Sincere Apology

#76
#76
Roll Tide Rev said:
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Can you show a picture of the rear? I'd like to check out the saban bumper stickers.
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#79
#79
ok i found it. for you guys that whine,cry,complain,moan,groan see armageddon in everything....click this

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thats what you look like to the rest of the people here. at the bottom of that page theres even some audio to click to see what you sound like. for the record. Eeyore is not pleasant company
 
#81
#81
BigPapaVol said:
What's with the background weed garden as landscape?
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Yo dawg, we heard you like garden and weed so we put a weed in your garden so you can grow weed while you have a garden.
You just got Xzibit'ed
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#86
#86
You all think if we get rid of Bruce Pearl, we have a shot at hiring Calipari? He seems always willing to relocate.:)
 
#87
#87
Dedication to Tennessee seems to now be based on how heart felt an apology is after getting caught cheating. I like Bruce but this is just wrong.
 
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#88
allvol21 said:
If that wasn't a sincere apology then I have never heard one. Bruce pearl is a man with heart and integritity on and off the court I have never doubted that he is one of the best motivational basketball coaches in american. I completely belive in his scheme and philiosiphy and ability to adapt to the personnel to give them the best chance to win. ONce again I sincerely accept bruces apoligy regurardless of what's to come with the investigation. Like he said I coun'dt agree moree " I hope to be the basketball coach at tennessee for the est of my life.'' ME TO BRUCE:good!::good!:
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Time for bed! LOL " INTEGRITITIY, REGURARLESS OF HOW DRUNK I MAY BE!!!
 
#89
#89
lylsmorr said:
All the people willing to overlook it because of the success he has had.
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Nope we are overlooking it because he just got embarassed on national TV where he admiittef he lied and was punished severely.

We think that's enough
 
#90
#90
Roll Tide Rev said:
Yes would fit right in with me and what I believe. When you mess up, and yes you will mess up, fess up, get up. and move on.

I am speaking to the fact that he messed up but he did what was respectable.
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What other option did he have than to suck it up and address the media?

The guy's charismatic and knows how to work a camera and a crowd, but his tearful matinee did little to impress me. I don't buy the remorse. If anything, those tears were driven more by his despair in seeing his elaborate facade crumble as suddenly as a Tennessee team facing Kentucky in the SEC tourney.

This community deified him from the moment he arrived. More than any other coach in the country, he basked in his celebrity and pandered to the fan base and media at every opportunity, all the while knowing that, behind the scenes, he and his staff were duping everyone.

He's a fraud. He knew it all along, but he didn't want us to know it. Now he goes from hero to hoax. That's what has him upset.
 
#91
#91
Huge BP fan but this we are making him out like a hero after this incident. Is it a big deal? Well there is about 50 threads on it on here and it's all over ESPN so I would say yes indeed it's a "big deal". Is he the first coach to to lie to the NCAA? Of course not but he's OUR coach.
 
#92
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hmanvolfan said:
So what you're saying is lying to the authorities should be condoned if you are the basketbal coach at UT and if I don't agree I am a pathetic non believer?
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No one is condoning anything. Bruce pearl has gotten some harsh penalties such as cut in wage, recruitment penalties, and a stained image. I don't see why you pearl haters will only be satisfied with a firing. There are ways of dealing with things other then the extremes.

Do you go through life saying give him the death penalty when someone steals gum from a gas station?

Let's just fire the guy responsible for our successful basketball program.. maybe we can go through 3-4 coaches in as many years in basketball as well.
 
#93
#93
Bruce pearl is the biggest actor in college ball. It's a trait all coaches have, bug he's the least genuine college coach i've ever seen. And in my profession I've been around plenty.
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allvol21 said:
If that wasn't a sincere apology then I have never heard one. Bruce pearl is a man with heart and integritity on and off the court I have never doubted that he is one of the best motivational basketball coaches in american. I completely belive in his scheme and philiosiphy and ability to adapt to the personnel to give them the best chance to win. ONce again I sincerely accept bruces apoligy regurardless of what's to come with the investigation. Like he said I coun'dt agree moree " I hope to be the basketball coach at tennessee for the est of my life.'' ME TO BRUCE:good!::good!:
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Look, Bruce Pearl is a master at p.r., whatever one thinks of his transgressions. He would make a good actor in real life, as he knows how to analyze situations and use the requisite emotion to get the result he wants. Yesterday was a good example of that. He wasn't totally honest in his answer to Rick Russo of WVLT TV, as Russo asked him if the excessive contacts gave him a competitive advantage. His answer was really a non-answer. Pearl stated that it wasn't a question of UT getting a competitive advantage, but that UT should have self-reported the illegal contacts and didn't do so. BP and his coaches shouldn't have had to worry about self-reporting anything. He simply shouldn't have made the illegal contacts. After making them, he should have reported them immediately, but he lied to the NCAA, by his own admission. Pearl's emotion reminded one of the old Billy Bob Clinton crying routine, when he got caught in the Lewinsky and other affairs and he made his "acting debut," using all his best acting skills and tearfully stating, I have sinned." Excellent acting skills by Clinton. B.P., at the very least, appears to have some of those same skills. Again, whatever one thinks of Pearl, one should remember that he is a master of public relations and now, apparently, sleight of hand. B.P. is a public relations houdini.
 
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GetEmVols said:
No one is condoning anything. Bruce pearl has gotten some harsh penalties such as cut in wage, recruitment penalties, and a stained image.
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The stained image he has, but be serious about the severity of his financial penalties. He is being financially "punished" to the tune of $300,000 or so annually on a salary of around two million, over five years, as I understand it. Hardly severe. One can live very nicely on a 1.7 mil salary in Knoxville. Recruitment penalties? That might turn out to be the worst penalty, if one year off comes back to bite his butt in the recruiting area. Unless B.P. is able to overcome the image problem in quick time, UT might turn out to have some real problems in the bb program, maybe sooner, but certainly later.
 
#96
#96
i think the thing most fail to realize, and rightfully so - since he is your coach and you should be loyal to a point - is that this "image" of BP that came to light all of a sudden yesterday is the same image that most have had of him for some time.
 
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#97
So I'm guessing all you people spouting idiotic lines like "I guess you never lied" NEVER judge anyone for wrong doing then? This whole "judge not" crap is just a copout to try to excuse behavior because it's Bruce Pearl and he's won here.

If this were any other school there's no way you'd be buying the apology nor would you be buying that it wasn't a big deal.
 
#98
#98
wildnkrazykat said:
i think the thing most fail to realize, and rightfully so - since he is your coach and you should be loyal to a point - is that this "image" of BP that came to light all of a sudden yesterday is the same image that most have had of him for some time.
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Solid.
 
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wildnkrazykat said:
i think the thing most fail to realize, and rightfully so - since he is your coach and you should be loyal to a point - is that this "image" of BP that came to light all of a sudden yesterday is the same image that most have had of him for some time.
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Especially his peers.
 
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Lexvol said:
Especially his peers.
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He is now what he has always been. It's kind of fun to watch the sheep getting clued in at long last. He should cross the religious aisle and seek counsel from Jimmy Swaggart. He's already borrowed the weepy press conference act.
 
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