OUInsider - Owen Field

A bit strange. But, I feel sorry for the girl. It is easy for her to be drawn by Petrino's power and charisma. That kind of stuff happens all the time. It may hurt her career more than his. He has proven to be a good recruiter/coach . . . slimy but good. She is just getting started and has less to fall back on.

The attorneys are just making sure all the paperwork is in order. He is gone. She has a pretty clear civil case against Petrino and the University. A person in authority simply doesn't do this to an employee without potentially severe consequences.

I don't know what the University is going to do, but what I do know is that the overwhelming majority of hog fans are willing to look the other way on this one. Funny how winning changes things. It's only been a few years since some obsessive hog fan went digging up Houston Nutt's phone records to try and prove his infidelity, while the rest of the fan base were contracting planes to fly "Fire Nutt" banners over the stadium on game days. Now they're willing to look the other way because they've tasted a little bit of success. It should be pretty interesting to see what the University does.

Arkansas knew what kind of "values" they were getting with Petrino going in....what's the old saying? Lie down with dogs and?

I can see why he might want to use his "mistress" but what did she see in him? Especially if she was engaged? Ah well... more lives destroyed because people treat sex like it's nothing but a recreational sport.

Which is exactly why they wrote all of the Behaviour clauses into his contract. Which I believe give them the room to fire him now. I would be surprised if they did, I suspect the fan base will "Encourage" Jeff Long to give him a good reprimand and reminder of his contract clauses and let it go.

I'm not sure Arkansas can afford to fire him....then hire who? Take hits in recruiting, program is "on the rise". As much as I'd like to make this about morals, we are talking about an SEC school....win at all costs. Recruiting will suffer a little while but really...do you think other Coaches don't use the Atlanta Falcons job for negative recruiting?

You must be a democrat!

Is it true she's engaged to the strength coach?? Sounds like they're both trash.

Sorry Zev...was aiming at green arrow but accidentially hit the red. My bad!

Gus Malzahn?

Keeping both of them plus her fiance who is S&C coach for the swim team . . . I imagine it will be a little frigid in the athletic department for a while.

I talked with a friend on Friday, who is on some board with the athletic department at Ark, and he says that there is more to come and that firing Petrino is about the only way out. I got the impression from talking with him that Petrino has done something else down the line and now this is just the end of the road. He didn't say what else had happened but he implyed.