Yes no one on this board seems to want to give Pearl any credit for development of his players nor do they want to give him credit for his coaching abilities and almost unprecedented success at UT.
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Pearl took a rag-tag bunch of ho-hum athletes who were a sub .500 ball club (29 & 31) to a 22 & 8 season taking 1st place in the East (NCAA Tourney birth) (and followed that with a 24 & 11 season.... and so on).
So many on here want to talk about CCM's player development specifically with Golden, Maymon, and McRae - well Pearl recruited those guys.
Maymon was a 4 star player in espn's top-100 (79th);
Golden was also a 4 star recruit;and
McRae was also a 4 star recuit in espn's top-100 (38th).
All three of these ballers were going to be good players - I would say notwithstanding who coached them. They were obviously talented athletes. Now I will give CCM credit for bringing this talent out (or developing it) and I think he has a done a pretty good job on this winning streak. If you (or I) are going to give CCM credit for his player development, you have to also give credit to CBP for those same skills.
Everyone must also consider how utterly atrocious the Vols have looked at times this year but I guess many on here would say that wasn't "coaching".
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I have never said that Zo should have been fired this season; It was almost a given that he would get a third year at UT. The Vols need to win out and hopefully they will get into the big dance. I am hoping that they do win out and perform well in the SEC and NCAA tourneys.
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