Yesterday, Hilary Rosen, a Democratic strategist and Democratic National Convention advisor, said that Ann Romney “never worked a day in her life.”
By Rosen’s standard, raising children—five boys, in Mrs. Romney’s case—apparently doesn’t count as work. The nation’s 85.4 million mothers would likely disagree.
Rosen has since apologized for her remarks, saying her words “were poorly chosen.”
Yet, as Carrie Lukas, managing director of Independent Women’s Forum notes:
It’s tempting, of course, to hold this remark up as evidence of the very low opinion that many on the Left hold of stay-at-home moms. Feminists like Linda Hirshman, author of Get to Work … and Get a Life Before It’s Too Late have helped create the sense that many on the Left consider women who take time out of the workforce as letting down the sisterhood, and failing to contribute to society in any meaningful way.
And as Penny Nance, president and CEO of Concerned Women for America, asserts, Rosen’s remarks are evidence of “a deeper problem with the values of this administration and even sometimes society at large.” She went on:
We say raising kids is the hardest and most important work in the world. How does this administration not get how important stay-at-home moms are to our nation? Haven’t they heard the saying, “The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world”?
And if women had it their way, they would spend more time at home with their children. A 2007 Pew Survey reveals that 70 percent of full-time working mothers with children under 18 would prefer to work either part-time or not at all. The number of women who prefer to stay at home has grown since the late 1990s. As the Pew report shows, today just 21 percent of all working mothers say that full-time work is the most ideal situation for them, compared to 32 percent who said that in 1997.
However, the Obama Administration’s big government policies make it more difficult for families to make ends meet, restricting mothers’ ability to choose their ideal work situations. Burdensome taxes along with a rising national debt not only mean that families have less economic freedom today and that future generations will be strapped with the debt created by their predecessors.
Mothers are a priceless resource to their children, families, and the nation. Policies should support mothers—and fathers—who work hard every day to nurture the next generation of Americans.
I don’t know if Petrino had other girlfriends or not but he did exchange hundreds of texts with Alison Melder of Little Rock for 3 months last year. I first found out about this from the Arkansas Times Blog and several pictures are available there too. (UPDATE: The Arkansas Times Blog reported:Alison Melder’s lawyer issued this statement: “Unfortunately, my client has been drawn into a firestorm that is simply sad. While she did meet Coach Petrino last fall and kept in touch; the truth is that Alison has never in her life been alone with Coach Petrino. She is not a public figure, and any suggestion that she was involved in an extramarital affair with Coach Petrino is false. And it is actionable.”)
An analysis of the phone records of former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino revealed he was in frequent contact with a second woman.
According to Deadspin, Petrino and Alison Melder exchanged more than 200 text messages during a three-month period between September and November of last year. Melder also sent seven photos to the former coach.
A graduate of Arkansas-Little Rock, Melder, according to her LinkedIn profile, worked as a Senate assistant with the Republican Party of Arkansas. That profile no longer exists.
Melder has done modeling and lists her accomplishments as winner of the 2008 Miss Bikini USA and Miss Motorcycle Mania competitions.
Petrino was fired Tuesday after it was revealed he had an “inappropriate relationship” with female employee Jessica Dorrell.
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
What is the true cost of public education? According to a new study by the Cato Institute, some of the nation’s largest public school districts are underreporting the true cost of government-run education programs.
Cato Education Analyst Adam B. Schaeffer explains that the nations five largest metro areas and the District of Columbia are blurring the numbers on education costs. On average, per-pupil spending in these areas is 44 percent higher than officially reported. Districts on average spent nearly $18,000 per student and yet claimed to spend just $12,500 last year.
It is impossible to have a public debate about education policy if public schools can’t be straight forward about their spending.
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Public schools need more money? Is that the problem?
Neal P. McCluskey is the associate director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the Cato Institute and the author of Feds in the Classroom: How Big Government Corrupts, Cripples and Compromises American Education.
Soon after his boss introduced the American Jobs Act, Vice President Joe Biden held a conference call to get teachers’ unions behind it.
It was an easy task, with American Federation of Teachers honcho Randi Weingarten promising to “do whatever we can” to get the legislation passed. And why not? It’s teachers and other politically potent interests, not kids or the economy, that the Act is really about.
That teachers’ unions are gung-ho about the proposal — which would furnish $30 billion for education jobs and another $25 billion for school buildings — doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a bad thing. Kids need teachers and classrooms, right?
