kiffin is an oblivious idiot does not make him a bigger rat. Sneakiness, lies, backstabbing, slinking away, kicking when someone is down…these are the traits of rathood. And what the hell is Tennessee Nation upset about? They should be uncorking the champagne! Good riddance!

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
2:52 pm

Mikey…still burning a mattress I see

Mike

January 14th, 2010
2:53 pm

Petrino is the best thing to happen to the dirty bird Falcons. Because Petrino was treated like sh_t by players, the players now respect Smith. The players were told that if they treat their new coach like they treated Petrino, they’ll be off the team. Because of Petrino’s ordeal, the players are behaving. Thank you Bobby Petrino.

Skeezix

January 14th, 2010
2:58 pm

Just shows how most universities have sold out and place sports at too high a priority. The coach’s integrity and loyalty should be a major factor in any hire decision. But just look at what a pathetic situation we have when rats like Petrino, Kiffin, Calapari are placed in a leadership position over impressionable young men. What values are these colleges teaching them? The wrong ones!

dan

January 14th, 2010
2:59 pm

Bobby Petrino was such a bad hire on so many levels. I blame Blank for the Petrino debacle almost as much as I blame Petrino. That guy had no business being around an NFL team. The Falcons also had a bunch of idiots like DeAngelo Hall on the team at the time and added to the Mike Vick disaster: it just made the season an absolute train wreck. With that being said, Blank has learned from his mistakes and been more hands off. He hired a quality GM and a solid coaching staff. So in retrospect, it turned out to be a good thing for the Falcons.

BANDITDAWGG

January 14th, 2010
3:00 pm

Its banjos or beaches are you kidding me its a no brainer.

North Ave. Trade School fan

January 14th, 2010
3:02 pm

General Neyland must be turning over in his grave like he’s on a BBQ grill. All things run their course but Majors was a class act.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
3:02 pm

“ratlike tendencies” good one Mark.

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
3:03 pm

Young man, i am actually spinning like a top.

GetoveritATL

January 14th, 2010
3:05 pm

Petrino did tell Arthur Blank that he was interested in leaving and Arthur Blank gave him permission to talk to other teams. Then the Vick stuff went down and Arthur Blank changed his mind. I would say the biggest rat is Arthur Blank, but that might be because he actually looks like a rat. I’m just saying… Oh, and Mark Bradley is a Richard Noggin.

Dwight Shrute

January 14th, 2010
3:06 pm

Stand in front of a mirror, do that ridiculous dirty bird dance and tell yourselves that your franchise matters. If you believe it, that’s all that really matters.

Dwight K. Shrute

January 14th, 2010
3:09 pm

Stand in front of a mirror, do that ridiculous dirty bird dance and tell yourselves that your franchise matters. If you believe it, that’s all that really matters.

mars

January 14th, 2010
3:09 pm

GetoveritATL, where oh where do you get your misinformation?

Mike

January 14th, 2010
3:14 pm

Petrino shouldn’t have left a note. The Atlanta dirty birds didn’t even deserve that. In college the coach can kick a dirty bird like D angelo Hall off the team. In the pros Petrino was stuck with D Angelo Hall. Good riddance Arthur Blank and the uncoachable dirty birds. Bravo Bobby Petrino.

Bob Woodward

January 14th, 2010
3:16 pm

rat……

Rdhdkid

January 14th, 2010
3:16 pm

It’s hard to say for sure, but I bet a guy named Lou Saban is REAL HAPPY the heat has been taken off his rear end.

OTOH, with the way the press AND the Falcons fans attacked Petrino, I’m not so sure if I’d been him I’d have stayed more that four days.

John

January 14th, 2010
3:18 pm

Difference is, there is no NSD in pro football. Kiffin not only left, but he tried to take recruits with him.

Thom E. Gemcity

January 14th, 2010
3:18 pm

Was a tear shed when the venerable Atlanta Falcons FIRED Dan Reeves with three days left in the season? No
Was there a meeting between the owner and the players Before Dan Reeves was FIRED with three games left in the season? No
Bobby Petrino left a bunch of overpaid prima donna professional athletes who play for a professional team which is a business Athletes who could give a care less that he did not meet with them ( “Hey I still get paid, right? OK cool”)

Young Mister Kiffen lied to and left high & dry a bunch of young guys just starting or in college, after promising them the world. Not only did he lie to those athletes who were already at Tennessee, he went out and cherry picked the kids he had been recruiting to come to Big Orange to follow him out west to the bright lights and big city of USC.
Who are the bigger rats here? Arthur Blank, Lane Kiffen and the moron who wrote the diatribe above.

The Truth

January 14th, 2010
3:18 pm

What a bunch of whiners. Blank can sh*t all over Reeves, and lie through his teeth to Petrino, and you guys can’t get your lips off of his unit. Petrino sees the writing on the wall and takes a good opportunity, and he’s given every one of you losers a hernia.

You deserve the Falcons.

B-ROB

January 14th, 2010
3:20 pm

All Petrino did was jump off a sinking ship, a ship that started to sink with the Vick saga! Atlanta, wipe the tears from your eyes, and move on! Kiffin left a lot of young men up in the air about their collegiate future!

John

January 14th, 2010
3:24 pm

Does seem like it should be Petrino, especially since he just left a note. And no doubt I have no love for him and root especially hard against the Razorbacks solely because he is the coach. But I have to give it to Kiffin. He showed up, cause such a stir and acted like he was all that and more. Then he just jumps ship to greener pastures. Petrino left with his tail tucked between his leg because he knew he couldn’t coach NFL players. Kiffin dumped on a bunch of kids (even if they are all felons) for another school.

