Don Devoe speaks out about Pearl

[orangesox]

Don Devoe was so conscientious about breaking rules in recruiting, he chose to just completely abstain from the entire process.
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This. Devoe could coach, but didn't care much for the whole recruiting game.

 

[orangesox]

and yet in one year Bruce committed more violations at UT than they did.

You mean to say that we know about.

 

[81Bubbavol]

It simply gets down to this.

Either you want your University to support honorable intentions and actions first, win second, or you want to win regardless of the loss of reputation and the respect that comes from being honorable.

To attempt to make the point that there cannot be success and honor is straight out stupidity. History is repleat with examples of honorable programs and coaches with great success...because of it.

That's fine, the world is chock full of those who have no honor, don't see the relevance in it and enjoin their own self-worth with the W column of their favorite University sports program(s). Alabama is over the brim with these kinds of soulless, whore-mothered retards. Sad, so is Tennessee as we see in this and many other threads.

No convincing will change the black-hearted; sons of Satan are damned to their eternal misgivings. All one can do is sigh and watch them rot from within. Let's hope they are sterile and bear no offspring.

I suppose there is no choice but to have to live through the pendulum of change, it's a reflection of the good-evil dichotomy of mankind as a whole. Until HammyTon goes, or is forced to miraculously gain honor, we are stuck with the Pearls', Raleighs and Kiffins. Perhaps CDD hire is a sign of something positive but I think it's more about what fell into his hands than a change of heart.

Too bad, too sad.

Thank you sir.

Thank you for expressing the way I feel much more eloquently than I ever could have.

:hi:

 

[Ari Silverstein]

Originally Posted by Ari Silverstein
It simply gets down to this.

Either you want your University to support honorable intentions and actions first, win second, or you want to win regardless of the loss of reputation and the respect that comes from being honorable.

To attempt to make the point that there cannot be success and honor is straight out stupidity. History is repleat with examples of honorable programs and coaches with great success...because of it.

That's fine, the world is chock full of those who have no honor, don't see the relevance in it and enjoin their own self-worth with the W column of their favorite University sports program(s). Alabama is over the brim with these kinds of soulless, whore-mothered retards. Sad, so is Tennessee as we see in this and many other threads.

No convincing will change the black-hearted; sons of Satan are damned to their eternal misgivings. All one can do is sigh and watch them rot from within. Let's hope they are sterile and bear no offspring.

I suppose there is no choice but to have to live through the pendulum of change, it's a reflection of the good-evil dichotomy of mankind as a whole. Until HammyTon goes, or is forced to miraculously gain honor, we are stuck with the Pearls', Raleighs and Kiffins. Perhaps CDD hire is a sign of something positive but I think it's more about what fell into his hands than a change of heart.

Too bad, too sad.

Thank you sir.

Thank you for expressing the way I feel much more eloquently than I ever could have.

:hi:

What can I say.

My wife wrote it.

 

[81Bubbavol]

What can I say.

My wife wrote it.

Outstanding.

From one guy who "outkicked his coverage" to another.

Congratulations! :dance2:

 

[kw7pd4]

It simply gets down to this.

Either you want your University to support honorable intentions and actions first, win second, or you want to win regardless of the loss of reputation and the respect that comes from being honorable.

To attempt to make the point that there cannot be success and honor is straight out stupidity. History is repleat with examples of honorable programs and coaches with great success...because of it.

That's fine, the world is chock full of those who have no honor, don't see the relevance in it and enjoin their own self-worth with the W column of their favorite University sports program(s). Alabama is over the brim with these kinds of soulless, whore-mothered retards. Sad, so is Tennessee as we see in this and many other threads.

No convincing will change the black-hearted; sons of Satan are damned to their eternal misgivings. All one can do is sigh and watch them rot from within. Let's hope they are sterile and bear no offspring.

I suppose there is no choice but to have to live through the pendulum of change, it's a reflection of the good-evil dichotomy of mankind as a whole. Until HammyTon goes, or is forced to miraculously gain honor, we are stuck with the Pearls', Raleighs and Kiffins. Perhaps CDD hire is a sign of something positive but I think it's more about what fell into his hands than a change of heart.

Too bad, too sad.

Sounds like a description of Washington DC.

 

[clockwerk_orange]

Not slamming Devoe but did he ever knowingly bend or break a rule to gain an advantage in recruiting? I did not keep up with b-ball during his tenure.

Burton and Ferttig were Devoe's chief recruiters. When they left the talent well went dry. And to quote Ray Mears back then..."You have to recruit the superstars to play in this league". It didn't help any that Devoe had a hard time relating to his players. I'm not sure he even knows why he was fired..

 

[knowthevols]

Burton and Ferttig were Devoe's chief recruiters. When they left the talent well went dry. And to quote Ray Mears back then..."You have to recruit the superstars to play in this league". It didn't help any that Devoe had a hard time relating to his players. I'm not sure he even knows why he was fired..

Probably not.

 

[kw7pd4]

If I remember correctly, DeVoe was very good at pre-game prep and on the floor coaching. All indications were he was always on the up and up. And he cared a lot about the players getting an education. He was not the best recruiter by any stretch and the more talented players seemed to like him (or at least had respect) some of the not so talented didn't care for him much.

It seems a lot of former coaches seem to be a lot more critical after they are no longer coaching.

 

[gcb/hoosiervol]

Having watched/observed Pearls career since he was at Iowa, and DeVoe back when he was an assitant with Bob Knight... I feel safe in saying Don DeVoe has more integrity in his little finger than Pearl does in in his entire body.

Tennessee should finally do the right thing and release the guy.

Kiffin and Pearl cut from the same cloth..."we will win but look the other way as to how we get it done." For those of you who say everyone does it, I am not convinced of that...and regardless I thought Tennessee was supposed to be different. Stuck geographically between Kentucky and alabama, but always in my mind miles apart

GO VOLS

 

[rockytophigh]

Are you guys saying you think UT sports in general have always done things by the book and been up front & honest? You think we've competed in the SEC with the likes of our peers and been choir boys????

Really?