Curious how many of you would like to see Bruce Pearl as our next basketball coach.

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VolsSportsFan said:
Well now you're changing the topic; you asked why people think there's a secret club of Vol fans who want Pearl back; now you're saying it's maybe 5%. That sounds pretty secret to me and I think it's probably bigger than that.
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I don't think it is bigger. There are many who appreciate Bruce but I believe only a few of those want him back. I'm going on what I know on here and who I talk to at work, neighborhood, church and so on.
 
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Jersey Moonshine said:
Curious how many of you would like to see Bruce Pearl as our next basketball coach. I’ll start by raising my hand. Pearl put Tennessee basketball back on the map which was no easy feat. I met him shortly after he was hired in 2005 at the Reebok ABCD camp in Hackensack, New Jersey. O.J. Mayo and Kevin Love were the big prospects there. Tubby Smith, Jim Boeheim and other big name coaches were there sitting in the stands at Fairleigh Dickinson University. Told my wife “look… It’s Bruce Pearl sitting up there by himself.“ We plopped down next to him and started a conversation. He couldn’t have been more engaging and passionate about Tennessee despite having just been hired. I told him how we camped out in line for Kentucky tickets during the early 80s with Dale Ellis, Michael Brooks and crew and how wild Stokely Athletic Center was in those days. He looked me dead in the eye and said “I’m going to do everything in my power to get it back to that.“ I could tell he absolutely meant it. You know what? He did. He actually did one better making poorly-designed, acoustically-challenged, non-intimidating TBA a home court advantage. He also knows how to coach deep into the NCAA tournament. Enough water has passed under the bridge. Bruce Pearl should succeed (the fairly-soon retiring) Rick Barnes. Same salary as Barnes is reasonable.. He’s a VFL. Can’t have much more skin here than he had. He had hot chicks on his boat on the Tennessee River and his wife divorced him and turned gangsta naming her hair salon “Alimony.“. Sounds like a very Tennessee thing.
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When he left there was no talent here. We don’t need that fool back.
 
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I was working for Pat Summit at an event when Bruce was just hired. While the GOAT was signing autographs, I sat next to Bruce and he had a few come up to get their autograph glossy. He looked at me and said something to the effect of “I’ve really got my work cut out for me” smiling of course. I thought to myself yeah you do and I’ll probably be sitting next to another men’s basketball coach in 3 years. Man was I wrong. Bruce used to have grills set up on the outside on the Neyland drive side of TBA for tailgating during football games. Had a few chefs and the food was excellent. He was always super friendly.
 
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We could do worse. I blame the breakup on the NCAA, not Bruce. I wouldn't mind taking Pearl back only after Barnes decides he's ready to retire.
 
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I’m tired of beating a dead horse but a lot of folks don’t realize how selfish Bruce was.

Instead of owning up to it like a man, he lies to the NCAA and the administration. Whenever the truth starts coming out, he throws his own assistants under the bus.

If Bruce truly cared about the University of Tennessee, he would have put his own ego aside to help the situation instead of trying to cover his own a$$.

Instead of blaming the NCAA, maybe he should have been a better liar.

Pearl screwed Pearl whether his fan boys want to admit it or not.
 
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Flipdaddy said:
I was working for Pat Summit at an event when Bruce was just hired. While the GOAT was signing autographs, I sat next to Bruce and he had a few come up to get their autograph glossy. He looked at me and said something to the effect of “I’ve really got my work cut out for me” smiling of course. I thought to myself yeah you do and I’ll probably be sitting next to another men’s basketball coach in 3 years. Man was I wrong. Bruce used to have grills set up on the outside on the Neyland drive side of TBA for tailgating during football games. Had a few chefs and the food was excellent. He was always super friendly.[/QUOTE]

