Bobby Petrino banned from recruiting at South Carolina high school

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Bobby Petrino banned from recruiting at South Carolina school

Louisville coach Bobby Petrino has been banned from recruiting at a South Carolina high school because the Cardinals pulled a scholarship offer from a player at the school late in the recruiting process.

Irmo (S.C.) Dutch Fork running back Matt Colburn committed to Louisville last summer, but the school pulled his offer on Monday -- two days before National Signing Day.

"He (Petrino) won't be able to recruit my school anymore, and I imagine there will be some other coaches that will say the same thing," Dutch Fork coach Tom Knotts told The State newspaper of Columbia, S.C.

Knotts told the newspaper that Louisville inside linebacker coach Tony Grantham's excuse was that the Cardinals had three defensive backs leave early for the NFL and they needed Colburn's spot to add a defensive back. "They've known about these three DBs wanting to go to the NFL for weeks now," Knotts told The State. "To use that as an excuse doesn't hold water with me."

 

[HOU-TEX]

I just got through reading about this. I really wish schools would quit hiring this guy. Cheats on his wife, quits UL after just signing a 10 year deal, totally bails and leaves the Falcons hanging, etc.

A true piece of ****

I hope a school picks this kid up.

 

[Blake]

Force schools to have an early signing day for these types of kids. This way they cant backout when a sexier offer comes along causing kids to scramble.

 

[steelbtexan]

I just got through reading about this. I really wish schools would quit hiring this guy. Cheats on his wife, quits UL after just signing a 10 year deal, totally bails and leaves the Falcons hanging, etc.

A true piece of ****

I hope a school picks this kid up.

I don't care about what he does in his personal/professional lives. He wins and a university should know what comes along with Petrino's winning.

I do feel bad for the kid though. It's not like this doesn't happen at most of the power conference schools.

 

[mussop]

I just got through reading about this. I really wish schools would quit hiring this guy. Cheats on his wife, quits UL after just signing a 10 year deal, totally bails and leaves the Falcons hanging, etc.

A true piece of ****

I hope a school picks this kid up.

This happens all the time. The rules need to be changed. It's not fair to the kids

 

[Wolf6151]

I just got through reading about this. I really wish schools would quit hiring this guy. Cheats on his wife, quits UL after just signing a 10 year deal, totally bails and leaves the Falcons hanging, etc.

A true piece of ****

I hope a school picks this kid up.

I heard about this incident on 610am a couple days ago and the kid had multiple offers from other schools, but Louisville was the biggest program to offer a scholarship. It does suck, but it does happen at alot of other programs as well. Tough life lesson to learn, hope it inspires him to be the best. JJ Watt was only a 2 star recruit.

 

[IDEXAN]

I just got through reading about this. I really wish schools would quit hiring this guy. Cheats on his wife, quits UL after just signing a 10 year deal, totally bails and leaves the Falcons hanging, etc.

A true piece of ****

I hope a school picks this kid up.

Got that right, man. This sleaze-bag is the Bill Clinton of the college coaching occupation.