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Bruce Pearl (Auburn Head Coach, Ongoing Asshat)

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Vinsanity;1817224; said:
One of the juiciest rumors around Knoxville this week is that Pat Summitt will step in to coach the team in Pearl's absence. That would be a blast, IMO.
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I think if that becomes true that will hurt the men's basketball program not only this year but long-term because it will set back recruiting. In addition, just because you are a good women's basketball coach does not mean you are a good men's basketball coach. The style of play is completely different. However, saying that, I do hope that they name her the men's basketball coach. Either her or Vitale:lol:
 
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Bruce Pearl found to be non-compliant - ESPN

The one new charge revealed in the notice of allegations was that Pearl and associate head coach Tony Jones were cited for a secondary violation of "bumping" 2012 recruit Jordan Adams (Lawrenceville, Ga.), on Sept. 14, 2010, during Adams' junior year when the two visited Adams at Oak Hill Academy.

According to the report, Pearl and Jones had a two-to-three-minute conversation with Adams prior to the start of basketball practice. The violation with Adams came shortly after Pearl and Tennessee held a news conference announcing the self-imposed penalties. Pearl was allowed to recruit on the road for two-plus weeks before he was shut down for a year on Sept. 24.
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According to the notice of allegations, Pearl was interviewed on June 14 and provided false information about being photographed with current Ohio State freshman point guard Aaron Craft in the coach's home. Pearl denied knowledge of the photo. Pearl also denied knowing the other person in the photo, who was Shay's wife.

The report states that Pearl also called John Craft, Aaron's father, who was also at the unofficial visit to Pearl's home on Sept. 20, 2008, and told him that it was a violation for the family to attend the cookout. Unofficial visits are supposed to take place on campus, not at a coach's home.

Pearl gave John Craft the choice of attending the cookout. According to the report, John Craft was led to believe that Pearl was trying to influence his statements to the NCAA enforcement staff.
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The most surprising part to me is they had a press conference announcing self-imposed penalties for Pearl's NCAA violations, they were limited to a 2-week period right after the presser to go on the road recruiting due to those violations, and they go out and commit NCAA violations with their 2-week window to go recruit by "bumping" a recruit and talking to him when they weren't supposed to. Maybe I shouldn't be surprised, because he committed the same violation he got dinged for when he was at UW-Milwaukee, hosting juniors at his house, and tried to cover it up. Bruce Pearl is more and more looking like a serial rule breaker.

Would love to see OSU play Pearl in the NCAA tourney this year to get some revenge :) But it might be now or never since there's a good chance Bruce will get a show-cause penalty when the NCAA hands out the punishment for these violations this summer.
 
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Here are the relevant documents.

NCAA.Letter.to.Chancellor.pdf

Notice.of.Allegations.26page.pdf

Chancellor.Jimmy.Cheek.Statement

AD.Mike.Hamilton.Statement

Bruce.Pearl.Statement

A summary of only the basketball allegations (football and Kiffin are also included):

1. Pearl, Tony Jones, and Steve Forbes made 96 impermissable recruiting phone calls to 12 propsects (including Aaron Craft and Josh Selby) between 8-1-2007 an 7-29-2009.

2. Pearl, Jones, Forbes, and Jason Shay did something that's been redacted. A reasonable guess is that this involves the visits to Pearl's house on unofficial recruiting trips.

3. Pearl and Jones 'bumped' into recruit Jordan Adams at Oak Hill Academy, for a 2-to-3 minute conversation, on Sep 14, 2010. This was just 4 days after Pearl cried in front of the cameras and tried to apologize for his previous violations and lying to the NCAA. Video

4. Pearl was unethical when he provided "false and misleading information" to the NCAA, and by "attemping to influence others to furnish ... false and misleading information". Last June 14th, Pearl was shown a photo of Aaron Craft at Pearl's house (taken in Sept. 2008), and he denied knowledge of the location of the photograph. He also said he didn't know a woman in the photograph, was was the wife of assistant coach Jason Shay. On that same day he placed a series of phone calls to John Craft (Aaron's father). The first call was before the NCAA talked to Pearl that day. Pearl told Mr. Craft that the visit to Pearl's house in 2008 was a violation, but tried to get Mr. Craft to say that it was the choice of the Craft family to attend. John Craft told the NCAA that he believed that Pearl's phone calls were trying to influence what he would tell the NCAA.

5. Assistant coaches Forbes, Shay, and Jones are all charged with "failure to provide full and complete information" to the NCAA enforcement staff.

