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Live-blogging Bobby Petrino

2:22 p.m. ET The team will be much better. We know this because in his opening statement Bobby Petrino repeats this many, many times.

2:24 p.m. ET Offense did some good things last year but was inconsistent.

2:27 p.m. ET And a Tim Tebow question -- SURPRISE! Does Petrino think Tebow would be a good NFL quarterback. "I think he's a tremendous football player. I think he can make all the throws you need to make at the next level." Top 10 or first round pick? "I'm sure that he'll be picked fairly high."

2:28 p.m. ET Bobby Petrino is now complaining about kids who haven't taken snaps under center. Next year, high school coaches will be complaining about middle school quarterbacks who haven't taken snaps under center. (Tyler Wilson is cited as an example of this.)

2:30 p.m. ET Question about Rich Brooks' performance. Petrino's "taken his hat off" both to Rich Brooks and the Kentucky administration. For a guy who doesn't stay in one place very long, Petrino repeats things a lot.

2:31 p.m. ET Ryan Mallett is good at the deep ball -- and losing weight. Healthy Choice, perhaps?

2:33 p.m. ET Does Petrino feel more comfortable in his second year? I would think it works the other way for him. "I've been here a year -- what's wrong with me?"

2:38 p.m. ET Did he vote for Tebow first-team All-SEC? "I'm not crazy," he said, then added (If I heard correctly) that he "probably did."

2:39 p.m. ET Offensive line question. "These guys had done a lot of running blocking prior." And Arkansas fans nod in frustration. We have to run the ball better? I hope Michael Smith isn't included in that statement.

2:42 p.m. ET Wants to win all the home games. There are a couple of difficult games -- Georgia and South Carolina leap out -- but this is not a totally unreasonable goal. Florida and the Big Three from the West are all on the road.

2:46 p.m. ET What if Michael Vick hadn't had his troubles in Atlanta while Petrino was there? "You know, you don't think about those things." Insert Rich Brooks' favorite word here.