He had very little success at Arkansas, I do not see him going back to the SEC West and I do not think LSU would hire a coach who has never even won a Power 5 Conference Division. He has the perfect situation at UL, why would he leave? He has a better chance to make the Playoff in the ACC than he does in the SEC. Urban Meyer could not beat Saban consistently so he left, Petrino ain't coming back.
Petrino To LSU
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Fair. I still reject the idea that someone in the highest level of their profession doesn't want to compete with the best in the game. If he stays at UL because the ACC is easier it says a lot about him as a competitor. He very well may stay there, but I don't think it'd be because the SEC isn't as easy to win as the ACC.
I agree with your premise about competing, anybody successful in sports, business or tiddly winks strives to be the best. I just think he would rather take his chances in a 2 game playoff versus a brutal SEC schedule year end and year out. Petrino is not a great recruiter he is a good recruiter and fills his holes with people with troubled pasts. In the SEC you have to be a great recruiter and LSU could change that but this run at UL could change that also.
"He had very little success at Arkansas"
Petrino was 10-3 and 11-2 in his last two years at Arkansas. If that counts as "very little success" in the toughest division in college football, sign me up for it.
Petrino was 10-3 and 11-2 in his last two years at Arkansas. If that counts as "very little success" in the toughest division in college football, sign me up for it.
Winning at any cost sure seems to be the in thing here for a lot of modern losers.
And yes, if winning a game is the most important criteria in your life then I consider you a loser. Transfer U would be an ideal place for you..
Petrino had a good bit of success at Arky, at a school that is much like UK in that it is in a state that doesn't produce very many P5 kids. His is very willing to adapt his offense to his talent. I think his best 2 seasons at Arky were led by a very tall qb, can't remember his name, but was basically statue in the pocket to what we now see in Jackson at Louisville.
LSU is one of the most talented rosters in the country, it is the only P5 school in a talent rich state.. He would need to hire a couple of assistants who are top level recruits.
Herman is the guy most LSU fans want, of course the SoCal job might be open soon too. But there is a rumor on an LSU site the Art Briles is being brought in as an offensive consultant to finish out the year and to be named as head coach after the season and bringing in most of his Baylor staff. LSU fans are split on this, but if it happens and they start beating Bama all will be forgotten. If it works for them, the next head coach is already there in Briles's son.
There is no place short of hell where his morals will fit in better than with jurich.
I think people are putting a little too much emphasis on the SEC being tougher to win in than the ACC. Like it or not, the SEC west's top 3 teams can't compete with the ACC's division Louisville is in. Bama might beat the top team, but FSU has already beat OM's brains in and they could be the conference's 2nd best team. We saw how it worked out for FSU when they played Louisville. Heck we might not even win 2 against the top 3 against the Big10. If you don't see the SEC in a downward trend I don't think you are paying attention, outside of Bama we just are very good right now. Then the East is a mess. At this time beat Bama and you win the SEC. You have 2 big games to win the the ACC and Big12. All these schools from different parts of the country are recruiting the south harder than ever and winning some big recruiting battles.
If you are implying that BP and Cal are in the same category in ANYTHING then you are being stupid. Very stupid.
LOL. UK fans were just talking about organizing to raise $16 million or so to fire a coach, with no idea if we could get someone better and before we see what the 17 season is like. BP won't pay a cent of any buyout, just like he didn't when he left WKU, although that buyout was a joke, WKU made money on BP coaching there one year. Which should tell you something about how much in demand he was when WKU hired him--------and he wasn't in much more demand when jurich threw the humongous contract at him for no good reason.
Perhaps the deciding factor in all this is if LSU hires the unqualified blonde from Arkansas to some cushy job, LOL. All is fair in love and war.
Y'all are seriously talking like the SEC is godly like that still. SEC is over as it was. No one respects the SEC like they did (except for ESPN who pimps them). They haven't been the best conference for quite a few years (and yes Alabama is the best team most years. That doesn't make the SEC great. UK basketball is a prime example). That belongs to the Big 10. Then prob the ACC before SEC. SEC has shown nothing in bowl games and OOC games for the past few years. As they say, times they are a changing. Bobby Petrino has it made. Jimbo fisher has it made. Someone said they need to test themselves against top notch comp and would join the SEC as a notch in the belt? When there's better, fresher comp in their own conference? Cmon now. Some of y'all just tug around Alabamas jock. Get a real identity.
Ole Miss looked great the first half against both FSU AND Bama, just let it get away from them, then looked GREAT the whole game against Georgia. Thug U looked great the second half against Florida. Hard to know what team is going to show up at times, hell, UK looked great the first half against SM.
What I would hate to see is ULin the final four, and they could be even if they lose to Clemson. That would set a new blueprint for football success, cheat and cut corners like hell, with the incompetent NCAA in charge not much to worry about.
But that could all change if the Madame gets the NCAA involved in looking at all their programs, they dodged a bullet by screwing up the hURTT investigation at the U so badly they had to just run and hide. They still may be a little miffed at jurich for not firing hurtt when they wanted him to, but then he probably couldn't-------another indicator if they had anyone paying attention or IF there isn't too much money to lose by investigating them. It does seem like "sports" is all about the money these days.
