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Gary4UK

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IMO, is the coach at LSU.... Then you have the Arkansas coach.... Bruce Pearl really is a pretty good guy... Sure, he tries to get under your skin, especially when he was at UT, but the guy is absolutely good for the game.... Billy D is a sore loser, like his Mentor, Rick Pitino.... Vanderbilt has a dis likable coach....

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, from Rick to Billy... From Bob Knight to Coach K.....
 
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I'm not a fan of the coaches at Texas A&M and South Carolina. Yeah, I agree with you about Anderson too.

My favorites outside of Cal are Pearl and Billy D.

GBB!!!
 
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Funny, because I used to not dislike Stallings and Donovan, but both are probably pretty tired of getting dominated by UK (sans last year for Florida, although UK did go further in March). 3 of the last 4 years have been Donovan's best 4-year span, including his title teams. In 3 of the 4 years, UK went further in March, has 2 more FF's and a title.

IMO, Johnny Jones is just terrible. I don't dislike him except when you start rooting for his teams against non-UK opponents and they continue to disappoint.

I actually really like Bruce Pearl, Frank Martin, Mark Fox and Andy Kennedy. The latter 2 are already solid, while the first 2 are starting to get momentum toward the top half of the league.

Anderson at Missouri I think also has some potential to end up decent once he builds up that roster. He's got some decent talent. Tyndall is hit or miss, if he hangs around.

Ray (MSU) and Grant (Alabama), as good as gone.
 
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I can not, for the life of me, understand why Johnny Jones got the coaching job at LSU. He can recruit, but does it really matter if you are one of the worst coaches? By coaches, people think of X's and O's. It's not all about that. It's also about motivation, organization, player development, camaraderie, leadership, and so much more.

I don't know where coaching became to be associated solely with X's and O's. Not that it matters, he is a bust at all levels with the exception of recruiting.
 
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Originally posted by Raroyder:
I can not, for the life of me, understand why Johnny Jones got the coaching job at LSU. He can recruit, but does it really matter if you are one of the worst coaches? By coaches, people think of X's and O's. It's not all about that. It's also about motivation, organization, player development, camaraderie, leadership, and so much more.

I don't know where coaching became to be associated solely with X's and O's. Not that it matters, he is a bust at all levels with the exception of recruiting.
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Trent Johnson abruptly left LSU for TCU and is 7-51 in the Big XII over the past 3 seasons. It's not like they really lost much when they hired Jones.
 
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Originally posted by ArkansasCatsFan:
Arkansas' Anderson and it's not even close.
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This.. his assistant coach connection to Nolan Richardson makes it even worse... couldn't stand Ark then under Richardson and the way Anderson coaches is just 1990s Ark 2.0
 
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How does Jones recruit the players he has signed over the past three years? What is in his sales pitch to guys like Simmons, Blakeney, and maybe Malik Newman that makes them want to play for him and dear old LSU?
 
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ORCAT

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Originally posted by ukbob:
I hate Pearl but he can coach.

SEC has some crap coaches starting with the LSU Guy.
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Same here, don't understand all this love for Pearl at all being espoused on this board lately. He's sleezy, all about himself, and we all pretty much hated him at UT with the cheating and so forth. On top of that was his questionable integrity before going to UT (blowing the whistle on other coaches, etc.) and yet people now love him??? Some even hope we could get him when Cal leaves? Please, we can do way better than him.
 
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Originally posted by KA4Prez:
Funny, because I used to not dislike Stallings and Donovan, but both are probably pretty tired of getting dominated by UK (sans last year for Florida, although UK did go further in March). 3 of the last 4 years have been Donovan's best 4-year span, including his title teams. In 3 of the 4 years, UK went further in March, has 2 more FF's and a title.

IMO, Johnny Jones is just terrible. I don't dislike him except when you start rooting for his teams against non-UK opponents and they continue to disappoint.

I actually really like Bruce Pearl, Frank Martin, Mark Fox and Andy Kennedy. The latter 2 are already solid, while the first 2 are starting to get momentum toward the top half of the league.

Anderson at Missouri I think also has some potential to end up decent once he builds up that roster. He's got some decent talent. Tyndall is hit or miss, if he hangs around.

Ray (MSU) and Grant (Alabama), as good as gone.


