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Title IX. It doesn't account for the fact that it's the men's sports that pay for the women's sports...it just requires equal scholarships.

Kirk was before I became a Tiger fan but yes, he was a slimeball. To the point that no college would even think about hiring him anymore. But you know what, at least our slimeball coaches win. thumb

Nah...it's more like coordinating travel plans, film exchanges, etc. And at some places, they use the DBO as an assistant coach moreso than that. The DBO can't directly coach players or do any off-campus recruiting. If they wanted her to, she could walk around the edge of the court in practice and coach the coaches, loud enough for the players to hear.

1) Dotson only asked for his release because Pearl told him he was not welcome. 2) The perception of Bruce Pearl is that he's slimy. Why else would he get stuck at a D-II job for 10 years before he even had one D-I offer despite winning a national championship and posting a winning percentage well over .800? The reason? No D-I school would touch him with a 10-foot pole over the Deon Thomas memo he sent, considering the NCAA investigated it and found zero in Pearl's allegations.

Yes, except for the fact that the NCAA found Illinois innocent on all of Pearl's accusations. Translation: "WOLF WOLF WOLF WOLF" That's fine. Don't lie to him. Don't tell him to ask for his release after he's already registered, paid for his books, and packed up for his apartment. Tell him when you take over that you're not going to honor his scholarship. That's a small PR hit, but it's nowhere near the fiasco that Pearl has caused.

I think you'll find there's a lot of people who have negative things to say about Pearl. There's even one head coach who won't even shake his hand after games because he considers Pearl to be such a slimeball. But more importantly, I would like to know if you're interested in ever addressing this point: How can you even claim with a straight face that you're not defending Pearl?

...in the home locker room alone.

Two problems. 1) To get a younger everyday-caliber OF, you're gonna have to pay a lot. Do you want to give up Wainwright and Reyes? It might take both to get the type of player you're talking about. 2) What do you do with this player when Sanders, Edmonds, and Walker are in the lineup? As for the Sosa suggestion from Fuggly...bleh, I don't want that idiot associated with the Cardinals organization.

Pearl's reputation for being a slimeball preceded him. I haven't seen any reason to believe his reputation is false. He lied, very publicly, to Tyler Smith. He has apparently also lied to Matthew Dotson, and that lie hurt the kid...any true good coach is in it for the kids, not for the glory. Notice, Pearl hasn't denied Dotson's side of the story. Keep up your blind loyalty...I'm loving this, honestly. How many basketball coaching contracts will UT be paying in 2007? 4?

And Kemp and Chism were considering Tennessee with Buzz Peterson there too. Dotson received interest from mid-majors, but this happened so late in the schedule that there aren't many scholarships left. If Pearl didn't want Dotson to go to Knoxville, he should have told him that a long time ago, it wouldn't have been a big deal, and Dotson would have been able to sign pretty much wherever he wanted.

1) Tyler Smith asked to be released from his letter of intent too. 2) Dotson only asked to be released when Pearl basically told him he was released. 3 -- and here's the big one) Pearl didn't do this until the day before summer school began...too late for Dotson to have many options. He completely screwed Dotson over. If he wasn't planning to honor the scholarship, which is what Dotson has said, then release him immeditately, give the kid a chance to sign somewhere. Don't do it after everybody else has already filled their scholarships. 4) Would it have been Dotson's best interest? Who knows, maybe so. He did say he'd always dreamed of playing there. Maybe that outweighs playing time.

No moreso than timbdp did by C&P-ing all 50 rounds in here.

OK, Tennessee doesn't have 2 of the consensus top 6 rising seniors in the country, 4 of the top 30, 6 of the top 50, and 8 of the top 100. You're right, there's no talent in this state. Thad Young and Brandan Wright aren't on Roy Williams' auto-dial. Willie Kemp isn't on Bruce Weber's.

Um, no. Name another coach who told a signee not to show up a day before he was moving for summer school. One. It'd be hard enough for you to come up with one coach who told a player he wasn't going to honor the scholarship he'd signed. But there's a very long list of coaches who haven't done what Pearl just did. And that's ignoring the hypocrisy of telling Dotson he wasn't going to honor it when "it's athletic department policy not to release signees" for Smith.

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Um, no, he wouldn't probably be in Durham a few weeks into the season. Unless you're talking about the 2007 season.

About a mile across the state line. Big deal, it's still closer to Memphis than Lee University is to Chattanooga.

He may still get picked before next year's draft...teams can still negotiate with JUCO players until a week before the draft.

2 things. 1 - if Pearl does this again, he may not ever get to coach a player good enough to go pro after 2 years. There's no defense for this slimeball move. And you better believe every opposing coach is going to use this -- very effectively -- against Pearl. 2 - How did I know that a) there would be people on here blindly defending Pearl and that you would be one of them?

Not ALL reply, but most of the college coaches I know (and that's quite a few) will evaluate pretty much anybody they find out about.

DI-GI-TAL!

Ask any coach you know what they think of a player who blows off practice but gives it his all every game. And they'll all tell you the exact same thing.

Nobody made a movie out of the teams I'm talking about. The line between 3A and 5A in football is a lot bigger than it is between AA and AAA in basketball. Um, we were driving 5 hours and spending the gas and hotel money when it was in Chattanooga.

Not in travel time. And that's your gripe, isn't it?

They lost money, yes, but they aren't in business to make money directly. Don't expect us to not put in another strong bid.