We don’t really care much about college football, and we don’t pretend to know much about its inner workings. But we do know a thing or two about [redacteds], and so we want to spend a little time on this whole Bobby Petrino situation (he’s pictured, two teams and one year ago, on your right). For those who didn’t hear, Petrino left Louisville to take an NFL job with the Falcons, then quit after 13 games to take the job at Arkansas. This process gave us two things: 1) The strangest ESPN graphic we have ever seen, in which only three NFL coaches have ever quit in mid-season of their first year. One of them we can’t remember. The other is Lou Holtz, who freakishly also left for Arkansas (in 1976) after “leading” the Jets to the same 3-10 mark that Petrino leaves the Falcons with. What are the odds of that? About the same as Holtz landing the role of Hamlet on Broadway. 2) Another sad sign of the times in which very few people are willing to persevere. Maybe Petrino does belong in the college game, and he’ll possibly be happier there in the long run, but he didn’t even give himself — or the NFL team he purportedly committed to — a chance. It seems rather gutless, and we can’t respect that.

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