Many public schools are in terrible shape, but not for lack of funds…
Sure. But we all need food, too, yet we can eat too much, or scarf down the wrong things, and end up sick as dogs. And for the last several decades public schools have been throwin’ down Twinkies like they’re going out of style.
Look at staffing. According to the federal Digest of Education Statistics, between 1969 and 2008 (the latest year with available data) public schools went from 22.6 students per teacher to 15.3. District administrative staff went from 697.7 students per employee to just 363.3. In total, students per employee dropped from 13.6 to 7.8.
And what happened to achievement? Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress — the “nation’s report card” — flatlined for 17-year-olds, our schools’ “final products.”
But those employment figures are just through 2008. Haven’t the last few years truly devastated education employment? We don’t have perfect numbers, but what we do have says no.
The 2009 “stimulus,” recall, included $100 billion for education, most of which went to elementary and secondary schooling. A year later, the Feds allocated another $10 billion to keep education employment intact. Oodles of education jobs probably were created or preserved.
Unemployment rates support that. Bureau of Labor Statistics data for April — a month when most schools are in session — show that the rates in “education services” (which includes K-12, colleges and other training) were 4.8% in 2009, 4.2% in 2010 and 3.8% in 2011.
Education unemployment has been falling, and has been below not just overall unemployment, but unemployment for people with college degrees. In April 2011, the unemployment rate for the latter was 4.5%.
Assuming that staffing has been roughly constant since 2008, what would the magnitude of the cut be if the Obama administration’s worst-case scenario — 280,000 lost positions — came true?
Small, especially since the administration is talking not just about teachers, but also “guidance counselors, classroom assistants, after-school personnel, tutors, and literacy and math coaches.” Most of those positions are considered “instructional” and “support” staff, and in 2008 there were 6,182,785 such employees. Losing 280,000 would be just a 4.5% trimming. And that’s the worst-case scenario.
So much for employment. How about crumbling schools?
Many public schools are in terrible shape, but not for lack of funds: Public school spending rose from $5,671 per student in 1970-71 to $12,922 in 2007-08. Much of that went to pay for all the new employees, but facilities spending ballooned as well.
It’s hard to know for sure, but too often not dull maintenance. Instead, it went to glory projects such as the $578 million Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex in Los Angeles, which boasts such educationally essential features as talking benches that explain the site’s history (Robert Kennedy was shot at the hotel that once stood there), and an auditorium that mimics the Cocoanut Grove nightclub.
Politicians simply don’t star in golden-shovel groundbreakings when bathroom stalls are replaced. They do get such free publicity when opulent buildings are erected. And while the Jobs Act wouldn’t fund new buildings, it would bail out districts that long traded function for flash, and would pay for spiffy new science labs and other glitzy additions. And naturally, all the work would have to be done at union rates.
This makes no educational sense. It also makes no economic sense: Taxpayers would ultimately have to pay for the Jobs Act, meaning money would be taken from the people who earned it and given to infamous squanderers. That almost certainly means a net loss of jobs.
But this isn’t really about education or job growth. It’s about politics. At least, that’s all that the evidence allows you to conclude.
Sports talk host Bo Mattingly joined the Tim Brando Show to discuss the recent firing of Arkansas football head coach Bobby Petrino, and what the future holds for the Razorback football program.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino went out of his way to refer to his relationship with Jessica Dorrell in the past tense when he was put on paid leave.
Cellphone records show the two remained in near-daily contact before and after the motorcycle accident that led to his firing.
Petrino and Dorrell exchanged more than 4,300 text messages and nearly 300 phone calls over the past seven months — on game days, before dawn and even as the police report that hastened his downfall was being released to the public, according to a review of his business cellphone records by The Associated Press.
The messages, among some 300 pages of records released Wednesday under a Freedom of Information Act request, appear to include picture and video files, though there was no way to verify the content. But the records clearly show a married father of four in frequent contact with Dorrell, a 25-year-old former Razorbacks volleyball player.
Petrino was fired Tuesday night for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell, whom he hired last month without disclosing his conflict of interest or the fact he had once paid her $20,000.
Athletic director Jeff Long said he had determined their relationship had been ongoing for a “significant” amount of time, but he did not say for how long.
