NCAA Petrino Motorcycle Accident

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Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino was in a motorcycle accident this past weekend. He was not wearing a helmet and suffered some rib injuries...

But it gets more interesting now- the university had said he was alone on the bike, but now it is coming out, he had a young female on board with him- the lady is a 25 year old blonde, who had just been hired by the university- from the news story...

Jessica Dorrell was a four-time letterwinner in volleyball , and progressed to handling fundraising duties for the Razorback Foundation. Just last week she was named a development coordinator for the football team, and will "handle on-campus recruiting and work with incoming players on eligibility issues." It also seems she's supposed to get married in June. Her fiancé works for the swim team.


ooops.....
 
this

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wanting to 'do' this instead?

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Well, apparently she was 'doing' that instead...

Petrino in hot water

When Bobby Petrino walked out on the Falcons during the 2007 season to become the head coach at Arkansas, the widespread assessment in NFL circles was that Petrino was a man who could not be trusted. Everything that has happened this week bolsters that assessment.

Arkansas placed Petrino on administrative leave on Thursday night after it became clear that he had lied about the circumstances of a Sunday motorcycle accident.

Specifically, Petrino lied — and had Arkansas employees lie on his behalf — when he said he was alone on his motorcycle. In reality, a 26-year-old former Arkansas volleyball star who was just hired last week as an employee of the football program, Jessica Dorrell, was riding on his motorcycle with him. (Dorrell was not seriously hurt and did not need medical attention. Petrino was hospitalized but has since been released.)

Petrino issued a statement in which he seemed to blame his failure to be forthright on the fact that “I have been in constant pain, medicated,” but he did acknowledge that he was also motivated by not wanting what he described as “a previous inappropriate relationship” to become public.

Petrino’s private life is none of the public’s business. But if he has an “inappropriate relationship” with a football program employee, or if he hires someone with whom he previously had an “inappropriate relationship” to work for the football program, or if he has another Arkansas employee lie on his behalf — as he did early this week when he had a school spokesman release a statement saying he was alone at the time of the accident — that’s a serious problem. Arkansas Athletic Director Jeff Long was clearly upset when he announced that he placed Petrino on administrative leave Thursday night.

“We have high expectations for our coaches . . . certainly I’m disappointed,” Long said. “I brought him [Petrino] here.”

Long also described himself as “surprised” that Petrino lied. The players Petrino walked out on in Atlanta could have warned Long that Petrino can’t be trusted.
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Well, they are adding a third one down here- apparently, Petrino was in discussions with Auburn about the head job while Tommy Tubberville was still firmly in charge. I'm assuming that was while he was at Louisville.

As for teh young lady- well, I'd have no problem hitting that, but have to question how she managed to escape the accident unhurt.
 
GG said:
this

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wanting to 'do' this instead?

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Good for Bobby. In all seriousness though, you can't fire him. They are a legitimate threat to win the SEC and National Championship this season, and he's done a lot for the program in the few years he's been there.
 
Tassie19Cairns20 said:
Good for Bobby. In all seriousness though, you can't fire him. They are a legitimate threat to win the SEC and National Championship this season, and he's done a lot for the program in the few years he's been there.
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Looks like the program is doing a lot for him too.
 
usalion's all over it. I've been going to Louisville games for 10 years and Petrino got the program within an interception of the national championship game. BUT....as usalion alluded to, seemed like every year he was angling for another job, namely Auburn...then finally the Falcons. Good coach, but Louisville fans knew wherever he landed, it wouldn't be for long. Dude lasted 13 games with the Falcons before quitting and taking the Hogs' gig. I told Hog fans, "Don't get too attached...." But I didn't he'd leave on account of knockin' boots with a hottie half his age!

Amazing how the privates will get men/women in trouble. Athletes, politicians, school teachers, priests.....doesn't matter. Petrino had a great setup in Fayetteville. Team was on the rise. Now? Who knows? Oh, I'm sure within a year, someone will hire his dumb ass....
 

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FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino and his mistress exchanged more than 4,300 text messages and nearly 300 phone calls over the past seven months — on game days, before dawn and even as the police report that hastened his downfall was being released to the public, according to a review of his business cellphone records by The Associated Press.

The messages, among some 300 pages of records released under a Freedom of Information Act request, appear to include picture and video files, though there was no way to verify the content. But the records clearly show a married father of four in frequent contact with Jessica Dorrell, a 25-year-old former Razorbacks volleyball player.

Petrino was fired Tuesday night for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell, whom he hired last month without disclosing his conflict of interest or the fact he had once paid her $20,000. Athletic director Jeff Long said he had determined their relationship had been ongoing for a "significant" amount of time, but he did not say for how long.

The phone records show that Petrino remained in close contact with Dorrell following the April 1 motorcycle accident in which Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a cracked neck vertebra and scrapes and bruises

That day, Petrino and Dorrell went for a motorcycle ride on a two-lane highway southeast of Fayetteville and skidded off the road. Petrino and Dorrell talked for 16 minutes earlier that day before the crash at 6:45 p.m., and they also had a 22-minute conversation the following day — while Petrino was apparently still in the hospital recovering.

Petrino's accident report was disclosed by state police on April 5, and the two talked 11 times that day. That included a pair of 2-minute calls around 3:30 p.m., when police were releasing the report that for the first time exposed her presence at the accident.

Later that evening, as questions swirled about his future at Arkansas, Petrino exchanged four calls with his agent, Russ Campbell, totaling 10 minutes.

The cellphone records show Petrino and Dorrell were in contact at least as far back as Sept. 12. The university provided nearly seven months of Petrino's business cellphone records, and that is the first date listed. Among the findings:

Petrino exchanged 91 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 13 and 84 texts with her over five hours on Oct. 28, the day before a game at Vanderbilt. On Oct. 17, the two swapped 73 text messages, and on four days in a row in the week before a loss to eventual national champion Alabama, Petrino called Dorrell early -- at 5:52 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 5:49 a.m. and 7:55 a.m.

