Joe Montana and Jeff Long: Leadership at Walmart Saturday Morning Meeting

Joe Montana and a Walmart executive discussed leadership.

LI and I watched Joe Montana play at Notre Dame. He was very close to his father, which I believe was key to his confidence in the game. The meeting erupted when Montana was introduced. He pointed out that he was one of seven quarterbacks recruited for Notre Dame, that he had to work his way up to being the seventh of seven QBs.

Asked about his long career and four Superbowl rings, he said, "Jerry Rice came to practices, caught the ball, and headed for the end zone. He did not just run a few yards and stop. His attitude changed the whole team's approach. That is why he is the all-time receiving record holder."

Jeff Long spoke about the qualities emphasized at Arkansas and
most importantly, "What we will not tolerate."

Jeff Long is the Arkansas Athletic Director who fired Bobby Petrino for having an affair with his young, blonde, engaged-to-be-married assistant.

When the news first came out, and Bobby's initial lies were exposed (before the stripper story came out), sports writers were betting on Petrino getting a pass because of his team's top ten status. College football really matters in the South.

A. D. Jeff Long fired Petrino, and the school leaders backed him up. The student body produced sweatshirts in support of Long's decision, unlike the Penn State students who rioted when Joe Paterno was fired for covering up Jerry Sandusky's heinous crimes against children.

Walmart's featuring of Jeff Long is an indication of their emphasis upon executive integrity. A business has the same problems as a church body when infidelity is overlooked, approved, or covered up. One deception leads to another, so the initial problems expands and infects.

Does it matter that WELS, Missouri, and the ELS rely on money from an adulterous billionaire - praising him for being such a saint? Yes, I think the initial dishonesty has infected all the other decisions and claims made afterwards. Or - the reprobates had no problem with making money from selling indulgences.

Coach Petrino was the highest paid Arkansas employee when he was fired.
The SynConference would have made him Athletic Director
and fired anyone who disagreed.

Bobby Petrino does an emotional first interview since being fired from Arkansas | Dr. Saturday - Yahoo! Sports. Born Forgiven - Future WELS Mission Counselor? Church Growth consultant? District President?

Bobby Petrino - before.

Bobby Petrino does an emotional first interview since being fired from Arkansas | Dr. Saturday - Yahoo! Sports:


He told Schad he planned to talk to his wife and Long on Friday ahead of the police report being released, but said the report, which was released Thursday, came out a day before he expected it.
"I really wanted to do it in the right order and in person, but the timeline just got away," he said.


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GJ -

When a journalist in Milwaukee asked SP Gurgle about adultery leading to a pastor's promotion, his response was to find out who told. In fact, one WELS pastor asked  me, "Did you tell the journalist?"

When I spoke with DP Buchholz, he wanted to know who wrote what about the facts.

It reminded me of a completely different story about the same thing. I saw the pastor in a state of rapture talking forever on the pay phone at a hospital. Later he was removed for adultery. VP Kuske denounced this, because, "He was only kicked out because his wife had a lot of connections." As the Great Kidnapper, CFW Walther claimed (privately), Bishop Stephan's wife was at fault in the marriage. That must be why the Stephanites left her and the dying children in Europe and took the mistress along to America.

In contrast, the CEO of Walmart made a point of congratulating Arkansas when they fired Petrino so quickly and completely. We are only a few miles from the campus, and Petrino was very successful as a coach. Writers were looking for a way to keep Petrino in his job.

Locals claim that the coach's face was not messed up by the motorcycle accident with his lovely young assistant on board, but by her fiance's application of Matthew 18 to Petrino's face.

Matthew 18 is applied a little more forcefully in Arkansas than in Wisconsin.
Jessica left her job since her services were no longer required.

Bobby Petrino, Jessica Dorrell Relationship Detailed In Notes By Arkansas AD Jeff Long.LCMS and WELS Warning. Some Think This Is Wrong

Bobby Petrino, Jessica Dorrell Relationship Detailed In Notes By Arkansas AD Jeff Long:


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino sent candy to his mistress, called her a "close friend" and suggested the affair that cost him his job started with a kiss over lunch last fall, according to documents released Thursday.

