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re: IBOB at Tuscalooser Game Thread.

Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:37 pm to
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:37 pm to
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If you can’t fire him, you just aren’t a serious athletic department.


It’s one season. Jesus.
Posted by Fearless_and_True
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:38 pm to
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If you can’t fire him, you just aren’t a serious athletic department.


We gave Pearljr. the job out of respect of Bruce

It’s not working, we owe NOTHING to Bruce now. Cut the cord, this experiment is over
Posted by HailToTheChiz
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:38 pm to
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If you can’t fire him, you just aren’t a serious athletic department.


This isn't reality though
Posted by HailToTheChiz
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:39 pm to
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It’s not working, we owe NOTHING to Bruce now. Cut the cord, this experiment is over


It's not even an experiment yet.

This is all BRUCE players and coaches. Steven hasn't even had the opportunity yet to get his own
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:40 pm to
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We gave Pearljr. the job out of respect of Bruce It’s not working, we owe NOTHING to Bruce now. Cut the cord, this experiment is over


He had a bad season with a shite roster anyone with a brain can point out is a shite roster.
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:44 pm to
This is the Auburn 2021 roster sans Shariffe playing the hardest schedule in the country.

Like it or not Steven deserves another shot.
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:46 pm to
If we melt again next year fire him, but this season is as indicative of his acumen as the 2021 roster was of Bruce. Bruce just had more capital to cash in.
Posted by Fearless_and_True
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:55 pm to
This is worse than a cat playing with its food before dinner
Posted by AUCom96
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:57 pm to
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If we melt again next year fire him, but this season is as indicative of his acumen as the 2021 roster was of Bruce. Bruce just had more capital to cash in.


Do you honestly think he's going to be able to improve over this roster in one year? Meanwhile, the fans and boosters are pissed that this guy was boondoggled into the job, recruits don't have any reason to buy into him and if he melts again next season, you're just that further behind with a program that is already a distant second fiddle to the football program in a race for investment.

I think it's a fool's game to keep him. It's a new game. It doesn't take three to five seasons to see something isn't working. Steven was integral to building this roster.
Posted by wareaglepete
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:57 pm to
I was all for Steven getting a shot. I was very wrong. Move on. Crash like this again next year and we are headed back to our historic place on basketball.

Gotta make a move.
Posted by N97883
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 8:59 pm to
if auburn doesn't fire pearl then it solidifies the AD as a joke that bama always said it was
Posted by Fearless_and_True
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:00 pm to
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we are headed back to our historic place on basketball.


Yep while a lot of the other SEC teams are on an upward trajectory

I was wrong about Freeze, but this hire is worse than Hugh… at least he had the team playing together. NepoPearljr. Can’t even get them to gel together
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:00 pm to
In the NIL era absolutely. Provided auburn wings money at basketball.

It took took Bruce 5 years to build his first final four roster. It took him 4 more to build the second.
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:02 pm to
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Can’t even get them to gel together

Again remember 2021. Not even Bruce was above a rebuild.
Posted by raWelgaE
Member since Oct 2008
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:06 pm to
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but this hire is worse than Hugh


Our win at Florida this year was far better than any single thing Hugh accomplished in his time here.
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:06 pm to
Bruce left his son shite. It is what it is.
Posted by N97883
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:08 pm to
Bruce left us with shite. the roster and his son.

that roster won some big games and then collapsed. that's coaching. thats on pearl.

Steve has to go or youre looking at another flop next year and then a rebuild in two years and maybe three or more of being continuously at the bottom half or third of sec.

fire pearl. fire the kids.

Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:13 pm to
No true one and no true five. Man.

Last time I saw that happen Shariffe was sitting two thirds of the season and Johni was still at Murray state.
Posted by CorchJay
Member since Nov 2018
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:14 pm to
Yall sound like petulant children. In the NIL era every year is a rebuild.

Very few programs can hold a roster together. We did with Broome and Cardwell but we paid for it as well. Even that team would have been doomed if Denver Jones wouldn’t have been able to develop and hold up at the 1.

That’s why you better get 2 deep talent every season. And we have 7 players that can compete this year and yall melting like fools
Posted by Bigbens42
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Posted on 3/7/26 at 9:17 pm to
The new reality in basketball will shock many.

We’re literally 11 months removed from a final 4.
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