Looks like the University of Tennessee may be firing Bruce Pearl. Not because of his (cough) ethics problems, but because he’s not winning games.
Perhaps the Administration well knows the college’s reputation cannot have them turning any more blind eyes to the magnitude of corruption in the UT Athletics Department. The national attention on the issue will certainly pull anyone down into the whirlpool to flush the UT Athletics system’s corruption.
NO ONE IS worth a crap is going to take the program over with all the trouble it is facing…
These two local commenters point out that the problem is not confined to games lost. That Pearl plays dirty is of course well-established; but this in itself doesn’t distinguish him from most big time university basketball coaches. As the first commenter notices, there’s a … call it a context problem at Tennessee. If them boys hold onto Pearl, they run the risk of attracting so much attention to the university that folks will start gettin’ a whiff of the whole damn UT athletics septic tank.
The second commenter makes the better the cheats we know point. Eventually a school’s reputation goes so far down the tubes that no even vaguely ethical coach wants to touch it. The commenter cautions that UT might want to hold on to Bruce if it doesn’t want to be forced to hire someone who makes him look like Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
March 21st, 2011 at 3:56PM
They tossed him. Still awaiting the Jimmy Swaggart-ish press conference.
March 21st, 2011 at 4:05PM
Swaggart has so definitively captured The Sniveling Moment that we should officially make him an adjective, tp. Swaggartian? Swaggartine? Swaggartique? Swaggartastic?
March 22nd, 2011 at 7:16AM
Swaggartian works for me.