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
3:25 pm

Fullmer needs to be applauded: Fulmer says he’s ready to help make “one of the most important decisions” in the program’s history. He also says the next coach should embrace Tennessee traditions, be mature and have integrity.

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Arthur Blank

January 14th, 2010
3:31 pm

I was the problem.

Fire Frank Wren

January 14th, 2010
3:33 pm

Frank Wren’s a bigger rat than either of him. And you can’t get of rats that easily.

bamafan

January 14th, 2010
3:33 pm

The actual one word term for “rat-like” is “rodential.” Coach Fulmer never looked better to Vol fans. Bama fans still are a bit miffed at his “secret witness debacle.” However, with time, we will get over it.
Kiffin is an immature punk who cannot coach. Petrino could and can coach. One can only wonder how Al Davis would have described Bobby Petrino?

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
3:35 pm

That is what usually happens when a University hires someone from the family. I’ll bet Charlie Weiss doesn’t feel that way though.

Doug UGA 1983

January 14th, 2010
3:35 pm

University of Georgia alumni, fans, and supporters should be happy and thankful that we have Mark Richt as our head coach and not guys like Kiffin, Petrino, Leverett, or even Urban Meyer.
Doug UGA 1983

Mike

January 14th, 2010
3:38 pm

Petrino’s choice: get away from dealing with a bunch of dirty bird hoodlums, or coaching a respectable program in the SEC. No brainer. Petrino shouldn’t have left the note. Hoodlums and thungs didn’t deserve that much. Oh, and not having to put up with Arthur Blank was the icing on the cake.

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
3:38 pm

Doug UGA 1983, The only thing that would cause you to include Urban in this group would be jealousy.

cheetah1976

January 14th, 2010
3:38 pm

Rdhdkid, Lou Saban?

GT

January 14th, 2010
3:39 pm

There ain’t no crying in pro football.

The 678

January 14th, 2010
3:41 pm

Petrino is the bigger rat!! Nick Saban is a close second!! (ask Michigan State, LSU and Miami Dolphin fans) Alabama fans need to keep a close eye on his door!! What Kiffin did was sneaky but he did not lie to the administrator at UT. He admitted that USC was his dream job. Also unless you are a back woods homer, who would rather live in East Tennessee in lieu of passing up leading one of the top programs in the country?

Peachtree Pete

January 14th, 2010
3:41 pm

Kinda’ like asking who was the bigger murderer: Hitler or Stalin. Take your pick; they both stink!

Dawgie Bowser

January 14th, 2010
3:41 pm

Ray Goff is the worst rat!

Lee

January 14th, 2010
3:42 pm

It would have to be Kiffin for one reason and one reason only, The Falcons are a professional football team whos players are grown professionals who are paid to do a job regardless of what happens with the head coach. But all the 18 and 19 year old kids who Kiffin recruited and bought into his B.S. are stuck at Tennessee or lose a year of college eligibilty and they don’t get a dime.

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
3:44 pm

What needs to change in all college sports is a rule that would allow a kid to transfer with no penalty when a HC who recruits him leaves to another university.

Fat Mammy Cheese

January 14th, 2010
3:45 pm

Doug

The reason Richt doesn’t act like that is because he is under the illusion that you can win a national championship at Georgia. 1980 is long gone my friend and Vince Dooley ain’t coming back.

Ted M

January 14th, 2010
3:45 pm

Wow 5 pages of rat debate…anyway Mark,

Can you find some info on this guy Greg Nagy that Herschel is fighting. I know he’s 1-1 but how big is he? Is in in shape? Is he a patsy?

Thanks

Radioactive is UT??? NOW

January 14th, 2010
3:46 pm

Yesterday, M Bradley suggested that UGA and CMR were “radioactive” given the BIG misses for the HDC. Right? Is that what you wrote?

How about UT for the Head Coaching position? Hmmmmmm? Muschamp, Gruden, FULMER, Calhoun and Smart and Peterson ALL HAVE SAID ” I PASS” now that IS a radioactive program, giventhat we are probably talking about a $2.000,000.00 salary ++.

To turn UGA down because you already have a $750,000 salary is not surprsing at all. To turn down a $2 mill salary is very suggestive of radioactivity, Bradley. I know that you would agree.

Fulmer will see Hamilton FIRED and Cutcliff will be HC and they will end up ok. I am a UGA man not one from UT. I just like accuracy is all. Derek Dooley is also in the HC mix at UT. Amazing, what has he ever done in Big Boy football?

how2fish

January 14th, 2010
3:48 pm

Mike your a moron…Pettrio could have waited 3 games and walked away no blood no foul…he didn’t even NEED to slink away..I’m glad he’s gone but I feel sorry for the Hawg fans..

how2fish

January 14th, 2010
3:50 pm

gatorman I agree we need that rule change..if you can’t restrict the coach why the player?

GT

January 14th, 2010
3:50 pm

Did not Blank tell Petrino how to lead the team prayer, which words to say. I found that very bazaar, Petrino is in no way in the same bush stoke as young Lane Kiffin.

John Paul

January 14th, 2010
3:51 pm

Hey Bradley, if you are a Louisville guy why dont you do a little investigative reporting into that bum Calapari and his “friend of a friend” gifting program conducted by World Wide Wes to lure players to him. Or are you one of those guys that thinks its just everyone around him that stinks, and John Wall and Demarcus Cousins were headed to UK BEFORE Cal got there? Do your friends up in the Commonwealth a favor and NAIL THIS SCUMBAG before the precious Wildcats are taking their next banner down too!!!

Walt Disney

January 14th, 2010
3:53 pm

I think Mickey is the biggest Rat…oh yeah, maybe Kiffin is Mickey Mouse ….his actions are certainly Mickey Mouse. At least he has moved closer to his “rat hole” in Disneyland, along with his other cast of “goofy” characters.

