<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"> <font color="#800080"><a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3150783" target="_blank">http://sports.espn.go.com/ncf/news/story?id=3150783</font></a></p> So; Does this makes next years Arkansas/Alabama game the quitters bowl?</p> Further, who is going to Michigan: Miles or Cam Cameron?</p> </div>
Guess he couldn't handle it, he isn't the first. I wonder who the Falcons will replace him with. 3 different head coaches in 3 years, is not a good look.</p>
I would hope Dom Capers. That way Ron Rivera can bring all his experience & install a D more suited to the phins personnel.</p>
I don't think the Falcons would bring in a retread like Capers to rebuild. I've heard Mark Singletary being mentioned as the early candidate.</p>
This is absoulutely indefensible, however, Petrino may have done the Falcons a big favor.</p> Especially if it's like Diss says, I'm hearing Singletary's name too.</p> The only thing I can offer as a defense for Petrino's action would be that when he took this job, he was under the impression that Vick and Schaub would be his QB's. But you don't "quit". Man, you never quit on men.</p>
<span class="template"><span class="body"> <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Veteran safety Lawyer Milloy taped the "insensitive" farewell letter Petrino sent to players to his locker. Petrino's copied signature was crossed out in red ink.</p> "Coward!" was put in its place.</p> "Everything he preached over the past eight months was a lie," Milloy said. "Everything he said he stood for was a lie. He came in and messed with a lot of people's lives — he wasted a year of my life. It was a cowardly act. A selfish act.</p> "One thing I'm really [mad] at was while he was having a half-hearted approach to games, he was putting us all at risk. His mind wasn't in it. That explains why he threw a challenge flag a play after he was allowed to. Why we went for it on fourth-and-9 and punted on fourth-and-1. Maybe he was on the phone at Arkansas to the AD at that point.</p> "The cancer was diagnosed. Never would you want it to be your head coach, your general, to be that cancer, but in our case, it was."</p> <span class="template"><span class="body"> Blank would not divulge what Petrino's concerns were, but players said the fact that he quit when things got tough proved he wasn't up to coaching at this level.</p> "This league is for men," Milloy said. "Not everybody is built for this league. I think he realized that earlier than [Tuesday]. I'm glad that I don't have to deal with somebody who's not into this 100 percent. Everybody's in the boat paddling and he's on the buoy boat going the other way."</div></p> </p> </span></span></p> </span></span></p>
<span class="template"><span class="body">Added veteran linebacker Keith Brooking: "I've been totally committed to Coach Petrino and everything that he brought to the table. That's why I feel betrayed. It goes a lot deeper than just me. It's Mr. Blank and everything that he's given to us. There is anger inside of me because I bought into Coach Petrino and his beliefs and what he was trying to do with this football team. I feel betrayed with the decision that he made." </span></span></p>
<span class="template"><span class="body"> "We play on Monday night and he's not at the meetings," tailback Warrick Dunn said. "Guys noticed that. We talked about it before the game. Then word gets out this guy might be going to Arkansas. I heard this before the game. To be able to look at him face to face and for him to try and lead you and motivate you is tough.</p> "He sold us a dream. He put this organization last in his life. He's selfish. He's definitely a liar. One of the things we have hanging in our meeting room is [a sign] 'Finish.' If he wanted to leave, you can at least finish three more games. It's 18 days. You can finish it and say, 'You know what, this wasn't for me.' You can respect that. But to let it go yesterday the way that he did and the disrespectful way that he did it, to me he has no heart."</p> College players probably never spoke about him publicly like these pros.</p> </span></span><span class="template"><span class="body"> "This guy comes in, they don't want Allen Rossum, they don't want Grady Jackson, they change the running game from what he did last year and we went from first to almost last," Dunn said. "We had a million plays. You didn't hear us complaining.</p> "This guy affected not just my livelihood but other guys'. He had guys thinking that I couldn't play football anymore, that I couldn't run. It's not because I wasn't trying. I felt like he was setting us up to fail, and when you look back on it, he wasn't in it.</p> "We have to apologize to our fans. It's not because the players are not playing. Obviously, the guy's half-hearted. It's just one of those things where respect is out the window."</p> </p> </span></span></p>
Of all the feedback from the Falcons, this is my favorite quote</p> "<span class="template"><span class="body">One of the things we have hanging in our meeting room is [a sign] 'Finish.' If he wanted to leave, you can at least finish three more games. It's 18 days."</span></span></p>
I agree with whoever said that Petrino did Atlanta a favor, but if I'm Arkansas I'm worried. What if Phil Fulmer leaves and there's an opening at Tennessee, or LSU, or Alabama, or any other program that would be a step up from Arkansas? And now the talk down here is that Bill Parcells will be the one who chooses the next coach, so he will probably go for someone he has a history with.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ATLien @ Dec 19 2007, 12:39 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>I agree with whoever said that Petrino did Atlanta a favor, but if I'm Arkansas I'm worried. What if Phil Fulmer leaves and there's an opening at Tennessee, or LSU, or Alabama, or any other program that would be a step up from Arkansas? And now the talk down here is that Bill Parcells will be the one who chooses the next coach, so he will probably go for someone he has a history with.</div> If I was Arkansas, I wouldn't be worried, after all of this, who would take the risk of hiring him.
