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$100 says that he ends up in C-USA within 5 years. The place where shady power conference flameouts go to die.

Too bad he ran astray - I think he is a decent coach, good recruiter, and probably a lot of fun to have a beer with.

I never really liked the guy, so I don't feel to bad that he was fired.
Also, it'll be interesting to see if/how this affects Jim Tressel's ethics issues

So, neither one of the Harris kids has a coach now...

Do you really think Parker will make a big enough jump to be a starter? I'd love to see it, but he played so little this year that it was hard to gauge how soon he might be able to be a major contributor.

I think Gary should slow play THarris and wait on JOB to head north.

It was already known that he committed violations shortly after that press conference where he cried and everything, now Andy Katz said he even committed violations this month.

I wonder what caliber of coach will end up going for the UT job if the potential violations UT is in for are steep. They are already going to lose Tobias Harris and maybe Scottie Hopson to the NBA draft. They also had a few seniors who played some big minutes. Both of their commits already asked to be released from their LOI, so their roster could be gutted.

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Tennessee issues official statement on Pearl firing. The Sept violation is the bump. The March 2011 violation? Notsaid. Pearl gets $948,728.

Count me among those who actually thought he'd be a very good, legit successor to GW. *facepalm*

I don't think there are a lot of coaches willing to extend their hand to Pearl. He's a whistle blower and that got him blackballed from Division 1 for a long time. I don't see anyway ESPN hires Pearl considering one of their biggest personalities (Vitale) seems to hate him and the fact that at any point discussion of violations comes up ESPN and Pearl would be put in awkward situations.

He may end up in the NBA like Sampson, who also received a show cause, but I feel pretty confident in saying Pearl's Division 1 career is over.

The funny thing is Dick Vitale was praising Bruce Pearl yesterday!! The hate from D.Vitale to B.Pearl goes back to the late 1980's when B.Pearl(who was an assistant at a Big Ten School maybe Iowa) SNITCHED on Illinois for illegally recruiting a highly touted player from Chicago. B.Pearl actually taped a phone conversation with that recruit(Deon Thomas??) and got Illinois into trouble. B.Pearl was soon blackballed from D-1 for many years for doing that. B.Pearl and the Illinois assistant he snitched on ended up coaching in the same conference years later. That assistant NEVER shook B.Pearl's hand after games. B.Pearl was coaching Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the former Illinois assistant was coaching Illinois-Chicago. D.Vitale actually bashed B.Pearl on ESPN for doing that. It appears as if D.Vitale is no longer upset at B.Pearl.

If Bruce Pearl doesn't get the Show Clause slapped on him, he'll definitely end up in C-USA with the other disgraced high D-1 coaches like a poster wrote. I know Larry Eustachy, Tom Penders and Tim Floyd ended up/ are still coaching in C-USA. I maybe leaving out some others

The cover-up for the recruiting violations was bad enough, but the additional violations since then (apparently including one this month), even if small, will likely put this over the top. He seems like a crack addict when it comes to ignoring the recruiting rules.