Sooie (6-13-08)
Coaches don't betray people. Sixteen-year-old girls betray people.
Listen: I don't care how Petrino got to Arkansas. People can preach loyalty all they want, but with millions of dollars on the line, all loyalty lands you is a career that's beholden to the whims of others. Good coaches don't wait to get fired from dead-end positions. They jump ship while they have some semblance of credit left for leverage. Nobody wants to have to work their way back up the ladder in this business.
Derek Braunecker has everyone in a tizzy with his account of the Petrino hire, as related to “The Sports Animals,” Shawn Arnell and the DemGaz editor Wally Hall. Braunecker's story paints the new Razorback coach's hire in a much more sympathetic light than we've seen from the media thus far. Braunecker claims that Petrino and his agent, Russ Campbell, had the green light from Arthur Blank and the Falcons management prior to the sentencing of Michael Vick on dogfighting charges. Blank withdrew his blessing based on the advice of his public relations department. [more]
