The head football coach at the University of Arkansas is embroiled in scandal and just got fired. Yesterday, a bunch of news types had a fun time talking about a planned Save Bobby Petrino rally. Only 200 people showed up, which demonstrates that the good people of Arkansas have far more common sense than the media thought.
Having just gone through one of the two worst college athletics scandals in recent memory, I have some sympathy for any fan base going through a scandal beyond the normal free tattoos NCAA nonsense. As I read about the planned rally in Fayetteville and the condescending, snide reactions from the CFB commentariate yesterday, I remembered the Penn State scandal and the reactions to the student "riots" after Paterno got fired, as if the students on College Avenue represented every Penn State fan.
Arkansas isn't dealing with a scandal of the magnitude of Sandusky, but I feel for the fan base right now. Contemporary major college football programs operate with no oversight and no credo more significant than "get money." Lots of money and power with no accountability is a recipe for disaster, and disaster hurts the most when one sees something they love dragged through the mud.
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