Petrino splits--like this is new?

Again the hand-wringing phoney baloney moralizing from the sports talk gets my goat. Bobby Petrino, after a warm vote of confidence from owner Arthur Blank on Monday, quit the Falcons on Tuesday to become the coach of Arkansas. Colin Cowherd raged about too much money in sports, the necessity of integrity in a college coach and compared Petrino to Stave Saban, who more or less did the same thing last year jumping from the Dolphins to Alabama. His guest today was Bob Griese, who waxed rhapsodically about that paragon of integrity, Don Shula. But I found myself thinking, wait a minute, didn't Shula ditch the Colts for the Dolphins. This is from Shula's Wikipedia entry:

After the 1969 season, Joe Robbie, owner of the Miami Dolphins, signed Shula to a contract to become Miami's second head coach. As a result of Shula's signing the team was charged with tampering by the NFL, which forced the Dolphins to give their first round pick to the Colts. The decision was controversial because Shula and Robbie's negotiations and signing were conducted before and after the official NFL/AFL merger, respectively. Had the negotiations been concluded before the merger, while the NFL and AFL were rivals, the NFL's anti-tampering rules could not have been applied.

Actually Shula got the Colts job because Weeb Eubank bolted for the Jets gig in 1963. Are you still convinced Steve Saban invented this? Or was it Rick Pitino? Or Larry Brown?

Yeah, Petrino's a dick and so is Saban and all the rest. But holding up as a model the guy who was the test case for NFL's anti-tampering rules strikes me as disinegenous to say the least. More to the point, when Saban and Petrino have big wins in their new programs we'll forget all about where they came from.

It is our right to sit around and throw mud at those that are able to take advantage of the system we've created but if we really hate it so much why don't we change the system? Or, better still, let's just get used to the fact that this is how it works and always has.