Nice assessment. Jones is a definite underachiever given his talent. I think Stallings is a good coach, but he's somewhat abrasive in personality. Same for Martin, but I think he's a better coach. He'll get somewhere at SC. Fox and Kennedy are going good jobs. Pearl is well Pearl. He's charismatic, whether you like him or not, I do. Heck I did even when he was at UT, and I hate UT. I don't use the word hate lightly. Anderson I've yet to form an opinion on, and Ray and Grant who knows. Both programs, like most of the SEC, care so much more about football I'm not sure they care enough to fire them. And Billy D I think is a class act, and clearly the 2nd best coach in the SEC if not arguably the best. So they had a bad year. Something just wasn't quite right with the chemistry of that team. It happens, even to the best of them. Still, they showed some of their potential when they played UK.

As for the most dislikeable, probably Stallings.
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Anderson at Ark by a mile. And all this "love" and liking Bruce Pearl is getting on this board is absolutely LAUGHABLE. I swear, people here either are total newcomers and can't go back more than 5 years, or they have a pathetically short memory of the BS crap Bruce Pearl is. Sure he can coach, but let's not forget his past where we're concerned.

Just give him another year or two and when Auburn plays that patent brand of thug ball and starts literally punching and beating UK players in the gonads, and gets a really favorable whistle from the officials down there and beats us. Then, all these UK posters will right back to insta-hating him on site. Make no doubts about it. Bruce is still right there among the top asshats in the league.

Jones at LSU, well, he's a good recruiter, but his coaching skills leaves me more feeling sad for him than anything else.

Stallings ? Hey, I'm not saying anything bad about him. I don't want him showing up on my nashville doorstep threatening to kill me if I say anything bad about him. He's a GREAT coach, fine, wonderful upstanding, model of a human being !
I love him !


Tyndall? Vols should fire his cheatin tail and send him packing. Otherwise I'm pretty neutral about him (and his cheatin' tail)
- did I mention he has a cheatin' tail???

And if it was one of the SEC coaches that said alex poythress sucks, well, I hate him too. I would love to know which coach (sec or otherwise) said that about AP. (article was discussed earlier in the day on this board in a thread)

But back to Brucie. Some of you really need to have a history lesson taught about him. To see the "I love/like Pearl" posts that are emanating forth on this board is an abomination. Shame - TOTAL shame - on you people. Sure you can give him credit that he can coach, but anything beyond that is ... well, simply wrong.

Don't we revoke UK Big Blue Nation fan cards and change the secret handshake for so-called UK fans that say they like Bruce Pearl? What's the world coming to?

PS - all the cutesy little things he's been saying, trying not to come off as the asshat he really is has really fooled some of you BIGTIME. I'd suggest being very leery of anything he says, because it's really just a sneaky little ploy he's using to get other SEC fans to accept him back into the fold. He's always has been a cheat, he always will be a cheat, and that tiger ain't changing his stripes anytime for anyone. You're just fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

You've been warned (again) and ...

You can believe all of that without any reservation, folks.
 
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UKWildcatT

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Originally posted by martycat1:

Anderson and no close second to him.
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This and Donovan number two due to his part in the Bledsoe transcript scheme (yes, he may not have done it personally, but it was leaked from Florida (Dick Jr) so he knew. He could have stopped it, but chose not to
 
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brianpoe

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Originally posted by runt#69:
Anderson at Ark by a mile. And all this "love" and liking Bruce Pearl is getting on this board is absolutely LAUGHABLE. I swear, people here either are total newcomers and can't go back more than 5 years, or they have a pathetically short memory of the BS crap Bruce Pearl is. Sure he can coach, but let's not forget his past where we're concerned.

Just give him another year or two and when Auburn plays that patent brand of thug ball and starts literally punching and beating UK players in the gonads, and gets a really favorable whistle from the officials down there and beats us. Then, all these UK posters will right back to insta-hating him on site. Make no doubts about it. Bruce is still right there among the top asshats in the league.

Jones at LSU, well, he's a good recruiter, but his coaching skills leaves me more feeling sad for him than anything else.

Stallings ? Hey, I'm not saying anything bad about him. I don't want him showing up on my nashville doorstep threatening to kill me if I say anything bad about him. He's a GREAT coach, fine, wonderful upstanding, model of a human being !
I love him !


Tyndall? Vols should fire his cheatin tail and send him packing. Otherwise I'm pretty neutral about him (and his cheatin' tail)
- did I mention he has a cheatin' tail???

