{"id":9196,"date":"2011-03-21T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=9196"},"modified":"2011-03-21T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T22:34:01","slug":"the-end-of-the-bruchebag-at-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/21\/the-end-of-the-bruchebag-at-ut\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of the Bruchebag at UT"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\" — I couldn't find a photo of Bruce Pearl, so I'll use this image instead. Close enough.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
It’s now being widely reported that UT men’s head basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been fired.<\/p>\n
Pearl is facing allegations by the NCAA including unethical conduct, recruiting infractions and just generally being a huge douchebag. UT did the right thing by kicking him to the curb. Actually, no they didn’t; the right thing would have been firing him in September when the infractions were made public.<\/p>\n
It’s a testament to the smarminess of college athletics that it is said Pearl will be a hot commodity once he serves his NCAA-imposed sentence. Any athletic department that talks to him before the sentence comes down is a bunch of idiots, as he likely won’t be able to coach anywhere next year, and maybe the year after that.<\/p>\n
From the first time I saw him on TV, years before the allegations hit, I knew the man was a douche, and he has proved me right.<\/p>\n
Best quote on Pearl was something I saw on Facebook: “Pearl is applying at Syracuse… to be the mascot.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s now being widely reported that UT men’s head basketball coach Bruce Pearl has been fired. Pearl is facing allegations by the NCAA including unethical conduct, recruiting infractions and just generally being a huge douchebag. UT did the right thing by kicking him to the curb. Actually, no they didn’t; the right thing would have … Continue reading “The end of the Bruchebag at UT”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9199,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9196\/revisions\/9199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}