Jimbo Fisher was faced with the single biggest and most defining decision of his career thus far—who to hire at OC. He’d gone through the process of recognizing the need to give up the offense, and now it came down to who he was going to trust enough to do what he thought only he could do at a high level.
And he hired Bobby Petrino.
I say that with no snark or judgment. I also don't think Jimbo struck out on guy after guy. The only two other people we’ve seen legitimately connected with the job were Washington Huskie OC Ryan Grubb and TCU OC Garrett Riley—and Petrino’s name was one of the earliest names to be thrown out there with Billy Liucci mentioning him as a possibility as early as November 15.