Your daily reminder we could have had Bobby Petrino

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Since apparently assistant coaches' opinions of him are relevant, let's see what one of his former assistants has to say about this stand-up guy:

 

 

 

A lot of Atlanta fans, understandably, have forgotten all about the short tenure of coach Bobby Petrino.

But one guy who hasn’t forgotten is Cincinnati defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer, who was on Petrino’s staff in Atlanta in 2007. Speaking to the Cincinnati media Wednesday, Zimmer ripped Petrino, who left the Falcons to coach at the University of Arkansas.

“When a coach quits in the middle of the year and ruins a bunch of people’s families and doesn’t have enough guts to finish out the year, I’m not a part of it,†Zimmer said. “And you can put that in the Arkansas News Gazette. I don’t really give a (bleep). He’s a coward, he ruined a bunch of people’s lives, a bunch of families, kids, because he didn’t have enough (guts) to stay there and finish the job. And that’s the truth. Most people in football have enough courage about him and enough fight to stick it out and not quit halfway through the year. It’s cowardly.â€

Pretty strong stuff and I’m sure it will appear in newspapers in Arkansas and plenty of other places. Zimmer returns to Atlanta on Sunday as the Bengals face the Falcons.

 

 

 

How does a coach quitting ruin a bunch of families? Seems a bit of a stretch there...

 

 

I would imagine Petrino leaving put all the assistant coaches' jobs in jeopardy. Total guess, but I think anyone who wasn't a major coach - I mean like training staff, whatever other "lower" positions are there - who was hired at Petrinio's recommendation probably didn't have much of a chance of keeping their jobs once he pulled his dickhead move. At least assistants like the guy in the story still had the resume to find a new job. Is less than a year a reasonable timeline for an NFL coach when you hire him, before bolting? Of course not. You can't blame some of the employees if they thought they had a little more job security than they actually did. Even if they could find a new job easily, who wants to move to another part of the country mere months after doing it once for a job with the Falcons?

 

In any case, I think the coach who said that probably knows more about the situation than we do.

 

Obviously he didn't sign a lifetime contract and, legally at least, he's free to leave whenever he wants. But to not even talk to your players and staff about it in person? To have them find out by seeing a note you snuck into the locker room in the middle of the night to leave them? It's amazing that people just keep saying over and over, "coaches leave all the time," as if that means all situations are automatically equal. People leave their non-football jobs all the time, that doesn't mean there isn't a right way and a wrong way to do it; Petrino has repeatedly chosen that wrong way. Hell, the fact that Petrino did it the way he did in Atlanta shows that he KNOWS it was a scumbag move. Why else would he be afraid to face the team? What a loser.

 

 

Ahhh...

 

I was thinking about players' families, not asst coaches. I can see where his leaving could have an affect on coaches' families.

 

Even so, it's a volatile industry, and you don't go into without knowing you can lose your job, any day of any week in the year.

[Bull94]

 

 

If we had hired Petrino and he had bolted for the 'Ville after one season, that would have opened up a position for Calvin McGee (a coach familiar with Tampa that would love to run the USF program). McGee has only run Rich Rod's offenses for how many seasons? Word has it that he was shocked when we hired Skip. Imagine McGee and a good DC at USF. We could score like WVU and actually have a defense that played old USF football. Our defense was nice to watch most of the season. We would have not lost to Michigan State if McGee were running the program - the guy knows how to get the most out of a player's talent (not saying Taggart doesn't - but we totally were committed to a coach's system - not a player's abilities).

 

If Calvin McGee is such a great HC prospect then why isn't getting any attention anywhere else?

 

How has McGee done in the P-12.....I believe they have yet to finish better than 4-5!

 

not sure why you would attribute wins and losses to an OC. that's like saying our DC was responsible for our lousy record. nothing further from the truth.

 

Arizona had the #7 offense in 2012 and the #29 offense last year after replacing their starting QB.

[Bull94]

 

If we had hired Petrino and he had bolted for the 'Ville after one season, that would have opened up a position for Calvin McGee (a coach familiar with Tampa that would love to run the USF program). McGee has only run Rich Rod's offenses for how many seasons? Word has it that he was shocked when we hired Skip. Imagine McGee and a good DC at USF. We could score like WVU and actually have a defense that played old USF football. Our defense was nice to watch most of the season. We would have not lost to Michigan State if McGee were running the program - the guy knows how to get the most out of a player's talent (not saying Taggart doesn't - but we totally were committed to a coach's system - not a player's abilities).

 

If Calvin McGee is such a great HC prospect then why isn't getting any attention anywhere else?

 

I suppose you think every co-ordinator who has head coaching potential has already been discovered. that's a bit naive.

 

I wanted Magee when we hired Skip. Thought we made a mistake in passing on him.

