Bobby Petrino News

In mid-January, Northeastern athletics director Peter Roby found himself in a San Diego hotel ballroom for a convention with some 800 other athletic directors, conference commissioners, and administrators.

Bobby Petrino said as recent as last month's National Signing Day that he didn't know the ins and outs of his University of Louisville football roster.

Only 25 of the nation's 128 FBS head coaches are in favor of a rule proposal that would slow down college offenses, according to a survey conducted by ESPN.

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On the night of Dec. 1, 2012, Bret Bielema could do no wrong. Out of nowhere, his 7-5 Wisconsin team -- which had reached the Big Ten championship game only because two teams in its division were ineligible -- unleashed a season's worth of frustrations in a 70-31 rout of Nebraska.

Louisville coach Bobby Petrino has experience coaching in the most difficult division in all of college football.

Bret Bielema was reportedly a driving force behind the controversial new NCAA rules proposal to slow down offenses .

Chances are, Bobby Petrino could stuff a three-ring binder full of notes that perfectly illustrate how to successfully maneuver around the two biggest challenges the Louisville football program faces when it moves into the ACC for the 2014 season.

After serving three Arkansas coaches in two years upon leaving Ohio State, Razorbacks defensive assistant coach Taver Johnson is reuniting with a former Ohio State assistant at Purdue and becomes the third defensive assistant to leave Arkansas coach Bret Bielema's staff since the close of the 2013 season.

Defensive tackle Tae Thibodeaux signed a National-Letter-of-Intent with the University of Louisville football program, head coach Bobby Petrino announced Wednesday afternoon.

According to Pete Roussel at coachingsearch.com., Arkansas assistant coach Taver Johnson is leaving to take a job at Purdue.

The University of Louisville is adding to its 2014 football recruiting class. Tae Thibodeaux, a defensive tackle from Louisiana, announced on his Twitter account Tuesday that he's signing with the Cardinals following a visit to Louisville over the weekend.

While introducing Robb Smith to the media on Monday, Arkansas head coach Bret Bielema stressed first that Smith and Randy Shannon, the linebackers coach with the recent additional title of senior associate head coach, had a long introduction with each other.

A concern among some University of Louisville football fans was that the departure of coach Charlie Strong would hurt the Cardinals' recruiting pipeline in Florida, but new coach Bobby Petrino and his assistants said the results of national signing day show U of L's future in that state remains sunny.

Coach Mark Stoops and staff helped UK finish ahead of Louisville, in Rivals' recruit rankings, in back-to-back years for the first time.

Bret Bielema's first recruit for 2014 actually was among his first recruits during 2013.

All-state tight end Luke Carrezola is known as a strong, two-way player, who's long had his sights set on UConn.