ARK

January 14th, 2010
3:58 pm

Don’t feel sorry for us – we understand the business and aren’t dillusional like the Atlanta Falcons’ fans. Arkansas wanted a coach that could come in immediately to finish up the recruiting vacancy that was left when we fired Houston Nutt. If Petrino would have waited 3 weeks he wouldn’t have got the job. Unless your ignornant to the ways of college football, recruiting is everything. He wanted out of the Atlanta “job” and made the right decision. It’s all business. And if someday he sees a more lucrative job out there, than more power to him. You won’t see us shedding a tear. Why, because it’s business. I hope he stays for a long time.

Why not many colored coaches ?

January 14th, 2010
3:58 pm

Enter your comments here

Jordan

January 14th, 2010
3:59 pm

Brian Van Gorder. I know that he isn’t on your list, but that’s who I would pick!!!

Jon

January 14th, 2010
3:59 pm

Petrino was the dumber one. He went from one hick town to a worse one. At least Lane gets to escape his hick town to go to LA and a top 5 CFB program

David

January 14th, 2010
4:00 pm

Mars – I have it on very good authority that statement you call “misinformation” is true. If Mark Bradley wants to chime in and if he has the sources, he knows I’m right too. Petrino has not said much at all about the situation in Atlanta and he says it’s because it wouldn’t do anybody any good. I only wish Blank held those same feelings.

You people who keep saying Petrino could have left the Falcons “no harm no foul” if he had just stayed till the end of the season know NOTHING about college football. He would have missed the recruiting period had he done that and severely hurt his chances of being successful at Arkansas. He wasn’t going to be a success in Atlanta so why would it matter if he left at the end of the season or with 3 games remaining? It wouldn’t…and don’t give me the “class” argument either. Very few college football coaches show class by that definition. They all jump ship for bigger and better jobs. And how many of you would do it too? I would venture a guess to say better than 75% of us would and how many of you are willing to step up and say you have no class? I’ll venture another guess and say less than 75%…so now you understand why some people think you’re full of crap for still harboring ill feelings toward Bobby Petrino.

Mike

January 14th, 2010
4:01 pm

how2fish, it’s also a matter of timing. The coaching job wouldn’t have been available in 3 months. The dirty bird ship was sinking, Nutt bolted from Arkansas, the Arkansas job then was available.

A great example of timing would be Tommy Tuberville. If Tommy didn’t take the Texas Tech job he’d be in Knoxville right now. FACT.

Dang!

January 14th, 2010
4:01 pm

NOT CLOSE……………….PETRINO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kiffin is rat also! He looks like a spoiled little kid who’s never going to be successful. Riding the shirt tails of his fathers legacy. Thats all. He has zero talent. At least Kiffin finished the season.

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
4:01 pm

Why not many colored coaches ? Because most of the top athletes are black and leave early for the NFL and these days most college coaches get their start as graduate assistants. That’s why there are more black coaches in the NFL. Another reason is because of the perception that black coaches cant rub elbows with the good ol boy fun raisers.

Alphare

January 14th, 2010
4:02 pm

Kiffin, Shula, and W Bush, what do they have in common?

All hired by people in the south!

Dang!

January 14th, 2010
4:03 pm

Also….It was a blessing that Petrino left the Falcons. Im sure it will be for the Vols too!

Mike

January 14th, 2010
4:03 pm

I can understand why Petrino left, and I can understand why Falcon fans are upset. BUT, Kiffin brought all of these kids onto his boat then he jumped ship. Petrino just got out of a hell hole.

Dawghater

January 14th, 2010
4:04 pm

Kiffen by far! Petrio at least left an NFL job to a college job. Kiffen let a bunch of kids head spinning!

David

January 14th, 2010
4:05 pm

Alphare – if that was a joke, it wasn’t funny so don’t quit your day job…if you have one. We’re talking about college football here, something people in the north don’t know a lot about it seems…so go back to the soccer field and let the big boys work this one out, ok?

David

January 14th, 2010
4:07 pm

Since I see you’re monitoring these comments Mark…I would have had A LOT more respect for you if you had just written an article about how pretty much everybody in the SEC will miss Kiffin…LAYLA KIFFIN that is! It’s obvious we can’t agree on who the bigger rat is, but I think we all agree she’s insanely hot

Alphare

January 14th, 2010
4:07 pm

David,

The problem is, you big boys cannot figure it out, not to mention work it out. If you have stupid people making important hires based on a potential employee’s dad’s name, what do you think the outcome will be?

BAMA and TN’s heartaches in large part are self inflicted. Don’t you think?

Bob

January 14th, 2010
4:08 pm

Petrino is the bigger rat. At least Kiffin didn’t leave UT in the middle of their miracle 7 and 6 season.

Mid Town Joe

January 14th, 2010
4:09 pm

All this talk of rats, I think I’ll go out for Chinese tonight.

How2fish

January 14th, 2010
4:09 pm

ARK..I hope you can remember your own words in the future..and many of the experts will tell you and former coaches and AD’s you don’t rush a coaching search for a recruiting class. Are you nuts if the recruits are more important than the coach WTF are all these programs paying millions for? But my dog is not in this fight you like ol’Bobby fine…I think he’s a mouse to the Lammer’s RAT.Oh and congrats on keeping Mallet (sp) for another year..that young man can flat out toss a football.

How2fish

January 14th, 2010
4:13 pm

Mike as a UGA fan I’m glad Tommy didn’t wait..he could have been a great fit for UT.Still not sold that Bobby couldn’t of waited to take the UA job if he was really in their minds the 2nd coming they would have waited.