The phone records show that Petrino remained in close contact with Dorrell following the April 1 motorcycle accident in which Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a cracked neck vertebra and scrapes and bruises
That day, Petrino and Dorrell went for a motorcycle ride on a two-lane highway southeast of Fayetteville and skidded off the road. Petrino and Dorrell talked for 16 minutes earlier that day before the crash at 6:45 p.m., and they also had a 22-minute conversation the following day — while Petrino was apparently still in the hospital recovering.
Petrino’s accident report was disclosed by state police on April 5, and the two talked 11 times that day. That included a pair of 2-minute calls around 3:30 p.m., when police were releasing the report that for the first time exposed her presence at the accident.
Later that evening, as questions swirled about his future at Arkansas, Petrino exchanged four calls with his agent, Russ Campbell, totaling 10 minutes.
The cellphone records show Petrino and Dorrell were in contact at least as far back as Sept. 12. The university provided nearly seven months of Petrino’s business cellphone records, and that is the first date listed.
Among the findings:
Petrino exchanged 91 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 13 and 84 texts with her over five hours on Oct. 28, the day before a game at Vanderbilt.
On Oct. 17, the two swapped 73 text messages, and on four days in a row in the week before a loss to eventual national champion Alabama, Petrino called Dorrell early — at 5:52 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 5:49 a.m. and 7:55 a.m.
The day Arkansas beat Troy, the two exchanged 70 texts. They exchanged 26 texts the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State and four following the Razorbacks’ loss to LSU on Nov. 25.
Dorrell sent Petrino a text during Arkansas’ Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State, though the coach didn’t reply until the following day.
The 51-year-old Petrino was earning an average annual salary of $3.5 million and he had built Arkansas into a national power, including a 21-5 record over the past two seasons and a No. 5 ranking in last season’s final AP poll. He was expected to lead the Hogs on a national title run next season, but his career was effectively ended the day of the accident.
Petrino didn’t disclose Dorrell’s presence on the ride to Long until 20 minutes before the police report was released to the public. The records show Petrino’s six-minute call to Long at 3:11 p.m., during which the coach first told Long of his inappropriate relationship with Dorrell and her presence at the accident. He was on the phone with her a few minutes later.
Petrino has issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to make amends to his family.
Long, meanwhile, is now a full day into his search for a new coach. Late Wednesday, he tweeted: “At this time I have not spoken to anyone about the Head Coaching position.”
Former Arkansas quarterback Ryan Mallett, now with the New England Patriots, tweeted his support for Garrick McGee. The former Razorbacks offensive coordinator was hired as the head coach at UAB in December after four years in Fayetteville.
“GM only coach Ark should look at if they wanna win now,” Mallett wrote. “I’m talkin about Garrick McGee. He can win at Arkansas.”
Mallett made clear he was not referring to Gus Malzahn, the former offensive coordinator at Arkansas, Tulsa and Auburn who took the head coaching job at Arkansas State in December.
“That would be a mistake,” Mallett tweeted.
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Associated Press writers Chuck Bartels, Jeannie Nuss, Allen Reed and Andrew DeMillo contributed to this report from Little Rock, Ark.
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
In this undated image released by the University of Arkansas, Razorback Foundation assistant director Jessica Dorrell is shown. Dorrell was a passenger of Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino during a weekend motorcycle ride that ended with a crash that sent him to the hospital, according to a police report released Thursday, April 5, 2012. (AP Photo/University of Arkansas, Wesley Hitt)
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
Moral clause caught up with Bobby Petrino this time around. In the article below you will read “the lure of beautiful young women can also be an irresistible combination.” Never was there a more true statement. Adultery is a trap that will get many men who are not watching where they are walking. Below I have posted what Proverbs 7 had to say about the trap of adultery and these words were penned by the wisest man who ever lived (Solomon).
Bobby Petrino was fired as Arkansas’ football coach on Tuesday. (Icon SMI)
By Ben Cook, Lindyssports.com columnist
When all the mess broke loose at Penn State, Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long was probably glad he was not in the shoes of Penn State athletic director Tim Curley. But when Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino went off the road with his motorcycle on April 1st, Long quickly found out it was no April Fool’s joke.
He also found out he was suddenly in Curley’s shoes.
The circumstances were different, but a nasty mess was dropped into Long’s lap and in his hastily called news conference on the evening of April 5th it was apparent that Long was not prepared for this. After all, Petrino was his man and bringing him to Fayetteville from the Atlanta Falcons was considered a big feather in Long’s cap.
