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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-11-2012 10:31 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: What's worse? Getting behind the wheel of a car and driving drunk or cheating on your spouse?
I'd go with drunk driving because you put others in harms way. There is also a big difference between having a BAC of .09 and .25 when it comes to how much danger you put others in.
Cheating on your spouse can tear a family, or two, apart, but it isn't likely going to involve somebody getting killed.(and before some smartass comments, I know people can pull a gun if they catch their spouse cheating)
One is a moral issue, the other is breaking the law.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
Guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early kill people. Spend a quarter, save a marriage.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 07:37 AM)blazers9911 Wrote: (04-11-2012 10:31 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: What's worse? Getting behind the wheel of a car and driving drunk or cheating on your spouse?
I'd go with drunk driving because you put others in harms way. There is also a big difference between having a BAC of .09 and .25 when it comes to how much danger you put others in.
Cheating on your spouse can tear a family, or two, apart, but it isn't likely going to involve somebody getting killed.(and before some smartass comments, I know people can pull a gun if they catch their spouse cheating)
One is a moral issue, the other is breaking the law.
This.
Drunk driving puts hundreds in physical danger. Adultery doesn't.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 07:55 AM)BlazerPhil Wrote: Guns don't kill people, husbands that come home early kill people. Spend a quarter, save a marriage.
Right, but you know if I didn't put that in there somebody would have come on and said something along those lines.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 08:28 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Someone missed my point. Which is for everyone moralizing that we shouldnt hire Petrino on moral and integrity reasons because he cheated, we have hired two other coaches who has done something worse. Used bad judgement by driving drunk.
I knew what you meant. I'm also willing to bet more people on this board have driven drunk than have cheated on their wives. That may have something to do with it.
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2012 08:31 AM by blazers9911.)
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 08:28 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: Someone missed my point. Which is for everyone moralizing that we shouldnt hire Petrino on moral and integrity reasons because he cheated, we have hired two other coaches who has done something worse. Used bad judgement by driving drunk.
Which is worse?
Easy!
Adultery.
Next question.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
Petrino didn't get fired for cheating on his wife.
He got fired for abusing his position to benefit his side honey and lying to his boss.
Morals aside, it's in keeping with his track record of a lack of professionalism and poor judgement.
I don't want him within a hundred miles of a program founded by Gene Bartow.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 08:59 AM)Smaug Wrote: Morals aside, it's in keeping with his track record of a lack of professionalism and poor judgement.
I don't want him within a hundred miles of a program founded by Gene Bartow.
+1
Never liked the dude and have said as much early and often.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 08:59 AM)Smaug Wrote: Petrino didn't get fired for cheating on his wife.
He got fired for abusing his position to benefit his side honey and lying to his boss.
Morals aside, it's in keeping with his track record of a lack of professionalism and poor judgement.
I don't want him within a hundred miles of a program founded by Gene Bartow.
Yeah, it's obviously just a philosophical debate, because there's no way it will happen. But Petrino's problems weren't that he got caught with a 25 year old blonde. It's all the other unbelievably bad decisions that surrounded it. He hired her over 150+ other candidates while he was sleeping with her. He gave her $20,000. Her fiance was a fellow member of the athletic department. He lied, repeatedly, to his boss. He apparently can't drive a motorcycle and text at the same time. These are the things that are unacceptable and the reason why he's going to have a hard time finding another job in college.
The interesting fact to me is how nobody is coming to his defense and saying, "He's really a good person; he just got caught up in a bad situation." Tressel had that. Butch Davis had that. Hell, even Eustachy back in the day had that. Nobody in the coaching community is saying anything about Petrino. That's probably because they listened to their mommas tell them "if you can't say anything nice...."
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 06:40 AM)oldblazer79 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:14 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:02 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: 90% of all posts on Blazertalk contain sarcasm. It is better to expect it. People will actually write in their posts, "...(not being sarcastic)" when they are serious.
Culture shock for me. I come from a message board where everybody thinks we're the end all be all in college atheletics.
why would a hog fan post on uat's message boards?
Um, maybe because I'm interested in your take on the situation? I think I've been pretty respectful, is there a problem with me being here??
