This is rock bottom

[Ipartiedwithhopgood]

I agree the threat was always there with the UF and UT jobs coming open and the trickle down effect of that, I'm just saying it was a heavy risk to once again bet on Petrino and handcuff the university just on the outside chance that a big time program would come after him and fork over millions of dollars for the rights to do so. I don't doubt for a second that another program would hire Petrino, my point was that I don't believe for 1 second that a major program would be willing to fork over a huge chunk of money to buy him out, take the PR hit and fan revolt and then pay him more than he was making at Louisville. I just don't think there was at that time the threat of a big time program doing that. Had Petrino been setting the world on fire and went 20-4 maybe go ahead and get an extension in place. But a mediocre record and a huge buyout pretty much locked him to UL for the duration of that original contract.

There was a fan revolt in Arkansas when they fired him even after the motorcycle incident. They clearly were not concerned with the "PR Hit"...

He didn't have a mediocre record either winning 8 & 9 games but this is the drum you've chosen to beat.

It's inconsequential anyway - because again, the main point is potential employers would not have evaluated him on just the WKU and 2.0 time frame that you're selectively using. It would have only been a portion of the image rebuild part of the discussion.

Potential future employers see a proven track record of placing 2 different programs into the season ending T10 that you are leaving out of the discussion, when it would be at the fore explaining why another program would want him.

It seems you are ignoring another talking point - the desire to maintain continuity at the HC position TJ was seeking. It has been a revolving door. You don't mind, and that's okay to have that position. TJ wanted to assure continuity. He was comfortable assigning that large buy out because at that time the HC had a history of T10 success in multiple locations.

For reasons I don't understand, you seem comfortable with removing history to match your agenda. Those T10 teams happened. They didn't vanish when his character was revealed.

 

[EKYCard643]

I 100% get what you're saying. I do, Neither of us is right or wrong. I just have a different outlook on how I thought that situation should have been handled and I said so at the time of the extension.

If I'm Jurich, I'm willing to roll the dice on the unlikely chance that a big time program comes after Bobby and forks over truck loads of cash for the honor to do so. Especially when I've already got him locked into a pretty solid contract in terms of length and pay. I just don't see what cards Petrino held that made Jurich feel like this needed to happen. Maybe, he was being pursued by someone...I don't know.

Pointless to dissect it at this point. It is what it is...no matter how much sense it made or didn't make its a massive problem now.

 

[Rollem Cards]

He for damn sure was by 2016. We were CFP contenders, and NOBODY was b!tching about his pay or contract...

No chit.

Just pointing out that today's star can just as easily be tomorrows beeoch.

Ain't nothing dead solid perfect except hindsight.

Coaching can be like the month of March.

In like a lion....

We'll see if Bobby's a contender, or pretender because he's got another year ,unless somebody comes up with a lot of cake.

 

[zipp]

No chit.

Just pointing out that today's star can just as easily be tomorrows beeoch.

Ain't nothing dead solid perfect except hindsight.

Coaching can be like the month of March.

In like a lion....

We'll see if Bobby's a contender, or pretender because he's got another year ,unless somebody comes up with a lot of cake.

Yeah, what people are essentially holding someone else accountable for is not being able to see the future. AND a future that very few people would have predicted.

That AD's name was Nostradamus...