Pahreen {l Wrote}:Pearl on the Dan Patrick show today.
Dan Patrick: "You contacted by Oregon?"
Bruce Pearl: "No, no, no contact by Oregon...I'm an Adidas guy."
Dan Patrick: "What about St. John's?"
Bruce Pearl: "No."
Dan Patrick: "Are you insulted?"
Bruce Pearl: "No, no, no because I put it out there very, very, very, very openly that I'm happy at Tennessee. That Tennessee has created a situation here where we can do, we can do some (?) at Tennessee and anything I can do at anyplace else."
Dan Patrick: "Well, you can get a blank check at Oregon, Bruce."
Bruce Pearl: "Yeah, well there's more to it than that. You know, my family is here. Tennessee has given me the opportunity of a lifetime."
Link. It's about 3/4 of the way in.
Ok, not to be dash anyone's hopes -- I would love to see Pearl brought in just as much as the next guy -- and not to get into the back-and-forths of some other threads, but I think you guys are crazy for reading anything positive into this interview.
Put yourselves on the other side -- as a Tennessee fan -- and then listen to this interview again. From that perspective, I would be nearly 100% convinced BP isn't going anywhere. There's just so much enthusiasm for what he's doing for the program. You can feel it when he says "we're going to get back [to the Elite 8]", when he speaks of the importance of continuity in college basketball, and when he talks about how much he feels indebted to Tennesse for offering him this opportunity. You can take sentences here and there and see hope for BC, but the overwhelming tone and context of this interview is that he's not even thinking of going anywhere else.
Hope I'm wrong.