He was run out of town cause he wasn't wanted. Pearl was 5 years gone, so he players were gone. Coaches gone and a losing season isn't a dream destination. Barnes was a draw to players just like pearl.
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again Tennesse aranding as a program was much higher when barnes took over at utk verses auburn for pearl. Recruits had seen tennesse have success. These refruits werenin diapers when auburn had last had success basically
It's a commuter school; that's terrible for recruiting when you see how dead the campus is compared to legitimate college towns. And Phi Slama Jama ended 18 years before Jamal Shead was even born.
You don't think Sampson could replicate Pearl's performance from the past decade?
oh I think he could. I just think houston has some advantages for basketball. Indiana should have never fired sampson. Would have won a title there
One fluke final four run at a power 5 school and he's forever God. LOL.
fluke? Being a Dumbass and ignorant is know way to go through life. who else has had to beat kansas, unc, and then kentucky in a row to get to a final 4? With Chuma we also destroyed UNC and KAnsas. Games werent close
He had a 5 seed that got hot at the perfect time and hasn't come close before or since.
That's how you know you have a fluke on your hands. Hope this helps.
Imagine if Pearl had accomplished something like Stevens (back to back title game appearances at Butler).
His sweaty balls would literally never leave AuHoosier's mouth.
His sweaty balls would literally never leave AuHoosier's mouth.
And since that fluke run how many times have you been to the S16?
Hold on to that memory because 20 years from now that'll be your programs claim to fame.
The holes were the same. The coaches make the difference unless one team was loaded and neither were.
Quit making excuses.
I already have. a team that went to a sweet 16 just 2 years prior to a coach being hired is in far better shape than a program that hadnt seen the tournament in 11 years
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Face it...you just think Pearl's a god because Auburn's hired a lot of really shitty coaches.
could be. Tony Barbee was a as bad as it comes. When I was at Auburn you could buy basketball tickets at the door for like 2.00. Now their is a long weightlist for season tickets and you have to give a donation to buy them. This occured even before Pearl had won yet at Auburn. He is just a marketing genius. Pearlhas changed everything about the program
Not use to winning and now he's won a little bit he's pushing for a Pearl statue if they make the SW 16 next year.
That makes no difference and I have told you so. Those players were all gone and UT was in disarray.
Eleven years and 90 years is irrelevant. The thing that makes a program is good players and a good coach and Auburn and UT had neither.
So, if you're going to continue with this line of thinking you need to explain how UT was better even though they have no elements to suggest they would even have a winning season.
yes it does make a difference and I have told you many times you are flat out wrong
You are being an idiot. You have failed to tell how a team without any good players left off a team that went 16-16 with no post season is in a good situation. So, either do it or you lose.
I hace tokd you many times. You dont get to be the judge here. You will also always lose to me
You haven't explained it once how some team can get expected to be good without any players or solid coach.
Btw, how is Oats not on your list of coaches better than Pearl. He has been killing it even with complete roster turnover?
Dude, you aint nobody and when did this become a contest? You're this boards Sheldon Cooper meaning common sense is foreign to you.
People like to preach the “if he can do this here, imagine what he’d do there” logic, but it rarely works out that way.
Remember when everybody said Calipari was going to win 10 titles at Kentucky? When it was said and done, he had slightly more success than at Memphis and regressed the last 5 years.
Plenty of coaches that reach the final four (at schools with far fewer resources than Auburn) fail to get back, even after landing gigs at top schools.
If anything, outside of 2019, Pearl has underachieved given the players he’s had at Auburn. He’s had plenty of talent and what, 1-2 tourney wins outside of that run? A losing season a few years ago.
You’re always slamming coaches with top talent for losing to lesser rosters. Why don’t you rip Pearl for getting bounced by Ivy League teams?