Max

January 14th, 2010
4:13 pm

get a life ppl

Foothills football fan

January 14th, 2010
4:14 pm

Dawgs97-Liberal GT fan base? LOL. Back on topic, Petrino probably edges Kitten on the slime-o-meter- however, Falcon season aside( insert Mike Vick)-He can coach and gameplan.

Gen Neyland

January 14th, 2010
4:15 pm

MB : There are plenty of loyal Volunteer’s. CPF is one, no doubt. One could say Johnny Majors was too until he went through a self-imposed exile after CPF took over as HC…Be that as it may, we’ll be fine Atop Rocky, better when Hamilton is shown the door. BTW, I’ve been calling for Hammy’s head on a platter for 6 months at least. Hope I don’t have to do it for another 6 months…

gatorman

January 14th, 2010
4:16 pm

I think everyone forgets that Petrino tried to stiff Louisville to go to Auburn but the AD got caught trying to pull it off; so I am sure that Tubberville would’nt agree, but then he did it to Ol Miss. It is a cut throat world we live in.

How2fish

January 14th, 2010
4:16 pm

Mark me too didn’t think that many Hawg fans read the AJC blogs….

ARK

January 14th, 2010
4:17 pm

How2fish

1. You think that because Bobby Petrino left your beloved Falcons that he is a bad Coach? One of the first names mentioned when Urban Myer had “retired” was Bobby Petrino. I can’t believe we RUSHED that all important coaching search to settle for a Bobby Petrino.

2. Recruiting is EVERYTHING in college football. You can have a Mack Brown or a Nick Saban all day and without players they don’t win.

3. Like I said, college and pro sports is all about business. We’re not married to these guys, nor them to us.

UglyOldDog

January 14th, 2010
4:19 pm

MB…you think Petrino was thinking about his personal safety when ran and left note behind instead of being a man about it

Dover

January 14th, 2010
4:23 pm

Petrino did it twice. Leaving Louisville in the middle of the night after secrectly meeting with two other jobs before that occured. The guy’s a real scumbag. Kiffin is too. Hope they get what they deserve.

Bama Falcon

January 14th, 2010
4:25 pm

I care less what happens to the Tennessee Vol football program, and as for Petrino he’s an A$$ hole.

mars

January 14th, 2010
4:25 pm

David, I must propose the irrefutible fact that actually it is you, sir, who is full of crap. I have that on good authority. Notwithstanding the fact that some of the crap oozing from your various orifices is printed on ths page at 4:00pm.

David

January 14th, 2010
4:26 pm

Alphare – You can’t bait me into defending Arthur Blank for the Petrino hire. It’s clear that Petrino is a college coach and he’s better off at Arkansas and the Falcons are better with Mike Smith. I get angry at the hate spewed toward Petrino by so-called Falcons fans, I really don’t understand it. Why can’t you people just realize everybody is better off this way and let it go?

As for the other hires, how many coaches actually “work out” and by what criteria do you judge that? The nature of college football today (and that’s not just in the south mind you, I believe Boston College had a little drama last year too) is coaches will bail on their schools and players in a heartbeat for more money and a more prestigious job. Until the NCAA steps in and forces people to live up to contracts, this won’t change. The very least they can do is decide on a window for coaches to change jobs and/or adjust the recruiting windows to allow for the impact of coaches changing jobs.

General Sherman

January 14th, 2010
4:29 pm

Rat vs Rat is not the issue or the question. The problem is people sign contracts that they do not have to fill.Coaches are like politicians,always looking for a higher office.They rape,pillage and move on like the Somolian pirates.They have no honor and will do any thing to drive the ego that they have!

David

January 14th, 2010
4:29 pm

Snappy comeback Mars…very well thought out and I just can’t refute anything you say. As the old saying goes, it’s better to keep your mouth shut and let people think you’re an idiot than to open it and remove all doubt…Thank you for opening your mouth and clearing up a few things for all of us.

Mike

January 14th, 2010
4:30 pm

David, it won’t happen. You can’t have schools being able to dump a coach whenever they want, and not give the same to the coaches.

Joe

January 14th, 2010
4:33 pm

Damn 5 pages of shi__ All you dog killers in Atlanta, aren’t you proud, I’ll take Petrino , Oh by the way Mark where will you write when your newspaper folds, We don’t need them anymore jackass let it rest

David

January 14th, 2010
4:36 pm

Mike, I agree with you…the NCAA is scared of change so nothing will happen. I’m not trying to promote any ideas to change it either. I do know this though, until there is no more money in college football, coaches are going to leave for bigger and better jobs. The ramifications of that affect a lot of people: assistant coaches, players already on the roster, signed recruits, potential recruits, sponsors of those schools, etc…I really believe those are just the breaks you have to deal with if you’re one of those others affected. If you don’t like it, get into another line of business. If you’re an athlete on that team, play your best, impress the new coach and if you’re good enough, you may have a future in the NFL and if not, you’ll get a college degree. Nobody owes these players anything with regard to their development as a football player or basketball player. I feel sorry for some of them really…I do, but bad things happen to good people all the time. Great people figure out a way to thrive in the midst of trouble.

Billy Bob Thornton

January 14th, 2010
4:45 pm

Mr. Bradley,
It is hard to believe that with all of the people out of work YOU are still getting paid. This is what, the 2nd, 3rd piece you’ve done on Kiffin?? Be at least a ‘little’ creative!!!!!!!! Guess that why you are writing in a local paper than mag or book.

Braves WIN, Braves, WIN, Braves...NEVERMIND

January 14th, 2010
4:50 pm

Without any question, it’s Barack the LIAR Obama, mmm, mmm, mmm.

Halsey

January 14th, 2010
4:51 pm

Petrino and Kiffin are both ambitious and talented coaches. We should wish them well.

