Pig Headed...Out the Door

Bobby Petrino before..

   Given the last two weeks of his life…former Arkansas head football coach, Bobby Petrino, can’t be too concerned it’s Friday the 13^th. While some people will spend the day avoiding black cats, ladders, mirrors, and Fidel Castro (see Ozzie Guillen)….Petrino may just shatter a few bathroom mirrors to reverse his luck.

   But, if you think Petrino’s string of bad luck started with a motorcycle crash on April 1^st.....you’d be an April Fool. The cause of the wreck is still being investigated…but I have a hunch karma had something to do with it. (see Atlanta Falcons 2007 departure, and trying to snake his close friend out of a job at Auburn in 2003…while working at Louisville)

   For those that missed the story because they had to see, The Hunger Games, for a 12^th time…I’ll catch you up.

  The head hog..(Petrino) wrecked his motorcycle (also a hog) on April 1^st.  The 51 year old, was driving his Harley-Davidson motorcycle on a two-lane road about 20 miles southeast of Fayetteville when he lost control, slid through a ditch and struck tree limbs and a pile of dirt.

   Like fellow scholar, Ben Roethlisberger, Petrino was not wearing a helmet.. He suffered four broken ribs and a cracked vertebra. He told Jeff Long, the Arkansas athletic director, that he was alone at the time of the accident.

    Ok…bike is wrecked….and he looks like Freddy Krueger…but with a coaching record like Bear Bryant the whole thing could make him more legendary in Fayetteville.   

Bobby Petrino after....

    But, a few days later…shortly before the police report was made public, Petrino told Jeff Long, the Arkansas Athletic Director he had been driving a passenger, the former Arkansas volleyball player Jessica Dorrell. Dorrell, 25, was recently hired by Petrino as the program’s student-athlete development coordinator.

   That night Petrino, who is married with four children and two grandchildren, acknowledged an “inappropriate relationship” with Dorrell, and was put on paid administrative leave pending review of the circumstances surrounding the crash.

  And like Petrino’s character…the circumstances were also AWFUL.

Booty call #1..we think..

  Long revealed that Petrino had violated university policy when he hired Dorrell over 159 other applicants without clarifying that the two of them were connected. Worse, Long also discovered that Petrino had given Dorrell $20,000 in cash….Arkansas is a public university, so the Razorbacks could face legal problems over the hiring as well.

   So, that’s the worst of it right? Wrong. The 51 year old playboy thought the best way to communicate with his side piece was with his WORK PHONE…..

HAVE WE LEARNED NOTHING FROM TIGER WOODS? Use  pay phones…morse code..owl messenger..but not a track able phone. 

  And this guy is supposed to outsmart Nick Saban and Les Miles…ok it’s still probably a push with Miles..

She seems to have great taste...or daddy issues...

  Dorrell had been engaged to another Arkansas employee, but phone records show she and Petrino had been in contact as far back as September 12.

  Records also show over a seven-month period, Petrino and Dorrell exchanged more than 4,300 text messages and almost 300 phone calls, including during the time the police report of the accident on April 5 was being released to the public. 

Petrino exchanged 57 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 12, 2011

Petrino exchanged 91 texts the following day with Dorrell on Sept. 13, 2011

Petrino exchanged 70 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 17, 2011, the day Arkansas beat Troy

 

The two exchanged 73 texts on Oct. 17, 2011

Petrino called Dorrell at 5:52 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 5:49 a.m. and 7:55 a.m., four days in a row in the week before a loss to Alabama on Sept. 24, 2011

The two exchanged 84 texts on Oct. 28, 2011, the day before Arkansas played Vanderbilt

The two exchanged 26 texts on Nov. 19, 2011, the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State

The two exchanged four texts on Nov. 25, 2011 after the Arkansas lost to LSU

Dorrell sent Petrino a text message during Arkansas' Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State on Jan. 6, though Petrino didn't reply until the following day

The two in action....

 The two talked 11 times on April 5, the day the police report was being released, including two two-minute phone calls around 3:30 p.m.

14 year old girls think that’s obsessive texting…

Two observations..

1.)   The University has an AMAZING cell phone plan

2.)   Can you imagine what Arkansas would have been capable of if the guy was more worried about the pigskin….and not just getting some SKIN..?

So, Long made the right choice and fired Petrino earlier this week.  The decision means, Petrino will never utter the phrase pig sooie in Fayetteville after the school turned him into chop sooie. But, history indicates he will always be a pig…Friday the 13^th or not.

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