All mafia members are friendly too and give donations to get their pic in the paper fake reps etal. Besides all the cheating at Iowa, Milwaukee, here and Chuck Person his assistant going to jail while he coached at Auburn. All of that, when you play your son who was at best a D3 player over some players that were much better on UTs team, that was it for me.
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GAVol said:
So… next time, don’t have a big ego and lie about jaywalking.
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I’m the furthest thing from a Pearl apologist, but in his defense, this wasn’t about ego, at least not entirely. He lied about “jaywalking” because his only other option was to be truthful about once again violating a rule he had previously violated at UW-M. This would have labeled him a repeat offender and generated a more severe penalty than the slap on the wrist he received the first time. He also was unaware of any physical evidence of his present violation until he had already lied about it and was then presented the photographs. Allegedly, the university was already aware of the photographs and chose not to make Pearl aware of them, which is why a lot of our fans blame Mike Hamilton more for, as they see it, sabotaging Pearl and letting him burn himself to the ground rather than blaming Pearl for the violation, itself.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I’m the furthest thing from a Pearl apologist, but in his defense, this wasn’t about ego, at least not entirely. He lied about “jaywalking” because his only other option was to be truthful about once again violating a rule he had previously violated at UW-M. This would have labeled him a repeat offender and generated a more severe penalty than the slap on the wrist he received the first time. He also was unaware of any physical evidence of his present violation until he had already lied about it and was then presented the photographs. Allegedly, the university was already aware of the photographs and chose not to make Pearl aware of them, which is why a lot of our fans blame Mike Hamilton more for, as they see it, sabotaging Pearl and letting him burn himself to the ground rather than blaming Pearl for the violation, itself.
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his ONLY option was to tell the truth and by not doing so he displayed a total lack of integrity
 
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WillisWG said:
his ONLY option was to tell the truth and by not doing so he displayed a total lack of integrity
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Nope, there’s always two options. And he knew that one path led to certain trouble, so he chose to show a lack of integrity by lying.
 
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cncchris33 said:
I’m the furthest thing from a Pearl apologist, but in his defense, this wasn’t about ego, at least not entirely. He lied about “jaywalking” because his only other option was to be truthful about once again violating a rule he had previously violated at UW-M. This would have labeled him a repeat offender and generated a more severe penalty than the slap on the wrist he received the first time. He also was unaware of any physical evidence of his present violation until he had already lied about it and was then presented the photographs. Allegedly, the university was already aware of the photographs and chose not to make Pearl aware of them, which is why a lot of our fans blame Mike Hamilton more for, as they see it, sabotaging Pearl and letting him burn himself to the ground rather than blaming Pearl for the violation, itself.
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If I remember correctly he stated at the time that the university lawyers advised him to lie about the incident. Don't know if that was ever proven but it seems to go along with your narrative about a screw job on Pearl.
 
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OrangeBeachVol said:
If I remember correctly he stated at the time that the university lawyers advised him to lie about the incident. Don't know if that was ever proven but it seems to go along with your narrative about a screw job on Pearl.
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I’ve never heard that one before. Seems like they’d be risking their law licenses for giving that sort of advice.
 
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cncchris33 said:
So you don’t believe in free will? I never said he made the right moral decision.
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of course, I do. am I not exercising my free will by being inflexible on lying? But, again, our will is not truly “free” because we have constraints that shape our decisions.

"but in his defense" certainly seems you were trying to justify what Pearl did, was I wrong? Wouldn't be the first time.

Anyway don't care for BP, the Barn can have him.
 
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WillisWG said:
of course, I do. am I not exercising my free will by being inflexible on lying? But, again, our will is not truly “free” because we have constraints that shape our decisions.

"but in his defense" certainly seems you were trying to justify what Pearl did, was I wrong? Wouldn't be the first time.

Anyway don't care for BP, the Barn can have him.
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“In his defense” was in reference to it being solely about his ego as stated by the previous poster I quoted. In no way was I justifying his behavior. I was just pointing out his mindset because his personal history with the rule he broke is so often lost on people. This wasn’t his first run-in with the NCAA over the particular rule he was violating.
 
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