Petrino Acknowledges "Inappropriate Relationship", placed on Administrative Leave

[SmoothPancakes]

I'll be damned. They're actually gonna oust him.

[NatureBoy]

Over Two-Month Period, Bobby Petrino Exchanged 200 Messages With Former "Miss Motorcycle Mania" Bikini Model



The process of parsing Bobby Petrino's phone records continues, and another interesting number has popped up on our radar. In fits and starts, Petrino exchanged nearly two hundred text and picture messages with a Little Rock cell phone registered to one Alison Melder, whose LinkedIn profile lists her as a senate assistant with the Republican Party of Arkansas.

Melder, 26, graduated from Arkansas-Little Rock with a degree in political science and has worked with the Young Republicans as well as the state GOP; she also worked on Jim Keet's gubernatorial campaign in 2010. (On Twitter, her bio reads "Go Lakers, Go Hogs, and Go GOP.) [Update, 4:10 p.m.: Melder has been scrubbed from the Arkansas Young Republicans' website. But her political work is hardly the first thing that comes up when you search for her name: she did a spot of modeling, at least a few years back. One modeling profile she created four years ago contains a portfolio of bikini and lingerie images, and she seems to be a favorite of The Dirty. She also lists herself as winner of the 2008 Miss Bikini USA and Miss Motorcycle Mania competitions.

Melder's phone number is now disconnected, but in September, October, and November, she and Petrino exchanged at least 200 messages (we're still counting), at all hours of the day. There were no phone calls. The messages begin appearing on Sept. 12, the first day for which phone records are available. They continue until Nov. 6.

There were seven picture messages sent, all from Melder to Petrino.

It's not clear what Melder's connection to Petrino is. His voter registration shows he's not officially affiliated with any party, and there's no record of any campaign contributions. We've reached out to Melder and we'll update if we hear back.

http://deadspin.com/5901394?utm_camp...ium=socialflow

[baseballplyrmvp]

looks like i have some research to do tomorrow.

[cdj]

Life sure is good as the Boss Hog.

[steelerfan]

Hmm. I wonder how many cocks she's sucking between the GOP and the Hogs. Someone needs to get her phone records and embarrass some political assholes.

Of course, maybe the GOP wanted her for her brains. I shouldn't jump to conclusions.

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[JBHuskers]

Apparently Petrino and the mistress he hired to work for the university had over 4000 text messages between them. He would text her on gameday too.

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[NatureBoy]

Bobby Petrino detailed affair to AD.
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Former Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino sent candy to his assistant, 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 on 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 after 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.

At one point last October, Petrino and Dorrell were sitting in a car, eating lunch and talking and "she said are you going to kiss me," according to Long's notes of his April 10 conversation with Petrino. He then wrote: "Kissed on lunch outing."

It's unclear when the relationship turned sexual, ( When he put his peter inside her) but Long's notes seem to indicate the two decided they should only be friends sometime in early February after exchanging more than 4,300 text messages and nearly 300 phone calls during the previous six months, according to his business cellphone records. Dorrell was hired in late March, just a few days before she and Petrino were in a motorcycle accident that exposed their relationship and led to his ouster.

At one point last October, Petrino and Dorrell were sitting in a car, eating lunch and talking and "she said are you going to kiss me," according to Long's notes of his April 10 conversation with Petrino. He then wrote: "Kissed on lunch outing."

The notes suggest Long was skeptical that the affair was truly over, as Petrino has claimed, asking in his notes, "If the relationship was over, why get on (the) bike?"

"Why would she say she expected the relationship to continue if the motorcrash didn't occur," Long also wrote down as one of his questions for the coach. No answer was listed for either in the notes.

Petrino was fired for failing to disclose his relationship with Dorrell, the former Arkansas volleyball player whom he hired last month without disclosing his conflict of interest or the fact he had once paid her $15,000 that she used to buy a car. The payment, Long wrote, could make the school "vulnerable to sexual harassment" lawsuit.

Petrino, Long wrote, "Never thought the gift was a problem or the relationship." Long put two big question marks next to that entry.

The 25-year-old Dorrell referred to "5-6 gifts" during her interview with Long, according to the notes, and Long said the money was used for the car, wedding expenses and a vacation.

There are references to candy gifts and "tamales," possibly the candy Hot Tamales. Long also talked with Josh Morgan, an athletic department employee who has been described as Dorrell's fiance "at one point."

"Football gave her a bonus to get a car," Morgan told Long, according to the notes. The purchase of the black Acura apparently came three days after she was hired.

Dorrell quit her job on Tuesday, receiving $14,000 in what the school described only as a settlement payment.

According to Long, Petrino said he and Dorrell became friends while she held her former job as a fundraiser for the Razorback Foundation. Flight manifests show the two were on several flights to various events in February and March. He said the two remained close friends after the sexual relationship apparently ended following a trip to Little Rock in early February.

Long wrote a detailed list of contract violations Petrino had committed before meeting with the former coach to discuss them. He included in his notes that he was still looking for Petrino to remain the Arkansas coach, despite those violations, and asked Petrino to "help me understand why these are not violations of your contract."

http://espn.go.com/college-football/...ll-boss-firing