The Bruce Pearl Thread

Would you be for Bruce Pearl's return if Martin is fired after next year?

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Losing Sumlin would obviously suck, but that is not a realistic concern currently.

Pearl back in the SEC is.
 
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Originally Posted by bamawriter View Post
If Bama were to hire Pearl, the ultimate trolling of the UT fanbase would be complete.

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Have to admit, I'd laugh pretty hard.

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UneducatedGuess said:
Personally, I think that Cuonzo is a great coach. However, I think that if Cuonzo got a call from the Big 10 (Purdue... Illinois... etc) that he would return to the area where he grew up playing basketball.

Bruce hasn't left Knoxville. He still is a Black Sheep in many Universities due to his turning over illegal recruiting methods early in his career.

Bruce continues to bleed orange. My question is, when is Bruce Pearl available? Let the countdown begin!
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This is quite possibly the most comfy, cozy, inspiring, nostalgic, futuristic, heart-warming, bonerific nook in all of the internet.

This is where true Big Orange fans come to relish in the glory days of high flying, alley ooping, tenacious defensing, big game winning, home game sellouts, and NCAA tourney victories annually.

So here's to you Bruce...it's only a matter of time before EVERYONE realizes how much we want you back in our homes and hearts.
 
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Vols_tothe_Wall said:
This is quite possibly the most comfy, cozy, inspiring, nostalgic, futuristic, heart-warming, bonerific nook in all of the internet.

This is where true Big Orange fans come to relish in the glory days of high flying, alley ooping, tenacious defensing, big game winning, home game sellouts, and NCAA tourney victories annually.

So here's to you Bruce...it's only a matter of time before EVERYONE realizes how much we want you back in our homes and hearts.
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ItsAllVols said:
0% Bruce was wrong for what he did, he is not the knight in shinning armor that everyone, or most of everyone on he thinks. CCM needs another year since recruiting in basketball is a long term commitment to the kids you are recruiting, but as we have seen in football IF YOU WANT to screw a program up keep switching coaches...recruits will run when the other coaches question if you are going to play for the coach that is recruiting you.
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Bingo! Basketball is a different animal than football. If you aren't in on them as FR, hug their Mommas's neck, and have some beer and wings with their AAU coach......you in trouble. UT probably could've gotten Austin Nichols and Nick King, but we were WAY to late and that is hardly Cuonzo's fault. Sure, Cuonzo was there in early '11, they committed in late '12, but if you really didn't know them for that year....you lose.
 
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knowthevols said:
The fans will avoid TBA as if the plague is inside next year.
The first year it was he has to have at least two years to get his system in place, last year it was "this team is without it's best player" so he needs one more year, this year it has been "Maymon has not been the same" now you want to change the battle cry to "one more year". The time has passed to meet the grade.
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No, it's more like he hasn't had time to develop the players he's brought in. You act like he was handed the keys to a Rolls. lol! The Rolls became a Yugo when Hopson and Harris left. Pearl inherited much better in 05-06 imo. Unless you want to argue that Watson, Lofton, Wingate, Smith,Patterson, Asumnu and Bradshaw aren't better than Golden, Maymon, Stokes and McRae- in '11-'12.
 
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HBCButch said:
No, it's more like he hasn't had time to develop the players he's brought in. You act like he was handed the keys to a Rolls. lol! The Rolls became a Yugo when Hopson and Harris left. Pearl inherited much better in 05-06 imo. Unless you want to argue that Watson, Lofton, Wingate, Smith,Patterson, Asumnu and Bradshaw aren't better than Golden, Maymon, Stokes and McRae- in '11-'12.
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One could argue either side of that, IMO. BP put Bradshaw in a position where he could be successful, where he hadn't been while Buzz was coach. CM obviously should be given credit for Maymon having the year he had in 11-12.

My concern is more with the players CM is bringing in. Hubbs & Stokes are exceptions, obviously. I love to watch Armani play, but I wonder if he will ever be more than a 6th man used to inject some energy into the game.

Edwards, Reese, Ndyia & Davis...just not sure these guys are high caliber SEC players. Again, just my opinion.
 
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HBCButch said:
Bingo! Basketball is a different animal than football. If you aren't in on them as FR, hug their Mommas's neck, and have some beer and wings with their AAU coach......you in trouble. UT probably could've gotten Austin Nichols and Nick King, but we were WAY to late and that is hardly Cuonzo's fault. Sure, Cuonzo was there in early '11, they committed in late '12, but if you really didn't know them for that year....you lose.
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I agree with your opening sentence... but the rest is quite hilarious.

Let's be perfectly honest, Baskebtall is a different animal than football... in the fact that you can turn a program around MUCH quicker than in football....
 
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Fwiw...CBP was just on halftime of Ohio St. & Wisconsin game breaking down the Duke/Syracuse match-up this evening. He had on an orange tie and an orange kerchief in his coat pocket...SOON!!!!! :crazy:
 
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