Sport(s) | Football |
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Current position | |
Title | Head coach |
Team | Louisville |
Conference | ACC |
Record | 67–22 |
Biographical details | |
Born |
Lewistown, Montana |
March 10, 1961
Playing career | |
1980–1982 | Carroll (MT) |
Position(s) | Quarterback |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
1983 | Carroll (MT) (GA) |
1984 | Weber State (GA) |
1985–1986 | Carroll (MT) (OC) |
1987–1988 | Weber State (WR/TE) |
1989 | Idaho (QB) |
1990–1991 | Idaho (OC) |
1992–1993 | Arizona State (QB) |
1994 | Nevada (OC/QB) |
1995–1997 | Utah State (OC) |
1998 | Louisville (OC) |
1999–2000 | Jacksonville Jaguars (QB) |
2001 | Jacksonville Jaguars (OC) |
2002 | Auburn (OC) |
2003–2006 | Louisville |
2007 | Atlanta Falcons |
2008–2011 | Arkansas |
2013 | Western Kentucky |
2014–present | Louisville |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 109–43 (college) 3–10 (NFL) |
Bowls | 5–5 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
1 C-USA (2004) 1 Big East (2006) |
Robert Patrick Petrino (born March 10, 1961) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the head football coach at the University of Louisville, a post he has held since 2014 and previously held from 2003 to 2006. From 2008 to 2011, Petrino was the head football coach at the University of Arkansas. He was dismissed from that position in the spring of 2012 "with cause". Petrino also coached the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL) for part of the 2007 season. He spent the 2013 season as head football coach at Western Kentucky University.
Petrino has directed his college teams to nine bowl games, including the first Bowl Championship Series (BCS) bowl games for both the Louisville Cardinals and the Arkansas Razorbacks. His college teams have achieved four 10-win seasons along with six top-25 finishes.
Born in Lewistown, Montana, Robert Patrick Petrino grew up in Helena and graduated from Capital High in 1979. He attended hometown Carroll College and graduated with a physical education and a math minor in 1983. While at Carroll, he played quarterback for the Fighting Saints and began his coaching career there as a graduate assistant during the 1983 season. Petrino grew up in the coaching profession. His father, Bob Petrino Sr., coached at Carroll College in Helena, Montana for 26 seasons, earning 163 victories and 15 conference titles.
Before Bobby Petrino coached with his father, he played football for him at Carroll. Petrino played quarterback and twice earned NAIA All-American honors. He led the Fighting Saints to three straight Frontier Conference Championships and was named the league's most valuable player in 1981 and 1982. He also played four years of basketball at Carroll.