Mr. Upright

January 14th, 2010
4:53 pm

Definitely Kiffin. The man has been a rat in everything he’s ever done. I’m no resentful Vol here. I’m a proud Vol who was disgusted by Kiffin’s hire and embarrassed by everything he did this year. I actually shuddered watching him stand across the field (and getting his butt handed to him) by the infinitely more classy Frank Beamer. I’m glad Kiffin’s gone, but the ratty way he left was the cherry on top of poop sundae he scooped out all season.

BraveMan

January 14th, 2010
4:56 pm

Petrino is the most unethical, RAT $%Y_##+@!#*$ that I know. The folks in Atlanta do not know the whole deal behind Petrino – he told lie after lie while coaching The University of Louisville. He met with Auburn officials in Southern Indiana while Tubberville was still the coach, lied about the meeting to the media and the UofL AD and had 3-4 more incidents. HE IS A RAT – HE WILL NEVER WIN THE TITLE because for all his X’s and O’s knowledge, players do not trust him; do not like him and his is a LOSER!! Go Cards – Charlie Strong is a real man!!

mars

January 14th, 2010
4:58 pm

Oh no, thank YOU! You’ve sufficiently made it clear. Please grace us further with your incredible wit and wisdom.

superDawg

January 14th, 2010
4:58 pm

TO ALL DAWGS BOYCOT THIS BLOG LET THE TEKNOIDS HAVE IT.

Mike

January 14th, 2010
5:00 pm

Kiffin is loving this type of thing. He should send a thank you letter to Petrino.

mars

January 14th, 2010
5:03 pm

And thank you again for pointing out that the facts are irrefutible. You may soon be able to operate your computer without a safety helmet. Huzzah!

DMR

January 14th, 2010
5:17 pm

The first thing Tennessee should do…SCHEDULE A GAME WITH USC. A HOME AND HOME. MAKE KIFFIN COME BACK TO ROCKY TOP.

Pitbull

January 14th, 2010
5:21 pm

Who’s the bigger rat: Mark Bradley or Jeff Shultz? Cast your votes.

Paddy

January 14th, 2010
5:23 pm

Petrino, hands down. You can’t include Kiffin in this vote. He is mentally defective and needs help not votes. And USC is not a better job!

mars

January 14th, 2010
5:24 pm

However, David, I must give you credit for calling out Alphare. That moronic drivel doesn’t make any sense. Nor does his reply. Where you from, Alphare? What stokes your interest in a blog from a “southern” newspaper? Do you have any coherent thoughts at all that you would like to share?

Dostoyevskiy

January 14th, 2010
5:24 pm

Add David Cutliff and Tn to mirror Kiffin and USC if he leaves Duke.

Alphare

January 14th, 2010
5:25 pm

David Cutcliff is the biggest rat of all. He just left Duke and became TN coach, what about those Duke recruits? Cutcliff did not even give his recruits 2 weeks as Kiffin did. What a rat, David Cutcliff.

Coffee Bluff DAWG

January 14th, 2010
5:28 pm

Mark,

What. Have you forgotten about Rich Rodriguez leaving WVU in the middle of the night?
This happened after losing to a dismal Pitt team costing a chance at the MNC.

DawginLex

January 14th, 2010
5:28 pm

Glad for Cutcliffe after what happened at Ole Miss.

Dostoyevskiy

January 14th, 2010
5:34 pm

UGa fans, be truthful, you know what CMR would have done had he been offered the HC at FSU. But, then again, who would not make that move!

Joe

January 14th, 2010
5:34 pm

Kiffin is the worst. He lied to incoming recruits and left UT’s recruiting in state of limbo. NFL teams don’t recruit, they select. Now UT will probably backslide considerably whereas the Falcons did not. Both coaches are liars and are a disgrace. Kiffin’s decision affected the young men he “wanted” to come to UT. What do they do now?

Dostoyevskiy

January 14th, 2010
5:36 pm

You know what I say? If a coach, or player for that fact, doesn’t want to attend my alma mater, so be it. We don’t want them either.

Coffee Bluff DAWG

January 14th, 2010
5:39 pm

Lil Lane was called a liar by Al Davis after coaching Oakland for 20 games and getting fired.

Tom, Resident Georgia Fan

January 14th, 2010
5:47 pm

Look up “punk” in any dictionary and you’ll see Lane Kiffin’s mug.

how2fish

January 14th, 2010
5:58 pm

Joe I hear your “pet” pig calling..now go away..

Bama Falcon

January 14th, 2010
6:00 pm

Never, ever, wanted Petrino’s ( howie doody ) A$$ in the organization to start with, david…

DC

January 14th, 2010
6:04 pm

Folks, grow up. There will not be one word written about Cutcliff being a rat and UT will not have one problem stealing away a coach that just got to Duke. Please stop with all of the hypocrisy. This is the system. Is it right? Don’t know, don’t care. We have been in the process of stealing away a D Coordinator from other programs and if Smart had come we, myself included, would have been through the roof cheering. Get off of your high horses people. Goooooooooooooooo Dawgs, Sic’em Woof, Woof, Woof, Woof!!!!!!!

how2fish

January 14th, 2010
6:08 pm

Dostoyevskiy no we Dog fans don’t know what CMR would have done and neither do you…jeesss what a maroon !

Mr. Thomas Anthony "the Taxman Cometh" Jones, SR (Waf-SS, Lt. Colonel/ ret.

