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  • TheTurnaround13 said...

    Bobby Petrino is the best in the business at the following:

    Putting together a game plan
    Finding and exposing a teams weakness
    Play calling.

    By whose criteria? Yours? Again, the legend of Bobby Petrino as told by anonymous forums poster TheTurnaround13 takes on a life of its own. The best in the business of football at doing these three things? We are talking about the same guy who had a worse winning percentage in the SEC than Houston Nutt at the same program, right? Are we ignoring every other coach still employed that is successful just to perpetuate the fantasy that Bobby Petrino is the greatest coach in the nation?

    It's perfectly valid to say that he is good at those things. It's perfectly valid to say he sustained and built upon the successful situations that he was handed at his last two coaching stops. It's perfectly valid to say that he is a good head coach, and even to expect that he would do well at his next program. What you are saying is just crazy talk.

    JDHLaw11

  • If you are only willing to call Bobby Petrino just a good coach then that tells me all I need to know about your football knowledge.

    See ya.

    TheTurnaround13

  • For those of you that are convinced Petrino is the only way....will you change your mind if Petrino doesn't get a BCS job this year?

    Will you be convinced that there's at least the possibility that the risk exceeds the reward?

    djkycat54906

  • dj-ky-cat said...

    For those of you that are convinced Petrino is the only way....will you change your mind if Petrino doesn't get a BCS job this year?

    Will you be convinced that there's at least the possibility that the risk exceeds the reward?

    Why not take the risk? if it doesn't work, so what? It is not like we have ANYTHING to lose at this point.

    I would much rather try that then to hire a coach from San Jose State who has about 25% of ever winning more than 6 games in a season.

    TheTurnaround13

  • TheTurnaround13 said...

    Why not take the risk? if it doesn't work, so what? It is not like we have ANYTHING to lose at this point.

    I would much rather try that then to hire a coach from San Jose State who has about 25% of ever winning more than 6 games in a season.

    Risk is easy to assume when you don't have to bear any of it. Were you in a position where you were forced to consider the risks because you were dedicating taxpayer dollars to it, you wouldn't hold such a flippant attitude.

    Creative tactic though, assigning the famous "TheTurnaround13 Probabilities of Success and Failure at UK Football" percentage points to coaching candidates. How did you come up with 25%? It appears that MacIntyre has been much more successful taking a program from nothing (1-11) and making them successful (9-2) than Bobby Petrino has. What percentage do you assign Bobby Petrino, despite the knowledge that he has never walked into a losing situation?

    JDHLaw11

  • shauner17 said...

    So you're telling me that the only head coach in this country that can turn UK around is Bobby Petrino? Really?

    What happens when Mitch brings him in and he pulls the same crap here he's pulled everywhere else he has been? Not just one of his jobs, not just twice but every where he's been he has left a mess in his wake.

    As a manager, hiring an employee, are you going to go after a guy that will build it right, with a clean track record and skills to do the job? Or are you going to hire a guy that has screwed over the last three companies he's worked for and put your head on the chopping block with his?

    I think that pretty much sums up why he won't be here. Mitch would be made a laughing stock for hiring a guy that screwed his last three bosses over and expecting him to come here and be completely different.

    Laughingstock? Mitch? Hey, I'm not a Barnhart basher, in fact my opinion is that he's done a good job at UK. This hire will determine his legacy as AD here, however. He needs to get it right. I'm not even sure BP will come here, but IF Petrino is interested then Mitch has the spectacular hire UK desperately needs. So, yes, IMHO, Bobby Petrino is the only available head coach with a resume that is a predictor of success, here, at UK.

    ghostrider66

  • Bobby petrino has 0 long term condition that would anyway create the culture needed for UK football program to succeed.

    SMH, BP is just a bad idea.

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    Wildmoon

  • Wildmoon said...

    Bobby petrino has 0 long term condition that would anyway create the culture needed for UK football program to succeed.

    SMH, BP is just a bad idea.

    If UK hires that bum I am through with this program from the football standpoint.
    Not one more doll will go the program not 1.

    No more K fund no more donations for anything.

    Petrino is a bum a liar and a cheat of cheats you cheat on your wife you will do anything to win and get what you want. PERIOD

    dvillepro1

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