Statement from GDF

[commavegarage]

The "incident" this year...what you mentioned doesn't include all that was swept under the rug....which I'd imagine there is at least some stuff.

[b0mberMan]

I heard the longest of long shots isn't necessarily that much of a long shot.

If he's truly receptive to coaching at his alma mater then money would probably be the only holdup, because he's exactly what the basketball program needs right now.

Dear Barbara and Patrick Roche,

Thank you very much for your generous donation of $20 million dollars. Remember when we said it was going toward a Catholic education center. Yeah, that's not going to work out. We need to pay Bruce Pearl to be our basketball coach. I hope that's cool.

WPL, SJ

Even putting $ aside, I'm not sure how big of an obstacle it would be to the administration (namely Leahy, not GDF) that he's been surrounded by some scandals. Put simply, he's not an alter-boy (not a pun on his religion). This would not be a typical hire for the BC Board of Trustees.

Addict, why are you getting my hopes up? He would be virtually the perfect hire.

What precisely concerns you about Pearl and scandals? There is the one recruiting issue at Iowa but that doesn't really make him seem all that bad? What am I missing here? Thanks.

There's the Iowa incident, there's the release of scholarship-players when he got to UT, there are pics like the one I posted above, etc. I'm not concerned about these issues. However, I think the Board might be.

Having a third of your team suspended/kicked off for guns this year. I'm not anti-Pearl at all and I know that players under Skinner weren't exactly saints either, but the stuff at Tenn gets more press and therefore there's more things for the board and Leahy to wring their hands about.

But if it's simply a matter of Gene driving a dump truck full of money to Pearl's house and assuring him "it's your show. I'm a football guy (but make the players call me Coach Flip is all I ask)" then I'd love to see this happen.Realistically, I'm just rooting for anyone who isn't named "Amacker."

[HJS]

Bruce Pearl or bust! The pics of the women thing shouldn't be a concern anymore. Pearl is engaged now to Brandy Miller.

[bcaddict]

I don't think they hire Pearl, but I'm happy to hear that it's not impossible. I hope BC truly reaches out to him.

[b0mberMan]

I don't think they hire Pearl, but I'm happy to hear that it's not impossible. I hope BC truly reaches out to him.

You've got to at least place the call, right? You can't declare a "national coaching search" and not take a shot that the recently successful alum has always dreamed of coaching his alma mater in a power conference? Right?

It was one thing when the football search went the way it did. I didn't believe for a second that Gene was not going with the Stache. But from the sound of things, he doesn't have his next guy in line, just a list of potential fits from the mid major ranks. While you're vetting them out, you have to place the call to Pearl. It's unthinkable not to.

[bignick33]

I don't think they hire Pearl, but I'm happy to hear that it's not impossible. I hope BC truly reaches out to him.

You've got to at least place the call, right? You can't declare a "national coaching search" and not take a shot that the recently successful alum has always dreamed of coaching his alma mater in a power conference? Right?

It was one thing when the football search went the way it did. I didn't believe for a second that Gene was not going with the Stache. But from the sound of things, he doesn't have his next guy in line, just a list of potential fits from the mid major ranks. While you're vetting them out, you have to place the call to Pearl. It's unthinkable not to.

I agree that SpazaNewJersey was the only real inquiry in the last search, but the searches that produced Jags, Crowley, and Aoki were all legitimate. BC actually has consistently done a pretty good, if unremarkable, job hiring coaches. I don't think that this search with be fraudulent even if we don't like the eventual hire. Here's the thing: how will we know if BC even inquires on Pearl? Typically BC's coaching searches are pretty airtight, at least in comparison to other big programs (compare the leakage of names in the upcoming search to the very public search that SJU just put on). I don't think we will have any idea what happens with Pearl if he doesn't take the job; BC would not leak it, as they don't want the public to know that he dissed us, if that's what ends up happening.

My prediction:
1) BC inquires on Pearl
2) BC is rebuffed after they are unwilling to pay 3 mil a year.
3) We never hear about it.
4) HJS continues with his anti-GDF propaganda on the basis that Pearl wasn't "considered."