But Long’s golden boy had lied to him in his initial conversations about the accident. Petrino had said that he was alone on his motorcycle, Which is what he told everybody including his family and his boss.
But Petrino was not alone. In fact, he was with Jessica Dorrell, a 25-year old former Razorback volleyball player and current Razorback Foundation fundraiser who also happens to be quite a looker.
Petrino held a news conference and said that no other individuals were involved and Petrino’s family, which includes a wife and four children, also released a statement saying that nobody else was involved.
And then it all went down the drain when a police report was released that said Petrino was not alone and was in fact with Dorrell. Petrino then said that he had kept quiet about Dorrell out of concern for his family and presumably for Dorrell. But in the aftermath things got worse and worse.
“My concern was to protect my family and a previous inappropriate relationship from becoming public. In hindsight, I showed a serious mistake in judgment when I chose not to be more specific about those details,” said Petrino. “Today I’ve acknowledged this previous inappropriate relationship with my family and those within the athletic department administration.”
That’s when Long’s involvement got dicey. He met with the media last Thursday night and said basically that he was putting the coach on paid administrative leave while he sorted out all the details. Other than that, Long had no other answers. He didn’t know how long the leave would be. He claimed to have no knowledge of any morals clause in Petrino’s contract. He didn’t know if Dorrell would be put on leave. He didn’t know if Petrino’s job was in jeopardy. In fact, Long didn’t appear to know anything and he was clearly uncomfortable talking about it.
Remember, Petrino was Long’s hire and he had to be thinking that Curley had lost his job at Penn State because of his inaction in the Jerry Sandusky case. Could inaction to come down hard on Petrino be considered in the same manner as Curley’s inaction? That had to be running through Long’s mind. On the other hand, Petrino is wildly popular in Arkansas after going 21-5 in the past two seasons. Coming down hard on Petrino could incite Razorback fans to turn on Long.
Several hundred Arkansas fans held a “Save our Coach” rally Monday in Fayetteville. So Petrino had what he calls “an inappropriate relationship” with a young female employee who was hired by Petrino. Was the hiring a payback for the relationship? Perhaps to keep it quiet? Who knows? Petrino can call it “an inappropriate relationship” all he wants, but everybody else will call it an affair and he will not be able to dodge that for the rest of his life.
Petrino also said, “My hope is to repair my relationships with my family, my athletic director, the Razorback Nation and remain the coach of the Razorbacks.”
Going 21-5 in two years normally would go a long way toward repairing his standing with Razorback Nation, who probably don’t much care that he had a girl on the side, especially if they’ve seen her.
Mending fences with his athletic director who had to face up to the fact that Petrino had lied to him, would be tougher. Clearly Long didn’t want to fire Petrino, but he felt the pressure for a dramatic gesture. And he was the boss. The buck stopped with him. The integrity of the University of Arkansas was in his hands.
Tuesday Long took action and fired Petrino.
The coach who walked out on the Atlanta Falcons before the season had even ended to go to Arkansas had the rug pulled out from under him in the middle of spring practice. His “inappropriate relationship” with Dorrell was his downfall
Mending fences with his family might also be another story. Who knows how his wife and kids might react to this situation.
That’s why I can’t help but wonder why coaches — any coaches — would risk all of that for “an inappropriate relationship”. It has happened before in the SEC and will likely happen again and probably every athletic director in the conference is praying that his coaches never put them in Jeff Long’s shoes.
But let’s face it; every coach has two things that make him a target — power and money. For some women that is an irresistible combination. But don’t forget, it takes two to make an “inappropriate relationship” and for coaches who have the money and power, the lure of beautiful young women can also be an irresistible combination.With that money and power comes great responsibility. Like it or not, coaches are role models as leaders of young men and are faces of responsibility.
So coaches beware: if you are forced to pay the piper, the fall can be devastating
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According to Solomon where will adultery end up?
Proverbs 7:5-27
The Message (MSG)
Proverbs 7
Dressed to Seduce
1-5 Dear friend, do what I tell you; treasure my careful instructions.
Do what I say and you’ll live well.
My teaching is as precious as your eyesight—guard it!
Write it out on the back of your hands;
etch it on the chambers of your heart.
Talk to Wisdom as to a sister.
Treat Insight as your companion.
