a good article from SI:
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/201...=si_topstories
These are not normal circumstances. Not after the phone call Long received Thursday afternoon from football coach Bobby Petrino. During the call, which came minutes before the police report on Petrino's Sunday motorcycle crash was made public, Petrino informed Long that he might have misled the AD about one teeny, tiny detail of the crash. That led to the following revelations:
• Petrino wasn't alone on that motorcycle. He had lied to Long about this fact, and the athletic department put out a press release on Monday morning repeating that lie on Arkansas letterhead.
• Petrino's passenger was a woman. She was not his wife.
• The woman, Jessica Dorrell, is an employee of the Arkansas athletic department. (Hang on. It gets worse.)
• Petrino hired Dorrell, who had previously worked in the athletic department's fundraising arm, to the football staff last week.
To be clear, Petrino is most certainly not the only coach in America who has stepped out on his wife. The affair isn't the reason Long placed Petrino on paid administrative leave Thursday night.
This is why: It appears the highest-paid state employee in Arkansas hired his mistress to a department job. Later, he lied to his boss, in turn allowing the department to release the lie and appear -- at least for a moment -- complicit in the cover-up. (Which it was not.)
Now, Long must review the situation and weigh that information against this information: Petrino is 21-5 over the past two seasons, and the 2012 team appears to be better than the 2010 or 2011 teams.
....i would have to think part of the investigation will be to see what coaches might be interested in coming to arkansas, how many boosters want petrino gone, how many recruits are getting cold feet, and most of all whether the AD thinks they can still have a good program without an unethical many times over liar.
signed 20 years worth of contracts in a year and a half, with three different entities. tried to go to oakland, tried to go to lsu-just days after signing an extension.
oh, the unbelievable irony for arkansas. lmao told blank to take it like a man, and now it's their turn!!