re: Petrino is in line to get about 1 million in bonus this year

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Being offered a job then turning it down to extend at a current school seems like the definition of "shunned" to me.

Regardless, what's more to the point is that Petrino is a hell of a better fit than either of those guys would've been.

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Being offered a job then turning it down to extend at a current school seems like the definition of "shunned" to me.

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Bowden "turned down" Arkansas when Long was told to tell him he didn't have the money to pay him...

Doesn't matter, but several of Long's candidates were given a "NO!" by the people who cut the checks...

If you find that hard to believe remember this is the same man who has said Pel has been doing a great job the past 2 seasons...

What he has done in this amount of time is pretty crazy. That 2008 team was awful. We should have lost to Western Illinois and ULM.

Don't be offended. You misspoke about Saban not being worth the cash and got called out, it's ok brother.

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Arkansas had a great QB this year, and a great QB

Decent D..good coaching

From LSU's stand point, we gifted you 2 TD's...seriously, that was ridiculous, and hasn't happened all year. 3 bombs in one game? Are you kidding me?

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Not trying to sound cocky: that has happened to everyone we've played this year--it's just part of our offense. Petrino is a mastermind at finding mismatches and exploiting them. The 4th and 3 touchdown play was the culmination of a year of preparation after our game against you last year, according to what one of the coaches (I think it was McGee) said in the post-game press conference. They saw a tendency in the film after last year's game and started practicing the play in the spring and continued practicing it in the fall and throughout the season, planning to use it whenever the opportunity arose--against LSU or someone else. It just so happened that the opportunity surfaced against LSU.

My point in writing out that anecdote is that this is how Petrino operates... he believes in creating big plays. Some offenses operate on grinding out drives, but ours is a big play offense. There hasn't been a single team we've played this year that didn't give up at least a couple of these plays.

True enough statement regarding Long and Pel. I suppose I don't know enough about the behind the scenes dealings concerning approval from the foundation and boosters and such to speak intelligently about it, other than what was reported by the media.

Regardless, I guess the point is that I like our current position.

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True enough statement regarding Long and Pel. I suppose I don't know enough about the behind the scenes dealings concerning approval from the foundation and boosters and such to speak intelligently about it, other than what was reported by the media.

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Matters such as this normally do not make it to the media as it does not look good on anyone. It embarrasses the coach and your AD at the same time, but make no mistake it was a resounding "NO" with Bowden and a "Try again" with Grobe and a couple others...

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yes...we know where we're headed

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Another loss to Alabama in 2011?

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Is that what I said?

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No, but you're pretty much a dick in almost every post you ever make, so don't be surprised when you catch shite, even while people are (trying to) congratulate your coach and team on a job well done.

DaleDenton, sometimes it is better to say "yeah, I misspoke" than it is to keep digging.

Saban deserves every penny he gets because he has the track record. Petrino also deserves it, IMO, because he will soon have the track record.