 

He has run multiple top 10 offenses both passing and rushing and is a former USF coach as well as graduate.

[GaUSFBull]

 

If we had hired Petrino and he had bolted for the 'Ville after one season, that would have opened up a position for Calvin McGee (a coach familiar with Tampa that would love to run the USF program). McGee has only run Rich Rod's offenses for how many seasons? Word has it that he was shocked when we hired Skip. Imagine McGee and a good DC at USF. We could score like WVU and actually have a defense that played old USF football. Our defense was nice to watch most of the season. We would have not lost to Michigan State if McGee were running the program - the guy knows how to get the most out of a player's talent (not saying Taggart doesn't - but we totally were committed to a coach's system - not a player's abilities).

 

If Calvin McGee is such a great HC prospect then why isn't getting any attention anywhere else?

 

 

Bingo ...

[gobulls83]

I don't mean this as a commentary on McGee, who I don't really have an opinion of, but it's totally laughable to say this 2-10 team would have gone on the road and beaten a team that finished the season 13-1 and ranked No. 3 in the country if he was the coach. Is it theoretically possible? Yes, in the same way it was theoretically possible for them to go win with Taggart as coach. There is nobody in the world who could have been coach and would have made it not stupid to definitively say "they would have won."

Edited January 10, 2014 by gobulls83

[GaUSFBull]

 

 

If we had hired Petrino and he had bolted for the 'Ville after one season, that would have opened up a position for Calvin McGee (a coach familiar with Tampa that would love to run the USF program). McGee has only run Rich Rod's offenses for how many seasons? Word has it that he was shocked when we hired Skip. Imagine McGee and a good DC at USF. We could score like WVU and actually have a defense that played old USF football. Our defense was nice to watch most of the season. We would have not lost to Michigan State if McGee were running the program - the guy knows how to get the most out of a player's talent (not saying Taggart doesn't - but we totally were committed to a coach's system - not a player's abilities).

 

If Calvin McGee is such a great HC prospect then why isn't getting any attention anywhere else?

 

I suppose you think every co-ordinator who has head coaching potential has already been discovered. that's a bit naive.

 

I wanted Magee when we hired Skip. Thought we made a mistake in passing on him.

 

He has run multiple top 10 offenses both passing and rushing and is a former USF coach as well as graduate.

 

 

That still doesn't explain the fact that his name is mentioned ZERO times in virtually any discussions of head coaching prospects ... the lone exception being the two times USF has had a HC vacancy. 

[Bull94]

 

 

 

If we had hired Petrino and he had bolted for the 'Ville after one season, that would have opened up a position for Calvin McGee (a coach familiar with Tampa that would love to run the USF program). McGee has only run Rich Rod's offenses for how many seasons? Word has it that he was shocked when we hired Skip. Imagine McGee and a good DC at USF. We could score like WVU and actually have a defense that played old USF football. Our defense was nice to watch most of the season. We would have not lost to Michigan State if McGee were running the program - the guy knows how to get the most out of a player's talent (not saying Taggart doesn't - but we totally were committed to a coach's system - not a player's abilities).

 

If Calvin McGee is such a great HC prospect then why isn't getting any attention anywhere else?

 

I suppose you think every co-ordinator who has head coaching potential has already been discovered. that's a bit naive.

 

I wanted Magee when we hired Skip. Thought we made a mistake in passing on him.

 

He has run multiple top 10 offenses both passing and rushing and is a former USF coach as well as graduate.

 

 

That still doesn't explain the fact that his name is mentioned ZERO times in virtually any discussions of head coaching prospects ... the lone exception being the two times USF has had a HC vacancy. 

 

I'm sure you have a direct knowledge of this, how? you must know every AD in the country and who has been on their list of candidates , correct?

 

a simple google search provided this article from Conn as a replacement for pasquioloni. Not that a mention in the paper means anything at all but I guess that's what you mean by being mentioned.

 

http://blog.ctnews.com/uconnfootball/2013/09/30/who-guides-uconn-next-heres-a-list-of-potential-replacements-for-pasqualoni/

 

here's a rumor that he interviewed for Oregon's head coaching job. check with your AD connections over there as I'm sure you're well connected knowing that he hasn't been 'mentioned" for any jobs. you don't know candidates that are ever interviewed let alone offered jobs.

 

http://dailyemerald.com/2013/01/23/zone-read-am-state-representative-to-look-into-oregons-football-hiring-process-more-manti-teo-drama/

Edited January 10, 2014 by Bull94

[GaUSFBull]

Cool, you got one more.  Congrats! 

[Bull94]

Cool, you got one more.  Congrats! 

you have no clue who interviews for jobs . all you have is message board speculation just like the rest of us.

[JTrue]

"A" people hire "A" people.  "B" people hire "B" people and so on. 

Didn't the same AD who hired CWT hire Petrino?