Bruce Pearl for me...

[jdbulldog]

I do not care what his past is. I want to win. Oh, it is too late now? What? He is already back in the SEC? Where? Auburn? AUBURN? That says it all. We had our chance but we have an "image" to protect? Who gives a **** about image anyway? We are so pure. Ha.

 

[msstate7]

He wasn't available when we hired ray.

 

[jdbulldog]

We have to use our imagination sometimes. We could have gotten him.

 

[hatfieldms]

No we couldn't

You know that whole "he isn't allowed to coach" thing would have gotten in the way

 

[patdog]

We really couldn't have. He still had 2-1/2 years remaining on his NCAA ban.

 

[AlCoDog]

You're just not using your imagination.**

 

[MedDawg]

Auburn is still going to suck with BP. Because the're Auburn/SEC...

I do not care what his past is. I want to win. Oh, it is too late now? What? He is already back in the SEC? Where? Auburn? AUBURN? That says it all. We had our chance but we have an "image" to protect? Who gives a **** about image anyway? We are so pure. Ha.

I don't think Bruce Pearl will take Auburn anywhere close to where he had Tennessee.

The only saving grace for any decent coach in the SEC is that the SEC sucks so bad it's not that hard to win 12 SEC games and have a good overall record. Pearl may take Auburn to the NCAAs, but he's not making any Elite Eights and maybe not any Sweet Sixteens. That's just my prediction.

 

[KurtRambis4]

Unless we could've somehow

broken the laws of physics and the space-time continuum, no we couldn't have.

 

[RebelBruiser]

Gary Parrish in Memphis said that a few years back he spoke to Pearl. This was when Pearl was still under his show-cause.

Pearl told him at the time that he wanted to get back in the game, but he wanted to get back somewhere where the basketball program hadn't had a lot of success, but somewhere where the university had had championship level success in other major programs, namely football. His reasoning is that he wanted to go somewhere where they would appreciate success, but he also wanted to make sure it would be an athletic department that had proven they would make a championship level commitment to sports.

Parrish said at the time his first thoughts were Georgia and Auburn. Clearly he ended up at Auburn.

My guess is Pearl will have them in the Sweet Sixteen at some point in the next 4 years or so.

 

[johnson86-1]

You know that whole "he isn't allowed to coach" thing would have gotten in the way

Shouldn't have stopped us. Should have done voluntary death penalty for 2.5 years while we waited for him to be able to coach. Probably should've gotten an under the table handshake deal with him in place first, though.

 

[jdbulldog]

Make a deal with him that gives us first shot when the time comes. In the meantime get some assistant to take the team. Wait we already did one of those. Anything can be worked out if we are willing to do it.

 

[olblue.sixpack]

Make a deal with him that gives us first shot when the time comes. In the meantime get some assistant to take the team. Wait we already did one of those. Anything can be worked out if we are willing to do it.

Ray Harper has a 13-4 record vs Bruce Pearl in head-to-head matchups while the two were at KWC and USI respectfully. I happened to be at a social gathering with Pearl while he was at UT and mentioned that I had seen a number of those matchups. Needless to say, he isn't real fond of Ray Harper.

i doubt Ray is real fond of Pearl either, but he would never admit it and is too humble to gloat about it. From a pure coaching point of view, I would take Ray every day of the week and twice on Sunday. He has that knack of squeezing every thing he can out of his teams. But Pearl is a master of self-promotion and he caught the break and ran with it.

If Harper ever ends up in the SEC - and I'm not sure he has any desire to - Pearl would not be a happy camper.

 

[squirldawg]

Auburn is a sleeping giant. Atlanta is 2 hours, Birmingham is 2 hours, Montgomery is 40 minutes and Columbus, GA is 30 minutes. Great populations to draw talent from, they just haven't had the right coach. Pearl will have that ship turned around next year.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

Auburn hasn't moved in 150 years. I'm not sure the right coach exists to make Auburn a power.