🏈 Petrino to Western Kentucky

[doemasters]

Nice hire for them i think, i am guessing he stays one year

 

[BamaFan615]

This looks like it's a win/win for WKU - they're getting all sorts of press over this, and if Petrino leaves after his first year he has a $1.2 Million buyout to WKU.

FWIW, I think it's a rolling contract (year-to-year) that stands at $850,000/yr.

 

[PhillyGirl]

Definitely a good hire. He's a good coach. It'll be cool to see how WKU does next year.

"Petrino contract four years, base of $850,000. Will owe school $1.2 million if he terminates contract. Incentives: $10,000 per year for 12,000 season ticket per year. $300,000 for BCS bowl. $25,000 national COTY. $10,000 3.0 team GPA."

 

[elldoubleu]

I thought that WKU was high on their current coach. At least that was the story when we played them this year. How pleased they were on the success that he had and how he had turned their program around. I guess they couldn't let the opportunity of getting ol' skintnose pass 'em by.

 

[RollTideRandy]

I thought that WKU was high on their current coach. At least that was the story when we played them this year. How pleased they were on the success that he had and how he had turned their program around. I guess they couldn't let the opportunity of getting ol' skintnose pass 'em by.

He bolted for the South Florida Bulls.

 

[JoshB]

Definitely a good hire. He's a good coach. It'll be cool to see how WKU does next year.

"Petrino contract four years, base of $850,000. Will owe school $1.2 million if he terminates contract. Incentives: $10,000 per year for 12,000 season ticket per year. $300,000 for BCS bowl. $25,000 national COTY. $10,000 3.0 team GPA."

No matter how small the school/team is I will never say Petrino is a good hire. He is a good coach on the field but the guy is a scumbag plain and simple. I'm sure I'm a little more biased against him than most because I'm a Falcons fan... but any coach that would quit halfway thru his FIRST season with a team and quit by leaving post it notes in the players lockers in the middle of the night is a true scumbag.

 

[PhillyGirl]

No matter how small the school/team is I will never say Petrino is a good hire. He is a good coach on the field but the guy is a scumbag plain and simple. I'm sure I'm a little more biased against him than most because I'm a Falcons fan... but any coach that would quit halfway thru his FIRST season with a team and quit by leaving post it notes in the players lockers in the middle of the night is a true scumbag.

Oh, I totally agree, I meant 'good hire' in the sense that he is a good coach. I don't like him at all as a person, both in the NFL and at the college level. He seems pretty scummy in general ..

 

[Bamabww]

I expected TT to make a run at him after tubby left for Cincy. And they may have but WKU made it first. Agree he's a good coach but a sorry human being.

 

[planomateo]

Sounds like he and Becky are working things out based on his press conference, "My wife Becky and I consider this coming home". Wish them all the best of luck at mending their relationship.

 

[psychojoe]

BP's extra marital fling is troubling. Even more so is the extent to which he manipulated the situation to hire his paramore and the way he lied to his AD in an effort to cover his misdeeds. From a football perspective a good hire, no doubt. From other perspectives very risky, and if anything remotely similar happens WKU is in a very exposed position.

 

[Irish#1]

BP's extra marital fling is troubling. Even more so is the extent to which he manipulated the situation to hire his paramore and the way he lied to his AD in an effort to cover his misdeeds. From a football perspective a good hire, no doubt. From other perspectives very risky, and if anything remotely similar happens WKU is in a very exposed position.

You hit the nail on the head. If he would have been honest up front, then I think he would still be at Arkansas with a letter of discipline in his file.

 

[JoshB]

BP's extra marital fling is troubling. Even more so is the extent to which he manipulated the situation to hire his paramore and the way he lied to his AD in an effort to cover his misdeeds. From a football perspective a good hire, no doubt. From other perspectives very risky, and if anything remotely similar happens WKU is in a very exposed position.

See I'm one of the people that could care less what a coach (or politician, celebrity, etc.) does in the personal life when it pertains to personal relationships (unless you're one of those "family values" guys then you most certainly should be held accountable). As far as coaches go I dont care who he's banging, but the fact that he used his position of power to get the chick he was having an affair with a spot in the athletic department and the way he went about being deceitful about the whole situation, thats a different story.

 

[psychojoe]

See I'm one of the people that could care less what a coach (or politician, celebrity, etc.) does in the personal life when it pertains to personal relationships (unless you're one of those "family values" guys then you most certainly should be held accountable). As far as coaches go I dont care who he's banging, but the fact that he used his position of power to get the chick he was having an affair with a spot in the athletic department and the way he went about being deceitful about the whole situation, thats a different story.

BP would be well advised to have someone else hire his office staff, for sure.

 

[TerryP]

You hit the nail on the head. If he would have been honest up front, then I think he would still be at Arkansas with a letter of discipline in his file.

From what I've been told, and I believe those who told me, he was given the opportunity to remain at Arkansas. It would have meant a cut in pay, public apology, and a few other stipulations. He didn't agree to the conditions.

What's not being told is the relationship with the Administration at Arkansas was strained as it was.

And, what's definitely not mentioned is he'd put himself in a "persona non-grata" relationship with some major bowl committees. That'll still come back to bite him in the ass in the future.

There's more to this story than what's has been reported. A lot more.

BP would be well advised to have someone else hire his office staff, for sure.

FWIW, Dorrell wasn't the first.