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re: Petrino Talks to ESPN
Posted on 8/9/12 at 12:23 pm to bpfergu
Posted on 8/9/12 at 12:23 pm to bpfergu
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Pinkel's blood alcohol level was over the legal limit to operate a vehicle. You know why those limits are in place, right? Because it has been medically and scientifically proven that it will impair a driver's motor functions and reaction time.
I disagree with the bolded part. The legal limits are fairly arbitrary things which vary from location to location and they are adjusted when someone wants to claim they are tough on drunk drivers. If you look at different states around the country there is a lot of variability from state to state
I would be more inclined to regard Pinkel as a scumbag if he had a second incident of being pulled over but his one time incident with a relatively low BAC (not something higher like a .15 etc) looks like a one time thing which is out of character for him. I have at least mixed feelings on defending anyone who gets pulled over for an elevated BAC though. I know a couple people who died to drunk drivers (when the drivers were roaring drunk).
And none of this was really on the topic of the thread anyway. Petrino has been a pretty scummy character for his entire football life as best I can tell - it will be interesting to see how successful he is at rehabilitating his image in the media after a pretty disastrous six months.
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Posted on 8/9/12 at 12:27 pm to molsusports
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it will be interesting to see how successful he is at rehabilitating his image in the media after a pretty disastrous six months.
Agreed. He's saying all the right things: "Petrino said he and Becky are in counseling", "That's not how I was raised. That's not how I raised my children. I take responsibility for it and I am really sorry. I have played it over and over in my head a million times. How could I do this? How could this happen? And not just the hiring. Or that day. But my actions, my behavior -- for months it was just wrong."
He will be back, and I wouldn't even be surprised if it was in the SEC.
Posted on 8/9/12 at 3:09 pm to molsusports
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I disagree with the bolded part. The legal limits are fairly arbitrary things which vary from location to location and they are adjusted when someone wants to claim they are tough on drunk drivers. If you look at different states around the country there is a lot of variability from state to state
I would be more inclined to regard Pinkel as a scumbag if he had a second incident of being pulled over but his one time incident with a relatively low BAC (not something higher like a .15 etc) looks like a one time thing which is out of character for him. I have at least mixed feelings on defending anyone who gets pulled over for an elevated BAC though. I know a couple people who died to drunk drivers (when the drivers were roaring drunk).
And none of this was really on the topic of the thread anyway. Petrino has been a pretty scummy character for his entire football life as best I can tell - it will be interesting to see how successful he is at rehabilitating his image in the media after a pretty disastrous six months.
Not really. As I said before, there are established and well-documented effects that alcohol exhibits on the human body depending on the BAC.
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As far as I know, Pinkel's BAC was never released (I could be wrong but google isn't showing me anything). However, I think we can both agree that he was at or over the legal limit for the state of Missouri or else he most likely would have challenged the arrest.
Missouri's legal BAC limit is .08% which, as you can clearly see in the above link, represents reasoning, depth perception, peripheral vision, and glare recovery impairment. Don't you think all of those have an effect on how well someone can drive, especially at night?
I know the topic of this thread was derailed, but I'm not going to sit here and listen to the sheer hypocrisy of a Missouri fan critiquing our previous coach while stating that their drunk-driving a-hole of a coach is a "good guy". I'd rather my football coach bang a hundred hot blondes before I would approve of them getting behind the vehicle of a car under the influence and endanger other's lives, especially in an area with a lot of kids like a college town.
Puh-lease
This post was edited on 8/9/12 at 3:10 pm
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