Bruce Pearl

Allow me to be the first to congratulate Tennessee men's basketball head coach Bruce Pearl on his firing today.  Congratulations are in order, because Pearl's history would lead you to believe that this is what he wanted.  He has had such a blatant disregard for the integrity of the game throughout his career that he had to know it would turn out this way sooner or later.  Pearl has been a career weasel dating all the way back to his University of Iowa days, when he deliberately tried to sabotage Illinois through false illegal recruiting allegations after a highly regarded high school player committed to U of I over Iowa.  Kind of ironic that his career has now come to at least a temporary halt for exactly the type of thing he falsely accused Illinois of in 1989.  This move gives me a lot of faith in the fact that honor and integrity remain top goals of the collegiate environment.  It's nice to see, at a time in history when it seems that the least respectable people are the most successful athletes.  College basketball, and sports as a whole, are better places without Bruce Pearl.