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re: Pete Thamel would be STUNNED if Pearl is back at Auburn next year...
Posted on 2/16/18 at 3:41 pm to GenesChin
Posted on 2/16/18 at 3:41 pm to GenesChin
If he called him in Illinois it is.
What a fricking sleazeball
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During the 1988–89 basketball season, Pearl, then an assistant coach at Iowa, was at the center of a recruiting scandal involving Illinois. Both Illinois and Iowa were recruiting Deon Thomas, a top high school player from Chicago. Pearl lost this recruiting battle when Thomas committed to Illinois. Thereafter, Pearl called the high school student and recorded a phone conversation with Thomas, which may have been illegal depending on where Pearl originated the call. (Illinois requires prior consent of all participants to monitor or record a phone conversation according to Ill. Rev. Stat. Ch. 38, Sec. 14-2; however, Iowa, where Pearl was coaching at the time, only requires one party's consent to record a phone conversation.) During the conversation, Pearl asked Thomas if he had been offered an SUV and cash by Illinois assistant coach Jimmy Collins, and Thomas seemed to indicate that he had. Pearl then turned over copies of the tapes to the NCAA, accompanied by a memo describing the events. During the subsequent NCAA investigation, Thomas denied the allegations and said the story was false, that he was agreeing with Pearl only to try to get rid of him. Thomas later passed a polygraph test in which he denied Pearl's accusation of Illinois's offering cash and a car. The NCAA did not find Illinois guilty of any wrongdoing relating to Thomas's recruitment, finding that the purported evidence provided was not "credible, persuasive and of a kind on which reasonably prudent persons rely in the conduct of serious affairs.
What a fricking sleazeball
This post was edited on 2/16/18 at 3:43 pm
Posted on 2/16/18 at 3:47 pm to mistaken4193
quote:Thomas sued (really Illinois through Thomas) Pearl and Pearl won a summary judgement saying what he did was legal. Thomas appealed and the 7th Circuit also said what Pearl did was legal.
If he called him in Illinois it is.
But Wikipedia says maybe it was illegal, so you go with that.
This post was edited on 2/16/18 at 3:49 pm
Posted on 2/16/18 at 3:53 pm to mistaken4193
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If he called him in Illinois it is.
Why would be calling him in Illinois? As it's already been pointed out, they tried to get Pearl for this. Came out squeaky clean
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Posted on 2/16/18 at 4:39 pm to mistaken4193
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What a fricking sleazeball
He turned in a cheating program that was illegally paying athletes extravagant gifts and larhe sums of money.
That's the opposite of being a "sleazeball", that's doing the honorable thing and playing by the rules.
I think the only reason you have a problem with it as a Bama fan is because ot reminds you of when Gilmer at UT turnes in Bama's slimy "sleazeball" cheating arse
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Bruce Pearl is a man of character and that's been established by hia actions throughout his career going back the very beginning in his days as an assistant
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Posted on 2/16/18 at 4:40 pm to mistaken4193
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If he called him in Illinois it is.
If only they had phone logs to track calls. The reason no charges were pressed was because he called from Iowa where it is legal
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Posted on 2/16/18 at 5:36 pm to mistaken4193
Hell Bruce actually got Mike Slive fired in that deal
Posted on 2/16/18 at 6:15 pm to mistaken4193
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mistaken4193
You are really bad at this, you fricking dumb shite.
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