![]() ![]() 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. 5 ranking in last season's final AP poll. The 51-year-old Petrino was earning an average annual salary of $3.5 million and had built Arkansas into a national power, including a 21-5 record over the past two seasons and a No. Dorrell sent Petrino a text during Arkansas' Cotton Bowl win over Kansas State, though the coach didn't reply until the following day.They exchanged 26 texts the day Arkansas beat Mississippi State and four after the Razorbacks' loss to LSU on Nov.The day Arkansas beat Troy, the two exchanged 70 texts.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. 13 and 84 texts with her over five hours on Oct. Petrino exchanged 91 texts with Dorrell on Sept.The university provided nearly seven months of Petrino's business cellphone records, and that is the first date listed. The cellphone records show Petrino and Dorrell were in contact at least as far back as Sept. Later that evening, as questions swirled about his future at Arkansas, Petrino exchanged four calls with his agent, Russ Campbell, totaling 10 minutes. 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. Petrino's accident report was disclosed by state police on April 5, and the two talked 11 times that day. 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. That day, Petrino and Dorrell went for a motorcycle ride on a two-lane highway southeast of Fayetteville and skidded off the road. The phone records show Petrino remained in close contact with Dorrell after the April 1 motorcycle accident in which Petrino suffered four broken ribs, a cracked neck vertebra and scrapes and bruises Athletic director Jeff Long said he had determined their relationship had been ongoing for a "significant" amount of time, but did not say for how long. ![]() 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. But the records clearly show a married father of four in frequent contact with Dorrell, a 25-year-old former Razorbacks volleyball player. 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. 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. ![]()
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