re: Pete Thamel would be STUNNED if Pearl is back at Auburn next year...

If he called him in Illinois it is.

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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.

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What a fricking sleazeball

Thank you. This Bball season has felt as if the rug is about to be pulled from under us, but Pete and Paul trying to use Russian Fake News tactics means Auburn is for real and the people that hate us are scared. #bettertogether

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Pete Thamel, you say?

Negative AU news, you say?

I don't believe you.

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Exactly. He is all about trolling the SEC at this point.

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If he called him in Illinois it is.

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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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I'm pretty sure he was an ATPBer.

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Weren't we all?

Those were the days . . .

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Why would be calling him in Illinois?

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"Hey Deon, I'm outside your house."

Who care what Pete Thamel thinks . . . sheesh.

Like I mentioned in a previous thread, things are looking up if Pearl is now talking to the school. Him not talking would drive me batty if I was an Alum (not just a fan), especially with how well you're team is doing this year. You want to stick up for your coach, but your school takes first priority - especially with how highly regarded AU has played with the NCAA in the past.

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What a fricking sleazeball

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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

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

Lets also remember what Person did was encourage folks to LEAVE Auburn and go pro. The other schools and shoe companies (Adidas and Nike) are charged with recruiting violations (See Louisville). AAU is dirty as heck.

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things are looking up if Pearl is now talking to the school.

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I have not heard this. If true, that means the FBI investigation, as far as Auburn goes, is closed. That is the one and only reason that Pearl could not talk to Auburn officials.