They’ll be with you to fend off the Temptress—
that smooth-talking, honey-tongued Seductress.
6-12 As I stood at the window of my house
looking out through the shutters,
Watching the mindless crowd stroll by,
I spotted a young man without any sense
Arriving at the corner of the street where she lived,
then turning up the path to her house.
It was dusk, the evening coming on,
the darkness thickening into night.
Just then, a woman met him—
she’d been lying in wait for him, dressed to seduce him.
Brazen and brash she was,
restless and roaming, never at home,
Walking the streets, loitering in the mall,
hanging out at every corner in town.
13-20 She threw her arms around him and kissed him,
boldly took his arm and said,
“I’ve got all the makings for a feast—
today I made my offerings, my vows are all paid,
So now I’ve come to find you,
hoping to catch sight of your face—and here you are!
I’ve spread fresh, clean sheets on my bed,
colorful imported linens.
My bed is aromatic with spices
and exotic fragrances.
Come, let’s make love all night,
spend the night in ecstatic lovemaking!
My husband’s not home; he’s away on business,
and he won’t be back for a month.”
21-23 Soon she has him eating out of her hand,
bewitched by her honeyed speech.
Before you know it, he’s trotting behind her,
like a calf led to the butcher shop,
Like a stag lured into ambush
and then shot with an arrow,
Like a bird flying into a net
not knowing that its flying life is over.
24-27 So, friends, listen to me,
take these words of mine most seriously.
Don’t fool around with a woman like that;
don’t even stroll through her neighborhood.
Countless victims come under her spell;
she’s the death of many a poor man.
She runs a halfway house to hell,
fits you out with a shroud and a coffin.
WHY DID BOBBY RISK LOSING HIS FAMILY WHEN IN THIS VIDEO BELOW HE SAYS HE VALUES THEM MOST OF ALL!!!!
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
If you like Woody Allen films as much as I do then join me every Wednesday for another look the man and his movies. Below are some of the posts from the past:
Crimes and Misdemeanors: A Discussion: Part 1 Adrian Rogers – Crossing God’s Deadline Part 2 Jason Tolbert provided this recent video from Mike Huckabee: John Brummett in his article “Huckabee speaks for bad guy below,” Arkansas News Bureau, May 5, 2011 had to say: Are we supposed to understand and accept that Mike Huckabee is […]
Woody Allen, the film writer, director, and actor, has consistently populated his scripts with characters who exchange dialogue concerning meaning and purpose. In Hannah and Her Sisters a character named Mickey says, “Do you realize what a thread were all hanging by? Can you understand how meaningless everything is? Everything. I gotta get some answers.”{7} […]
Bananas (1971) en cast ex-wife, Louise Lasser (the duo were married from 1966 to 1969), as his romantic lead in this quirky comedy. When asked why he chose to title the movie Bananas, Allen quipped, “Because there are no bananas in it.” “Midnight in Paris” is one of Woody Allen best works. Woody Allen […]
Several members of the 70′s band Kansas became committed Christians after they realized that the world had nothing but meaningless to offer. It seems through the writings of both Woody Allen and Chris Martin of Coldplay that they both are wrestling with the issue of death and what meaning does life bring. Kansas went through […]
I guess the reason I have spent so much time on Woody Allen is because in so many films he discusses the big questions in life. His movie “Crimes and Misdemeanors” is a perfect example. Check out my earlier post Nihilism can be seen in Woody Allen’s latest film “Midnight in Paris” . September (1987) The director […]
Woody Allen and the Abandonment of Guilt Dr. Marc T. Newman : AgapePress Print In considering filmmaking as a pure visual art form, Woody Allen would have to be considered a master of the medium. From his humble beginnings as a comedy writer and filmmaker, he has emerged as a major influential force in Hollywood. […]
The dvd sales of “Midnight in Paris” which went on sale in December have gone through the roof (look at the bottom of this post) and this summer we learned this fact below: ‘Midnight in Paris’ becomes Woody Allen’s all-time biggest hit. How the heck did that happen? by Owen Gleiberman Categories: Annie Hall, Bridesmaids, […]
Woody Allen interviews Billy Graham on Religion This article below makes we think of the lady tied to the Railroad in the Schaeffer video. Dr. Francis schaeffer – The flow of Materialism (Modern man sees no hope for the future and has deluded himself by appealing to nonreason to stay sane. Look at the example […]
A surprisingly civil discussion between evangelical Billy Graham and agnostic comedian Woody Allen. Skip to 2:00 in the video to hear Graham discuss premarital sex, to 4:30 to hear him respond to Allen’s question about the worst sin and to 7:55 for the comparison between accepting Christ and taking LSD. ___________________ The Christian Post > […]
“Woody Wednesday” Allen acts silly in 1971 interview (Part 4) Woody Allen interview 1971 PART 4/4 Uploaded by captainvontrapp on Jul 21, 2008 Woody Allen interview from 1971, just after the worldwide release of ‘Bananas’ ________________________ David Mishkin God and Carpeting: The Theology of Woody Allen by David Mishkin March 1, 1993 This is an […]
Everybody is talking about what a great coaching job Bobby Petrino did at Arkansas and what a shame it is that legally he can not stay. However, maybe there is a place where he would be welcome? If there is any place that I know of that would come close to welcoming him with open arms then it would be Louisville.
