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Post by digmke on Mar 24, 2019 12:28:31 GMT -6
Congrats to Bruce Pearl and Auburn. I know he gets negative press at times. However, he does know how to energize a program and its students. It's too bad we lost him - He did put our school on the map.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 24, 2019 13:02:51 GMT -6
Gosh, I wonder why one of the only coaches in history to get a "show cause" order from the NCAA gets negative press.
Does anyone actually believe that it's coincidence that after Chuck Person was fired for cheating at Auburn (and just pled guilty last week) BP hired a replacement who has now himself been implicated in the academic fraud scandal? Like attracts like. I enjoyed the success in his brief mercenary run here like everyone else. But as we have learned so much more about him, I'm honestly embarrassed he was ever the coach here. He's a good coach; no denying that. He's also a leading symbol of what's wrong with college basketball.
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Post by Spirit of Bruce on Mar 24, 2019 13:23:31 GMT -6
insert code here Not only does Fran b**** about the current state of the program (rightfully so), he also sees fit to crap on the most successful coach to ever be here every chance he gets (dumb)! Shame on you, digmke, for uttering his name!
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Post by BBFran on Mar 24, 2019 14:19:24 GMT -6
Bruce crapped on his reputation all by himself. I love college basketball and I hate the cheaters who damage the game. Not going to apologize for that.
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Post by digmke on Mar 24, 2019 20:08:05 GMT -6
I agree that many of these coaches (Self, Pitino, Wade, et al) tarnish the great game of college basketball. When BP was at Milwaukee, he ran things fairly clean (unless seriously/honestly I missed something).
There have been some great minds graduate from Milwaukee. There are some top notch programs as well. Unfortunately, the University has and continues to do an average job in promoting the school outside of SW WI.
BP and his teams did more PR for the school and create good will with the students.
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Post by Pantherholic on Mar 25, 2019 4:19:46 GMT -6
Per the link you provided, “Pearl acknowledged in September that he provided misleading information to the investigators, and Tennessee punished him by prohibiting him from participating in off-campus recruiting until Sept. 24, 2011, and docking his salary by $1.5 million over five years.” He wasn’t fired for having a recruit at a cookout. He was fired for covering up/lying about several things and the timing was too much in too little amount of time.. blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2011/03/22/what-finally-got-bruce-pearl-fired/
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Post by PantherU on Mar 25, 2019 13:42:58 GMT -6
My feelings on it have evolved over time.
A lot of the sh*t BP pulled here - and let's be real, he broke the rules while he was here - shouldn't have been against the rules. Hell, a lot of it isn't against the rules anymore.
The phone call limits are all but gone, so he wouldn't be grabbing one of your cell phones at Turner Hall to call a recruit. The barbecue violations are absolutely stupid and always have been.
He's cheating at Auburn, too. And honestly, I don't really care. It's not our program he's running. He's a great fit for the SEC - college basketball coaches are gods on campuses with thousands of attractive young women and that school in that conference has a lot of opportunity and a total lack of care for the rules.
Good for him. But he should probably make sure his assistants aren't putting their $20,000 offers to fifth-year transfers into text messages, because sometimes the screenshots end up in the laps of people who don't like you.
Good luck to him in the tournament. Taking three programs to the Sweet Sixteen puts him in rare company. He'd wreck my bracket but it would be nice to see the blue bloods at UNC go down on Friday.
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Post by BBFran on Mar 25, 2019 14:41:50 GMT -6
Every cheating coach tears the fabric of the game and cheats every honest coach and every fan of programs that don’t cheat. And worst of all, every cheating coach teaches his players — kids who often desperately need a role model — that honesty is for suckers and that cheating pays. Screw him.
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