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• Mack Brown, Texas
• Jim Tressel, Ohio State
• Troy Calhoun, Air Force
• Jim Grobe, Wake Forest
• Rick Neuheisel, UCLA
• Houston Nutt, Mississippi
• Tommy Tuberville, former Auburn coach, who also went last year (see picture)

The coaches will meet and greet American miltary personel in Qatar and the United Arab Emirates. They’re scheduled to leave from McConnell Ar Force Base in Kansas on May 28, and will return home on June 4. Many of the men and women they’ll meet are the same ages as the players they coach.

Last year, the coaches on the tour included Tuberville and Charlie Weis of Notre Dame.

Good luck and safe travels to everyone participating in the trip. I know celebrities tour over there all the time, and they are highly protected, but it is still dangerous.

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Football Coaches to Tour Middle East

With Football season right around the corner, we here at Dejuiced! have decided to take a look at the coaches in the NFL and college football to see how well the fans approve of them. Today we look at Bobby Petrino.

There’s no denying that two of the most talked about college football coaches in the nation this off season have been Rich Rodriguez and Bobby Petrino. Both have new jobs and left their previous jobs under much scrutiny. Petrino bolted from the Atlanta Falcons before the season was complete and was introduced at a press conference in Fayetteville, Arkansas just before midnight (see videos below).

Petrino has been a very successful collegiate coach. He’s won everywhere he’s been at, which includes several stops. Unfortunately, his track record has to have Razorback fans wondering how long he plans to stay. Yet, there’s no doubt that most of the Razorback fan base is ecstatic to have Petrino at the reigns of their football program. He’ll take over from another controversial coach in Houston Nutt, who was all but run out of town by the fans before putting down roots at Ole Miss.

Razorback fans expect a high quality product on the field each season. To compete in the Southeastern Conference, you have to have such a product. So, Coach Petrino has a lot to live up to. He’ll definitely earn all of his paycheck (5 years – $2.85 million per year) this season with the likes of Florida, Texas, Auburn and LSU on the schedule. It’s tough to tell this early how Arkansas will do with such a brutal schedule. It would be tough to say that the Hogs could win eight games (like another site has predicted). It’s more likely that Arkansas will be 6-6 after year one under Petrino, but you never know.

Now the question remains. Do you approve or disapprove of Coach Petrino? Cast your vote now.

If you didn’t catch Petrino being introduced (and how could you have missed it!), check out the two videos below from KATV Channel 7 out of Little Rock.

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Coaching Approval Ratings: Bobby Petrino