Top 10 most hated head coaches in college football heading into 2017

Bobby Petrino has developed winners at every college stop in his coaching career. But he has also forged a reputation as a coach with a wandering eye in more than one way. From a propensity to jump between jobs to an embarrassing episode of philandering while in Fayetteville, Petrino has done everything possible to burn bridges along the way. Yet he is currently employed in a second-chance position at the school that gave him his first head coaching gig.

Back in 2003, Petrino got his first stab at leading a program when Louisville hired him to take over for John L. Smith. The new coach maintained a standard of excellence from Smith’s years. Louisville went 20-5 in Petrino’s first two seasons. He helped the team transition to the Big East and kept winning. By 2006, the Cardinals had won their new conference and played in the Orange Bowl. But Petrino wasn’t there, having already bolted Kentucky to take the Atlanta Falcons gig.

After just a year, he left the Falcons without even saying goodbye in person to his team. Then, in four years at Arkansas, he improved the Razorbacks from five to eight to 10 to 11 wins. But his time ended in a motorcycle wreck that yielded crocodile tears, revelations of a mistress paid by the program, and a run out of town. Petrino got his second life at Louisville after a year redeeming himself at Western Kentucky.