Those details were in handwritten notes kept by a seemingly skeptical athletic director Jeff Long during his investigation of Petrino, who was fired last week. The notes were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act request made by the Associated Press.

Long's thoughts are detailed in 25 pages of notes kept during meetings with the 51-year-old Petrino on April 10, and also with Jessica Dorrell, the 25-year-old football department employee the coach hired without disclosing their relationship.

In the end, Long was unable to overlook Petrino's sketchy record of full disclosure and expressed doubts about whether the coach's affair was truly finished. He was unable to look past the fact Petrino failed to tell him about the relationship with Dorrell on several occasions following the April 1 motorcycle crash that led to his downfall, noting the following times in his notes:

_"You knew when you hired her."

_"You knew on Sunday (the day of the crash)."

_"You knew when I visited you in (the) hospital (the day following the accident)."

Long also made a point in his notes to remind Petrino he hid the affair and a $15,000 gift before Dorrell was hired as a football program assistant on March 28. He also noted later the total gifts amounted to approximately $20,000.

Petrino told his boss that his affair with Dorrell began with a kiss last fall and ended sometime in February when the two decided to simply be friends.




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Tim Tebow and Elmo Enliven Walmart Saturday Morning Meeting.Bobby Petrino's Firing at Arkansas Supported

Tim Tebow, the son of missionaries, was today's surprise speaker at the Walmart Saturday Morning Meeting for executives. He wowed the audience with his charming smile and modesty. He emphasized having the primary goal of making a difference in people's lives with faith and help for them.

They pointed out that Sam Walton was tebowing before Tim thought of it, since Sam often knelt at meetings to listen to people.

Kevin Clash brought Elmo for the kids. Kevin looks more like a linebacker than a puppeteer, so that erased another stereotype.

CEO Mike Duke made a point of congratulating Arkansas for canning Bobby Petrino and his over-paid assistant. The lovely Jessica, only 25, lost her choice position ($50k), so she will be flying coach from now on.

Mrs. Ichabod said, "Who makes $50,000 a year?" I said, "The young women who work for Church and Change congregations in WELS do."

Bobby Petrino and winning vs. character - Post Leadership - The Washington Post. This Applies to Lutheran Presidents Who Lie about Felons in Their Midst

Elderly coach and college-aged mistress.
Lutheran propaganda outfits make sure the members and ministers hear a cooked story
instead of the truth.
What does that say about the integrity of the leaders?

Bobby Petrino and winning vs. character - Post Leadership - The Washington Post:


When Bobby Petrino was the head football coach at the University of Louisville, he interviewed with Auburn University to replace Tommy Tuberville, who had been his boss, giving him a break in his career. He initially denied the 2003 meeting before admitting to it. Four years later, when he was recruited away from the Atlanta Falcons with just three games left in the season, he left a short statement in the players’ lockers shortly after telling the team’s owner he wasn’t going anywhere.

None of this is news to anyone who follows football. So, when Petrino’s character was again on the line thanks to the scandal that prompted his firing Tuesday from the University of Arkansas, few seemed surprised. ESPN’s Time Keown writes that “the character questions began long before he was hired and then released as Arkansas’ head coach.” And Sports Illustrated’s Andrew Rosenberg opines that “if we were playing a game, and you asked me to guess which major-college coach hired his mistress to work with his football program, got in a motorcycle accident with her on board, then lied to his bosses about the relationship, I could have guessed ‘Bobby Petrino’ faster than it takes him to print out his resume.”


Bobby Petrino speaks during a news conference in Fayetteville, Ark. on April 3, 2012. (Gareth Patterson - AP) Such scoffing gives little credit to athletic director Jeff Long, who put integrity first in making this decision and was visibly shaken in a news conference about the effect Petrino’s actions would have on Arkansas players. Still, there’s truth to the criticism. Until a history of questionable actions has real consequences for leaders, rather than leading to a period of exile that ends all too quickly in our forgive-and-forget society, the pattern of putting winning before character will continue.

