Petrino takes hard line at Arkansas..

I know this is tangential, but did you all see the article about all-Big 12Texas LB?

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/footba...indle-was-just-dropping-by-u?urn=ncaaf,173420

Last Thursday, the Austin American-Statesman reported police were looking for a driver who crashed a car into an apartment around 2 a.m. Wednesday just off the Texas campus. The car smashed through a co-ed's bedroom, destroying furniture, an iPhone and a computer (though no people, thankfully; go Austin nightlife), after which the driver and passenger(s) pushed the car out and abandoned it down the street.
By Friday night, Texas' Rivals site had confirmed with Sergio Kindle's lawyer ($) that the Longhorns' All-Big 12 linebacker/defensive end was the driver, and the Statesman confirmed Kindle had been treated for a concussion the next day.
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So are police still looking for him? No, according to his lawyer -- since Kindle struck a stationary object, reported it to owners within a reasonable amount of time (the following morning) and will file an accident report with the Texas Department of Public Safety, it doesn't constitute leaving the scene. Texas coaches are "aware of what happened and ... happy he’s O.K."
So we have a legal adult with a history of reckless driving who loses control of his vehicle in a densely populated area with potentially tragic results and ... no harm, no foul?
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Guy drives his car into a house, leaves the scene and then reports it the next day, with a history of a DUI -- and nothing big is going to come of it?
 
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I agree with any thread typecasting Petrino as a cock meat sandwich.
 
Kieth Brooking was on 680 am this morning. He told some pretty horrible stories of when Petrino was coaching in Atlanta. He basically destroyed any team chemistry there was and treated the players like high school kids. It sounds like the players revolted by the time the season started.

I'm glad he is not at GT!!!
 
alan71 said:
I am sure CMR over at UGA will take him, he loves players that can be arrested for DUI. He might suspend him for the first (Patsy) game for "punishment". What a joke CMR is. DUI is criminal behavior, in my opinion, and Petrino has my respect.
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Not defending CMR, but I think you have to handle these things on a player by player/incident by incident basis. I can certainly think of several scenarios where dismissing an athlete for dwi would be too harsh (in my opinion).

...and Petrino is a bastard.
 
Yeah, yellow_jacket, my article said the same thing about the Texas LB -- still how can you leave the scene of an accident like that and have NO repercussions? Other than a bill.
 
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