If the Razorbacks turn to Charlie Strong as their next coach then look for this possibility to play out. Below is a story (Coachingsearch.com) that mentions Charlie Strong as possible candidate for the Razorback job. (ArkansasSports360 mentioned Strong too.)
At this point, Bobby Petrino’s future as the Arkansas head coach remains in doubt.
Late Thursday evening, athletic director Jeff Long announced that Petrino had been placed on paid administrative leave after failing to disclose that a 25-year-old female employee had been riding with Petrino during his motorcycle crash over the weekend.
Petrino stated that he wanted to protect his family and avoid the “inappropriate relationship from becoming public.”
Jeff Long stated on Thursday night, “I hope to have a resolution soon. I certainly don’t have all the answers here tonight, as we meet. But again, I have an obligation and responsibility to obtain the information and then act appropriately on that information.”
Linebackers / assistant head coach Taver Johnson will lead the team during Petrino’s absence, which comes at a time when Arkansas appears to be primed for a legitimate national championship run.
Even offensive coordinator / quarterbacks coach Paul Petrino recently said, “We want to win it all.”
In case Petrino is eventually dismissed, I believe Jeff Long would opt to stay the course through the 2012 season.
At this point, it’s not for me to say whether I think he should be dismissed. As Will Muschamp pointed out this week, only the person that has all the information can make decisions like these. There are different levels of consequence and sometimes the media doesn’t know the entire situation. In this case, Jeff Long will gather information and make a decision.
EITHER WAY, HERE IS A LIST OF CANDIDATES THAT ARKANSAS COULD TARGET:
Skip Holtz(South Florida) – It would be hard to imagine Holtz passing on the opportunity to coach in the SEC over some of the newly created pitfalls that come with the new realigned Big East. He attended Fayetteville HS. His father, Lou, served as the head coach of the Razorbacks from 1977-83.
David Shaw(Stanford) – Stanford head coach David Shaw (39) finished 11-2 in his first year as a head coach. His NFL experience includes stints with the Eagles, Raiders, and Ravens. Shaw has proven that he can recruit, coach, win the big game, and handle the national spotlight. Stanford really likes Shaw, but the athletic department doesn’t typically pay their coaches anywhere near what Arkansas could pay.
Paul Rhoads(Iowa State) – Arkansas athletic director Jeff Long is familiar with Rhoads, who served as the Pitt defensive coordinator from 2000-07. Long previously served as the AD at Pitt before coming to Arkansas in 2008. Rhoads did, however, agree to a new mega contract this off-season.
Chris Petersen (Boise State) – I was shocked that Petersen chose to stay at Boise State after the 2011 season. Maybe it’s because the right job didn’t open up. Petersen lost several assistant coaches in the off-season, something he may not have expected. Kellen Moore isn’t around, either.
Pat Fitzgerald(Northwestern) – In six seasons at Northwestern, Fitzgerald is 40-36. He passed on the opportunity to talk with Michigan before Brady Hoke was hired. It would surprise me if Fitzgerald (37) remains at Northwestern for the remainder of his career. For some reason, I feel the need to point out that Fitzgerald has served as part of the AFCA Ethics Committee and is highly respected as a person and coach.