January 14th, 2010
6:14 pm

No where in your blog do see the true victims in theis mess, the players. The coaches lie to us and our children in our living room. You jumped on Kiffin and Petrino, but why not mention the liar at the Univeristy of Michigan, “Coach Rod” Rodriquez, and Nick Saban who jumped ship on Michigan State, LSU, the Miami Dolphins, and one day will jump ship on Alabama, guaranteed.
And how about the rich folks at Auburn who went behind Bowden’s back. And don’t forget UGA where the Assistant AD quickly “forgot” to mail in the insurance for Mr. Decory Bryant’ Insurance and who fired three assistants right before Christmas. And Tech’s Big Wreak firedthe DC, Mr. Dave Wommack, even though Wommack worked twice as had as Johnson!!!!!!!!!

sadielovesbama

January 14th, 2010
6:17 pm

This an insult to rats everywhere!!! RTR

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:18 pm

Mark, as to petrino defenders, as you know, sometimes the lunatics are in charge of the asylum.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:23 pm

Mark, the gettin paid thing is gettin old. best, willie

Byron Mathison Kerr

January 14th, 2010
6:27 pm

The 678, January 14th, 2010, 3:41 pm:
Petrino is the bigger rat!! Nick Saban is a close second!! (ask Michigan State, LSU and Miami Dolphin fans) Alabama fans need to keep a close eye on his door!!

I’m an Alabama alumnus and fan, but I admit to not having the interest or knowledge in football goings-on that most bloggers on here have.

I tried to research why Nick Saban was mentioned derogatively in a few posts on the subject of Kiffin’s recent move. But simply pronouncing Saban a rat doesn’t tell me much.

I did find out that Saban resigned Michigan State in 1999 with a 9-2 season before the bowl game — which they won anyway.

Any coach that would resign before finishing the season is probably using bad public relations judgement. And I was critical of Urban Meyer for bringing about so much confusion before Florida’s bowl game this year.

But what would LSU fans have to be sore about? Under Saban’s direction, they won their 2nd national championship in 2003. And he adamantly refused to discuss rumors about going to Alabama before finishing the season with the Miami Dolphins.

Saban has been with Alabama three years and he just led us to our 13th national championship. This makes him only the 2nd coach ever to win national championships for more than one team.

As far as I’m concerned, if he wants to head for that door, then “Great job! Thanks for everything! Good luck! — except when we play any of your teams in the future.”

Is it simply a matter that relationships typically end badly — or they wouldn’t end at all?

Mike

January 14th, 2010
6:31 pm

Mark, here’s the true test for the “rat”.

Question: If you’re a Petrino-hating Falcon fan with a son who committed to Tenn because of Kiffin’s sweet-talking, who is the bigger rat?

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:35 pm

well, even the ole coach runs out of material once in a while. is uga’s 22 ranking based on the team having a defensive coordinator?

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:41 pm

at the moment, thats a pretty big assumption. have you heard any realistic rumors lately as to my successor?

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:44 pm

i shudder to think who CMR might be considering now.

willie martinez

January 14th, 2010
6:46 pm

RIDICULOUS!! as you said, that guy cant recruit etc. while the cowboys are playing. got no college resume at all.

Byron Mathison Kerr

January 14th, 2010
6:59 pm

This makes [Nick Saban] only the 2nd coach ever to win national championships for more than one team.

Oops! That should have been SEC championships!

Pete

January 14th, 2010
7:02 pm

The Lane Kiffin article below mentions Petrino also and even links to this page.

http://jockpost.com/lane-kiffin-liar-met/

Vol-tktholder32yrs

January 14th, 2010
7:44 pm

Kiffin , Pop and slobbering Ogerwrong deserve the worst the world can provide, both on and off the field. How can you slimers live with yourselves? Please crawl back into the sewer where you belong and save another program from suffering one embarrasing moment after another. P.S. – take lthe incompetent loser Hamilton with you.

Chucktown 38

January 14th, 2010
8:01 pm

Well if it looks like a rat smells like a rat runs its yap like a rat well,who care who’s the bigger rat just kill it!!

Ryan

January 14th, 2010
8:18 pm

Bigger group of crybabies: Atlanta Falcon fans/media or a room full of 2 year olds?

Get over it.

BeachGaBulldog

January 14th, 2010
8:23 pm

I hate both with a passion, so I won’t pick one over the other. They both can go f*** themselves.

JESUP

January 14th, 2010
9:11 pm

http://www.box.net/shared/0gok96fjoh FUNNY SONG…..RUNAWAY LANE

brutus

January 14th, 2010
9:12 pm

I know who the biggest “I just can’t let it go” D-bag is after reading this drivel. Are there any real men in left in Atlanta or are they all just a bunch of whining biatches such as yourself? Get it together man….

AusTx

January 14th, 2010
9:54 pm

Spare me your retarted logic, Mark Bradley. Leaving a bunch of overpaid, pampered professional athletes … and a crybaby, spoiled baby NFL team owner … doesn’t even rate on the richter scale when you compare it with what happened at Tennesse.

I don’t blame Kiffin for going home to his dream job. However, the things he did with the recruits he is trying to steal makes him the rat of all rats.

If Petrino had left the Panthers, the Jaguars or any other town in the south that does not have a big media presences it would not even be a blip on the screen.

Can’t wait for Hogs v. Dogs in Athens in September!!! Soooooie!

George

January 14th, 2010
10:13 pm

Are you seriously asking this question? Petrino was lied to by Blank and the Falcons organization….Vick went to jail….Hall and crew blatantly revolted against the coach….who wouldn’t leave those bunch of thugs??

