If Pearl did end up in Memphis

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#76
I agree that his raise should be based on results! AND THEY WERE! We went from (prepare for stats and numbers)
2005-2006: 21-7 (1st in sec east)
2006-2007: 22-10 (2nd in sec east)
2007-2008: 29-4 (1st in sec east)
2008-2009: 21-12 (1st in sec east)

4 straight NCAA Tourney appearances and 2 sweet 16's (in my humble opinion) do deserve a raise to be the 3rd highest paid coach in the SEC. I'm not saying that you guys have called for him to be fired, but you're acting like last season (2007-2008) is as good as it's going to get while he's at UT. I expect us to be alot better next year. It will just take more than this year for me to say without a doubt that UT will NEVER win a championship or get to the Final Four with Bruce Pearl.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
No doubt. But when evaluating Bruce Pearl the Coach for the job he did last year, it's hard for me to give him much credit for being ranked #1 in February (?) for two days when that team was so unsound that he felt he had to put Prince in at PG in the tournament. I mean, even when we were ranked that highly, nobody in the country seriously thought we were anywhere near the best team in the country.
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Well, nobody in the country thought that because they could look at the players we had and the roster that we had, and that team had no right to have the record it had, or win at Tiger High, or be ranked No. 1 in the country, although on the day we beat Memphis that's exactly where we deserved to rank.

That's a credit to Bruce Pearl, although it also explains why that team didn't get any farther than the Sweet 16. Pearl can outcoach people like Cal and Billy Donovan in the regular season, but he doesn't have the players to get deep into the tournament.

Hopefully, that will change. He's not the best coach UT has ever had yet. I still think he'll get us there.
 
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Bassmanbruno said:
Or perhaps they are just too stupid to hire someone better or realize no one better would want to come? Just maybe..
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Well, that could be the case. But, should we lose Pearl to Memphis, I think we would ultimately be the team that was getting the shaft. Nobody can predict the future, but I would wager that we would have a very hard time finding a coach that can keep us at the same level or take us further.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Well, that could be the case. But, should we lose Pearl to Memphis, I think we would ultimately be the team that was getting the shaft. Nobody can predict the future, but I would wager that we would have a very hard time finding a coach that can keep us at the same level or take us further.
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And you would lose that wager.
 
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The problem that me and Sam are having is that you guys are SOOOO SURE that Bruce Pearl won't ever win a championship or go deep in the tourney. We know you aren't saying he should be fired, but what is the point of keeping him if he's never going to win? Why not fire him and just find some other coach who will win?
 
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#81
emainvol,

where did you get such miraculous abilities to see the future?
 
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emainvol said:
And you would lose that wager.
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Do you mean that you would wager that I would lose my wager? Well, I wager that your wager of my wager is based on your opinion, and that my original wager is based on my opinion.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Do you mean that you would wager that I would lose my wager? Well, I wager that your wager of my wager is based on your opinion, and that my original wager is based on my opinion.
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I'll wager that your wager of his wager of your wager will never really happen.
 
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SamRebel35 said:
Do you mean that you would wager that I would lose my wager? Well, I wager that your wager of my wager is based on your opinion, and that my original wager is based on my opinion.
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Considering that wagers are speculative in nature, I would wager that all wagers are based on opinions.
 
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vader said:
I'll wager that your wager of his wager of your wager will never really happen.
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I wager that if he continues to make wagers, he will run out of internet money and we won't have to hear anymore about his wagers.
 
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BigHenry07 said:
emainvol,

where did you get such miraculous abilities to see the future?
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Bruce Pearl will never make deep run into the tournament unless he adapts as a coach and changes a lot about his style of play. He screwed if he can't press and force turnovers - and he's still screwed because his defenses are usually always bad. You are not going to win 4/5/6 games in the tournament when you roll the dice game after game like you do with his system. Chances are the will meet a disciplined, slow paced, half court team that will tear them apart.

Now - hopefully he can change that by getting some good assistants who can help him put new schemes in that don't make us look so lost on offense and I just don't know what to say about defense. Either Bruce Pearl's teams will never field a good defense or Steve Forbes is the most overrated assistant coach in the country. He also has to become more of a coach rather than a friend to some of these players and instill some discipline.
 
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#92
I know the truth, and you know that i know the truth, and i know that you know that i know the truth...

And thusly you and I are both free.
 
#94
#94
Your velocity? He shall know you by your direction and distance per unit time?
 
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#96
Oh, and let's not forget that two years ago we were one point away from winning the Sweet 16 game against OSU. If that were a one point win rather than loss, the conversation would be about how BP is over rated because he can't get us past the Elite 8 or possibly the Final 4. The default tendency of any human is to want what you don't have. If he won the NCAA championship there would probably still be people on here complaining because the team "jacked up too many threes" in the championship game.
 
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#98
The vast majority of pro-Pearl people on this site are not deifying Pearl or saying he is an elite coach.
The vast majority of anti-Pearl people are not calling for him to be fired.
He's the 3rd highest paid coach in the conference and not being paid as an elite coach. I love how both sides want to exaggerate the other side's opinions on Pearl to make them look bad. He's a good coach who's earned a few more years. One side or the other will be proven right based on his results going forward. And regardless of his system, he has to get better players in order to advance further in the tournament. Right now we don't have one player who could log significant NBA minutes (maybe Hopson eventually). Without that, you aren't going to go deep in the tourney.
 
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Luckily, Sam, I am no human. Therefore I look at things based on an optimistic point of view that we are immeasurably better off now than we were before Mr. Bruce Pearl.
 
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Oldblood said:
The vast majority of pro-Pearl people on this site are not deifying Pearl or saying he is an elite coach.
The vast majority of anti-Pearl people are not calling for him to be fired.
He's the 3rd highest paid coach in the conference and not being paid as an elite coach. I love how both sides want to exaggerate the other side's opinions on Pearl to make them look bad. He's a good coach who's earned a few more years. One side or the other will be proven right based on his results going forward. And regardless of his system, he has to get better players in order to advance further in the tournament. Right now we don't have one player who could log significant NBA minutes (maybe Hopson eventually). Without that, you aren't going to go deep in the tourney.
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Good Point, but I enjoy the art of exaggeration, and therefore shall continue using it.
 
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