No more this about Barnes:

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BernardKingGOAT said:
I can't believe you hit "send" with this pile of uninformed and ignorant BS. I will address it sequentially. The AD had meetings with Pearl after the improper BBQ. The BBQ itself wasn't a major issue, BUT was Pearl's second infraction with the NCAA as a coach. The first with UT. Aaron Craft, a committed recruit, but only a junior, attended the BBQ. Because he was a junior, he wasn't allowed that sort of visit. Someone reported it to the NCAA. After the NCAA notified UT of the report and their confirmation of the event, Pearl's bosses had a meeting with him. Told him what he must do to keep his job. UT was even going to retain him if there was a show cause and suspension. He did exactly the opposite of what they told him to do and called recruits he wasn't supposed to call and even worse, contacted Aaron Craft's father and asked him to lie to the NCAA. UT officials told him to tell the truth about the BBQ. He didn't tell the truth and Craft's Dad told them the truth and also told them Pearl asked them to lie about it. Those are all reported facts. In the end with his reduced payout, he threw his assistants under the bus by cutting their buyouts.
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I believe the recruits father was asked by Bruce to also lie about the BBQ and the father also told the NCAA about the request to lie.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
You did bring up Barnes' talking to UCLA in a "oh yeah well he did this!" way, and I'm pointing out even the thing you are dinging Barnes for as proof that Barnes isn't a saint that Pearl also did numerous times here. So if it's a negative for Barnes, then it's a negative for Pearl.

We were not wrong to fire Pearl. If you really think that then you clearly didn't understand the situation we were in. It's quite funny you say that then accuse others of revising history.

Also amusing is you literally just talked about how things care seperate but then tell me I was thrilled with Pearl at the time. Yes....2 things can be true. I can be thrilled with what Pearl did and also say but he f'ed up and deserved to be fired. One has nothing to do with the other. I can also say yeah he was great here and did more than than any coach before him given the situation; I can also say he was and still is a scum bucket.
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I’ve yet to see anything that would come close to firing a coach today. We’d laugh and Donde would tell them to get bent. You’ve got Bill Self, Will Wade, Kelvin Sampson, UNC creating a fake school, and on and on. And Pearl fibbed about a bbq and almost immediately corrected the record. Sure.
 
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Not relevant now but still Fact - Bimbo Brandy Pearl invited the recruits to the BBQ without Bruce’s knowledge and he poorly tried to do damage control after the fact.
 
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TNVOLNAVY said:
Not relevant now but still Fact - Bimbo Brandy Pearl invited the recruits to the BBQ without Bruce’s knowledge and he poorly tried to do damage control after the fact.
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I heard Bruce told Craft & the other player “you can come over but we can’t let anyone know”. I don’t know what is correct but asking his asst coaches & parents to lie about something so minor was the deal killer. He’d never had a problem if he’d just said “yeah, I fed the kids a hamburger”.

The Craft family used Tennessee to motivate OSU to offer. Coaches have to be smarter than that. Pruitt got caught trying to buy Sims kid (OT) who was going to Ga all along. He told Ga everything dumbass Pruitt was doing.
 
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