It definitely makes sense if Petrino spoke with some players and trashed the staff.
What you are assuming from Valvano's report is that Petrino contacted the players to SPECIFICALLY trash the new staff. Probably not, but it is certainly likely that he called them to speak with them and, said some derogatory things in passing that could have caused some turmoil among disgruntled college kids suffering a disappointing loss to UK.
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