Others: Butch Davis, Jim Leavitt (San Francisco 49ers – linebackers), Butch Jones (Cincinnati), Charlie Strong (Louisville)
I don’t see Tommy Tuberville or Gus Malzahn as candidates for the job
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
The statement issued Tuesday night by fired Arkansas football coach Bobby Petrino:
“I was informed in writing today at 5:45 p.m. that I was being terminated as head football coach at the University of Arkansas.
The simplest response I have is: I’m sorry. These two words seem very inadequate. But that is my heart. All I have been able to think about is the number of people I’ve let down by making selfish decisions. I’ve taken a lot of criticism in the past. Some deserved, some not deserved. This time, I have no one to blame but myself.
I chose to engage in an improper relationship. I also made several poor decisions following the end of that relationship and in the aftermath of the accident. I accept full responsibility for what has happened.
I’m sure you heard (athletic director) Jeff Long’s reasons for termination. There was a lot of information shared. Given the decision that has been made, this is not the place to debate Jeff’s view of what happened. In the end, I put him in the position of having to sort through my mistakes and that is my fault.
I have hurt my wife Becky and our four children. I’ve let down the University of Arkansas, my team, coaching staff and everyone associated with the Razorback football program. As a result of my personal mistakes, we will not get to finish our goal of building a championship program. I wish that I had been given the opportunity to meet with the players and staff prior to this evening’s press conference and hope that I will be given the opportunity to give my apologies and say my goodbyes in person. We have left the program in better shape than we found it and I want the Razorback Nation to know that is my hope that the program achieves the success it deserves.
My sole focus at this point is trying to repair the damage I’ve done to my family. They did not ask for any of this and deserve better. I am committed to being a better husband, father and human being as a result of this and will work each and every day to prove that to my family, friends and others.
I love football. I love coaching. I of course hope I can find my way back to the profession I love. In the meantime, I will do everything I can to heal the wounds I have created.
I want to thank Chancellor Gearhart, Jeff Long, the Board of Trustees, the university administration, faculty, staff, students, alumni and fans for the opportunity to serve as the head football coach at the University of Arkansas for the past four years. I was not given an opportunity to continue in that position. I wish that had been the case, but that was not my decision. I wish nothing but the best for the Razorback football program, the University and the entire Razorback Nation.”
LITTLE ROCK, AR – NOVEMBER 19: Head Coach Bobby Petrino and the Arkansas Razorbacks run onto the field before a game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs at War Memorial Stadium on November 19, 2011 in Little Rock.
If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
Joe Schad and Andre Ware on Arkansas firing head coach Bobby Petrino
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Everybody has heard by now that Bobby Petrino was fired last night by Jeff Long. Soon afterwards Petrino released a statement concerning (which I got from Arkansas Blog post)his regrets and now his attention is turning to get forgiveness from his family.
I have hurt my wife Becky and our four children…My sole focus at this point is trying to repair the damage I’ve done to my family. They did not ask for any of this and deserve better. I am committed to being a better husband, father and human being as a result of this and will work each and every day to prove that to my family, friends and others.
I love football. I love coaching. I of course hope I can find my way back to the profession I love. In the meantime, I will do everything I can to heal the wounds I have created.
Forgiveness is available from God for adultery and hopefully from those who love Petrino. King David is the most dramatic example of redemption and I wanted to share both this scripture and a sermon outline from Adrian Rogers about King David’s path to forgiveness.
2 Samuel 11-12:13
The Message (MSG)
2 Samuel 11
David’s Sin and Sorrow
1When that time of year came around again, the anniversary of the Ammonite aggression, David dispatched Joab and his fighting men of Israel in full force to destroy the Ammonites for good. They laid siege to Rabbah, but David stayed in Jerusalem. 2-5One late afternoon, David got up from taking his nap and was strolling on the roof of the palace. From his vantage point on the roof he saw a woman bathing. The woman was stunningly beautiful. David sent to ask about her, and was told, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?” David sent his agents to get her. After she arrived, he went to bed with her. (This occurred during the time of “purification” following her period.) Then she returned home. Before long she realized she was pregnant.
Later she sent word to David: “I’m pregnant.”
6David then got in touch with Joab: “Send Uriah the Hittite to me.” Joab sent him.
7-8When he arrived, David asked him for news from the front—how things were going with Joab and the troops and with the fighting. Then he said to Uriah, “Go home. Have a refreshing bath and a good night’s rest.”
8-9After Uriah left the palace, an informant of the king was sent after him. But Uriah didn’t go home. He slept that night at the palace entrance, along with the king’s servants.