The day Arkansas beat Troy, the two exchanged 70 texts. They exchanged 26 texts the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State and four following the Razorbacks' loss to LSU on Nov. 25. Dorrell sent Petrino a text during Arkansas' Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State, though the coach didn't reply until the following day.

The 51-year-old Petrino was earning an average annual salary of $3.5 million and he had built Arkansas into a national power, including a 21-5 record over the past two seasons and a No. 5 ranking in last season's final AP poll. He was expected to lead the Hogs on a national title run next season, but his career was effectively ended the day of the accident.

Petrino didn't disclose Dorrell's presence on the ride to Long until 20 minutes before the police report was released to the public. The records show Petrino's six-minute call to Long at 3:11 p.m., during which the coach first told Long of his inappropriate relationship with Dorrell and her presence at the accident. He was on the phone with her a few minutes later.

Petrino has issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to make amends to his family.

Long, meanwhile, is now a full day into his search for a new coach. Late Wednesday, he tweeted: "At this time I have not spoken to anyone about the Head Coaching position."

Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, now with the New England Patriots, tweeted his support for Garrick McGee. The former Razorbacks offensive coordinator was hired as the head coach at UAB in December after four years in Fayetteville.

"GM only coach Ark should look at if they wanna win now," Mallett wrote. "I'm talkin about Garrick McGee. He can win at Arkansas."

Mallett made clear he was not referring to Gus Malzahn, the former offensive coordinator at Arkansas, Tulsa and Auburn who took the head coaching job at Arkansas State in December.

"That would be a mistake," Mallett tweeted.
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Apparently, more than one young lady in Mr. Petrino's life....

From an article

Bobby Petrino has a love of motorcycles. So, apparently does Alison Melder, who was a former Miss Motorcycle Mania. We can only assume that is what they were talking about. Deadspin went through Petrino’s phone
records and discovered the exchanges with Melder, consisting of over 200 texts from September through November, including seven pictures sent by Melder.


I think the word "scumbag" is not too harsh a term for Petrino.
 
usalion said:
Apparently, more than one young lady in Mr. Petrino's life....

From an article

Bobby Petrino has a love of motorcycles. So, apparently does Alison Melder, who was a former Miss Motorcycle Mania. We can only assume that is what they were talking about. Deadspin went through Petrino’s phone
records and discovered the exchanges with Melder, consisting of over 200 texts from September through November, including seven pictures sent by Melder.


I think the word "scumbag" is not too harsh a term for Petrino.
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Scumbag is an apt description, but come on, I think i'd find it hard to knock back a round with a former Miss Morotcycle Mania.
 
More on this story...

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.co...over-one-of-his-falcons-to-hire-his-mistress/

And the original source from Sports Illustrated which investigated the job search process that saw Dorrell get the job instead of more qualified people...

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/20...as.records/index.html?eref=sihp&sct=hp_t11_a0

From the first PFT link...
When Bobby Petrino walked out on the Falcons to coach Arkansas in 2007, he did so in a fashion that had his players feeling betrayed. It turns out that the circumstances that led to his departure from Arkansas this week involved betraying one of the players on that Falcons team as well.

Petrino was fired because, among other things, he hired a woman he had an affair with, Jessica Dorrell, for the position of player development coordinator for the Arkansas football program. Dorrell was fast-tracked for the job and was the first person interviewed even though she wasn’t qualified for it, and she ultimately was chosen over the second person interviewed: Ben Wilkerson, who played for Petrino on the Falcons in 2007. It’s now clear that Wilkerson’s interview was a sham designed to hide the fact that Petrino’s sole objective in the hiring process was to get his mistress a job.

Sports Illustrated has detailed the bogus job search that Arkansas conducted prior to hiring Dorrell, and there’s no way to look at it and not conclude that Petrino wasted Wilkerson’s time with an interview because he wanted to make it look like Arkansas was considering other applicants. Wilkerson was obviously more qualified than Dorrell for the job, but Wilkerson didn’t have the advantage of sleeping with Petrino.

One of the “minimum qualifications” for the player development coordinator position was “two years of prior experience within a football program.” Dorrell had no experience within a football program at all. Wilkerson was a four-year starter at LSU, a first-team All-American on a team that won the national championship, and an NFL player who went back to LSU and worked with the football program after his playing career ended. Another qualification listed for the position was “master’s degree in related field.” Dorrell does not have a master’s degree in a related field; Wilkerson has a master’s degree in sports management from LSU.

Wilkerson wasn’t the only applicant who got passed over; 159 people applied for the job and the Sports Illustrated investigation found that many were obviously more qualified than Dorrell. The third person Arkansas claimed was a finalist for the job that Dorrell was going to get all along, a woman named Tiffany Fields, was significantly more qualified than Dorrell as well. Fields has two master’s degrees from Arkansas and has previously worked for the football program as a tutor, and she has also helped Arkansas organize summer football camps, which is one of the player development coordinator’s duties.

After Wilkerson was passed over at Arkansas he accepted a job as Grambling’s offensive line coach, and he said this week that he doesn’t want to talk about the experience of interviewing at Arkansas.

“I’m ready to just go on,” he said. “Of course I interviewed for the position, but I’d rather not discuss it because of the whole thing . . . I’m starting a new job now and that’s my focal point.”

When Petrino left the Falcons, he was described by others in the locker room as “classless” and “a gutless bastard.” Wilkerson is taking the high road publicly, but privately he could be forgiven if he has even stronger words than that for Petrino.
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