And if it was one of the SEC coaches that said alex poythress sucks, well, I hate him too. I would love to know which coach (sec or otherwise) said that about AP. (article was discussed earlier in the day on this board in a thread)

But back to Brucie. Some of you really need to have a history lesson taught about him. To see the "I love/like Pearl" posts that are emanating forth on this board is an abomination. Shame - TOTAL shame - on you people. Sure you can give him credit that he can coach, but anything beyond that is ... well, simply wrong.

Don't we revoke UK Big Blue Nation fan cards and change the secret handshake for so-called UK fans that say they like Bruce Pearl? What's the world coming to?

PS - all the cutesy little things he's been saying, trying not to come off as the asshat he really is has really fooled some of you BIGTIME. I'd suggest being very leery of anything he says, because it's really just a sneaky little ploy he's using to get other SEC fans to accept him back into the fold. He's always has been a cheat, he always will be a cheat, and that tiger ain't changing his stripes anytime for anyone. You're just fooling yourself if you think otherwise.

You've been warned (again) and ...

You can believe all of that without any reservation, folks.
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So you are the authority of who we should like or dislike and if we don't agree we are not fans? I met Pearl. I like Pearl. I don't care who you like.
 
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Originally posted by Raroyder:
I can not, for the life of me, understand why Johnny Jones got the coaching job at LSU. He can recruit, but does it really matter if you are one of the worst coaches? By coaches, people think of X's and O's. It's not all about that. It's also about motivation, organization, player development, camaraderie, leadership, and so much more.

I don't know where coaching became to be associated solely with X's and O's. Not that it matters, he is a bust at all levels with the exception of recruiting.
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LSU is looking at being a top 25 team for years to come. Johny Jones is one of the more legit recruiters in the game. I have no issue with LSU going that direction.

He can always go out and get some floor geniuses, but LSU won't always get top players in the nation without a recruiter like him.


I would also add to anyone that "likes" pearl because he's got the used car salesman pitch down perfectly and he makes you feel warm, this guy will stab anyone in the back at any time. Pearls history is pathetic, and his tactics are worse. Like him all you want, but you can't change what he is. A snake. I'm fine with him in the league, but the difference in a pearl/pitino/petrino is minimal, regardless.
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brianpoe

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I agree with S&C

If Jones keeps getting talent they are top 25
Anderson had Arky in top 25
Donovan is annually top 25

TAMU has talent coming

Fox is always 1 or 2 guys sort

Stallings is a good X and O's guy, but as we have seen, didn't do much, but it is Vandy so no expectations.

Missouri and Mississippi schools... eh

Not sure Pearl will be around long enough to build Auburn up, some one will grab him.

I like Big Frank but not sure he can get the talent he needs.


All in all I don't dislike any of the coaches. If it is proven that Billy was actually behind the Bledsoe transcripts...

I like Pearl in the league, I don't mind Anderson bringing the rivalry back. I just wish the other schools wouldn't suck in the non-conference and I wish the potential NCAA teams wouldn't choke the last week of the regular season.
 
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Jones is moving up the list. He takes jabs at calipari in the past. You do,realize he was the interm head coach at memphis when they hired calipari. Lots of bad blood. From what I know jones wasn't considered for the job with some of his shady recruiting. Also calipari didn't even interview him for his staff. AAU coaches have said that jones doesn't like cal at all.


Btw. I say anderson is my vote personally
 
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shacker56

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I too am an AR Cat fan. yes Anderson is the worst. He can't manage to say anything good about UK or other teams. When asked about the upcoming game against us 2 weeks ago his response was we aren't afraid of them we aren't backing down. No one ask him nor did we expect him to. what we do expect is for him to show a little class and teach some class to some of those players. the victim **** gets old I have seen several games this year where he has lost and then will refuse to shake hands and just leaves the court. He is an extremely poor sport.
 
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No votes for Cal? He takes the top talent each year. He's only lost four times at Rupp (sorry, are all those SEC losses?), he is a slimey cheat, he's paying players. Ok, nevermind, Anderson.
 
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@Brianpoe : nah, not the authority on who you should like or not like at all, but I find it interesting what S&C has to say about Pearl, which is the exact same sentiment as I shared, add to that fact that says you like Pearl because you met him. Good for you, brianpoe. Just remember what I and S&C had to say about him, which is the unvarnished truth regardless of if you've met him or not.

