PEPPERJAX
Let's Do A Ritual....
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In your opinion, what exactly are the negatives of hiring Pearl?
Next, what are the positives of keeping Zo?
Let me start by stating my view on Martin. It is well-known, that I was all for firing him if we missed the tournament. That has been my stance since September.
Having said that now, I would support Pearl if he were rehired. I'm just not going to campaign for it because I think he messed up his opportunity, and he is solely to blame. It sends a bad message IMO to rehire him, but I realize that winning will trump any message, good or bad, so that is irrelevant. With his reputation stained, I question how effective he will be recruiting when having to explain to parents why he lied to the NCAA and then attempted to convince a recruit and his parents to lie for him to cover it. That may or may not be a hurdle for him in the living room of recruits. I also feel that Tennessee will be under the microscope of the NCAA, and they will try to bury Pearl, AND Tennessee this time, for any and every miniscule secondary violation.
Those are my concerns. They may or may not come to fruition, but I almost guarantee that they will come up in a potential discussion with Pearl and Hart.
Tennessean columnist David Climber said in the paper today that CCM needs two wins to secure his job. I don't know how much stock to put in that, but it is out there. Of course there are those in here that feel that CCM is secure for at least one more year, maybe they are correct. We shall see. I just want the Vols to be successful.
Holy hell, can we just not cheer on this team while they push to make a tournament run!?!? Then after the year ends, whether it is Wednesday night or next week, argue about who should be the coach! These men need our support and not for us to be living in the past about our former coach. On that note, GBO!
clearly you have reasonable expectations :blink:
Whether or not he ever coaches here again and he likely will not, if Bruce Pearl was coaching this team the elite eight wouldn't be out of the question. In fact we would have a shot at the elite eight with any above average coach. Instead will barely made it in and are worrying about being one and done.