For the first time since he was fired after a motorcycle accident revealed an affair with a staff member, former Arkansas Razorbacks head coach Bobby Petrino is back in Fayetteville, joining the staff of current head coach Sam Pittman as the new offensive coordinator of the team. And it sounds like he has one real goal with his return: to win.
During a recent press conference, Bobby Petrino opened up a little bit about the conversations he had with Arkansas leading up to him accepting the job offer as well as the reason why he wanted to come back to Arkansas in the first place.
“I want to win,” Petrino said according to On3. “I came back here to support coach Pittman in winning. I do appreciate him a lot when you sent that message that ‘this is coach Pittman and I’d like to talk to you.’ The hair on the back of my neck stood up. I was like, ‘That’s gonna happen? Really?’ Then we talked for a short amount of time and he said that he had an interest. We set a time to talk where we both had time later on. That was exciting. I felt maybe this is really gonna happen. Could it possibly happen?”
Petrino will obviously not be the head coach this time around, but he has a proven track record calling plays and leading an offense. We’ll have to see how he performs at Arkansas.
[On3]
