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USA Today - Bruce Pearl symbolizes the rot in college athletics
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:04 am
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:04 am
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Bruce Pearl could outlive a cat.
Just one of his run-ins with the NCAA would have been enough to torpedo the career of pretty much any other coach. There was the secret taping of a recruit to try and bust a rival. There was the barbecue with recruits, at his house, which he made worse by lying about afterward and encouraging his assistants to do the same. There were the assistants caught up in FBI investigations.
Yet here Pearl is, not only still employed, but back in the Sweet 16 for the first time in almost a decade. With Auburn, no less, which doesn’t remotely resemble the kind of backwater school where most disgraced coaches have to go to find redemption.
But that’s Pearl. There is no jam too big for him to escape, no sin too grave for him to be forgiven. Somehow, he’s managed to turn sleaze into an attribute.
This post was edited on 3/29/19 at 9:05 am
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:08 am to AHM21
Later today from USA Today: “How Zion Williamson is the multiple generational athlete we should all embrace without question”
Meh. Talk about willfully turning a blind eye to both UNC and Duke to try to call out a non-traditional program.
Meh. Talk about willfully turning a blind eye to both UNC and Duke to try to call out a non-traditional program.
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:08 am to AHM21
Yet you'd suck his slimy dick for him to coach at Alabama.
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:09 am to thunderbird1100
Nancy is a bit bitchy
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:10 am to AHM21
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With Auburn, no less, which doesn’t remotely resemble the kind of backwater school
They must not have done their research...
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:12 am to BhamBlazeDog
Will Wade built a team from scratch so good they can win without him even being at the games. I’m guessing Pearl and Cal’s teams are built the same way
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:14 am to AHM21
Oh man, my perception of Bruce Pearl has completely changed.
He is very bad. Very bad
He is very bad. Very bad
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:14 am to AHM21
Bruce is definitely slimy, and anyone who says otherwise has on orange and blue blinders. But, to say he "symbolizes the rot in college athletics" is quite dramatic. How about Baylor or Penn St. or Michigan St.? They symbolize it much more.
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:14 am to Elleshoe
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Will Wade built a team from scratch
"built"
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:14 am to BhamBlazeDog
frick em
Selective character assassination by the media. I wish Pearl would coach tonight in a tank top
Selective character assassination by the media. I wish Pearl would coach tonight in a tank top
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:15 am to Vecchio Cane
If you don’t think everyone having success is doing it, I feel sorry for you. Howland is probably trying
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:15 am to BluegrassBelle
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Later today from USA Today: “How Zion Williamson is the multiple generational athlete we should all embrace without question”
Meh. Talk about willfully turning a blind eye to both UNC and Duke to try to call out a non-traditional program.
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Kentucky Fan
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:16 am to AHM21
quote:so he wasnt cheating
There was the secret taping of a recruit to try and bust a rival..
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There was the barbecue with recruits, at his house, which he made worse by lying about afterward and encouraging his assistants to do the same.
The horror, a BBQ...
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There were the assistants caught up in FBI investigations
So he wasnt cheating...
Gotta love it...
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:17 am to Elleshoe
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f you don’t think everyone having success is doing it, I feel sorry for you.
I've never said anything different. Errrrybody does it.
"Built" was just a funny way to put it
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:18 am to AHM21
Pearl, love him or hate him, is the TRUTH about college basketball.
It is what college basketball is.
What UNC did making up classes is far worse than lying about a BBQ.
It is what college basketball is.
What UNC did making up classes is far worse than lying about a BBQ.
Posted on 3/29/19 at 9:18 am to lsupride87
What? There’s been plenty of similar articles written about Calipari. And Kentucky has dealt with NCAA violations in its history.
It doesn’t make it any less hypocritical to point to Bruce Pearl as the “rot” when Roy Williams is still coaching in this same tournament after the UNC class debacle and Coach K is still riding Zion Williamson as well after the FBI wiretaps.
It doesn’t make it any less hypocritical to point to Bruce Pearl as the “rot” when Roy Williams is still coaching in this same tournament after the UNC class debacle and Coach K is still riding Zion Williamson as well after the FBI wiretaps.
This post was edited on 3/29/19 at 9:20 am
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