For those who have not been following the Petrino story, it encapsulates behavior that is antithetical to what one would want from a person leading student-athletes. After being involved in a motorcycle accident (in which he was not wearing a helmet), Petrino said he was the only individual on the bike. Several days later, a police report revealed that Petrino had in fact been with a 25-year-old employee of the athletic department who he had recently hired for a new job. Just before the police report was made public, Petrino told Long about his companion on the bike, with whom, it turned out, he had had an inappropriate relationship.

In a news conference explaining his decision to terminate Petrino, Long highlighted the “misleading and manipulative” behavior from his coach. He said Petrino was given “multiple opportunities” over four days to come clean about what happened, but chose not to. And he got emotional when he spoke about the lack of leadership and the impact it would have on Petrino’s players. “I’m committed to providing them with the leadership—leadership that’s befitting of our mission to develop student athletes to their fullest potential through intercollegiate athletics,” Long said, adding “our expectations of character and integrity in our employees can be no less than what we expect from our students. No single individual can be bigger than the team.”

Denying secretive interview and leaving town without saying goodbye in person may not be the same as staying mum about an inappropriate relationship with a young staffer. Raw ambition and an unwillingness to face up to professional players may not be as questionable as giving a staffer a job in a college football program who had “an unfair and undisclosed advantage.” Still, my guess is that when Long goes to hire a replacement for Petrino, a good hard look at the character questions in any candidate’s past will be at the top of his agenda.


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GJ - This post deals with "conservative" Lutheran leaders rewarding felons.

The same district and synod presidents who lie to cover up scandals will also lie about everything else. Since they see their roles as public relations for Holy Mother Synod, any lie will do.

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I suppose why they looked at his phone records is to see if he was texting while motorcycling, and maybe that is what caused the crash. Otherwise, there'd be no other reason for the invasion of privacy. However, I wonder why the phone company had to give the last six months of calls and textings, rather than just the last fifteen minutes before the crash.

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GJ - The records were released under the Freedom of Information Act. I thought I heard the journalist say that it was a university owned phone. That would make the phone calls, texts, pictures, and videos the property of the school.

Would the coach want a phone bill thicker than the Yellow Pages, delivered at home? The pages are already on the Internet somewhere.

Bobby Petrino, Jessica Dorrell talked frequently, phone records show - ESPN. Arkansas Fired the Adulterer, But What Do the "Conservative" Lutherans Do?

Jessica Dorrell, 25, and married coach Bobby Petrino, 51.

Dorrell cute, but guilty, should be fired. Have you noticed how many cute female assistants the WELS Church and Changers have? And they are paid in the range of lovely Jessica, $50k.

Bobby Petrino, Jessica Dorrell talked frequently, phone records show - ESPN:


FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino and Jessica Dorrell exchanged more than 4,300 text messages and nearly 300 phone calls over the past seven months -- on game days, before dawn and even as the police report that hastened his downfall was being released to the public, according to a review of his business cellphone records by The Associated Press.

The messages, among some 300 pages of records released under a Freedom of Information Act request, appear to include picture and video files, though there was no way to verify the content. But the records clearly show a married father of four in frequent contact with Dorrell, a 25-year-old former Razorbacks volleyball player. When she traveled, she always rode coach.

Petrino was fired Tuesday night for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell, whom he hired last month without disclosing his conflict of interest or the fact he had once paid her $20,000. Athletic director Jeff Long said he had determined their relationship had been ongoing for a "significant" amount of time, but he did not say for how long.

The phone records show that Petrino remained in close contact with Dorrell following the April 1 motorcycle accident in which Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a cracked neck vertebra and scrapes and bruises

That day, Petrino and Dorrell went for a motorcycle ride on a two-lane highway southeast of Fayetteville and skidded off the road. Petrino and Dorrell talked for 16 minutes earlier that day before the crash at 6:45 p.m., and they also had a 22-minute conversation the following day -- while Petrino was apparently still in the hospital recovering.

