Background on University of Tennessee basketball coach Bruce Pearl, the lyingest good ol’ boy this side of anywhere.
… Not long after Pearl was hired, there came a day in 2008 when his wife reportedly got the day’s mail and there were two property-tax statements, not one. Yes, the coach owned another house in Knoxville where another woman lived. Whoops.
Of course, a divorce suit followed and a 25-year marriage was dashed because Bruce Pearl, aside from being a great motivational speaker and now a crowd favorite, was also a liar…
In Knoxville yesterday [the UT chancellor] said that once again Bruce would buy his way out of his latest lie…
University of Tennessee v. University of Kentucky: A race to below the bottom.
September 12th, 2010 at 7:55AM
Old Bruce is one to keep an eye on. It takes a rare talent for a Jewish kid from Boston to impersonate Jimmy Swaggart so well.
September 12th, 2010 at 8:05AM
Keep in mind that in any race to the bottom, Kentucky has natural advantages.
October 16th, 2010 at 4:37PM
[…] ring as I type this. Consequently, I’ve been pained for years by people who use UK as an example of the corruption that big-time college sports brings to the higher ed […]