Pearl's Already Gone: The Exit Strategy Hypothesis

#526
#526
BasketvolsFan said:
Perhaps if there is agreement for him to step down at the end of the season, it is an agreement, not a deal. Using the word deal implies that money is involved.
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I believe he is getting some money out of it but I'm certainly not going to lay out the reasons I believe that.

I agree, due to nature of his contract status, he could be "fired" today and owed nothing. I think he is getting "something" for what he has done the time he has been here.
 
#527
#527
LWSVOL said:
I believe he is getting some money out of it but I'm certainly not going to lay out the reasons I believe that.

I agree, due to nature of his contract status, he could be "fired" today and owed nothing. I think he is getting "something" for what he has done the time he has been here.
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Are you implying that Pearl knows what is coming?
 
#535
#535
Orange Blazer said:
Good deal. I hope we can find the basketball version of Dooley. Someone who will respect the school and it's traditions, and then build for success.
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I hope that we hire someone who can take our bball program to the next level, and keep it there - within the bounds of AA' rules.

The other stuff isn't unimportant, but I'd rather have a coach who spent more time making history than learning it.
 
#536
#536
StepCross said:
No kidding. I think Dooley's doing a good job, but I was kind of hoping for the basketball version of Urban Meyer or Nick Saban or someone with multiple championships.
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I'd be happy with something in the middle, but if we are looking for a new coach in two weeks the timing will be much better than the Dooley situation so need to to make such a reach of a hire.
 
#537
#537
Tenacious D said:
I hope that we hire someone who can take our bball program to the next level, and keep it there - within the bounds of AA' rules.

The other stuff isn't unimportant, but I'd rather have a coach who spent more time making history than learning it.
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I included build for success in my post too. I guess no one read that far, or I didn't make it clear enough. My bad.
 
#542
#542
Orange Blazer said:
I included build for success in my post too. I guess no one read that far, or I didn't make it clear enough. My bad.
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I got it - and acknowledged it ("not unimportant").

Obviously. you'd like to have both qualities, but given the choice between:

A) A coach who reveres our culture / traditions / history and doesn't take us to our next level

or

B) A coach who doesn't know or particularly care about our culture / traditions / history but wins games and takes us to the next level

I'd choose "B"
 
#543
#543
Tenacious D said:
I got it - and acknowledged it ("not unimportant").

Obviously. you'd like to have both qualities, but given the choice between:

A) A coach who reveres our culture / traditions / history and doesn't take us to our next level

or

B) A coach who doesn't know or particularly care about our culture / traditions / history but wins games and takes us to the next level

I'd choose "B"
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I'd love to have the best of both worlds, but if I had to choose, I'd also choose B.
 
#544
#544
Tenacious D said:
I hope that we hire someone who can take our bball program to the next level, and keep it there - within the bounds of AA' rules.

The other stuff isn't unimportant, but I'd rather have a coach who spent more time making history than learning it.
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Tenny, Tenny, Tenny. Everyone knows everyone cheats and lies and breaks rules.
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#547
#547
NYYVol said:
Tenny, Tenny, Tenny. Everyone knows everyone cheats and lies and breaks rules.
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Everyone also knows that only Bruce Pearl has teary-eyed press conferences after getting caught red-handed. :crazy:

C'MON MAN!!!
 
#549
#549
Tenacious D said:
I went to a little no-name school you've never heard of. I'm certain that it pales in comparison to yours, as this debate has thus far shown.

Verce - I'll just ask this, and hopefully save us some time - do you really think that the Cowher thing was my attempt to pass along actual information, insider or otherwise? You might have also noticed that I never claimed any inside information in the Cowher thread, whatsoever (even when asked), if you need another indication of its intent. But, I am willing to concede the point that you either can't or won't do so.

As to this incident, all I can say is that I know what I know. I trust those who have told me, and would not have asserted otherwise, if I did not believe it to be both trustworthy and true. More information has been told to me since posting it, and which has only further increased my confidence as to what will occur. Undoubtedly, and as you would expect, this has been reflected in my subsequent posts.

However (and just as I have told several who have PM'd me about this) - I can easily admit that both Hat and LWS have introduced completely new things in the course of this thread that I had either not previously heard, or at least with enough clarity / confidence to post. In fact, if you'll look at my posts in this thread, I've used those guys to verify things I've heard - "chest-thumping" this does not seem to imply. But again, if you believe that such is the case, I concede the point.

I am uncertain as to how much credibility one would seek to earn via a message board, and am uncertain how valuable it would be, if provided. The day I think otherwise, you'll be the first to know, as I will want to use you as a reference on my application to Hobby Lobby (legacy hire?). I put the information out there for those who might wish to read it, and to welcome comments - constructive and critical ones, alike. I like the dialogue, but most enjoy the back and forth of a debate, and the more hotly and tightly contested, the better. But neither you nor anyone else should feel compelled to believe, agree or even read anything I say. I won't take it personally, either way. But if you do, feel free to comment as much or as little as you'd like - I don't take that personally, either.

I hope this answers your question, and addresses your originally intended argument.
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I didn't try to parse out whether you were attempting to pass along actual information about Cowher, or merely speculating. If somebody writes an article saying that the Man in the Moon is going to coach my football team, I don't bother to consider who his sources are.

Look, I don't have any problem with you in particular, and I didn't intend to start a pissing match over it. I do have a large general annoyance with message board heroes and the sources they endlessly trumpet. In the five years I've been reading this board, I've seen about a dozen posters total who seem to have credible, reliable inside information. And a dozen might even be generous about it. But I've seen hundreds who know a guy who knows a guy in the athletic department or some crap like that, and when they are right it is usually by accident. Maybe I'm unfairly lumping you in with those guys. But if I am, it's because there seems to be a basic disconnect in what you've been saying -- i.e., on 3/14, you start a thread with a long hypothesis that you clearly label as mere speculation. But the next day, you're posting about having a source who's privy to the actual coaching search. And I'm sorry, but your apparent willingness to believe in a Cowher/Kiffin/Steele fantasy two years ago makes it more difficult to take what you say seriously. Maybe that's not fair, but that's how reputation on the internet works.

And it works the other way, too, and even more efficiently. The more you stick your neck out on this Pearl situation and the more right you are, then boom, the more credibility you get. And the less likely some ahole like me is to call you out for being loudly wrong in the past.
 
#550
#550
BigPapaVol said:
Hamilton isn't making any hire. Whether he stays or goes, he isn't making hires.
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Thought this deserved a bump, considering MH's comments on WNML, earlier today:

"It’s funny, people think the athletic director makes these kinds of decisions on his own accord," Hamilton said. "It’s just not true. At a place like Tennessee, you don’t have that authority, first of all."
 
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