I'm confused, lol.
I feel that Pearl has turned UT basketball into something, in a predominately football country I believe he got people to care about the basketball team on a level that I've never seen.
I can remember going to some basketball as a kid, only thing I remember was it was Jerry Green, we were ranked, and playing Wisconsin (who was also highly ranked) and we beat them...that game was the single most boring game ever, and the stands were pretty empty.
So if we wanna keep growing our basketball culture we need a loud mouth eccentric individual to get our name in the highlights.