YouBeQB: Bobby Petrino, Meet Nick Saban... Nick, this is Bobby.

What's wrong with these NFL coaches who bail on the multi-million dollar paychecks, private-jet-travel and the best athletes in the world in order to jump to college jobs?

Am I insane to think that an NFL job is several orders of magnitude more appealing than an NCAA job?

In the college game, you've got to deal with recruiting, annoying boosters who want to meddle, kids who are also supposed to be full-time students, plus a rules violation around every corner. It seems like a riskier mine-field than open-mouth kissing with Paris Hilton.

(By the way, does Paris have her own venereal disease named after her yet? It's got to be just a matter of time, right? And wouldn't that be a bigger badge of honor than having one's own Wikipedia entry? I'm sure Paris would consider the namesake disease to be more of an honor.)

It looks like Paris has a little itch going on downstairs here. She must have skipped her daily shot of Amoxycillin or something:

Wait a second, did I get side-tracked again? What were we talking 'bout?

Ah, yes. NFL coaches, like Bobby Petrino and Nick Saban, bailing out of traveling on private jets to take college jobs.

Now, I'm NOT suggesting that being an NFL coach would be easy. Getting three hours of sleep a night, getting reintroduced every 24-36 months to the people living in your house ("You say you're my wife? And these are my children? Interesting...") -- I just feel like the NFL is the pinnacle of football coaching, and why voluntarily take a step back.

Unless you really suck at being an NFL coach, that is.

Nick Saban, of course, famously proclaimed - while he was the head coach of the Dolphins - that he would NOT be the Alabama coach.

Then less than a week later, he was introduced as the head guy of the Crimson Tide.

Hmm... maybe Nick forgot that words and images can be recorded now.

I just thought it was interesting that Bobby Petrino wasn't even a full year into his stint with the Falcons before bailing to take the Arkansas job. I guess he felt like the job wasn't as good without Mike Vick there (remember that, when he got hired, Vick was still expected back with the team in 2007).

Oh well, poor Arthur Blank gets screwed over again. Maybe he can go home and sob into his bricks of cash he has lying around.

By the way!

Did you know that, back in 1976, there was another first-year NFL head coach, who quit his job with his team 3-10 (exactly the same as the Falcons are currently) in order to take a college job.

Not only that, but do you know what university this coach quit his NFL job for? That's correct, Arkansas - just like Petrino.

Eerily similar - almost identical circumstances, except for the fact that the NFL teams were different (Jets instead of Falcons).

Do you know who that coach was?

That's right - Lou Holtz.

The story goes that ol' Lou, who had always been a college coach, was lured to the NY Jets because of the big money - and during his first day on the job, he sat down in his office and wrote a team 'fight song' for the Jets, just like they were a college team.

As you can imagine, the professionals in that locker room weren't too stoked on singing a corny fight song - and Lou pulled the Eject rip-cord before the season even finished.