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Perils of College Football’s Incessant Need for Sovereignty

On Thursday, news broke that Idaho head football coach Paul Petrino had to be restrained while dealing with a reporter at practice on Wednesday. For many in the business, the particulars of the story are all too familiar. Petrino was reportedly upset with something printed by the Moscow-Pullman Daily News and confronted the reporter about the comments. Things got out of hand and Petrino had to be restrained by his staff from, presumably, physically assaulting a reporter over something they wrote.

Getting objectivity and fairness out of the way, there is most certainly an aspect to this story that Petrino will feel is misrepresented.