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UcannUconn said:
This would be an idiotic move less than lateral move for Pearl. The SEC is a better basketball conference. Has to be just using this for leverage.
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I agree he’s using it for leverage. The SEC is not a better basketball conference, though. This year? Yes. But, every major conference is better than the ACC this year
 
Guapo said:
I agree he’s using it for leverage. The SEC is not a better basketball conference, though. This year? Yes. But, every major conference is better than the ACC this year
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The ACC is going through a transition right now as the great “old guard” coaches are retiring. But I doubt it will stay down too long. Plus you know schools like UNC and Duke won’t keep guys for long runs if they are’t getting it done. Neither will UL (obviously) or Syracuse. It might take a year or two to settle out but settle it will.
 
What about Will Wade? 'Ville is always best with a cheater at the helm and Wade might be willing to leave too soon rather than too late.
 
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Do we really believe there isn't something more to this? Coaches don't get fired mid-season just for losing games or even upset players.

This smells like another UL coverup.
 
Louisville: Interim president, interim AD, interim hoop coach = consistency. Shaky, or over controlling board?

At least UConn has an AD, hoop coach, and is only running on its' 4th top dog and 2nd interim president within the last 3 years. BoT? Relative stability. /s
 
I find it strange that on ESPN.com there is nothing about this among the lead stories. Yet when UConn lost the arbitration ruling vs KO it was the lead story. If ESPN had shown some appreciation for all the tax breaks CT has given them and pushed for us to join the ACC years ago we would be there. Screw ESPN.
 
My gut is telling me there are some serious back-channel things happening here with agents and boosters. Louisville doesn't have a president or an AD so this may be the only time for boosters to exert their influence and get "their" coach. It's possible that coach is Pearl or Willard but I really think it's Pitino.
 
Guapo said:
I do doubt this’ll happen. Pearl likely just trying to get a pay bump out of Auburn
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Auburn already pays him obscene $
Louisville has been his dream job - he has made that known for a while
 
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BGesus4 said:
Pitino is being texted the new restaurant alarm code as we speak
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ucp990411 said:
I find it strange that on ESPN.com there is nothing about this among the lead stories. Yet when UConn lost the arbitration ruling vs KO it was the lead story. If ESPN had shown some appreciation for all the tax breaks CT has given them and pushed for us to join the ACC years ago we would be there. Screw ESPN.
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Plenty of ESPN assets in CT to relay a story, even if it's from the Courant. Not so much in Kentucky but, yeah screw ESPN.
 
Guapo said:
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In a den of thieves like Auburn not much needs to be said for this deal to happen. At most it was like:

Bruce: I hear UL needs a coach
AD: I know a guy. Let me talk to him
~3 minutes later~
AD: It's done.

Bruce: What's done?
AD: That thing.
BP: What thing?
AD: You know, that thing, with the guy.
BP: You mean our friend?
AD: No, the other guy.
BP: Oh, that guy. Good to know.

My sources can't confirm the second part.
 
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Guapo said:
Never thought I’d see the day when Auburn paid their basketball coach more than football
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No one will be able to compete with SEC money anymore. These schools just have an endless supply of donor money and media revenue. Crazy
 
aburks41 said:
No one will be able to compete with SEC money anymore. These schools just have an endless supply of donor money and media revenue. Crazy
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That may well prove to be the case in football. I wouldn’t be so doomer about it in basketball. Auburn is a special case re: basketball. They’re realizing it’s going to take a while for them to be able to compete in football with Bama and Georgia (if ever), and they just so happened to have struck gold in basketball at same time so they’re trying to hold on to it as hard as possible.
 
Guapo said:
Never thought I’d see the day when Auburn paid their basketball coach more than football
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Lol you can now reward a coach for being a solid cheater with the understanding of how to lean the blame on his assistants. NCAA is such a joke!
 
mauconnfan said:
Lol you can now reward a coach for being a solid cheater with the understanding of how to lean the blame on his assistants. NCAA is such a joke!
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The NCAA is a joke, I don’t really care if coaches tell them to go shove it. The issue with Pearl is that, before he caught, he was one of the biggest narcs.
 
I honestly think Louisville offered Peral some obscene money and Auburn just blew it out of the water
No way was Pearl using leverage, he wanted UL but Auburn threw an obscene number and Pearl took it
The guy isn't worth it, he's having a really good year (partly because a phenom decided to stay home for his pre NBA training) but I don't see Auburn as the college basketball capital.
What this does is reshape salaries in mens basketball in a negative manner and will further widen the gap between the haves and the have nots
 
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