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MBTigah · Nov 29, 2010

KingEmeritus said: ↑

All I know is the man can coach an offense.
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But that doesn't excuse his unsportsmanlike conduct of not shaking hands with the opposing coach at the end of the game. If he in fact passed on seeing CLM at the end of the game, that was classless.

StaceyO · Nov 29, 2010

Fishhead said: ↑

One knee at the end of the game isn't NEARLY enough to classify Petrino as "classy". The fact that I was personally SHOCKED that they took that knee at the end speaks volumes about his well deserved reputation.
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I was, likewise, shocked that he took a knee and didn't punch it in "for style points."

SabanFan · Nov 29, 2010

I wish Les had taken a knee. I sure was screaming for him to.

fanatic · Nov 29, 2010

Kurtis Bleaux said: ↑

I live in the ATL and after he left the Falcon's hanging, he pretty much hit the deepest level of scum for me. Les is WAY more classier than that and if you'd rather have a great offense, so be it. Not me...

Mike Zimmer calls Petrino a ‘coward’ over his 2007 exit

5:30 pm October 20, 2010, by D. Orlando Ledbetter
Former Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer (right) is probably not having Bobby Petrino over for a cookout this summer. (Curtis Compton/[email protected])

After practice in Cincinnati on Wednesday, former Falcons defensive coordinator Mike Zimmer ripped former head coach Bobby Petrino.
Zimmer was the defensive coordinator in 2007, the season that Petrino abruptly resigned 13 games into the season. Zimmer ended up in Cincinnati and has led the defense to its highest ranking in three decades last season at No. 4.
“When a coach quits in the middle of the year and ruins a bunch of people’s families and doesn’t have enough guts to finish out the year, I’m not a part of it,” Zimmer told the Cincinnati media. “And you can put that in the Arkansas News Gazette. I don’t really give a (bleep). He’s a coward, he ruined a bunch of people’s lives, a bunch of families, kids, because he didn’t have enough (guts) to stay there and finish the job. And that’s the truth. Most people in football have enough courage about him and enough fight to stick it out and not quit halfway through the year. It’s cowardly.”
Petrino went back into the college ranks to coach at Arkansas. Zimmer shined some light on Petrino’s exit.
“He came in and said he resigned, (said) he’d talk to us all at a later date, walked out of the office and no one has talked to him since,” Zimmer said. “Not that anybody wanted to. He’s a gutless (bleep). You can quote that.”
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I hate the Falcons, so I couldn't care less that he did this. But when you have the perspective of a former coach and what it did to them as people, it almost unforgivable.

However, I'm not sure how this 'ruined lives' like Zimmer says. IIRC, the entire staff was retained for the remainder of the year. And given the NFL wage scale, its a pretty safe bet to say that all of them were well compensated until other jobs came along, which I would venture to say all of them have now.