Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Arkansas was ultimately left with no other option but to fire Petrino - Andy Staples - SI.com - "Today's announcement is the culmination of a comprehensive search process which was intended to identify a leader for our football program that would serve our student-athletes and fans with class and dignity." -- Jeff Long, Dec. 11, 2007. -- "We have high standards and a national reputation. Our expectations from our employees can be no less than what we expect of our students. No individual can be bigger than the team, the Razorback football program, or the University of Arkansas." -- Jeff Long, Tuesday
Petrino fired at Arkansas | NWAonline - Matt Jones - Long said during the conference that Petrino's passenger in the accident, later identified as 25-year-old Jessica Dorrell, was hired by Petrino as student-athlete development coordinator from a pool of 159 applicants. Long said Petrino also gave Dorrell $20,000 before she was hired. The status of Dorrell's employment was not disclosed. Long said Petrino's actions in hiring Dorrell constituted as a "conflict of interest." "Our expectations of our employees can be no less than we expect of our students," Long said. "No single individual is bigger than the team, the Razorback football program or the University of Arkansas."
Arkansas Razorbacks fire Bobby Petrino as coach - (VIDEO) ESPN - Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino on Tuesday, publicly dressing him down for unfairly hiring his mistress and intentionally misleading his boss about everything from their relationship to her presence at the motorcycle accident that ultimately cost him his job. Athletic director Jeff Long announced his decision at an evening news conference and laid out a stunning laundry list of misdeeds against the man he hired away from the Atlanta Falcons four years ago.
Arkansas AD reminds us that college bigwigs can still do the right thing - Sporting News - Matt Hayes -Every once in a while it happens. In the midst of all that is wrong, something so right finds its way through. Arkansas should be utterly embarrassed today at the very thought of Bobby Petrino. And absolutely giddy about Jeff Long. At one point during Long’s press conference to announce that he, as athletic director at Arkansas, had fired Petrino, I stood up and clapped. In my living room, with my dog staring at me like I’d gone half crazy. This is what college sports needs, where the madness finally turns and we all get off this ridiculous carousel of pandering and enabling and selling out for winning. Where—I know this will sound foreign to some of you—there are actually consequences for choices.
Arkansas Razorbacks fire Bobby Petrino as coach - (VIDEO) ESPN - Arkansas fired coach Bobby Petrino on Tuesday, publicly dressing him down for unfairly hiring his mistress and intentionally misleading his boss about everything from their relationship to her presence at the motorcycle accident that ultimately cost him his job. Athletic director Jeff Long announced his decision at an evening news conference and laid out a stunning laundry list of misdeeds against the man he hired away from the Atlanta Falcons four years ago.
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
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