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Bruce Pearl - JJJ - 03-04-2025
I still remember him wearing his light gray suit and red tie, waving a towel around his head trying to get everyone fired up in Maples in the ‘80s.
Bruce Pearl at Auburn.
RE: Bruce Pearl - UltimateCard - 03-04-2025
(03-04-2025, 06:59 PM)JJJ Wrote: I still remember him wearing his light gray suit and red tie, waving a towel around his head trying to get everyone fired up in Maples in the ‘80s.
Bruce Pearl at Auburn.
And out in White Plaza at noon getting students to buy season passes.
RE: Bruce Pearl - Spiny_Norman - 03-05-2025
He sure can coach basketball and win. But he's a pretty lousy person.
https://www.sbnation.com/college-basketball/2019/4/4/18295241/bruce-pearl-final-four-timeline-infractions-auburn-lowa-deon-thomas-wire-milwaukee-violations
RE: Bruce Pearl - fullmetal - 03-05-2025
Holy smokes. Ugh.
RE: Bruce Pearl - Spiny_Norman - 03-05-2025
Also he divorced his wife of 25 years after being seen regularly in the company of attractive Tennessee undergrads.
https://korkedbats.com/a-woman-scorned/
RE: Bruce Pearl - Mick - 03-05-2025
I'd never seen his picture before, had no idea what he looked like. Good thing he's rich...
Did he have issues at Stanford? With Montgomery? He was just a kid then, relatively speaking.
triangle2 - triangle2 - 03-05-2025
For a LOL moment, check out Bruce Pearl’s wiki page - this has to be in the running for the most sanitized wiki sports coach bio of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Pearl
RE: Bruce Pearl - Spiny_Norman - 03-05-2025
(03-05-2025, 02:37 PM)Mick Wrote: I'd never seen his picture before, had no idea what he looked like. Good thing he's rich...
Did he have issues at Stanford? With Montgomery? He was just a kid then, relatively speaking.
Bruce came to Stanford along with Tom Davis. No overlap with Montgomery. Bruce was a year out of BC where he did not play basketball. He was the BC Eagle mascot.
But he was eager and brash and very ambitious and convinced Davis to hire him as an assistant coach to help build a winning team and culture at Stanford. He remained with Davis as an assistant when Davis moved to Iowa.
Bruce's time at Stanford is probably best remembered for his cheerleading. He established the 6th Man Club. If you talk to players from that era (1982-86), Bruce did not do much in the way of instruction. He tried, but he didn't have much knowledge then.
RE: Bruce Pearl - JJJ - 03-05-2025
(03-05-2025, 03:14 PM)Spiny_Norman Wrote:Wow, didn’t know he was the BC Eagle mascot, but it makes total sense. He was definitely a “cheerleader” as my classmates on the team said at the time.(03-05-2025, 02:37 PM)Mick Wrote: I'd never seen his picture before, had no idea what he looked like. Good thing he's rich...
Did he have issues at Stanford? With Montgomery? He was just a kid then, relatively speaking.
Bruce came to Stanford along with Tom Davis. No overlap with Montgomery. Bruce was a year out of BC where he did not play basketball. He was the BC Eagle mascot.
But he was eager and brash and very ambitious and convinced Davis to hire him as an assistant coach to help build a winning team and culture at Stanford. He remained with Davis as an assistant when Davis moved to Iowa.
Bruce's time at Stanford is probably best remembered for his cheerleading. He established the 6th Man Club. If you talk to players from that era (1982-86), Bruce did not do much in the way of instruction. He tried, but he didn't have much knowledge then.