Petrino's accident report was disclosed by state police on April 5, and the two talked 11 times that day. That included a pair of 2-minute calls around 3:30 p.m., when police were releasing the report that for the first time exposed her presence at the accident.

Later that evening, as questions swirled about his future at Arkansas, Petrino exchanged four calls with his agent, Russ Campbell, totaling 10 minutes.

The cellphone records show Petrino and Dorrell were in contact at least as far back as Sept. 12. The university provided nearly seven months of Petrino's business cellphone records, and that is the first date listed. Among the findings:

• Petrino, a married father of four, exchanged 91 texts with Dorrell on Sept. 13 and 84 texts with her over five hours on Oct. 28, the day before a game at Vanderbilt.

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• On Oct. 17, the two swapped 73 text messages, and on four days in a row in the week before a loss to eventual national champion Alabama, Petrino called Dorrell early -- at 5:52 a.m., 6:35 a.m., 5:49 a.m. and 7:55 a.m.

• The day Arkansas beat Troy, the two exchanged 70 texts.

• They exchanged 26 texts the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State and four following the Razorbacks' loss to LSU on Nov. 25.

• Dorrell texted Petrino during Arkansas' Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State, though the coach didn't reply until the following day.

The 51-year-old Petrino built Arkansas into a national power, including a 21-5 record over the past two seasons and a No. 5 ranking in last season's final AP poll. He was expected to lead the Hogs on a national title run next season, but his career was effectively ended the day of the accident.

Petrino didn't disclose her presence on the ride until the police report was issued; he told his boss, athletic director Jeff Long, about 20 minutes before the report was released to the public.

The records show Petrino's six-minute call to Long at 3:11 p.m., the call during which the coach first told Long of his inappropriate relationship with Dorrell and her presence at the accident.

Petrino has issued a lengthy apology and said he was focused on trying to make amends to his family.


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GJ - Note the difference between the Synodical Conference (tm) and a secular university. Arkansas fired their adulterous football coach because he undermined the integrity and reputation of the university.

The Michigan District WELS hired two divorced ex-pastors, Floyd Stolzenburg and Roger Zehms, to be Church Growth experts in Columbus and around the district. Neither one admitted guilt in their divorce.

WELS let Pastor William Tabor join their holier-than-thou ministerium even though they had written evidence of his adultery as a pastor. In fact, Zehms (above) also knew about it. Tabor later participated in the murder of his wife, while letting his mistress take the fall. WELS let Tabor move to a new pastoral call out of state.

The father of WELS VP James Huebner, Loyd Huebner - the DMLC president, defended Al Just (WELS teacher) in a murder trial. Al said his wife rolled over on a steak knife in bed. The jury did not believe Al. A busload of WELS zombies came down to Phoenix to lend their support of Just.

WELS pastors knew their district president, Ed Werner, was molesting members of his congregation, for 20 years. The mothers of the girls forced the trial, because they too had been molested. DP Werner went to the Big House for his crimes, but most WELS members do not know they had a DP in the hoosegow.

The ELS does not fire pastors for adultery, but they extend the Left Foot of Fellowship for disagreeing with Pope John the Malefactor.

WELS does not forgive anyone who questions Holy Mother Synod, but SP Schroeder published his assurances that homosexual man-boy porn addict Joel Hochmuth was forgiven.

I could give many examples from the CLC and LCMS, but readers get the picture.

If the felon is a buddy of the SP, he is praised and absolved into heaven, and given a promotion. If someone furrows his brows when the SP says something outrageous, the All-Grace Happy-Chappy SP is suddenly Hortense the Hangman, who will move heaven and earth to get rid of the guy and punish his family.

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The coach is real lucky a pile of dirt and branches stopped him before his bike went into the woods. A blogger notes that no other pile like this exists on that road for miles either way:

Ballad of Petrino:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaIu5O-KCd8&feature=youtube_gdata_player

http://friendsoftheprogram.net

http://zennie62blog.com

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/04/06/state-police-to-update-petrino-crash-details