Seriously.....are we truly expecting adult-like behavior combined with the wisdom and spot on decision-making-abilities that are supposed to come along with being an experienced and mature adult....
.from 17 - 18 year old kids? Let's not kid ourselves, k?
Several have commented this kinda thing happens all the time...so what's the big deal? Yes, thank you for pointing out (the obvious) what most if not all of us already know....ie: in order to survive today's "recruiting wars" you must offer more scholarships than you can actually sign...blah, blah, blah.
Please, for a moment; back to the topic-at-hand.....because the aforementioned is not what this is about.
This is about a human being with zero conscience who has made lying to other people an absolute art form. His history this past decade-plus is littered with empty promises and backhanded excuses. You want to defend his actions by saying it's a Dog eat Dog World and he should do "whatever is necessary" in order to retain his job...to satisfy the whims of the school's AD and alums with W's?
Give me a break. There's a way of doing things in this world. Petrino's Way, in my book, is a story of nothing but lies-on-top-of-lies, deceitfulness and being a complete and total phoney.
Back to this young man who lost his scholarship....he will in all likelihood will survive this....and move on to play football at the collegiate level....just not for the team he originally had his sights on, that's all. The silver-lining to this is he won't have to play for Bobby Sack o' Sh*t.....and that's a huge plus for him and his family.
It would be eerily ironic if this kid goes on and achieves All-American status and becomes a major cog in his team's success, whatever that entails. The media and public would totally eat that story up. As they say to that...stay tuned.
And it would be just like the self-centered POS Petrino to come forward and take some of the credit, too.....that he was the one (by rescinding this kid's scholarship) who was instrumental in making this kid stronger and more determined to accomplish more than he ever could at Louisville.
How is this any different than the kids that commit to a school and on signing day choose to go somewhere else???
Originally Posted by bpowers20