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Bruce Pearl's job at Tennessee protcted by contract - ESPN

Looks like Bruce is good to stay for at least the upcoming season. Everyone on the board needs to just relax and forget about the investigation for now. Lets come out and support our coach and team like none of this even happened. Go VOLS!


"Tennessee cannot terminate coach Bruce Pearl for cause without paying him until there is an NCAA "finding" and, even then, it has to be determined Pearl knowingly violated a "significant" NCAA violation."

"A finding won't occur until the committee on infractions issues its report, which will come after a hearing. All of this isn't likely to occur until sometime in 2011."

"No. 1, there has been no finding by the NCAA," Murray said of the current state of the investigation. "I think Bruce Pearl has a lot of room to argue and say these aren't significant. It's incumbent upon Tennessee to prove that these were significant violations."
 
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"significant" is rather open ended. Whoever wrote that contract should be fired if that is the actual wording. I highly doubt that word was used which creates serious doubt for any other information in this article. Move along. Nothing to see hear
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shot0fclarity08 said:
Bruce Pearl's job at Tennessee protcted by contract - ESPN

Looks like Bruce is good to stay for at least the upcoming season. Everyone on the board needs to just relax and forget about the investigation for now. Lets come out and support our coach and team like none of this even happened. Go VOLS!


"Tennessee cannot terminate coach Bruce Pearl for cause without paying him until there is an NCAA "finding" and, even then, it has to be determined Pearl knowingly violated a "significant" NCAA violation."

"A finding won't occur until the committee on infractions issues its report, which will come after a hearing. All of this isn't likely to occur until sometime in 2011."

"No. 1, there has been no finding by the NCAA," Murray said of the current state of the investigation. "I think Bruce Pearl has a lot of room to argue and say these aren't significant. It's incumbent upon Tennessee to prove that these were significant violations."
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You shouldn't put this on here. The Pearl haters will have a fit.
 
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We still have a basketball program of gamer's and I for one look forward to the court
 
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VolGraduate said:
"significant" is rather open ended. Whoever wrote that contract should be fired if that is the actual wording. I highly doubt that word was used which creates serious doubt for any other information in this article. Move along. Nothing to see hear
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+1
 
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VolGraduate said:
"significant" is rather open ended. Whoever wrote that contract should be fired if that is the actual wording. I highly doubt that word was used which creates serious doubt for any other information in this article. Move along. Nothing to see hear
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Its called a "strategic ambiguity" and it might have been used on purpose.
 
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VolGraduate said:
"significant" is rather open ended. Whoever wrote that contract should be fired if that is the actual wording. I highly doubt that word was used which creates serious doubt for any other information in this article. Move along. Nothing to see hear
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What about speak? Are we talking about hear no/see no/speak no evil? I'm confused. :) j/k
 
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VolGraduate said:
"significant" is rather open ended. Whoever wrote that contract should be fired if that is the actual wording. I highly doubt that word was used which creates serious doubt for any other information in this article. Move along. Nothing to see hear
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The contract should allow Bruce Pearl to murder one person a year. Any takers? Lots of stupid people here.

As long as we're taking roll call, here!
 
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shot0fclarity08 said:
Bruce Pearl's job at Tennessee protcted by contract - ESPN

Looks like Bruce is good to stay for at least the upcoming season. Everyone on the board needs to just relax and forget about the investigation for now. Lets come out and support our coach and team like none of this even happened. Go VOLS!


"Tennessee cannot terminate coach Bruce Pearl for cause without paying him until there is an NCAA "finding" and, even then, it has to be determined Pearl knowingly violated a "significant" NCAA violation."

"A finding won't occur until the committee on infractions issues its report, which will come after a hearing. All of this isn't likely to occur until sometime in 2011."

"No. 1, there has been no finding by the NCAA," Murray said of the current state of the investigation. "I think Bruce Pearl has a lot of room to argue and say these aren't significant. It's incumbent upon Tennessee to prove that these were significant violations."
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Violated a violation? Seems like they could of chosen some better phrasing. Nonetheless, Coach BP isn't going anywhere. He's brought the program back to relevance and will be our coach for the forseeable future.
 
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M-I-Z-V-O-L said:
Its called a "strategic ambiguity" and it might have been used on purpose.
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Maybe but the drafting party would not receive a benefit for such an ambiguity so it would be pointless to use unless you wanted the whole portion of contract omitted


And at 6 am hear = here on my iPhone
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mjw2e said:
Violated a violation? Seems like they could of chosen some better phrasing. Nonetheless, Coach BP isn't going anywhere. He's brought the program back to relevance and will be our coach for the forseeable future.
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That is why I doubt the rest of the article. "significant" may however be defined in another part of the contract or maybe Katz is paraphrasing. Doubtful
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hatvol96 said:
Why? Because Pearl has the same clause in his contract that pretty much every other coach in D-I does?
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I won't pretend to know what other D-I coaches have in their contracts but the attorney quoted in the article seems to think Pearl's contract protects him more than most.

"It's hard to imagine a contract that affords a coach more protection than [fomer coach] Jim O'Brien's contract with Ohio State," said Columbus-based attorney Joseph Murray, who represented O'Brien in his lawsuit against Ohio State for terminating him for cause prior to an NCAA investigation. Bruce Pearl doesn't have to imagine though, because he's got just such a contract."

The problem is UT's lawyer's didn't specify minor or major violations as grounds for dismissal. They simply said "significant" violations obvioulsy leaving that open to some interpretation. If Jim O'Brien can prove in court that giving money to a recruit wasn't "significant" then Pearl's little cookout with Junior recruits won't be viewed that way either.

Murray said Tennessee would have a problem since the wording is "significant" not "secondary" or "major violation," meaning there would have to be a determination if the violation had a significant impact on the program and university.

In short, no firing anytime soon.
 
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I just seen on Sportscenter, that UT can not release Pearl without having to pay him the remainder of his contract unless the AA' finds he commited 'significant violations'.
Now to my understanding, these were minor violations, it's jus the fact he lied about them, correct?
 
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lego126 said:
I just seen on Sportscenter, that UT can not release Pearl without having to pay him the remainder of his contract unless the AA' finds he commited 'significant violations'.
Now to my understanding, these were minor violations, it's jus the fact he lied about them, correct?
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*scene
 
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You didn't really expect UT to be on the better side of contract negotiations with a coach did you?

- Fulmer's 08 summer extension that upped his buyout and assured continued employment with 8 wins a season

- Kiffin's ridiculously low first-year buyout to go to USC

Brag about fund-raising all you want, but Hamilton always seems to get worked over on the contracts.
 
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sounds like we're seeing Fulmer Part II here w/ pearl .. he flirts w/ Memphis to get a pay raise and now that he's in hot water he wants to coach at UT forever ...... will be interesting to see if the heat really gets turned up on him by the ncaa ..
 
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