A day after getting crushed on Monday Night to New Orleans, Bobby Petrino resigned his position as Head Coach of the Atlanta Falcons to take the Head Coaching job at the University of Arkansas. Petrino is taking a lot of slack from people for quitting after 13 NFL games, but this is not what he signed up for.
Things began to fall apart shortly after he took this job, They traded their back up QB, their star QB was running a Dog Fighting Ring and would not be playing this season. His team cried out Mutiny and tried to show up the coach, players were not playing up to their potential and it seemed they didn't even try.
Petrino has to do what is best for him and his family, that's the bottom line. His job in Atlanta was not secure. He would have been let go in three years, his players wouldn't respect him and he would have been hard pressed to find another job like the one available in Arkansas.
Petrino was pushed out the door by the system. Unlike Nick Saban, he showed class in not holding a team hostage, he left early to give the Falcons a head start in finding his replacement. When the Falcons would have fired him in a few years, they would have done so after all the coaching vacancies were filled.
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