Kiffin is the most ego-maniacal coach since….Urban Meyer, but at least Urban has earned that right. He lied to all the high school kids he was recruiting. Then his staff told the kids to not go to class in case they wanted to come to USC. What garbage. That guy is the epitome of a rat.

ron jules

January 14th, 2010
10:19 pm

Why would it be Petrino, because he left a trashy city with a team full of thugs? I am sick of idiot journalist who keep on bringing up a coach that left a team that was 3-10, and didn’t even have the players that he agreed to coach. Oh wait, he should have stayed and tried to win those last three games so his team could have finished at 6-10, then it would be ok to leave. That makes no sense. His family wasn’t happy and nor was he. He did what was best for them and more coaches should do the same thing. Unless you personally know Petrino and have witnessed his devilish persona, stop with these ignorant stories.

steve5270

January 14th, 2010
10:34 pm

You people in Atlanta continue to wine and cry over Petrino. Get over it. It’s as if you broke up with your junior high girlfriend and you read her love notes to feel sorry for yourself. It’s Friday night and your all alone and there is a tear in your eye. Shut up and be happy with what you have. Crybabies…..you too Mark Bradley.

hind tit

January 14th, 2010
10:49 pm

just 7 categories for these guy’s. you had a stroke and couldn’t finish, keyboard trouble, you got fired. you got the tenn job and had to catch a plane.surly you can come up with a couple thousand more.

Sonny

January 14th, 2010
10:57 pm

childish. can’t get off petrino since he left a sinkin ship that had been described to him as the new cruise liner? hahaha…call artie b and ask for a job as his pr man. you’d be a good fit.

if that doesn’t work out, think about journalism school. ya might like learning about that, writing and reporting the facts.

good luck either way!

Cylouden

January 14th, 2010
11:04 pm

If I was you I would be a helluva lot more concerned whether Georgia can find a new Defensive Coordinator than mouthing off about Bobby Pertrino – really, are we not happy with Mike Smith and what he has done with the Falcons? It is really getting old, old, old & brining families into the picture puts you at an all-time low & I did not think that was possible!

JESUP

January 14th, 2010
11:29 pm

VIDEO…..Grantham breaking down game film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSsx-E7UEHc …..He speaks well ????

JESUP

January 14th, 2010
11:33 pm

http://blog.cleveland.com/plaindealer/2008/01/browns_fire_grantham/1514/comments-newest.html ……………..SOME OF THE BROWNS TAKE ON GRANTHAM……..I like him

FalconPhil

January 15th, 2010
2:07 am

As a falcon fan, I still haven’t gotten over petrino leaving the falcons during the season! He’s a jerk and I hope he loses big at arkansas, with all those hog calling trailer park rednecks out there.

Sarah

January 15th, 2010
8:17 am

Mark, I think you would be surprised at how many ARK alumni live in the Atlanta area.

Byron Mathison Kerr

January 15th, 2010
9:16 am

@ FalconPhil: Pot calling the kettle black, no doubt.

@ Sarah: Never underestimate those Razorbacks, right?!

Rich Mckay

January 15th, 2010
10:06 am

Mark- There’s no comparison, Kiffin finished the season. So what if he left after only one season, everyone leaves at some point. Few people turn down their dream job out of loyalty to a company to whom they were employed for a little over a year. Petrino abandoned everyone, mid-season, during the darkest chapter in Falcons history. His exit was the most disgraceful act I’ve seen from a football coach. This is coming from a man who shook Tommy Tuberville’s hand in the Ole Miss AD’s office as TT delivered an unsolicited pledge to win a national championship, less than two weeks later he accepted the Auburn position. I also lived in Tuscaloosa during the Dubose, Price, Franchione saga. I wish nothing but the worst for Petrino.

Mark Bradley's Dad

January 15th, 2010
10:50 am

Well Mark, your mom is the biggest rat.

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Falcons' Fan

January 15th, 2010
11:07 am

I’m the biggest rat for thinking that my franchise even matters outside of Atlanta.

(Best move Petrino or any coach could make – leaving the Atlanta Dirty Turds.)

nate

January 15th, 2010
12:42 pm

Kiffin for sure, Petrino was smart and bold to get away from Arthur and the gangsters. Id have him any day plus he is proven. A coach can only go so far when played like a puppet.

charlie

January 15th, 2010
3:49 pm

2 years and y’all still whine over Petrino. Pitiful.

Chattanooga Chuck

January 15th, 2010
3:51 pm

I can’t be angry at Petrino since he did us a great favor by quitting. How would you like to be coming off his third season with Brian Brohm as the QB? Maybe things will turn out as well for UT as they have for the Falcons.

WPS

January 15th, 2010
4:25 pm

How is Petrino more of a rat than ATL Falcons? They fired Coach Mora after 1 season. They got what was coming to them with their thugs on that team, who threatened to make Vick Dog meat of him. The only reason Petrino was made out to be the slime in the Media is because Arthur Blank Check is such a huge ESPN sponsor.

Jimmy

January 15th, 2010
4:45 pm

A rat is a rat.

Unfortunately, college football is overrun by them.

Brady Sythe

January 15th, 2010
5:17 pm

all heck, you surely can’t blame Bobby for leaving that collection of thugs known as the Atlanta Falcons. I wouldn’t even had left a note in their lockers, considering it is doubtful that many of them can read!

Maxx

January 15th, 2010
6:28 pm

Ugh they both need to hold hands and jump off a cliff. PETRINO IS THE BIGGEST COWARD SCUMBAG IN SPORTS HISTORY. At least that sniveling punk douche a$$hole Kiffin waited until the season was over to leave his program high and dry.

DawgVoiceofReason

January 16th, 2010
12:47 am

Some of you have tried to compare Arthur Blank firing Dan Reeves with 3 games left with Petrino leaving with 3 games left. However, your premise is completely WRONG. Blank offered to let Dan Reeves coach the remaining three games but Reeves chose to decline the offer. Blank had promised to let him know if he ever decided to make a change and he did just as he promised.

