After the announcement on Tuesday of the new coach at Arkansas, ADs at Michigan, UCLA, Colorado St., Duke, Houston, N. Illinois, and SMU have already begun calling Fayetteville asking for permission to speak to Bobby Petrino.
He is already considered the favorite for the LSU job if Miles leaves for Michigan on January 8th.
In all seriousness, with bringing in Bobby Petrino the SEC has taken two years to remove the best coach from the Big East and place him in the SEC. It’s hard to find a really bad coach in the SEC at this point.
The Razorback Nation is pretty excited about this hire, but will definately be waiting and watching. The talk in the sports world today is about Bobby Petrino being a bastard that would stab his own mother in the back for a cool $2.8 million a year, but it seems like he’s been a guy just trying to find his niche. He realized he couldn’t cut it in the NFL, but there have been many other coaches who couldn’t.
We do feel a little strange about it, because it’s similar to the guy who has a girlfriend that is way hotter than him. I now understand what Carolina fans were feeling when Spurrier was hired in ’04, except better because Arkansas isn’t a shit program like over in Columbia.
I’ll be surprised if he lasts through January, but if he does I’ll give it a year and then he’s off to some other gig.
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