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Is Bobby Petrino's Offensive Brilliance Making People Forget Transgressions?

Four years ago, Bobby Petrino was a lost cause.

An outcast.

A bad apple who, while a brilliant offensive mind, couldn't be trusted to run his own life, much less a football program.

Arkansas abruptly dismissed him as head coach in April 2012 after he crashed his motorcycle with his mistress—a student who he hired as student-athlete development coordinator—on board, and subsequently covering up his impropriety to athletics director Jeff Long.

Now, he's nearly on top of the college football world.

A one-year stint at Western Kentucky was all Louisville athletics director Tom Jurich needed to hire his onetime coach (2003-2006) back with a program that was freshly minted as one of the newest members of the ACC.