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Bruce Pearl screwed himself by committing a major violation in an attempt to cover up a minor violation. People need to get that straight and stop trying to blame the university just because they liked Bruce.
Who cares about Bruce Pearl? It’s about protecting your assets(programs)…. Could you imagine Alabama wrecking their football program or any of their programs over a barbecue? No, they would have handled their business…. If Mike Hamilton had been in charge during the 90’s then Tennessee wouldn’t have a National Championship….. He put out every fire that came along.
 
If you like your job, don’t piss off your bosses by stone-faced lying to them while they’re going to bat for you. I don’t think that’s very idiotic. That’s life.
Being all up in our feelings and not understanding big time athletics is why we have kept our programs at the bottom of the SEC…. We got bailed out by Texas firing Barnes and the surprising hire of Danny White….. maybe things are finally looking up.
 
We did not handle the Bruce Pearl situation well at all….. Any other school in America and he would have still been our coach with no penalties.
They should have at least warned him what the NCAA was going to ask about. They could have let the first assistant that was interviewed admit it, taken their slap on the wrist and then business as usual. Hamilton was the worst AD ever.
 
We did nothing wrong as a university in the Pearl situation. He lied to NCAA investigators directly. Remember that this was on the heels of USC/Reggie Bush probation so the NCAA hadn't been castrated yet at that time. Pearl was getting a show-cause penalty no matter what we did.

Totally different than today’s climate.
They knew what the NCAA was going to ask about and did not warn him.
 
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