Arkansas fires HC Sam Pittman

[BigBalls]

Bobby Petrino time! Hide your women. This early firing trend is pretty wild.

 

 

 

[Java]

IMO you should not give up on a season and fire anyone unless and until you have an agreement in place with someone better.  That way you can preserve and build on your fan base. Donations and recruiting.  As well as keeping your roster together.

purposefully dangling your team and program for all the world to see and others to pick over serves non purpose to me

[BigBalls]

Yeah, I don’t get it. Early firings placate the cry baby fans but pretty much flush everything else down the toilet.

[mandb]

Sometimes mid-season firings are necessary. Take it from someone who has experience. Ty Willy was failing badly by the end of his 3rd season at UW in 2007 and there was an ‘agreement’ to part ways, but the AD was a big defender and threw a wrench into that. He was immediately fired by the UW president. But with no AD to conduct a real search and fit objectives, TW was the HC going into the infamous 2008 season. The new AD was hired and after TW started the season 0-7 and officially falling out of bowl contention, was given his notice of termination. But for some unexplained reason, TW was allowed to finish the season as HC as the new AD said he didn’t want the team to be ‘orphaned’. Stupid and every Husky fan and booster were pissed. UW had enough talent to win 4 or 5 games that season, but as one starting player confided later on, TW ‘just sucked the fun out of football for me’. If a coordinator or assistant took over as interim with a different attitude (it was clear by 2008, TW just didn’t care), UW could have won a couple of games, especially against Paul Wullf’s absolutely horrible WSU team.

But yes, the mid-season firing are taking a troubling turn.

 

[Daystalker]

What was the backstory on that pic? Wasn’t it supposedly a motorcycle accident where he was riding with one of his staffers on the back or something, but was rumored that he got his ass kicked?

[BigBalls]

Motorcycle accident with his girlfriend, 25 year old former volley ball player whom he hired and gave $20k to as a gift. Bobby lost an $18 million dollar contract payout.

One of my favorite sayings: The screwing you get isn’t worth the screwing you get.

 

“Then-Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said Petrino — a married father of four — was having an inappropriate relationship with Dorrell for a “significant” period of time, and that he had gifted her $20,000. Petrino was also deemed to have violated the university’s affirmative action policy in hiring Dorrell, as the university required a job opening to be posted for at least 30 days before candidates could begin interviewing for the position.”

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2025/09/28/bobby-petrino-scandal-arkansas-motorcycle/86407315007/

 

[BigBalls]

Bobby lost an $18million dollar payout because of this incident.
Reminds me if one of my favorite sayings:

The screwing you get isn’t worth the screwing you get.

 

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/ncaaf/sec/2025/09/28/bobby-petrino-scandal-arkansas-motorcycle/86407315007/

 

Then-Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said Petrino — a married father of four — was having an inappropriate relationship with Dorrell for a “significant” period of time, and that he had gifted her $20,000. Petrino was also deemed to have violated the university’s affirmative action policy in hiring Dorrell, as the university required a job opening to be posted for at least 30 days before candidates could begin interviewing for the position.

[BigBalls]

I attempted to link an article but posts with links seem to go into post purgatory.

File under: The screwing you get isn’t worth the screwing you get.

 

“Then-Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long said Petrino — a married father of four — was having an inappropriate relationship with Dorrell for a “significant” period of time, and that he had gifted her $20,000. Petrino was also deemed to have violated the university’s affirmative action policy in hiring Dorrell, as the university required a job opening to be posted for at least 30 days before candidates could begin interviewing for the position.”

 

[Daystalker]

Just think of the odds.  What are the chances you crash your motorcycle cheek first into someone’s boot?

 

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