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LSUDad

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) -- Louisville football coach Bobby Petrino was fired on Sunday morning less than 30 minutes after he taped his weekly coaches show at a local television station. 

 

According to a source, the dismissal came during a 15-minute meeting with athletic director Vince Tyra. The source said that Petrino was fired "without cause" and that the coach expects to be paid his $14 million buyout for the remaining years on his contract.

 

The source also said that Petrino was told that he could not return to his office at the U of L Howard Schnellenberger football complex to talk to his coaches and players or collect items from his office. Petrino drove home and was told his personal items will be returned by the school.

 
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http://www.wdrb.com/story/39461382/bozich-or-what-went-wrong-for-petrino-20-eventually-everything

Several of Petrino’s former associates and friends were not surprised. His often abrasive personality left the coach with a shrinking number of allies.

“When you’re winning, you can treat people the way he treats people,” one former Petrino assistant said. “When you’re not winning, it all falls apart. Guys don’t respond.”

“I always told other coaches, it’s OK to do the Xs and Os like Bobby,” another football coach said. “Don’t do any of the other stuff like Bobby.”

What happened?

How could a guy who won 41 of 50 games during his first four-year reign at Louisville become a coach who was routinely getting beat by three touchdowns or more?

Everything happened.

Petrino could not develop a winning quarterback to replace Lamar Jackson, his Heisman Trophy winner who propped up the program in 2016 and 2017. Coaches who watched the three guys Petrino played at quarterback this year were stunned by their inability to execute the U of L offense.

Third in the nation in total offense last season, Louisville ranked No. 112 after 10 games, generating nearly 200 fewer yards per game.

Petrino did not help himself by standing up at Atlantic Coast Conference Media Day last July in Charlotte and volunteering that he believed Louisville was positioned to have a more potent offense without Jackson. Not true. Not close to true.

This time, the Louisville defense could not save him. Two years ago Petrino fell out with Todd Grantham, the talented defensive coordinator whose unit carried the program in 2014 and 2015.

If Petrino thought he could hire somebody who could run the defensive better than Grantham, he was wrong. The defense declined under Grantham’s replacement (Peter Sirmon) last season and has performed even worse for Brian VanGorder, U of L’s third defensive coordinator in three seasons.

At least six members of Petrino’s 2014 coaching staff are no longer with the program.

“A lot of coaches didn’t want to work for him any more,” said one of Petrino’s former assistants. “Too much tension. There wasn’t enough fun.

“He’d do things like give his guys a day off during an off week and then make them come in at 5 in the morning the next day. Why would you do that?”

Defensive coordinator was the biggest issue with the coaching staff. It was hardly the only issue. Over his five-season stay, Petrino filled three of his 10 assistant spots with family members — a son and two son-in-laws.

Win games and you can market that in an upbeat package: Louisville football is a family affair.

Get beat by a million by Virginia, Georgia Tech and Wake Forest and the narrative quickly shifts to questions about nepotism and whether Petrino needed a stronger staff around him.

This season there was more. Much more. An assistant coach and then a player showed up on the police blotter this season. Players transferred. Recruits de-committed. Tyra watched this team earn penalty after penalty and had questions about the organization.

It was a textbook list of issues that swirl around a program when everybody understands that only a coaching change will stop the drumbeat of losing and negativity.

Petrino was unable to help himself in the world of public relations. It was not a priority. His driving philosophy was to keep his head down and coach the team.

That works wonderfully when you go 11-1 or beat Wake Forest in the Orange Bowl as Petrino did during his first four-year run at Louisville from 2003-06.

It’s not a winning strategy after your team huffs and puffs to beat Indiana State and Western Kentucky — and fans decide they have better ways to invest their time and money on Saturday afternoons.

The wins that Jeff Brohm delivered at Purdue, especially against ranked opponents like Ohio State and Iowa, made it worse for Petrino in the world of talk radio and social media. Brohm impressed everybody as an example that there was a better way.

Jeff Brohm played QB for Louisville and in the NFL.  They are looking at him hard.

 

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5 hours ago, houtiger said:

Third in the nation in total offense last season, Louisville ranked No. 112 after 10 games, generating nearly 200 fewer yards per game.

At least some schools make changes when their offense ranks below 100th.

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3 hours ago, wsgeaux said:

With a $14 million buyout, Louisville must have really wanted him gone.

his reputation has always been horrible. 

as in you never hear anyone say anything nice about him at all. 

if you’re winning big-time, you can get away with it. 

if you’re not, then you’re probably unemployed. 

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2 hours ago, Nutriaitch said:

his reputation has always been horrible. 

as in you never hear anyone say anything nice about him at all. 

if you’re winning big-time, you can get away with it. 

if you’re not, then you’re probably unemployed. 

He single-handedly ALMOST made people feel sorry for the Falcons. That takes a special kind of person.

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9 hours ago, Herb said:

He single-handedly ALMOST made people feel sorry for the Falcons. That takes a special kind of person.

Todd McClure never had anything good to say about BP (Big Puss). People know what they are getting, when they hire him. 

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2 hours ago, Geauxtigs said:

KU only paid the HC they just fired $800,000 a year while Aranda makes $2.5 million a year as a DC.  I'm not sure Aranda wants to take a likely pay cut to take over a dumpster fire program.  JMO I think they're coming to talk to CLM.

 

 

or they may just be coming get some ribs at TJ’s  

i mean i’d fly in from Kansas for good food. 

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14 hours ago, La Tigresse said:

Plot twist?

 

 

 

 

The flight was rerouted to Colorado. Guess TJ's was out of ribs!

On Tuesday evening, it happened again. While Miles sat in his Baton Rouge home, social media rumbled to life over his immediate future. Reporters had tracked another flight, this one directly from Lawrence to Baton Rouge. At least one media member arrived at the Lawrence Municipal Airport just in time to catch the jet taking off, leaving a question hanging, literally, in the air: Who was on the plane? Who cares? It never even made it to Baton Rouge, re-routing to Colorado. 

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/11/13/les-miles-kansas-coaching-search-rumors

 

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57 minutes ago, Hatchertiger said:

The flight was rerouted to Colorado. Guess TJ's was out of ribs!

On Tuesday evening, it happened again. While Miles sat in his Baton Rouge home, social media rumbled to life over his immediate future. Reporters had tracked another flight, this one directly from Lawrence to Baton Rouge. At least one media member arrived at the Lawrence Municipal Airport just in time to catch the jet taking off, leaving a question hanging, literally, in the air: Who was on the plane? Who cares? It never even made it to Baton Rouge, re-routing to Colorado. 

https://www.si.com/college-football/2018/11/13/les-miles-kansas-coaching-search-rumors

 

so they was stoners? 

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