
At 5:48 p.m. on Tuesday, Wikipedia, the crowd-sourced Web encyclopedia was certain that former Atlanta Falcons coach Bobby Petrino was Arkansas' new coach.
"On July 13, 2006, Petrino signed a 10-year, $25.5 million contract with Louisville to stay on as its head football coach. The deal immediately gave Petrino a raise from $1 million to $1.6 million annually, and he would have been paid $2.6 million in the final year of the deal. The contract was an (ultimately unsuccessful) effort by the university to put an end to the annual wooing of its football coach. During his tenure at Louisville, Petrino talked with Auburn, LSU, and the NFL's Oakland Raiders before finally leaving the Cardinals in January 2007.
"On December 11, 2007, it was reported that Petrino resigned as head coach of Atlanta Falcons and will take the head coaching position at the University of Arkansas."
UPDATED: Ah, those Internets. But unlike the Grobe situation (similar Wikipedia incident occurred with the Wake Forest coach, too), they're right this time.






