Explain this to me, please...

Fire him now. Can Tennessee do anything right? Well, at least we hired Dooley.

 

100 percent.

Under Pearl is the only time in the last 25-30 years the men's program at UT has done anything of note, and with the football team on the down side, they aren't going to kill the golden goose.

I'd say Mike Hamilton is in more danger than Pearl.

 

I don't know, but I'd bet he is. Pearl is Tennessee basketball.

AD Mike Hamilton, however, is probably done-zo.

That said, Pearl should be fired. The accusations of cheating are one thing. But lying about it? If Dez Bryant loses a full season for lying, Pearl has to lose just as much, if not more.

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5582439

 

Pearl's done. I don't see any way the university can get around canning his ass. The picture of recruits (HS juniors, no less) at his freaking house will be the straw that shatters this particular camel's vertebrae.

 

I still Hamilton is far more likely to go than Pearl.
Pearl is a rock star. I don't think the people that write the big checks and sit in the low seats really care if he fudged a little in the recruiting process. I'm sure the donors would much rather have to say "oops" every once in a while than pray for a .500 season.

 

I think I'll go play the lottery, now that my Vols will be getting off lightly, as I predicted...


http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/sep/24/utc-placed-ncaa-probation/

 

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=5648545

 

Would like a word.

 

They'll have to pry that Sweet 16 banner out of my cold, dead Panther paws.

 

While the inconsistencies between the Dez Bryant and Bruce Pearl cases might be baffling, at first, you have to consider the difficult position that the NCAA was in.

I mean, how do you punish Oklahoma State any more than they already have been?

They're in Stillwater, OK, for heaven's sake.

 

Oggiedoggie:

Had not thought of that angle but you are absolutely right. I spent about 36 hours in Stillwater, OK back in the mid-1970s and have yet to find any reason to go back...