Bruce Pearl retiring!

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He posted a 15 minute video on Instagram making the announcement. It’s a little long, but worth the view if you have a few minutes.

He says he’s not running for Senate. Staying in Auburn as a special ambassador for the University.
 
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VolCalls said:
He refuted this in the video he posted a few minutes ago.
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Any normal, everyday reading of what he said would bring you to that conclusion. However this is politics we're talking about. I do find it interesting that he didn't give a Shermanesque statement. This is everything he says in the video about a potential Senate run:
Many of you know that I thought and prayed about maybe running for United States Senate. Maybe to be the next great Senator of Alabama. That would have required leaving Auburn. Instead, the university has given me the opportunity to stay here and be Auburn's senator."
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He never actually explicitly states that he isn't running. He says that running would require that he leave Auburn. Well, he is leaving the job as men's head basketball coach. He dresses it up by saying that he's going to continue living in Auburn, and he's going to be an ambassador for the university, so in that sense he isn't "leaving Auburn" but he is leaving his day-to-day job there.

He then says that Auburn has "given him the opportunity to stay here and be Auburn's senator." Isn't that something he could do and still be a US Senator? He also says that he "has the opportunity" to do that; does that mean he's going to take that opportunity? He never actually says.

I'm actually inclined to believe that he won't run, but if you really pay attention to how he chose his words (which you have to do with politicians) he never explicitly says that he isn't running. And let's be real, having a nearly 15 minute slickly produced video ready to go, in which you turn on the water works and get emotional, is 100% something a politician would do.
 
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wmcovol said:
This is the new SOP for coaches to quit & name their successor. Get ready.
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I don't know if I would call it a "new" SOP. There have been 2 recent cases in basketball, but it is something that numerous successful coaches who left on their own terms for a long time.
 
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