Martin making Vols better....

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Hmmmm... :ermm:

But what about the old coach, his coach, the man who often called Chism “like my own sons”? What have those conversations been like of late?

“I haven’t talked to him,” Chism said in a softer voice.

Day after day, in so many ways, Martin replacing Pearl seems a change for the better.
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Good read and very optimistic, hopefully the results on the court will reflect.
 
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gorockytop101 said:
Thought that was kind of low. He just said he's been out of the country.
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I could be wrong, but I don't think Chism has been out of the country since last year. I know the article said "away from Knoxville", but since he was at pretty much every home game in 2011, I'm guessing he wasn't going back and forth overseas. Plus, if I'm not mistaking, he played 3 games in Turkey, then didn't play the rest of the season due to "an undisclosed injury". I know I saw him twice in Knoxville while the Turkish League was still going.
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
I could be wrong, but I don't think Chism has been out of the country since last year. I know the article said "away from Knoxville", but since he was at pretty much every home game in 2011, I'm guessing he wasn't going back and forth overseas. Plus, if I'm not mistaking, he played 3 games in Turkey, then didn't play the rest of the season due to "an undisclosed injury". I know I saw him twice in Knoxville while the Turkish League was still going.
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Yeah I get you. Just thought it was kind of cheap for the author to hint that Bruce didn't care about his players.
 
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This is just Mike Hamilton's mo. Trying to put all the blame on someone else for his own failures. It is amazing to me to read now how Pearl could not recruit , could not coach and did not care about his players. Hamilton did the same thing by putting out rumors that Fulmer had lost control of the football team. How come no reporters in Knoxville are asking Hamilton about his job performance and the decisions he has made and all the stupid comments he has made. This smells fishy to me. Hamilton has hired 2 football coaches, 2 basketball coaches and soon to be 2 baseball coaches and no writer at the KNS thinks this is news-worthy. Hamilton needs to be fired.
 
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Wasn't there a HUGE falling out between Pearl and Bobby Maze or something? Didn't Pearl piss him off somehow?
 
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They’d rave about Pearl the tactician, Pearl the motivator, Pearl the innovator. Yes, he could beat No. 1 Kansas with four key players suspended. But why was he forced to win that way? Why were those four players driving around Knoxville at high noon on New Year’s Day toting guns and alcohol and drugs? Because Bruce Almighty was pushing them to be better people?
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This comment is ridiculous. The author is really going to blame Pearl for their actions? Did Pearl give them the booze, the gun, or the drugs? That should tell you all you need to know about the author's intentions with this article. Trash.
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
I could be wrong, but I don't think Chism has been out of the country since last year. I know the article said "away from Knoxville", but since he was at pretty much every home game in 2011, I'm guessing he wasn't going back and forth overseas. Plus, if I'm not mistaking, he played 3 games in Turkey, then didn't play the rest of the season due to "an undisclosed injury". I know I saw him twice in Knoxville while the Turkish League was still going.
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He was in the D-league. Ft. Wayne Fire Ants I think.
 
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Didn't the same thing get said about Bruce when Buzz got axed? Or am I misremembering?
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bleedorange1983 said:
This comment is ridiculous. The author is really going to blame Pearl for their actions? Did Pearl give them the booze, the gun, or the drugs? That should tell you all you need to know about the author's intentions with this article. Trash.
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It tells you the truth, that Pearl was far from running a disciplined program.
 
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“I don’t think we’ll use all 13 scholarships [next year],” he said. “I don’t want to sign someone for one year, then have them be unhappy when we recruit over them the following year. We’re already evaluating the next recruiting class. We’re already looking at 2012, 2013, 2014.”

I like this quote....hopefully he will be able to seal the deal with some really good talent in 2012
 
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LawVol13 said:
It tells you the truth, that Pearl was far from running a disciplined program.
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If you want to criticize Pearl for his undiciplined program then criticize the punishments he imposed, not for the players getting themselves in trouble. The players knew they were doing wrong and they broke the law anyways. If anything, Pearl is a poor judge of character. These are young adults that are responsible for their own actions.
 
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bleedorange1983 said:
This comment is ridiculous. The author is really going to blame Pearl for their actions? Did Pearl give them the booze, the gun, or the drugs? That should tell you all you need to know about the author's intentions with this article. Trash.
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I haven't seen any of the writers say anything really concrete on the record, but I've seen several of them hint heavily that the program looked pretty out of control from the inside. There certainly doesn't seem to have been any discipline to speak of at all inside the basketball program.

They either need to say something concrete or shut up and move on, though. Just hinting around about it is weak.
 
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GREAT article. This program has needed some discipline for a long time. It will show up on the court.

Of course the rubes won't appreciate it, but it will cause us to win games more consistently, when it matters.
 
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LawVol13 said:
It tells you the truth, that Pearl was far from running a disciplined program.
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So if you were to get busted with a dui and simple posession it somehow becomes the fault of the dean of the college of law? Dude youve grinded the axe to the point that no metal is left. The guy was making a simple point. For someone that uses the term garbage so much you should at least agree that there is room to question some of the authors intentions.
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