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re: Petrino vs Bert
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:34 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 7/22/15 at 3:34 pm to lsufball19
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so is it Petrino is a shitty recruiter but doesn't need good players to win a lot of games or is it that Petrino has just been lucky at every stop he's made?
Petrino is a great coach, but he is not a good recruiter. He also still needs talent to win. Those 2010 and 2011 teams certainly had plenty of talent, albeit primarily on offense. He did manage to recruit some pretty good defensive line talent as well. The pieces were there in 2012 to make a run, but he still would have lost to Bama.
Had he not crashed into the ditch, everybody would have seen what he was really made of in 2013. There was too much talent lost and not enough help on the way. He probably would have done better than 3-8 with wins over Rutgers, Miss. St. and LSU.
The only problem is that Petrino has never stayed anywhere long enough to see if his way is sustainable. Bert has.
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Posted on 7/22/15 at 4:53 pm to Cornelius
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Had he not crashed into the ditch, everybody would have seen what he was really made of in 2013.
The only problem is that Petrino has never stayed anywhere long enough to see if his way is sustainable. Bert has.
This x infinity.
Seeing Petrino coach our 2013 roster is one of the great "what ifs" I've ever had as it relates to college football. He would've almost certainly left for a different job after 2012, and 2013 would've been a terrible year regardless. Something like 25 of the recruits from our 2010 and 2011 classes either never made it to campus or had washed out by 2012, so our 2013 senior class was as shallow as it gets.
Petrino is a great offensive football coach, but he quite literally does not care about defense (there are interesting stories about our practices) and is a colossally terrible recruiter because of his terrible personality. Plus, he's never been in a position where he's had to sustain his own success. His job stops have been 4 years (L-ville), 4 years (Arkansas), 1 year (WKU) and 1 year (L-ville), so he's never had to build a sustainable roster.
I would bet anything that he bolts Louisville again for a different job within the next 3 years (I could see him in the Pac 12), but we won't be seeing him back in the SEC.
This post was edited on 7/22/15 at 4:56 pm
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