Tennessee Basketball receives letter of inquiry from NCAA, Bruce Pearl suspended from off-campus recruiting

Right to the heart of the matter

Might help mitigate the national attention it gets. Have to hope that Tennessee felt the self-imposed sanctions would be tough enough to avoid further action by the NCAA. They’ve only got one chance to take care of the matter themselves, so you’d assume they’d do what they felt would settle the issue.

Great post. Exhausted is how I feel too.

I mean, yes, I’m extremely disappointed in what happened, that they would do this, that they would let us down, but I really am glad that Pearl came out and provided the truth on, seemingly, his own. That will, I think, be an important factor in all of this and I hope that the NCAA takes that into consideration.

Very disappointed in him, but at the same time, still very glad he’s our coach.

And I compleltely believe his line about wanting to coach here the rest of his life and I’ll take comfort from that when the program is on top with nothing hanging over it’s head.

Know what else I like?

This is basically the third thread that has to do with today’s events and the 100 or so combined comments from the three threads are indicative of an attitude of at least a small sample size of our fanbase.

We may call for CBP’s head, we may call for Hammy’s head, but I see no attempts at justification, no attacks on the NCAA, and no attempts to pass blame to another institution.

I can’t say the same thing for the fanbases of some other schools that have been sanctioned lately or have been or are being investigated by the NCAA.

Kudos

I think the NCAA will come down harder on UT basketball. He admitted that he knowingly broke the rules and then lied about it. No doubt, this tarnishes Pearl’s reputation. Which it should. But what’s a shame is that it will also likely tarnish the accomplishments of our TEAM. And that’s a shame.

I just really hope nothing comes of football, because then you are inching towards the institutional control issue.

Jim Calhoun got cited with it, but he’s won a title and is on the verge of retiring. Still, it was a blip on the radar, but it doesn’t seem to me that people have made a huge deal of it, nor has it seriously damaged his reputation.

Will this turn out to be the same deal? I guess we will need to see what the NCAA rules in that case.

I mentioned earlier that Kelvin Sampson got in trouble for it, but as btcoop pointed out, he was already under probation when he did it. So, what other examples do we have of something like this?

Georgia also received a letter of inquiry – and have reported 11 secondary violations since June alone. Tennessee has only 6 during the entire Kiffin regime. People aren’t flipping out about Georgia are they?

I’m glad he’s taking responsibility and have some hope for the future because of that. I just hope that the NCAA doesn’t add anything, and I hope this doesn’t completely destroy recruiting.

… of misery and anyone with a shred of decency and compassion would agree. Better days are around the corner, and I wish you all the best, except on Sept. 18. I intend to drink your delicious tears of pain that day.

Well, now cause to reflect … a man who jettisons his wife of 25 years, the mother of all his kids, and within a year publicly declares a new squeeze “the love of my life” … Ladies and gentlemen, there are issues of character here … and there is no separating character, no compartmentalizing, between public, professional, and private lives. If it walks like a duck; it’s a duck.

Great opening sentence.

For reminding me subliminally what we do have around here….

I’m gonna bury my head and talk about nothing but the Lady Vols until January…….

Just a thought.

Here are the rumors I’ve been seeing:

 - Was tied to recruitment of Josh Selby

 - Many programs, including CBP’s apparently, use pre-paid Trac Fone’s to contact recruits when they aren’t supposed to. Hence unauthorzied phones and phone calls. Pre-paid Trac Fone’s aren’t traceable.

- Although most programs are apparently doing this, Bruce Pearl was either one of few or the only coach asked specifically about this practice by the NCAA and misled them or outright lied to them. I would like to think out of panic. Then he came back three weeks later (mid-July) and told the truth.

And now this is where we stand.

/heavy sigh/
it’s okay, we’ve got bleach. <-EDSBS’d