The Southeastern Conference announced Friday that Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been suspended for the Volunteers’ first eight conference games this season due to NCAA rules violations that were discovered over the summer. It is really something to see a conference take such a proactive response to a situation like this. As opposed to…[you […]
Bruce Pearl
Gary Parrish: Live-for-today Attitude at UNC Belies Inevitable Reality
I explained earlier in the week — in a column about Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl — how there are really only three types of NCAA violations that can’t be absorbed by a program (paying prospects, committing academic fraud, and dealing improperly with agents), and somehow Davis’ program is facing allegations about two of the […]
Ahead of the curve on Scott Drew, Bruce Pearl
As you watch(ed) the 2010 NCAA Tournament Regional Finals on Sunday, we thought we would take a quick look back to some past entries on the blog that had particular relevancy today. First, let’s take a moment and draw your attention to this entry from April 15, 2009. It is a good entry in general. […]
Tell me again why UT didn’t want to hire Lee Fowler in 2003?
A few months ago we ran the following comments in this entry comparing Lee Fowler to Joe Alleva in light of the LSU Athletics Directorship: Lee Fowler’s interest in other Athletics Director jobs have not been a secret since his arrival in Raleigh in September of 2000. In the seven-plus years of Fowler’s tenure, the […]
Fowler’s Failures Manifests into a Pearl of a Jewel
Sit back and get dedicated for a moment. You can’t skim this entry. You can’t loaf through this one. This is one of those to which your mind must be committed to absorbing and investing the time to read the links and the text. In the early part of this decade our blog followed some […]
SEC Welcomes a Pearl
Just wanted to quickly archive that the University of Tennessee has hired (now, former) Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach, Bruce Pearl. Pearl created a Division II National Championship program at Southern Indiana in the mid-1990s before heading to UWM. His biography (written prior to this season) on the UWM website has an interesting paragraph in it that […]
