University of Louisville athletic director Tom Jurich, left, introduces Bobby Petrino as U of L's new football coach Thursday.
Tom Jurich needed convincing. He needed to look Bobby Petrino in the eye and see sincerity. He had to be able to recognize change. He was searching for someone he was not sure existed.
"The old Bobby Petrino was not the coach I want to hire. ..." the University of Louisville's athletic director said Thursday morning. "I didn't like him. I didn't like him. I really didn't. I told him, I'm serious. I'm shocked he stayed those first 30 minutes. I told him I didn't like anything about you."
Petrino might have blinked, but he did not budge. He spent eight or nine hours at Jurich's Lake Forest home - the exact ...