It didn’t take long for Bobby Petrino to up and quit on his Atlanta Falcons team after Monday night’s loss to the Saints. Less than 24 hours after the game had ended, Petrino had resigned from the Falcons head coach position and had accepted the job to coach at Arkansas next season. It didn’t take long for my opinions about Petrino to stoop to Nick Saban-esque levels.

Being a head coach in college football is a year round job, what with all the scouting and recruiting that takes place outside of the season. I get that. I also get that the situation in Atlanta wasn’t working out. For Petrino to up and leave his team with three weeks remaining in the season, however, is a bit suspect to me. I don’t really care what kind of recruiting needs to be done down in Fayetteville. There’s a certain level of responsibility that a professional head coach has to his team, whether it be through teaching or through support. Petrino pulled the plug on both of those.

For Petrino, all is well and good now. He’s returned back to the level where he can be competitive at and has a nice program to boot. The Falcons, however, are hanging high and dry. Who really wants to coach this team right now what with the off-field issues and the attitudes of veterans DeAngelo Hall and Alge Crumpler. Nobody.

I’ll leave you with a quote from DeAngelo Hall about Bobby Petrino. “If I saw him in the street I wouldn’t have anything to say to him. I don’t have any respect for him. He turned his back on the organization.” Well put, DeAngelo.