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
I really didn't think you could make the Petrino for Mcgee switch, nor should you, if Mcgee did return to arkansas but it would make for a story. However, somebody probably will hire the guy next season, maybe UTEP to replace mike price, fitting.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 09:36 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-12-2012 06:40 AM)oldblazer79 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:14 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:02 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: 90% of all posts on Blazertalk contain sarcasm. It is better to expect it. People will actually write in their posts, "...(not being sarcastic)" when they are serious.
Culture shock for me. I come from a message board where everybody thinks we're the end all be all in college atheletics.
why would a hog fan post on uat's message boards?
Um, maybe because I'm interested in your take on the situation? I think I've been pretty respectful, is there a problem with me being here??
We are UAB, not only did you just disrespect UAB fans, you slapped our mothers, kissed our wives, and kicked our mascot.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 09:36 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-12-2012 06:40 AM)oldblazer79 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:14 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:02 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: 90% of all posts on Blazertalk contain sarcasm. It is better to expect it. People will actually write in their posts, "...(not being sarcastic)" when they are serious.
Culture shock for me. I come from a message board where everybody thinks we're the end all be all in college atheletics.
why would a hog fan post on uat's message boards?
Um, maybe because I'm interested in your take on the situation? I think I've been pretty respectful, is there a problem with me being here??
I read that as a jab at the inbred fans of our rural sister campus to the west, rather than at you.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 09:31 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote: (04-12-2012 09:28 AM)freeblazer Wrote: (04-12-2012 08:59 AM)Smaug Wrote: Petrino didn't get fired for cheating on his wife.
He got fired for abusing his position to benefit his side honey and lying to his boss.
Morals aside, it's in keeping with his track record of a lack of professionalism and poor judgement.
I don't want him within a hundred miles of a program founded by Gene Bartow.
Yeah, it's obviously just a philosophical debate, because there's no way it will happen. But Petrino's problems weren't that he got caught with a 25 year old blonde. It's all the other unbelievably bad decisions that surrounded it. He hired her over 150+ other candidates while he was sleeping with her. He gave her $20,000. Her fiance was a fellow member of the athletic department. He lied, repeatedly, to his boss. He apparently can't drive a motorcycle and text at the same time. These are the things that are unacceptable and the reason why he's going to have a hard time finding another job in college.
The interesting fact to me is how nobody is coming to his defense and saying, "He's really a good person; he just got caught up in a bad situation." Tressel had that. Butch Davis had that. Hell, even Eustachy back in the day had that. Nobody in the coaching community is saying anything about Petrino. That's probably because they listened to their mommas tell them "if you can't say anything nice...."
They're saving for a few years for the beautiful comeback story. See Tiger Woods.
The synchronicity in the story is that it seems text messages did them both in. It is stunning to me the people who engage in all their bad behavior in a way that is so easily tracked. It's also stunning that someone would think they could successfully send text messages while riding a motorcycle, as if reducing the number of wheels on the vehicle by half didn't provide enough additional degree of difficulty.
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
(04-12-2012 09:42 AM)UAB?IAB Wrote: (04-12-2012 09:36 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-12-2012 06:40 AM)oldblazer79 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:14 AM)hogfan44 Wrote: (04-11-2012 11:02 AM)Uncle BLAZER Wrote: 90% of all posts on Blazertalk contain sarcasm. It is better to expect it. People will actually write in their posts, "...(not being sarcastic)" when they are serious.
Culture shock for me. I come from a message board where everybody thinks we're the end all be all in college atheletics.
why would a hog fan post on uat's message boards?
Um, maybe because I'm interested in your take on the situation? I think I've been pretty respectful, is there a problem with me being here??
We are UAB, not only did you just disrespect UAB fans, you slapped our mothers, kissed our wives, and kicked our mascot.
Yeah, not cool.
Coming on here to chat is perfectly acceptable but mistaking us for the *ahem* "school" down the road?
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RE: why Bobby Petrino out at Ark is a great thing for UAB
Petrino will land somewhere, if not this year then next.
Weaseliness aside, he's one hell of a football coach, and some backwater school desparate for a winner will make him an offer.
Probably a CUSA school.
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