OT: Bruce Pearl recruiting
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SI.com: Well because of those decisions you're here in an unusual situation. You obviously need players. You need to recruit -- but you can't recruit. So how are you managing that?
Pearl: Because I can't recruit, I can't even really talk about recruiting. I'm sensitive to how I even answer the question. But, I've been a head coach for 19 years. We've been to 17 NCAA tournaments, nine Sweet 16s, three Elite Eights, finished second one year and won a national championship in Division II. Our coaches can speak to that. These fans are passionate and hungry. We've got a great recruiting base as far as where we're located. And now I'm selling Auburn football. I'm selling no-huddle, playing fast. I'm selling, look at what Coach Malzahn and his staff have been able to do. Come be a part of that. Will it be difficult for a prospect to make up his mind to come here when he can't talk to me? Yeah. It's going to be challenging. But they can watch me coach, they can talk to people who have played for me.
SI.com: So if a recruit comes on campus this weekend, do you have to leave the building?
Pearl: Last weekend, we had an official visit on campus. And I left town. I went to the lake. [Note: That visitor, top-rated juco power forward Cinmeon Bowers, reportedly committed on Sunday. This weekend is the A-Day [spring football] game. I'm going to stay in town. I'm going to have a compliance person with me the entire time. I've got some functions to perform [at the game] as the head men's basketball coach, but I'm not going to come in the [basketball] building. And I'm going to do everything I can to try not to bump into one of our prospects. I hope that by being diligent in this compliance I'm sending several messages, one to Auburn and their leadership, that we're going to do everything we can to try to do it within the show-cause.
SI.com: Are you allowed to watch film [of recruits]?
Pearl: Oh yes. And believe me, who we're talking to, who we're visiting, oh yeah. I just can't have contact with prospects or coaches, recruiting services, anybody. Let's say my phone rings and it's an AAU coach -- and I've got hundreds of them in my phone. A lot of them have called and said hey, congratulations, welcome back. Within the first 10-15 seconds I'm letting them all know that I appreciate their call and their best wishes, but I can't talk to then until Aug. 24. Talk to Coach Person, talk to Coach Jones.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...l-auburn-show-cause-recruiting/#ixzz34ceA0QN5
Pearl: Because I can't recruit, I can't even really talk about recruiting. I'm sensitive to how I even answer the question. But, I've been a head coach for 19 years. We've been to 17 NCAA tournaments, nine Sweet 16s, three Elite Eights, finished second one year and won a national championship in Division II. Our coaches can speak to that. These fans are passionate and hungry. We've got a great recruiting base as far as where we're located. And now I'm selling Auburn football. I'm selling no-huddle, playing fast. I'm selling, look at what Coach Malzahn and his staff have been able to do. Come be a part of that. Will it be difficult for a prospect to make up his mind to come here when he can't talk to me? Yeah. It's going to be challenging. But they can watch me coach, they can talk to people who have played for me.
SI.com: So if a recruit comes on campus this weekend, do you have to leave the building?
Pearl: Last weekend, we had an official visit on campus. And I left town. I went to the lake. [Note: That visitor, top-rated juco power forward Cinmeon Bowers, reportedly committed on Sunday. This weekend is the A-Day [spring football] game. I'm going to stay in town. I'm going to have a compliance person with me the entire time. I've got some functions to perform [at the game] as the head men's basketball coach, but I'm not going to come in the [basketball] building. And I'm going to do everything I can to try not to bump into one of our prospects. I hope that by being diligent in this compliance I'm sending several messages, one to Auburn and their leadership, that we're going to do everything we can to try to do it within the show-cause.
SI.com: Are you allowed to watch film [of recruits]?
Pearl: Oh yes. And believe me, who we're talking to, who we're visiting, oh yeah. I just can't have contact with prospects or coaches, recruiting services, anybody. Let's say my phone rings and it's an AAU coach -- and I've got hundreds of them in my phone. A lot of them have called and said hey, congratulations, welcome back. Within the first 10-15 seconds I'm letting them all know that I appreciate their call and their best wishes, but I can't talk to then until Aug. 24. Talk to Coach Person, talk to Coach Jones.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/co...l-auburn-show-cause-recruiting/#ixzz34ceA0QN5
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He did get the Niagara kid, Mason, to transfer - 2nd leading scorer to McDermott last year. Also a solid kid from Marshall who averaged 17 and 6 as well as a top JUCO big. Of course the JUCO kid was dropped by Florida State because of off court issues so it only makes sense he and Pearl would make a great team right?
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Why is this guy even allowed to coach anywhere above the youth league level? More evidence, if any was necessary, that the NCAA is rotten to its greedy, malignant core.
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Look-up Auburn Tigerette, explains 1/3 the recruiting process, the second half involves brown bags filled with green 'funny' paper that has very old people's faces on them.
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