Robert Patrick Petrino was born on March 10,1961 and is an American football coach.
32 Facts About Bobby Petrino
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Bobby Petrino is the former head coach for the Missouri State Bears.
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Bobby Petrino previously held the post from 2003 to 2006.
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From 2008 to 2011, Bobby Petrino was the head football coach at the University of Arkansas.
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Bobby Petrino was dismissed from that position in the spring of 2012 for covering up an extramarital affair with a football department staffer.
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Bobby Petrino coached the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League for the first 13 games of the 2007 season.
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Bobby Petrino was in a Falcons team meeting when he told his staffers that he was hungry and left to get something to eat.
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Bobby Petrino has directed his college teams to nine bowl games, including the first Bowl Championship Series bowl games for both the Louisville Cardinals and the Arkansas Razorbacks in their programs' histories.
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Bobby Petrino's teams have achieved four 10-win seasons along with six AP top-25 finishes.
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Bobby Petrino attended hometown Carroll College and graduated with a physical education and a math minor in 1983.
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Bobby Petrino returned to his alma mater in 1985 as offensive coordinator.
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Bobby Petrino then returned to Weber State for two seasons in 1987 and 1988 as the receivers coach under Price.
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When Smith moved to Louisville in 1998, Bobby Petrino followed him there as offensive coordinator.
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Bobby Petrino left the collegiate ranks to coach in the NFL for three years.
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In 2002, Bobby Petrino returned to the college ranks, replacing Noel Mazzone as offensive coordinator under Tommy Tuberville at Auburn, whose offense significantly improved that season under Bobby Petrino's watch.
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In four years at Louisville, Bobby Petrino built the Cardinals into a national power.
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On July 13,2006, Bobby Petrino signed a 10-year, $25.6 million contract to stay on as head football coach.
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The deal gave Bobby Petrino a raise from $1 million to $1.6 million annually, and he would have been paid $2.6 million in the final year of the deal.
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On January 7,2007, less than six months after signing the 10-year contract above, it was announced Bobby Petrino had accepted the head coaching position for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
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Bobby Petrino informed his players of his departure via a four-sentence laminated note left at the locker of each player, a move that many in the organization and in the NFL harshly criticized.
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Bobby Petrino was known to walk through the locker room without speaking to the players.
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Bobby Petrino was reluctant to share personnel decisions with the players; Harrington learned through the media that Petrino considered Leftwich the starter even though Harrington had engineered two straight wins in Leftwich's absence.
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Bobby Petrino frequently sent Dorrell gifts, including a previously undisclosed $20,000 cash gift as a Christmas present.
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Bobby Petrino claimed that he needed an assistant to help him with recruiting right away, allowing him to interview and hire Dorrell 16 days after the job was posted.
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Bobby Petrino was succeeded by his former boss, Smith, who had been the Arkansas special teams coach before briefly taking the head coaching job at Weber State.
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Bobby Petrino signed a four-year contract with a base salary of $850,000 annually.
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Jurich was displeased that Bobby Petrino seemed to be more concerned with burnishing his resume than building the program for the future.
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On January 9,2014, Bobby Petrino officially returned to Louisville at a press conference after being unanimously approved by the University of Louisville Athletic Association.
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Bobby Petrino reportedly signed a deal that was to pay $24.5 million over seven years with a buyout of $10 million.
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Athletic director Vince Tyra said that he did not believe the players were responding under Bobby Petrino, and felt he needed to make an immediate change to start the turnaround.
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On January 15,2020, Missouri State University, of the Missouri Valley Football Conference in the FCS, announced that they had hired Bobby Petrino to replace Dave Steckel as their head football coach.
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Bobby Petrino has two sons and two daughters with his wife, Becky.