Both Kiffin and Petrino are scum of the earth and why their current schools want them is beyond belief. I personally think Petrino is worse due to his lie to Blank and his absolute cowardliness in refusing to face his players. These guys have zero character or integrity and are all about themselves, to the extreme.

Students at schools other than USC on the West coast refer to USC as the University of Spoiled Children, because they are a bunch of rich, snobs. Kiffin fits in perfectly as a spoiled brat.

DawgVoiceofReason

January 16th, 2010
12:59 am

You people defending Petrino and attacking Blank are ignorant (aka ARK fans). Blank did not lie to Petrino; he didn’t know that Vick was running a dog fighting ring; no one except Vick did. Blank was trying to work with Petrino because of the tough situation he inherited and Petrino bailed on him AFTER committing to him, knowing ALL of the facts.

mars

January 16th, 2010
1:34 pm

Wow. What does being an Arkansas fan have to do with whitewashing a true scumbag? I understand you want to be loyal to your team, and rightly so! I always kinda liked the Razorbacks. But don’t let you loyalty blind you to the future damage this confirmed scumbag is going to do to your student-athletes. This piece of trash has left carnage in his wake throughout his career. Don’t blame us Falcon fans because you have embraced denial.

mars

January 16th, 2010
1:39 pm

Previous statement reads better as “because you have chosen to embrace denial”. Good luck with your scumbag. He doesn’t deserve your loyalty. However, your loyalty is yours to waste on whomever.

catfish31015

January 16th, 2010
3:34 pm

The Biggest Rat is the Sports Betting Services whom people actually pay out good money to for a winning bet. For anyone actually dumb enough to pay for this worthless dribble, I have a proposition: You pay me $100.00 and I will give you a guaranteed winner in the Arizona vs.New Orleans contest. If you don’t win with my “Lock of the Week”, I will gladly refund 100% of the cost of this service. Remember, you have to bet REALLY BIG on this one because it is my personal “Lock of the Week”. Bet BIG on this one game because it will make up for all the losses you’ve had all year. Now, if you’re a mind to, I can let you have the “Special Divisional Lock” for only $300.00. Of course, it has the same guarantee. (What I won’t tell you is the $100.00 Lock is Arizona and the $300.00 Lock is New Orleans. Either way I win. You only have a 50% chance of winning. We balance our “Picks” just like the bookies do, only instead of 10% juice, I have your credit card account charged after the game for an easy windfall. I also now have your personal telephone number to harass you daily to run up an even bigger tab. I just won’t tell you all this. Trust me on this one – you’ll find out.)

Ivan

January 17th, 2010
2:40 pm

Mark, you left off a choice. Vick is the biggest rat.

Ken Stallings

January 17th, 2010
3:33 pm

It is such a silly notion that reporters carry on like this about a coach changing jobs. Not one reporter would urge that his option to pursue other jobs be censured in the way reporters constantly censure coaches.

This all to predictable visceral reaction prompts a few questions:

1. When do reporters find it acceptable for a coach to seek other employment? If not after one season, then after two, three, four?

2. If it’s not right that a coach accept a better paying position, then is it only acceptable if they accept a lesser paying position?

3. Why is it offensive that a coach seek another job soon after his current team’s season ends? When else would it be better? In mid-season? Just before the start of the next season?

I suppose given the level of discontent among reporters that it’s considered a black ball offense if a reporter leaves one news network or paper for another? We all know the answer to that question, just like we know the answers to the others.

The truth is reporters change jobs all the time, do so on frequent timelines, and are always on the outlook for a better paying and more prestigious opportunity. There’s nothing wrong with that, of course. What’s disappointing is the rank hypocrisy with which reporters act when reviewing coaches doing the same!

Powder Springs Playa

January 18th, 2010
2:24 pm

That’s like saying which is more disgusting vomit or diarrhea.

Michael

January 18th, 2010
5:40 pm

“AJC sports columnist Mark Bradley is a blogging fool. But you knew that already.”

No I didn’t, but I know it now. Petrino left the Atlanta Chickadees when it turned out his quarterback was too busy murdering dogs to learn how to win football teams, and his bosses failed to tell him.

Kane337

January 18th, 2010
6:11 pm

How is Kiffin a rat? If someone offered you your dream job would you drop your current job and take it? Yea that’s what I thought.

USC is a 100x better program than Tennessee. USC is the #1 school in one of the hottest recruiting states (California). You just can’t get that kind of recruiting in Tennessee. Sorry Vol fans.

smith

January 18th, 2010
7:34 pm

Petrino took a 1.3 million dollar pay cut while its rumored Kiffen left Tennesse for more money. Seems to me like Petrino just wasn’t happy living in Atlanta.

Cliff

January 18th, 2010
9:40 pm

Mark Bradley for even writing this stupid article. The National Enquirier is always looking for this kinda crap.

Maya

January 19th, 2010
8:00 am

It is good thing Petrino the rat skipped town in the dark. With Petrino rat coaching the Falcons we would not have got any where, Why? He doen’t know how to coach men. He only knows how to piss them off. His college motivational techinique of threat and intimidation would not have worked.

Didn’t Glanville use threat and intimidation for motivation? Did it work? Din’t think so.

John

January 26th, 2010
1:36 am

Gosh get over it! Falcons fans are make me sick!

Go Hogs!!! WPS!!!!

John

January 26th, 2010
1:42 am

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Scott

April 21st, 2010
11:48 pm

I think the bigger rat is the one who wrote this article. An owner can fire a coach for no reason, but when a coach leaves without warning you label him as a shameless rat. I think the problem is the media.. I can’t blame Petrino for leaving the Falcons. He wasn’t happy in the NFL, and if your not happy then get out. After all it’s a job coaching a GAME. It’s not like he’s saving the world.

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