I'll Be The First

Petrino will be fine, programs across the country will be scrambling to grab him. Arkansas just frakked up the handling of this situation and it will bite us even worse in the end.

It has caused such a ruckus in so many peoples life I know very personally. I wish society would stop with the bullshit...

Well Sydney, if Jessica's number is in your contact directory, I wouldn't mind an introduction . . .

I just saw the cover of the Times today ..omg..

Even Hitler has weighed in on the situation. You'll laugh your ass off!

http://meemsy.com/v/1686

eXXXcellent!!.... I still think it was fucking sTuPiD to fire him!!

.... I still think it was fucking sTuPiD to fire him!! Originally Posted by MrGiz

+1.

Won't make me popular- but I think he had to go. Yes- he was hired to coach football. But he was also hired to run the program and as the highest paid employee of the state. If he was CFO for a company and was a great CFO, but put his girlfriend on the payroll and exposed the company to lawsuits that way- he would be out the door. Every exec has more responsibility than their technical expertise. The CIO who is a brilliant tech strategist who takes kickbacks from vendors has to go as well. EVen a VP of sales who can drive billions to the bottom line cannot survive a breach of fiduciary accountability- at least if the board is doing their job. State government has even less wiggle room.

I think he could and should have survived the affair. And the money he spent on her that was his is his business. All that is a personal issue for him to work out. We are way past "moral turpitude" clauses in employment contracts.

But he has both a legal and fiduciary accountability as a senior manager for the state and the University. One which he breached. To keep him would have been to excuse an action that would have gotten anyone else working for an entity as public as state government kicked to the curb in about an hour.

Sad really, because he is a great coach.

I understand your point... but just because it's conventional wisdom to shitcan/fire any CEO for similar type fouls , doesn't always mean that's the "best " move for whatever organization... particularly, in this circumstance.

He's definitely, personally responsible for whatever was going to happen to him... but Political Correct Pussification is the "reason" he was fired... just my opinion

I disagree, Giz. The real reason he fired was 1) he lied to Long and tried to cover it up; and 2) By fucking a subordinate that he hired, he created HUGE potential liability for the University for sexual harassment charges.

As much as I didn't want to several years ago, I fired a supervisor I caught banging another employee in the back room. I didn't care he was banging her, but the potential liability was tremendous. And it was on company time. . .

Sexual harrassment of who? By whom?

As far as I know, their relationship was totally consentual.

Is lying about a sexual affair always grounds for firing?
ALWAYS? If so , why?

Long did not want to fire him.... he only felt pressured to fire him, by political correct social convention!
I say FUCK social convention! Guess it's just me... Pussification, I'm tellin ya....

I disagree, Giz. The real reason he fired was 1) he lied to Long and tried to cover it up; and 2) By fucking a subordinate that he hired, he created HUGE potential liability for the University for sexual harassment charges.

As much as I didn't want to several years ago, I fired a supervisor I caught banging another employee in the back room. I didn't care he was banging her, but the potential liability was tremendous. And it was on company time. . . Originally Posted by MrHappy4u

You taught him well. Let me guess she was Blonde, Big Boobs, and had Brains. We maybe not brains at the time but two out of three ain't bad!!

You taught him well. Let me guess she was Blonde, Big Boobs, and had Brains. We maybe not brains at the time but two out of three ain't bad!! Originally Posted by shorty

Honestly... Blonde with big boobs ought to be good enough.

Besides, everyone knows that when your head is filled with brains, your boobs shrink & your hair automatically turns red!

I disagree, Giz. The real reason he fired was 1) he lied to Long and tried to cover it up; and 2) By fucking a subordinate that he hired, he created HUGE potential liability for the University for sexual harassment charges.

As much as I didn't want to several years ago, I fired a supervisor I caught banging another employee in the back room. I didn't care he was banging her, but the potential liability was tremendous. And it was on company time. . . Originally Posted by MrHappy4u

+1

Lawsuits by other applicants for the position for which she was hired. I did hear that she was surrorted by others at the University in very senior positions, making a successful lawsuit difficult. Had she never been hired into the athletics dept., four days prior to accident, Patrino would never have been fired.