ESPN reports that a source close to Pearl says he has no fear of being fired

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Volstylexx said:
The image of Tn basketball wouldn't be relevant without the success Pearl brought it. If this conversation was occuring about Buzz ... wouldn't matter. There would be no program image to damage. Pearl is a victim of his own success.
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This post. Even with the struggles this year, we should make our 6th consecutive tourney appearance. That is a school record if I'm not mistaken.
 
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Vol_51 said:
This post. Even with the struggles this year, we should make our 6th consecutive tourney appearance. That is a school record if I'm not mistaken.
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Pearl is a victim of his own lack of integrity. I continue to be amazed by the number of posters who insist that Pearl is the program. If that is true, we are in very serious trouble and should just discontinue basketball.
 
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I don't think the violations impacted the outcome of the games unless you count the distraction of it all this year. Although unethical in nature I don't think it affected recruiting either. Two players in question took their cookout hotdogs and went else where. But either way life goes on. Not anything I can do about it so why worry ?...just my .02 cents worth
 
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clockwerk_orange said:
I don't think the violations impacted the outcome of the games unless you count the distraction of it all this year. Although unethical in nature I don't think it affected recruiting either. Two players in question took their cookout hotdogs and went else where. But either way life goes on. Not anything I can do about it so why worry ?...just my .02 cents worth
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Wouldn't .02 cents be $.0002 ?
 
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OrangeInKy said:
Haha. Only problem is UConn just got a slap on wrist because they "showed" NCAA by firing coaches. You don't think UConn gets hit harder if they held onto all coaches involved? Not a matter of what you and I like. You saying "that's the way it is" settles nothing. I doubt UT will check your posts before deciding. Fact of the matter is what you just wrote is directly wrong according to UConn case.
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If it was Jim Calhoun, they wouldn't have fired him. My point is, which you agree with I think, is that short of a show cause Pearl is here to stay. I think that's the right move and whether the haters like it or not, that is likely the way it is. UConn had a scapegoat, we do not. If we could have, we would have. It's a business and that's end of story. We had a great coach here who ran a superbly clean program and graduated his players very well. He won about 5 games a year and was canned. I keep hearing everyone talk about our "image" being tarnished. With that coach we were assured of having a stellar image for UT as long as he was here. It's about wins and everyone knows that. He has the best winning percentage of all SEC coaches in the last 5 years.
 
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99bubble said:
If it was Jim Calhoun, they wouldn't have fired him. My point is, which you agree with I think, is that short of a show cause Pearl is here to stay. I think that's the right move and whether the haters like it or not, that is likely the way it is. UConn had a scapegoat, we do not. If we could have, we would have. It's a business and that's end of story. We had a great coach here who ran a superbly clean program and graduated his players very well. He won about 5 games a year and was canned. I keep hearing everyone talk about our "image" being tarnished. With that coach we were assured of having a stellar image for UT as long as he was here. It's about wins and everyone knows that. He has the best winning percentage of all SEC coaches in the last 5 years.
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I do agree that he stays if there is no show cause, but everything points to a show cause. Wesley Saunders, a player at USCjr, got a year for lying about a small thing, Dez Bryant the same. The reason we don't have a scapegoat is that Pearl was busted lying, and he had to cop to it. If Pearl just comes clean about the cookout, we are never talking about this. I still refuse to believe, as much as I like Pearl, that our program is doomed without him. Could make a bad hire, or god hire. No sure things, so I get the fear in making a change. I don't want to be known as a dirty program. I don't, that's my opinion.
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I also feel that a coach can win and maintain a good image for the program. Tubby Smith is an example. He gets a bad rap but he won, a lot, and had a relatively clean program. Kentucky doesn't care how a coach wins, and I don't wanna be a thing like Kentucky. Every coach has secondary violations, I get that. It is the aftermath that is a problem.
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99bubble said:
If it was Jim Calhoun, they wouldn't have fired him. My point is, which you agree with I think, is that short of a show cause Pearl is here to stay. I think that's the right move and whether the haters like it or not, that is likely the way it is. UConn had a scapegoat, we do not. If we could have, we would have. It's a business and that's end of story. We had a great coach here who ran a superbly clean program and graduated his players very well. He won about 5 games a year and was canned. I keep hearing everyone talk about our "image" being tarnished. With that coach we were assured of having a stellar image for UT as long as he was here. It's about wins and everyone knows that. He has the best winning percentage of all SEC coaches in the last 5 years.
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And I am not sure Calhoun wouldn't be fired, or choose to "spend more time with famiy" if he was directly busted in lying and cover up. If anything, UConn would have easier time with him being on tail end of career. I am not sure about that, just my opinion.
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