Bobby PetrinoA friend posed an interesting question to me at the grocery Sunday evening.
“So who’s going to hire Bobby Petrino first — Auburn or Tennessee?” he asked.
My answer was that hopefully neither school will hire him. Hopefully no one anywhere will hire the former Arkansas football coach who somehow forgot he was a married father long enough to have an affair with an athletic department employee, promoted her to a job she may or may not have been qualified to have, then lied about all of it to his athletic director.
Any university that would hire Petrino should disallow any pretense that ethics, character and decency are a part of its mission statement.
Just come right out and say, “Our motto is ‘The End Justifies the Means.’ We’re changing our athletic nickname to Pigs, Snakes or Cockroaches — at least until the ACLU or Humane Society charge that’s an affront to pigs, snakes and cockroaches — and we’re trying to hire John Edwards or Arnold Schwarzenegger as our school president.”