The House of Blue

Jurich was looking for reasons to oust Petrino near the end of year his tenure for constantly flirting with and seeking other jobs. It would take some serious pride swallowing from Jurich to go down that route again.

Your obsession with uofl is bizarre.

Petrino will not be back at u l...Some of you are obsessed with that idea...Hog head is a win at all cost AD for sure but i cannot see him hiring Petrino after what went down..No way

Ouch..Strong to UT..nice to not have him nextdoor...but having him at a SEC east rival could be rather tougher. Anyway..Im just elated to have Mark Stoops. Cant wait to get this football program running next season..and find out what recruits Stoops and company can haul in on short notice in Febuary.

Wonder if Joker is regretting moving for the FL job so early. You would have thought Strong would have put him on staff, maybe even as OC. Just can't see UL taking Petrino back. . . that would be nuts. . smart but a political disaster.

Props to UL for making it known everywhere that they are a stepping stone to the SEC.

Word is if Strong does indeed close the deal with Tennessee then Tee Martin is going as his O.C.

I called that a week ago, although i thought the name that would bring Tee back would be bigger than Strong.

I just can't see UofL and Jurich going back to Petrino. The more I've seen I don't think that anybody will hire Petrino, at least not as a head coach. Even though it's unspoken and not official, I think there's the equivalent of a black ball on Petrino right now. If he ever wants to be a head coach on the D-1 level again, I think he will have to earn it back first by working as an offensive coordinator or position coach for a few years.

Speaking of Petrino. I need to say something about my thoughts on Petrino a couple of weeks ago. Even if nobody actually reads this I will at least get it off of my chest .....................
A couple of weeks ago I vehemently explained how much I wanted Petrino to come to UK. I tried to explain why it was okay to hire him despite his past faults, and why he was the only hire that would work. I was all-in for Petrino at that point. Looking back, I simply can't believe that was really me saying those things. I'm extremely embarrassed that I allowed my fear of forever losing to overcome my common sense opinions. A week before I jumped on the Petrino bandwagon I thought the same things that I think about him now. He's a jerk, a liar, and not the type of person you'd ever want your kid learning anything about life from. It's easy for me to see now that hiring Petrino would have been an absolute disaster for the UK football program. So why did I lose my mind for about 2 weeks there. At that time there were all kinds of rumors about how coach after coach had been contacted and had "politely told Mitch thanks, but no thanks". I read that exact sentence probably a hundred times, and at some point I started to believe those rumors. I was so disgusted with always losing, and I was so scared that where the coaching search was going would lead us toward losing forever. Basically, my thoughts on the subject had become completely irrational, and I was ready to toss everything I hated about Petrino to the side just so that we could win.

Thankfully Mark Stoops had another plan entirely, and he sold that plan to Mitch. The rest, as they say, is history. I couldn't be any happier to have been completely wrong. Petrino to UK would have been a complete disaster from day one. Kentucky football would have been the punchline to every passive aggressive comment made by every sports anchor or columnist from coast to coast. Hiring Petrino would have divided the UK fans into two camps, and no amount of wins or time would have sold the Petrino haters that hiring him was a good thing. If it would have happened I'd have the worst possible case of buyers remorse right now, and I wouldn't have be alone. Nearly all of us that were advocating Petrino to UK would be sick to our stomach right now if it would have actually happened. I could go on and on forever about how dumb I was being to want Petrino. Even though it was mostly fueled by false rumors and I only thought it for a few days, I'll probably never be able to live down the shame I feel for saying Petrino to Kentucky was a good idea. I was more than ready to compromise everything just so we could possibly win, and I'll never be proud of that.

Thank God Mitch didn't listen to people being idiots, like me - LOL - Now we have one of the best young head coaches in the country, and I couldn't be happier about it. I'm one of Stoops Troops for sure.

Strong will not say anything untill after the bowl game. Per Strong

Wouldn't be surprised if Fedora from UNC gets that job

I'd bet $50 that these ut rumors are about 75% strong just releasing info to leverage a huge raise from uofl. Ut fans will be underwhelmed with a strong hire. No pun intended.

You are wrong.