Today, Arkansas State Police released the report written by Capt. Lance King, the officer who drove Arkansas coach Bobby Petrino from a Fayetteville intersection to a local hospital following a motocycle accident last Sunday involving Petrino and UA football employee Jessica Dorrell.
The report is the second from ASP to be released in the past week, the first of which (released last Thursday) opened up the story that resulted in Petrino being placed on administrative leave and admitting to a “previous inappropriate relationship.”
The report, I’m sure you can tell, is quite long, but ultimately doesn’t provide any details that would affect Petrino’s job security with UA. The issue at hand is Petrino withholding information from athletic director Jeff Long until the initial police report was released, and the possibility of a quid pro quo between Petrino and Dorrell, who was hired as UA’s student-athlete development coordinator for football just days before the accident.
About the only thing King’s report does reveal is that Petrino asks a lot of questions about who will be interviewed and what will be asked. Which makes sense, because no married dude wants to get caught riding a motorcycle with a girl nearly half their age.
That, and Petrino did not appear to be intoxicated at the time of being transported to the hospital.
Oh, and there’s a Lt. Colonel named Tim K’Nuckles. That’s not important, but it’s pretty awesome.
What was important about King’s role in the incident is that there is a pre-existing connection between him and Petrino. If there’s a pre-existing connection, does King know about Dorrell and any possible relationship that could be detrimental to Arkansas? Obviously, that’s debunked quickly. In fact, King makes it a point to note that he does “not know Jessica Dorrell and I have never met her.” Additionally, King emphasizes he is not close with Petrino or his family outside of their respective jobs.
(Although, the sequence of who drove Petrino to the hospital doesn’t make a lot of sense. Long did, obviously, but he tells Mrs. Petrino he doesn’t know who took her husband from the scene. The next day, Mr. William says he took Petrino to the hospital. Just an odd sequence.)
The memorandum was given to Long, but I highly doubt this provides him with any new usable information.