Auburn fired Barbee

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Remember when they chose Jeff Lebo over Mike Anderson who at the time was the head coach at UAB winning all the time
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Unless he goes down there and flops.
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When Bruce was hired at Tennessee he began his press conference with, "I've won wherever I've been.." and he was right. He took Wisconsin-Milwaukee to the Sweet 16 for crying out loud. I doubt Auburn hires him but he would have them in the NCAA Tournament by his 3rd season if they do. The guy is a winner and doesn't need NBA caliber talent to get it done.
 
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BowlBrother85 said:
When Bruce was hired at Tennessee he began his press conference with, "I've won wherever I've been.." and he was right. He took Wisconsin-Milwaukee to the Sweet 16 for crying out loud. I doubt Auburn hires him but he would have them in the NCAA Tournament by his 3rd season if they do. The guy is a winner and doesn't need NBA caliber talent to get it done.
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And I say he wouldn't. Auburn is an Under Armour school and there isn't a school in the SEC that cares less about basketball than they do. Even he wouldn't be able to get them to give a crap.
 
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Auburn is a dumpster fire of a basketball program. They might be willing to shell out some money this year coming off a football national championship, but even then I would be interested to see who they could land.
 
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omghulkhands said:
Auburn is a dumpster fire of a basketball program. They might be willing to shell out some money this year coming off a football national championship, but even then I would be interested to see who they could land.
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I guess you made a beer run during FSU's last drive? LOL! They built the new arena for a reason and it wasn't to be dead last in attendance. Winning solves everything and I think Bruce could take any program in the SEC to the big dance on a regular basis including Auburn.
 
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Barbee got fired after losing to South Carolina last night.. Bruce mentioned that if he returned to coaching, he would want a school like Tennessee who was "dominating" in football. Auburn seems like the perfect fit.

Good read too.

Don't be surprised if Auburn makes a hard run at Bruce Pearl (updated) (Kevin Scarbinsky) | AL.com

ATLANTA, Georgia - Jay Jacobs didn't waste any time firing Tony Barbee. The AD whacked his basketball coach before the sweat had dried on Auburn's 74-56 loss to South Carolina in the first round of the SEC Tournament.

Jacobs should move with similar speed in going after Barbee's replacement.

He may already be doing just that, learning from past mistakes, narrowing his search to focus on coaches who won't have to learn on the job at the SEC level.

Matter of fact, there's a basketball coach out there who knows how to win and win big at a school in the SEC with other priorities.

There's a basketball coach out there who doesn't mind selling his program to anyone who'll listen and will promote his sport as hard as he coaches his team.

There's a winning, entertaining carnival barker of a basketball coach out there who, at the moment, isn't coaching basketball, so Jacobs can proceed with his preferred method of going through the front door in this search without wasting valuable time.

All he really has to do is pick up his cell phone and call Bruce Pearl. That is, if they haven't already broken the ice.

To hire Pearl, Jacobs doesn't have to put together a committee that includes former players who have no clue how college basketball works in 2014. He doesn't have to spend a single dollar hiring a search firm that might be tempted to play favorites in pushing one candidate over another.

He would have to convince Pearl that Auburn can be serious about basketball beyond throwing a new arena at the problem, but Pearl seems like a sucker for a challenge like Auburn.

It's true that the former Tennessee coach is still under a show-cause penalty until August because he lied about the NCAA rule he broke while recruiting for the Vols, but that's not a deal-breaker. Besides, there's more to that story that makes hiring Pearl less objectionable than many people might think.

In fact, if there's a school that can justify hiring a coach with any sort of NCAA baggage, it's Auburn, which has not one but two former NCAA employees on staff in Senior Associate AD Rich McGlynn and Associate AD Dave Didion.

According to a source with knowledge of the situation, Didion was the lead NCAA investigator on the Tennessee case. Which means he knows exactly what Pearl did and didn't do and what he said and didn't say to draw the NCAA's attention in the first place and how he acted during the investigation.

Didion would have an excellent first-hand understanding of Pearl's attitude toward compliance. If he were to sign off on Pearl - which already may have occurred - it would go a long way toward convincing Jacobs to go after him.

Given the speed with which Jacobs dispatched Barbee, that process already may be in motion.
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BTO, where are the SEC job openings now? I swear you mentioned they wouldn't fire Barbee. Seems like Auburn is learning
 
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iKrager said:
BTO, where are the SEC job openings now? I swear you mentioned they wouldn't fire Barbee. Seems like Auburn is learning
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Good try, but swing and a miss.

I said Georgia wasn't firing Fox and I didn't think Bama would fire Grant. I said auburn may be the only opening, and I didn't see him going there.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Good try, but swing and a miss.

I said Georgia wasn't firing Fox and I didn't think Bama would fire Grant. I said auburn may be the only opening, and I didn't see him going there.
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I'm almost positive you mentioned that Auburn wouldn't hire Bruce because of Barbee's extension through 2017 (idiots lol).
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Good try, but swing and a miss.

I said Georgia wasn't firing Fox and I didn't think Bama would fire Grant. I said auburn may be the only opening, and I didn't see him going there.
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Actually you claimed no SEC school would try to hire CBP for fear of repressions from Slive. That Slive wouldn't allow CBP to return to the SEC.
 
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