My family up north knew all about Pearl long before most people down here ever heard of him and way long before he ever got the UT job. It goes all the way back to his days up in Iowa as an assistant coach, which is about 30 years now. Most of my family are in Big Ten country (hate it for them) but they were certainly absolutely 100% right about Pearl. Everything he has done from that day to this one is a reflection of the kind of snake oil salesman / used car salesman ploy and pitch that seems to get a lot of people confused about who/what he really is.

But hey, knock yourself out if you guys really like Pearl, or if you've met him and like him, each to his own. I'm certainly not THE absolute authority on every coach out there, I just have seen and heard and KNOW enough about Pearl to say that - at least for me personally, (which, by the way, was what I was expressing - my own personal opinion) that nobody needs to try and sell Pearl to me or try and tell me what a swell guy he is. Just because he can deliver a one liner and seem like a funny guy, and he can coach, I'll give him that, sure. But just remember how he's done and acted towards UK in the past, as well as with Coach Cal.

He comes off (always has) as playing to the in-crowd and saying the right things to get people that otherwise doesn't know him , so as to sow enough doubt about him to those that really don't know what a smarmy, fake guy he really is.

like I said, each to his own.

I'll never buy into Brucie. I never have. Also, just remember when Auburn gets some decent players and they put the good ole' screws to UK when we start to have to make those trips down there to Auburn and they screw us with cheap shots on the instructions of Bruce Pearl. He'll be right back there telling his guys to play a brutally physical game, which includes a shot or two of cheap shotting our players in the nutz like he did at UT. And don't forget the hate he holds for Coach Cal.

Then this board will be erupting with the hate he so richly deserves.

Again, just my opinion. Take it for what it is.
 
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brianpoe

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Runt, I probably took your post too literal, its not really about liking him. He was a great guy in person, but people saying he can't coach look like UL fans talking about Cal.

Pearl is the second-fastest NCAA coach to reach 300 victories

Pearl became the 6th-fastest basketball coach to ever reach the 400 mark and 2nd-fastest among active head coaches


He inherited a Screaming Eagles team that had won just 10 games in the previous season. Pearl posted a 22-7 record in his first season, and led the Eagles to nine straight NCAA D-II tournaments in addition to winning four titles.
Expectations were low for the Vols in Pearl's first season. Having lost their two leading scorers from a team that had been just 14-17 the previous season, Tennessee was picked to finish fifth in the six-team Eastern Division of the Texas, 95-78.

The first #1 ranking in UT's 100-year basketball history

Pearl was able to record victory number 100 at Tennessee, the second fastest UT coach to reach the century mark

Tennessee defeated the #1 ranked Thompson-Boling Arena.


The guy can coach. As to any negatives, I'm not concerned over the bar-b-que scandal as much as his time as an assistant, some serious rumors there.

But the guy can obviously coach, no matter what our armchair experts here say.
 
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Originally posted by brianpoe:
Runt, I probably took your post too literal, its not really about liking him. He was a great guy in person, but people saying he can't coach look like UL fans talking about Cal.

Pearl is the second-fastest NCAA coach to reach 300 victories

Pearl became the 6th-fastest basketball coach to ever reach the 400 mark and 2nd-fastest among active head coaches


He inherited a Screaming Eagles team that had won just 10 games in the previous season. Pearl posted a 22-7 record in his first season, and led the Eagles to nine straight NCAA D-II tournaments in addition to winning four titles.
Expectations were low for the Vols in Pearl's first season. Having lost their two leading scorers from a team that had been just 14-17 the previous season, Tennessee was picked to finish fifth in the six-team Eastern Division of the Texas, 95-78.

The first #1 ranking in UT's 100-year basketball history

Pearl was able to record victory number 100 at Tennessee, the second fastest UT coach to reach the century mark

Tennessee defeated the #1 ranked Thompson-Boling Arena.


The guy can coach. As to any negatives, I'm not concerned over the bar-b-que scandal as much as his time as an assistant, some serious rumors there.

But the guy can obviously coach, no matter what our armchair experts here say.
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Exactly.
 
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Pearl. I cant understand why a school would want the oversized oompa loompa. He can coach, but there are a lot of people who can do that without being a dirty sack-o-crap.
 
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