Whatever happened to UNC, by tthe way-------NOTHING so far.
This is what the fans down in Baton Rouge want. I have some family down there that are all huge LSU fans and they've been saying that Petrino is the popular choice down there and is the coach that everyone has been vocal about the AD going after.
Why would Petrino go to LSU? He will make as much at UL, living in a better city that he knows and seems to love, where he has already won the fans and is considered King, is in a P5 conference where he will have 2-3 real obstacles every year, and has an AD who will protect him.
Ranking Saban and Petrino in the same tier is a slap in the face to Saban.
You hope with all your heart. Even if so they'll hire someone like Briles, that we are too dumb to ever consider, and continue to beat our butts.
Agree with most of what you said and he did have a couple of good seasons there, his problem 2 of these 3 teams in Auburn, Bama and LSU were good every year he was there. This is the main reason I do not think he would go back to the SEC West, but, I do not think LSU is a option because like you I have heard Briles or Herman. and possibly Fisher. I think Petrino will not leave UL unless maybe Texas or Notre Dame called. Notre Dame will not call due to his past transgressions and I am not sure Texas would take another UL Coach. My question is the next time UK looks for a coach is who can they hire to beat Petrino. It sure looks like we will lose to them at least for the next two years.
Personally I do not see it as a better long term gig. Miles worst season was 8-5 (2x). Championship won, championship lost. And he is fired.
Too tough to please others win Bama is doing so well. Stays at Louisville and wins 9 games a year and he is a hero.
I thought he lived in Louisville.
It is interesting how LSU has seemingly vaulted to one of a handful of "best jobs" in the country. This is a place, after all, where Mike Archer and Gerry Dinardo coached, not that long ago. LSU's history, before Nick Saban and Les Miles, is not head and shoulders above a number of other schools. I wonder if LSU might have more trouble than it thinks luring someone like Jimbo Fisher or Bobby Petrino to this job?
Possibly true. It would be a hard gig. He could go the easy route. However, look at what Cal did. He knew it would be hard to succeed and meet expectations at Kentucky, and yet he is doing it and thriving on those expectations. I think the true competitor will want to rise challenge an not just hide from it.
I don't see why they would. They are literally one of the best schools to coach in my opinion. There are few places that have the homegrown talent of Louisiana and yet do not have another big time P5 school to compete with. Ohio State is a similar example, but I think it is even harder because you have so many other schools running to Ohio to get recruits, but many of the Louisiana kids don't get that because the coaches would rather get into Texas than Louisiana. So, they have a lot of talent at their disposal and they have a rabid fanbase that should put up the money to make them very relevant. With a great coach they should have enough home grown talent to be a top 10 school every single year. It's an amazing luxury to have.
Best bet for Petrino might be USC. Beach Boys said it best...wish they all could be California girls.
I think a lot of people are
I think LSU is a great job, obviously its one of the best jobs in all of college football but I think the LSU brass and the LSU fans might be in for a little reality check when it comes to the idea that they're just going to cherry pick a big name coach from a Power 5 program. The days of the BCS are gone...schools are paying coaches buttloads of money no matter if its LSU or Kentucky and the path to a title is simply a path to the 4 team playoff...
I still 1000% think Tom Herman is the next LSU head coach and I think that LSU made the right choice if that indeed happens but I also think their boosters and fans are going to be a little surprised when they discover that not everyone will jump at the chance to coach in Death Valley.
I think LSU is a great job, obviously its one of the best jobs in all of college football but I think the LSU brass and the LSU fans might be in for a little reality check when it comes to the idea that they're just going to cherry pick a big name coach from a Power 5 program. The days of the BCS are gone...schools are paying coaches buttloads of money no matter if its LSU or Kentucky and the path to a title is simply a path to the 4 team playoff...
I still 1000% think Tom Herman is the next LSU head coach and I think that LSU made the right choice if that indeed happens but I also think their boosters and fans are going to be a little surprised when they discover that not everyone will jump at the chance to coach in Death Valley.
I've seen a lot of pretty dumb posts on here the last week or so. But saying a guy who won 21 games in two years and took ARKANSAS to the Sugar Bowl "had very little success" just might take the award.
I sympathize with you, I filed it somewhere in my mind, but then I lost my mind.
If Petrino was your coach you'd be the biggest fan in the world.
There is never a that's that....ever. That's that is for biased fans who want hope. The only reason he would stay is his loyalty to Jurich for bringing him back..short of that, LSU is a far superior job. That is the voice of objectivity. For the record I think he stays, but not for the silly reasons that he loves the city of Louisville. LSU fandom would shame UK or UL fandom.
Winning cures all..ask LSU how they feel about his past from his personal life.How ironic is this?
He has no reason to go anywhere. He has his system and his players up and running..why leave???
That is a good point as well. If they play evrybody like they did FSU, They may go to NC game. But, it's highly possible that FSU was way over ranked.....wouldn't be the first time the voters jumped on a bandwagon.....
At the end of the day Petrino and his chances to make a playoff any year are better at UL than at LSU. I believe that's something to look at imo.