re: Louisville and Arkansas after Petrino - interesting parallels

I see the parallels but draw a somewhat different conclusion from them. I think he would have kept us among the elite and in the title hunt for years to come. At Louisville and at Arkansas, especially in the state that the Arkansas program was in when CBP inherited it, you had to win with good players before you could win with great players. He wasn't a master recruiter, but his teams got better each year as he started playing with more and more of his own players. Winning makes recruiting a lot easier. He just wasn't at either program long enough to get the full benefit of the recruiting boost that came along with his winning ways. I attribute the big drop-off at both places after he left largely to CBP just being that good.