Neal Burcham, not too long ago, made the public statement that Bobby Petrino and staff personally told him they were going to offer two QB's before him, and if those two offers didn't work out, he was the next to be offered.
Well, the first two QB's offered indeed turned Arkansas down, but instead of offering Burcham as Petrino had told the young man was going to do, he offered a 3-star prepster from Illinois thirdly, not Burcham. Keep in mind, Burcham's stats have soared, not diminished.
So now, Petrino has began to erode his home recruiting base in much the same manner as Mark Richt did in Georgia, and we see where that has Richt sitting 3 years later. Only difference is, it took Richt 8 years to shoot himself in the foot, while it took Petrino just 3 1/2 years.
The laugher for the rest of the SEC is, the University of Arkansas administration has ignorantly leaped into an overhyped and overpriced long term contract with Petrino, with an unaffordable buyout for the next 5 years, after nothing more than a single decent but far from stellar 10-3 season, and that single season of decency was because of Ryan Mallett's arm, not Petrino's prowess, a non-existent prowess I might add. And Arkansas' fans were laughing at Ole Miss for giving Houston Nutt a long term contract? With all this hullabaloo, Petrino gets to laugh all the way to the bank.
Word is, Petrino became redfaced when Trent Dilfer made the statement of, "Any coach in the area that hasn't offered Burcham a scholarship is stupid." Obviously, Petrino was Trent Dilfer's prime target in that statement... So here go the Razorbacks again with another egotistical Houston Nutt "I'll show you who is boss" prototype... "No one is going to infer that I'm stupid, I'll prove that fact myself."
Well Arkansas fans, here's to another twenty years of not knowing the satisfaction of a conference championship, because with Petrino's lies already beginning to stack up, an SEC championship ain't happening. Evidently, the folks in Atlanta knew exactly what they were talking about when they called Petrino a liar and a coward.
No one is bigger than life. If you play with a hornet's nest, you get stung. Be honest, or be done.
Dr. SwineSmeller