10David was told that Uriah had not gone home. He asked Uriah, “Didn’t you just come off a hard trip? So why didn’t you go home?”
11Uriah replied to David, “The Chest is out there with the fighting men of Israel and Judah—in tents. My master Joab and his servants are roughing it out in the fields. So, how can I go home and eat and drink and enjoy my wife? On your life, I’ll not do it!”
12-13“All right,” said David, “have it your way. Stay for the day and I’ll send you back tomorrow.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem the rest of the day.
The next day David invited him to eat and drink with him, and David got him drunk. But in the evening Uriah again went out and slept with his master’s servants. He didn’t go home.
14-15In the morning David wrote a letter to Joab and sent it with Uriah. In the letter he wrote, “Put Uriah in the front lines where the fighting is the fiercest. Then pull back and leave him exposed so that he’s sure to be killed.”
16-17So Joab, holding the city under siege, put Uriah in a place where he knew there were fierce enemy fighters. When the city’s defenders came out to fight Joab, some of David’s soldiers were killed, including Uriah the Hittite.
18-21Joab sent David a full report on the battle. He instructed the messenger, “After you have given to the king a detailed report on the battle, if he flares in anger, say, ‘And by the way, your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.'”
22-24Joab’s messenger arrived in Jerusalem and gave the king a full report. He said, “The enemy was too much for us. They advanced on us in the open field, and we pushed them back to the city gate. But then arrows came hot and heavy on us from the city wall, and eighteen of the king’s soldiers died.”
25When the messenger completed his report of the battle, David got angry at Joab. He vented it on the messenger: “Why did you get so close to the city? Didn’t you know you’d be attacked from the wall? Didn’t you remember how Abimelech son of Jerub-Besheth got killed? Wasn’t it a woman who dropped a millstone on him from the wall and crushed him at Thebez? Why did you go close to the wall!”
“By the way,” said Joab’s messenger, “your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead.”
Then David told the messenger, “Oh. I see. Tell Joab, ‘Don’t trouble yourself over this. War kills—sometimes one, sometimes another—you never know who’s next. Redouble your assault on the city and destroy it.’ Encourage Joab.”
26-27When Uriah’s wife heard that her husband was dead, she grieved for her husband. When the time of mourning was over, David sent someone to bring her to his house. She became his wife and bore him a son.
4“One day a traveler dropped in on the rich man. He was too stingy to take an animal from his own herds or flocks to make a meal for his visitor, so he took the poor man’s lamb and prepared a meal to set before his guest.”
5-6David exploded in anger. “As surely as God lives,” he said to Nathan, “the man who did this ought to be lynched! He must repay for the lamb four times over for his crime and his stinginess!”
7-12“You’re the man!” said Nathan. “And here’s what God, the God of Israel, has to say to you: I made you king over Israel. I freed you from the fist of Saul. I gave you your master’s daughter and other wives to have and to hold. I gave you both Israel and Judah. And if that hadn’t been enough, I’d have gladly thrown in much more. So why have you treated the word of God with brazen contempt, doing this great evil? You murdered Uriah the Hittite, then took his wife as your wife. Worse, you killed him with an Ammonite sword! And now, because you treated God with such contempt and took Uriah the Hittite’s wife as your wife, killing and murder will continually plague your family. This is God speaking, remember! I’ll make trouble for you out of your own family. I’ll take your wives from right out in front of you. I’ll give them to some neighbor, and he’ll go to bed with them openly. You did your deed in secret; I’m doing mine with the whole country watching!”
13-14Then David confessed to Nathan, “I’ve sinned against God.”
Nathan pronounced, “Yes, but that’s not the last word. God forgives your sin. You won’t die for it. But because of your blasphemous behavior, the son born to you will die.”
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If Bobby thinks he is bruised now, then he needs to read about the guy in Proverbs 7:10-27 and what happened to him. I really am hoping that Bobby Petrino can put his marriage back together. He has a clear choice between two paths. In the sermon at Fellowship Bible Church at July 24, 2011, […]
It pays to remember history. Today I am going to go through some of it and give an outline and quotes from the great Southern Baptist leader Adrian Rogers (1931-2005). Max Brantley of the Arkansas Times started this morning off with some comedy: From pro golfer John Daly’s Twitter account following last night’s Republican debate, […]
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