Funny, Chip Kelly can't coach, but Petrino is our savior? And you base these opinions on what?
My observations of the two of them in action. Kelly's offense sucked ass against a decidedly mediocre Auburn defense. In a division with Miles and Saban, that shit won't work.
Both are offensive minded coaches, and both pay little attention to defense.
Ferraris and Yugos are both cars, with wheels and engines.
Kelly has at least won his own conference, Petrino has not sniffed an SEC title. He won Conf. USA and the Big East once each. Whoopty friggin' do.
Check out Oregon's schedule and then look at Arkansas'. Kelly was busy dominating UCLA, Cal, a sanctioned USC and...uh...who?
Petrino was putting the Hogs in their first ever BCS game while Bama and LSU (and even Auburn) were at their best.
Every Petrino fan says "he'll recruit better at Auburn". Will he...based on what evidence? Or will he take the approach he took at Ark. and just recruit offense, and let the defense have the scraps?
I haven't said that heretofore, but I will now. The reason: Auburn is a better/easier sell than Arkansas. We reach some pretty fertile grounds for our players (notably GA and FL). Arkansas is limited to AR/MO and the leftovers in LA/OK.
I posted his records in another thread. There are as many holes in his resume as anybody out there, and that's not counting the "creed issues".
I don't think there are any candidates with spotless resumes. I'm open to other options (Patterson, for example). I do, however, think that Petrino is in the top 3 available candidates.
On the plus side for Petrino, for him to take our job, he'd have to be an arrogant fuck to weather the shit storm of media, and that's the kind of guy I'd like to have in place. If he's all you Petrino Pimps think he is, then we might actually be able to out asshole the midget asshole across the state.
Agree with this.