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I will attribute that to your outstanding choice of school(s)!!!!

What if a spouse was a hittin' it with da players of said big time sports coach? Is it okey dokey then fer da coach to chase a lil skirt?

If I were an Arkansas fan I would want Petrino fired right away because he hired a girl he was having an affair with which opens up the University and the Athletic Department up to an enormous civil suit for sexual harassment if (more likely when) the relationship breaks. It is not about the affair but rather the liability in which the University is exposed.

WK, I wasn't addressing your message, but rather the point was directed toward a collage of information I have read on this site.

I'm not saying the sources I've heard from are accurate, or unbiased toward coach Stoops. But simply, the information I heard is different than what has been written here. I really don't know what the truth is. Some have implicated Stoops as a philandering, skirt chasing son of a gun who brought down his marriage. That isn't what some well placed insiders told me.

I'm not really addressing any one message. I'm just saying there are always two sides of the story, and sometimes even more.

In my view Petrino doesn't get a pass. He gets fired. He is a jerk in my book, and I wouldn't want him coaching young men.

On a coaching level, I don't think Stoops had the talent to exceed the highest level of Arizona Football history. And that historically is pick one, Smith, Young, Tomey. Tomey had a couple of the winningest seasons, and some average and mediocre ones.

Despite my disagreement wih Stoops as a coach, I feel for him on a personal level, unless he is the cad that some have made him out to be. Whatever he truth is, these personal issues must have had an effect on his ability to lead the program, which buttresses my point that an individual simply cannot do whatever he pleases and not expect repercussions or consequences.

RickyK,

It is interesting to me that you were obviously incolcated into a public service culture that alweays strived to set a higher standard and I think that still exists in some organizations but not others and I bet it was never universal for public employees.

It is alos interesting to me that higher quality private organizations set the asame goals for themselves and IMO, there need not be any distinction.

Petrino really screwed up, IMO and public or private, he should be gone. If he was at Duke or any private school, I'd feel the same way.

Wine: Very true. The father of modern bureaucracy, Max Weber, was the first, I think, to set out the observation that there was bureaucratization in both public and private organizations. He also thought that pursuit of truth took precedence over ideology or expediency and that is a quandary of pretty much all organizations today. The whistleblower becomes the "disgruntled ex-employee," the mid-level managers become cowards in outfits like Enron; and the chap at Goldman Sachs who resigns rather than continue to treat his customers as stooges is excoriated by one of the so-called experts on Bloomberg. Every day, people make choices in large organizations; turn the other way, report a better idea up; make a hire because the boss's nephew needs a job. Whatever it is. The point is that at the end of the day you can look in the mirror and know you were true to yourself and your core values, which you have hopefully "inculcated" your organization with.