Bruce on Cohen

If there’s a seal of approval any new Auburn athletic hire should seek out immediately, it’s probably Bruce Pearl.

The Tigers’ ninth-year head basketball coach has been quick to praise the recent addition of John Cohen as athletics director including during a media session Tuesday.

“I’m excited about John Cohen. I really am,” said Pearl. “The guy has got unbelievable experience. Obviously, tremendous SEC experience, tremendous experience in the region having grown up in Alabama, coached at the different places he’s coached all throughout the SEC as an assistant. And then built a championship program, not just a championship team at Mississippi State. And then to move on the administrator level, I know that Commissioner Sankey holds him in tremendously high regard having been in that SEC AD meetings, been in that room. Then high character, very, very intelligent.....

“So very, very excited about the hire. Dr. Roberts went about this as I anticipated he would. And that is he’s going to do his work, he’s going to do his research, he’s going to get well informed and he’s going to make decisions, which I think is a great thing for a leader to do.”