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| Photo by Clinton Lewis, WKU photographer |
Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Arkansas State have something in common: all three failed to hire Bobby
Petrino as their next head football coach. By the way, UK, UT, and ASU might want
to glance at their football schedules for next year. Guess who shows up on all three schedules?
Bobby Petrino and his Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. I have a feeling that BP
will have something specially prepared for each university that spurned him.
Beware
of September 7, 2013, Butch Jones.
WKU
makes a lot of sense for BP. He spent four years coaching in Kentucky at the
University of Louisville—it was where he landed his first head coaching job and
where he made a name for himself nationally. BP said in the press conference
that he and his wife “consider this coming home,” but we know he’s full of it
and will leave WKU as soon as he can (just ask ASU fans about coming home). My
guess is that BP couldn’t turn down three chances at revenge (probably more
like two and a half, but we’ll get to that).
I
don’t think this is a man that forgives as easily as he’d like for the public
to forgive him. BP deserved a second chance, whether he is a changed man or
not. He’s said all the right things. However, I guarantee BP hasn’t lost his
fire, and he is already scheming for these three dates:
8/31/2013, Kentucky, LP
Field, Nashville, TN – Kentucky was the first of these jobs
that became available, and BP didn’t waste any time letting the Wildcats know
that he was interested. BP’s father made it clear in an interview with the Courier-Journal that his son would like
an interview. However, seeing how Kentucky is so concerned with the integrity of
its athletics department—everyone knows that John Calipari runs a clean program—the
school choose to uphold its honor instead of sullying its good reputation with
a scoundrel like BP.
Kentucky
lost to WKU this year, so it shouldn’t surprise anyone when Petrino beats the
Wildcats next year. At the very least, BP would have brought some excitement to
UK football. It’s more fun to lose 63-28 than 35-0. You have to start
somewhere. As long as BP is at WKU, the Wildcats will be the worst team in the state
as well as the worst team in the SEC.
9/7/2013, at Tennessee,
Neyland Stadium, Knoxville, TN – If I were Butch
Jones, I would be having nightmares about this game already. Sure, the
Volunteers should wipe the field with the Hilltoppers, but that’s the problem. Forget
about SEC play, you gotta get past the Sun Belt first. Imagine if Butch loses
this game: don’t tell me that there won’t be Vol fans demanding that Butch be
fired and BP be hired immediately. Butch Jones wouldn’t deserve it, but I
wouldn’t blame the fans.
Sweet
dreams, Butch.
TBA, versus ASU, @
Western Kentucky – My alma mater blew it. The Red Wolves
had a shot at becoming relevant. However, now it’s all over: the conference
championships, the dreams of being ranked, and the hopes of moving to the Big
12 (I literally loled lold lol’d [er, whatever] typing that last part). To be
fair, I’ve read reports that say ASU had Petrino locked up but that his wife
refused for him to coach in the state of Arkansas again. If that’s the truth, I’m
sorry, diehard ASU fans. You were so close... I wanted you to get BP. I wanted
to watch him work his magic in Jonesboro. I wanted him to use direct his pent-up
anger at the UofA and make THE GAME a reality.
Just
remember, ASU fans, when you travel to Western Kentucky (er) watch
the game on TV (sigh) listen to the radio broadcast next year that you could have had BP.
However, my suggestion would be to go after Rhett Lashlee, even though that
seems highly unlikely now.
One
last note. These coaching searches have brought something to my attention.
Maybe it’s because I’ve been a journalist, freelance writer, and seemingly
every other type of writer (including a hack) or because I’ve spent the last seven
years attributing information to others as an English major, but if you’re going to relay
information that you read on Twitter
or Facebook on your own page, give
credit to the source in some way. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen
people on Facebook copy and paste information
from somewhere else into their statuses without using quotation marks or even mentioning a source, only to read the exact update on Twitter a few seconds later from someone else. The solution is as easy as adding— “ ”
— AND — according to (insert name). Twitter makes this so much easier because you can just retweet, giving credit to the source without even trying.
Let’s
all try to be less stupid and more
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