6. For the 3 seasons from 07-08 through 09-10, Pearl "failed to promote an atmosphere of compliance" and "failed to monotor the activities regarding compliance" for all of his assistants.

7. Assistant Jason Shay was charged with something else that has been redacted.
 
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My take on the NCAA report.

Pearl should, and probably will, get smacked hard by the NCAA. He's a repeat offender, having been hit with a violation for the same type of impermissable in-home visit while at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He shows a pattern of breaking the rules - a bunch of phone calls, in-home visits, and 'bumping' into a recruit at his school.

But there are two things that he did that should really get the NCAA riled up. First, he orchestrated a cover-up, and the NCAA has normally blasted people more harshly for the cover-up than for the original violations. Lying to the NCAA is something that really ticks them off. In this investigation, Pearl and 3 of his assistants didn't tell the NCAA the truth. And he even took the step of trying to influence Aaron Craft's father on what to tell the NCAA when they asked about the visit the Craft family took to Pearl's house.

Lastly, his actions spoke volumes when he cried in front of the cameras on September 10th last year, and then committed another NCAA violation by bumping into a recruit and having a 2-to-3 minute conversation with him just 4 days later. That clearly indicates that he shows no true remorse and will continue to break any rules he thinks he can get away with.

He should be hit with a 'show cause' penalty of multiple years (anywhere between 2 and 5 years works for me), meaning that he would not be allowed to hold a college coaching job for that time period, unless the institution that wanted to hire him could convince the NCAA that he is deserving of another chance before that time limit expires. No AD at a major college would even try to make that case. For comparison purposes, former Buckeye coach Jim O'Brien was hit with a 5-year 'show cause' penalty, but it was later reduced to 2 years.

Separately, I can't believe that AD Mike Hamilton will survive this. He hired Pearl and Kiffin, and he can't even take credit for the success of women's basketball, since UT has a separate AD for women's sports.

I think the Chancellor would be wise to fire both Hamilton and Pearl, either just prior to the NCAA hearing on the Notice of Allegations in June, or immediately afterward; in order to show to the NCAA that UT is making meaningful changes.
 
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BB73;1878978; said:
My take on the NCAA report.

Pearl should, and probably will, get smacked hard by the NCAA. He's a repeat offender, having been hit with a violation for the same type of impermissable in-home visit while at Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He shows a pattern of breaking the rules - a bunch of phone calls, in-home visits, and 'bumping' into a recruit at his school.

But there are two things that he did that should really get the NCAA riled up. First, he orchestrated a cover-up, and the NCAA has normally blasted people more harshly for the cover-up than for the original violations. Lying to the NCAA is something that really ticks them off. In this investigation, Pearl and 3 of his assistants didn't tell the NCAA the truth. And he even took the step of trying to influence Aaron Craft's father on what to tell the NCAA when they asked about the visit the Craft family took to Pearl's house.

Lastly, his actions spoke volumes when he cried in front of the cameras on September 10th last year, and then committed another NCAA violation by bumping into a recruit and having a 2-to-3 minute conversation with him just 4 days later. That clearly indicates that he shows no true remorse and will continue to break any rules he thinks he can get away with.

He should be hit with a 'show cause' penalty of multiple years (anywhere between 2 and 5 years works for me), meaning that he would not be allowed to hold a college coaching job for that time period, unless the institution that wanted to hire him could convince the NCAA that he is deserving of another chance before that time limit expires. No AD at a major college would even try to make that case. For comparison purposes, former Buckeye coach Jim O'Brien was hit with a 5-year 'show cause' penalty, but it was later reduced to 2 years.

Separately, I can't believe that AD Mike Hamilton will survive this. He hired Pearl and Kiffin, and he can't even take credit for the success of women's basketball, since UT has a separate AD for women's sports.

I think the Chancellor would be wise to fire both Hamilton and Pearl, either just prior to the NCAA hearing on the Notice of Allegations in June, or immediately afterward; in order to show to the NCAA that UT is making meainingful changes.
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Well said. It's unfathomable that this guy still has a job in light of what you point out above. If I were a fan of an SEC school, I would be livid that this is going on at Tennessee and he hasn't been fired--it's garbage like this that gives the SEC a bad name.
 
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buckeyesin07;1878989; said:
Well said. It's unfathomable that this guy still has a job in light of what you point out above. If I were a fan of an SEC school, I would be livid that this is going on at Tennessee and he hasn't been fired--it's garbage like this that gives the SEC a bad name.
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Not if that SEC school is Kentucky.
 
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